A line about cruisers

[James Deuce]

You really don't like my bike do you?

Your jealousy detector is obviously flawed.

[scumdog]

Freudian - but I don't class a nice Sportie or FXDX as a cruiser either.

Seeing as we own one of each I guess this thread is not pertinent to CB and I??

[scumdog]

Depends on the cruiser - usually the frame digs in somewhere and triangulates the back wheel off the ground and the whole thing lurches sideways.

Uncomfortable feeling.

Ah, ya get use to it.


Eventually.

[Big Dave]

Ah, ya get use to it.


Eventually.

Used to it - I's a master at it.
Apparently I get a Rocket III well airborne.

It's the noise that gets ya.

[James Deuce]

That's not a cruiser - it's a 'Standard'.

Not in a million years.

Way too heavy, slow, and pricey to be a standard.

[Swoop]

So, if one chromed a chook chaser? The perfect solution ?

Do you require tassles for that?
Or tassles with chromed bits on the ends of each tassle?

[Big Dave]

Not in a million years.

Way too heavy, slow, and pricey to be a standard.

Didn't ride it. Like the look of it though.

[Ixion]

Do you require tassles for that?
Or tassles with chromed bits on the ends of each tassle?

Feathers would seem appropraite for a chook chaser.

[Big Dave]

Feathers would seem appropraite for a chook chaser.

As long as they were from a large cock.

[jafar]

I'll tell you why I like harleys and cruisers on the road.

They have to be ridden within the machine's limitations - not the rider's.

You have to ride any bike within the machines limitations regardless of the style.
Cruisers just do it better on the road than Sportsbikes thats all
Why would you want a 300kph rocketship for the goat tracks we laughing refer to as the national highway network ?

[Big Dave]

You have to ride any bike within the machines limitations regardless of the style.

Obviously you ride a semantic cycle.

[James Deuce]

Didn't ride it. Like the look of it though.

I REALLY like it. But you have standard-type handling and a cruiser engine and it takes a major effort to NOT rev the thing. Redline drops you back into the fat of the torque and can give you quite a shock. I'm a bit short to be comfortable on most cruisers, but I could thud around all day on an MT-01.

[Ixion]

You have to ride any bike within the machines limitations regardless of the style.
Cruisers just do it better on the road than Sportsbikes thats all
Why would you want a 300kph rocketship for the goat tracks we laughing refer to as the national highway network ?

But most large crusiers are far from the most appropriate bikes for 'goat tracks' either. If that is the basis of determination then the most suitable machine is undoubtedly a large dual purpose. BMW GS , Suzuki DL series etc. (Oh, all right and a Buell Ulysses. Satisifed now ?)

[Big Dave]

I'm a bit short to be comfortable on most cruisers, .

Mid control Street Bob - have a look at the blue one in 'recent test bikes' thread.

corchous.

[Big Dave]

But most large crusiers are far from the most appropriate bikes for 'goat tracks' either. If that is the basis of determination then the most suitable machine is undoubtedly a large dual purpose. BMW GS , Suzuki DL series etc. (Oh, all right and a Buell Ulysses. Satisifed now ?)

Paraphrase - 'good, long travel suspension and an upright ergonomic.'

It is the most sensible choice.

The most sensible choice is rarely the coolest.

Lucy walks past Snoopy and says - 'How could anyone wear a fur coat on a day like today'.

Snoop Dawg thought Balloons 'Some of us prefer to sacrifice comfort for style.'

I been hip since I was Six, dude.