GeoGiant Posted April 3, 2010 Posted April 3, 2010 Anybody ride?What do you ride?How much do you ride?I have a 2003 Honda Sabre, 1100 cc. Its orange with darker orange ghost flames (factory paint). I have it set up a Mustang touring seat & backrest (mainly for the wife), Vance & Hines Long Shot pipes, Cobra floorboards (first bike without pegs), after-market grips, mirrors, turn signals, and taillight cover. I think I'm done with the upgrades.I usually ride to work 6 or more months out of the year. About the longest ride I take anymore is a 4 hour trip to the beach. A good year of riding for me is 5,000 miles.
tallgeese Posted April 5, 2010 Posted April 5, 2010 1200 HD Sporty.Lots of some chrome, accessories, ect. Straight pipes and carb upgrade.I put on about 2000/ year. The longest I ride is about 3 hours either way to family or the Lake to climb. I'm kicking around trading up, but we'll see. http://alphajiujitsu.com/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJhRVuwbm__LwXPvFMReMww
still kicking Posted April 5, 2010 Posted April 5, 2010 Nope. Ha ha, I don't mean to hijack your thread, but I've never ridden a motorcycle and never even thought about it. I have been thinking I might like to get a Vespa some day -- does that count? Ha ha ha, probably not, sorry, I'm just funning w/you. Carry on.
GeoGiant Posted April 5, 2010 Author Posted April 5, 2010 1200 HD Sporty.Lots of some chrome, accessories, ect. Straight pipes and carb upgrade.I put on about 2000/ year. The longest I ride is about 3 hours either way to family or the Lake to climb. I'm kicking around trading up, but we'll see.The Honda Sabre looks just like a HD Fatboy. I don't know how Honda didn't get sued over the body style. The dead give away between the 2 bikes is the taillight assembly & rims. I pealed all the stickers off the bike, changed the turn signal covers & polished the metal rims to chrome-ish type shine so most people don’t know what type of bike I have…. until I stop. I fell in love with a few softail fatboys but I haven’t made the jump… my bike is paid for & the idea of another payment makes me cringe. I’ve always liked all the aftermarket options that HD provides. What are you thinking of upgrading to?Still kicking – a Vespa doesn’t count.
Laurentina Posted April 5, 2010 Posted April 5, 2010 I ride my Vespa to go to school Karate Shotokan brown belt (2nd kyu) // Judo black belt (1st dan)
JohnASE Posted April 6, 2010 Posted April 6, 2010 It's funny that I came across this thread today. I've been thinking about bikes a lot today. Last night, I started up my wife's bike for the first time in a few months, just to run it. And this morning, I saw a nasty motorcycle fatality on the news. The rider was in the #1 lane, and his bike was under a semi in the #4 lane. They didn't know how many times the guy had been hit before he came to a stop. There were long scrape marks behind the semi, so the bike had to be under there for a while. For anyone that knows the L.A. area, it was on the 101 near Laurel Cyn in Studio City some time before 7:30. That and an accident on the 101 by Universal Studios jammed up traffic pretty good!My wife doesn't ride anymore. She was into it or a while, and it was good for parking when her college was about 10 miles away. She transferred to a university 2 miles away and switched to her bicycle. She's always loved bicycles.I haven't gotten around to fixing my bike since I want down about 10 months ago. I keep putting it off. My wife's bike is ready to go whenever I need it. It was a minor get off with little damage to the bike and myself. I slid about 60', but I was geared up pretty good. Very little road rash. I would've had none if I'd been wearing my motorcycle pants. The only really bad thing was a partial bicep tendon tear that took about 8 months to heal.Oh, and to answer your questions, my wife and I both got Ninja 250s a few years ago. We're both short and wanted little, light weight bikes to play around with. My bike is stock, but now that I have to fix it, things will change. My wife's has rearsets, a Muzzy pipe, a rear shock off an SV650, and a couple of minor mods like a brake light modulator.I haven't ridden much since the accident, but now that I'm better, I'll get back to riding more. I only really ride to work a couple times per week, and I only work about 4 miles from home, so it doesn't add up to many miles. We have some small twisties about 5 miles away that I haven't been to in a while, and there are some major twisties about 15 or 20 miles away that I should really get to. They're in the hills above Malibu. They're great in my S2000, but I haven't taken the bike yet. I learned how to ride on Mulholland Drive on a GSX-R a little over 15 years ago, so I enjoy the twisties, but I never got fast. I'm a grownup now, so I probably never will.Ride safe! John - ASE Martial Arts Supplyhttps://www.asemartialarts.com
GeoGiant Posted April 7, 2010 Author Posted April 7, 2010 It's funny that I came across this thread today. I've been thinking about bikes a lot today. Last night, I started up my wife's bike for the first time in a few months, just to run it. And this morning, I saw a nasty motorcycle fatality on the news. The rider was in the #1 lane, and his bike was under a semi in the #4 lane. They didn't know how many times the guy had been hit before he came to a stop. There were long scrape marks behind the semi, so the bike had to be under there for a while. For anyone that knows the L.A. area, it was on the 101 near Laurel Cyn in Studio City some time before 7:30. That and an accident on the 101 by Universal Studios jammed up traffic pretty good!My wife doesn't ride anymore. She was into it or a while, and it was good for parking when her college was about 10 miles away. She transferred to a university 2 miles away and switched to her bicycle. She's always loved bicycles.I haven't gotten around to fixing my bike since I want down about 10 months ago. I keep putting it off. My wife's bike is ready to go whenever I need it. It was a minor get off with little damage to the bike and myself. I slid about 60', but I was geared up pretty good. Very little road rash. I would've had none if I'd been wearing my motorcycle pants. The only really bad thing was a partial bicep tendon tear that took about 8 months to heal.Oh, and to answer your questions, my wife and I both got Ninja 250s a few years ago. We're both short and wanted little, light weight bikes to play around with. My bike is stock, but now that I have to fix it, things will change. My wife's has rearsets, a Muzzy pipe, a rear shock off an SV650, and a couple of minor mods like a brake light modulator.I haven't ridden much since the accident, but now that I'm better, I'll get back to riding more. I only really ride to work a couple times per week, and I only work about 4 miles from home, so it doesn't add up to many miles. We have some small twisties about 5 miles away that I haven't been to in a while, and there are some major twisties about 15 or 20 miles away that I should really get to. They're in the hills above Malibu. They're great in my S2000, but I haven't taken the bike yet. I learned how to ride on Mulholland Drive on a GSX-R a little over 15 years ago, so I enjoy the twisties, but I never got fast. I'm a grownup now, so I probably never will.Ride safe!Hyw riding is never fun – you are either in the slow lane stopping and starting as people get off & on the hyw or you are in the fast lane waiting for someone in the slow lane to pull out in front of you.I grew up in Baltimore riding the 695 / 495 expressway around Baltimore / DC… not a lot of fun! As a younger guy it didn’t bother me, now I don’t have the desire to ride on 4 and 6 lane hyws. Truth be told, from age 18 to 24 all I had was a motorcycle so I didn’t have much of a choice. Now that I live in Pennsylvania riding is a relaxing experience that just happens to save me $200 to $300 a month in gas. I live outside of a small city [maybe 50 to 60,000] and the traffic is in no way close the headache of Baltimore or DC but most of my riding is in the country. I can get on my cycle and ride for hours and not see a traffic light.
hellboy Posted April 8, 2010 Posted April 8, 2010 I have a Honda Jade (250), I like to ride bikes (more than cars) I go to work, classes, friends places so on. So most of the time I ride the bike unless its raining. Design your own rugby shirt with online rugby shirts
DWx Posted April 8, 2010 Posted April 8, 2010 My dad has an Aprilia Futura that I have my eye on Although I have been forbidden to ride it by my mum until I move out (should have seen what she did to the helmet my dad bought my sister). "Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it." ~ Confucius
1987witherspoon Posted April 8, 2010 Posted April 8, 2010 Currently got a Yamaha XJR1300, bit of a step up from my previous bike, a Hyosung GT125R.Yamaha is nice, real old school MANS bike, lol.
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