Comments on: Smaller fun focused motorcycles gain popularity

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 05:21:24 +0000

Right after I got my MC license I went straight for a 600cc crotch rocket and thought rolling a throttle open and going over a 100 mph made me a hotshot.

Years later, I ride a smaller bike and love it. They are easier to ride in the city, very forgiving if you make a mistake, and you can ride the hell out of it which means you will be riding it all the time. This in turn give you more hours on the bike and makes you a better rider. Most importantly you have way more fun. I laugh at the people you only ride their big macho 900+ cc bikes in the summertime when it’s sunny and only put on a couple a hundred miles on it a year.

Unless you are touring, or a serious sport rider, you don’t need a big bike to have fun. That just makes you a poseur; not a motorcyclist. It’s the quality of the riding you do, not the quantity of the cc’s you have.

By: Jesper

Jesper — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:50:53 +0000

Yes! exactly what I meant.
And smaller bikes are getting much more bling/street cred/modern design, now. And there’s nothing like out cornering a 1000cc bike on a 250cc

I would go for a 400-600cc motorcycle though, and can highly recommend the single cylinder ones. They are a hoot.

By: quixoticchaotic

quixoticchaotic — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:04:04 +0000

I started out on a 250 Nighthawk. In six months, I thrashed it, grew to hate its lack of top end speed, and rode it everywhere. 2-up, interstates, around town, canyon carving… I learned it all on that bike. That’s what I credit for my current accident-free, drop-free (minus one driveway incident) riding record, two bikes later. *knock on wood*

Now, if only squids would quit trying to compensate for lack of skill with bigger engines & bling and instead learn how to ride on more appropriate bikes.