First ride on a cruiser today.

[shafty]

Hi DR, - are you limited to a 250 due to your licence status? Have you seen (impending I think) changes to M'cycle learners laws, so that, based on a power to weight ratio, you could go up to a 650? Thought it worth a mention........... good luck

[SilverGrin]

Good luck with your hunting. When u get your cruiser - get out there and enjoy yourself!

What he said.

Come over to the dark side, you know you want to.

[Blossom]

Good luck with the hunt. there are a few options round on the 250 cruiser front. I am loving my new VL250 heaps. My second choice would have been a magna, and then the virago. All great bikes.

[ital916]

Well I just saw an eliminator on trademe, damn they look like muscle bikes for a 250! Are they any good?

[Bren]

yeah...wait and pick up the likes of an LS 650 Savage if they change these laws...good old thumper with heaps of torque

[motorbyclist]

!!! who woulda thunk?

I want to ride one of these 'cruisers' you speak of. Every bike I've owned / ridden had the hunched over sportbike seating position.

which oddly enough makes sportsbikes good for sports!


weird thing for me is, after trying cruiser and tourer seating, i still somehow prefer the sports stance.

Hi DR, - are you limited to a 250 due to your licence status? Have you seen (impending I think) changes to M'cycle learners laws, so that, based on a power to weight ratio, you could go up to a 650? Thought it worth a mention........... good luck

maybe investing in an overpriced 250 wouldn't be a wise investment.... and would now be an excellent time to buy a whole lot of 400 and 500cc bikes?

link to more details please

[shingo]

here's an 18 page discussion on it

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=70332

Has links in the first post to the news articles with all the proposed changes.

[ital916]

The proposed rule changes are still in the discussion stage, by the time they come out I would have my full. Guy came into the store today to buy gear for his new 250, I was like "oh what is it?"...turns out it was one of the bikes I wanted lol

[Ragingrob]

Bro which motomail do you work out? College hill? Discount? Haha!

[Nagash]

I reckon you'd do well on a 250 cruiser,

They're pretty low power so you're looking at maxxing out about 130km/h but i've known you to be a pretty steady rider so I don't reckon that'd be an issue for you.

The 250's are little enough to still be flickable so you can corner them like nohting else, just don't panic everytime you scrape the foot pegs.. or the exhaust.. or the rear brake lever.. or alot of things actually. It happens alot.

They're bloody comfortable, i've gone all over NZ on mine and very rarely get a sore arse.

The wide handle bars mean they're really easy to control at slow speeds around the city and what not, you're quite short so you'll be able to fit the cruisers real easy (My knees get in the way sometimes but i'm 6ft tall)

See how it goes mate. You can test ride my bike any time you want, just drop me a pm cause I recommend you do try other bikes.. souns like that Virago was a bit of a lemon.

Good luck with whatever you're next bike is mate.

[motorbyclist]

The proposed rule changes are still in the discussion stage, by the time they come out I would have my full.

by that stage they would've identified what parts make the most sense and removed all of them too