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Anyone interested in motorbikes?

luisarey

I'm fairly new here and newly diagnosed with ASD. Anyway, motorbikes are one of my interests, and, well, it might be a long shot,  I was wondering if anyone else here is into them too. I don't know anyone else IRL who shares this enthusiasm. It'd be nice to hear from anyone else who is interested.

  • in reply to Plastic

    eek, I winced reading that. You're making me glad to be a 'cager' now, haha. I had a friend who wrote off his brand new bike after about five months, trying to keep up on fast roads. He'd been in hospital with injuries several times. Yeah, sportbikes look quite uncomfortable for long rides... buuut they're so pretty... sigh

  • in reply to luisarey

    Yep - them were the days.....

    The guys I worked with would go out on summer rides together - but it's actually quite lonely burning up the roads - the slowest guy at the back is most likely to be killed taking risks while trying to keep up with the faster riders.

    The old injuries they had were quite bad - one had a new hip at 42, another twisted his shin until the two bones splintered around each other.   Another dislocated his leg and ripped a load of tendons - walked with a limp afterwards, another fell off on a mountain road, almost went over the edge and got smashed by his bike squashing him against the barriers.

    Also, the bum-in-the-air guys found their backs & wrists were suffering with the accelerating & braking and their 'bits' were being bashed on the petrol tank under heavy braking. 

    Errrr- no thanks.

    I'll drive my air-conditioned 4-wheel tank with airbags and ABS - much more comfortable & safe.

  • in reply to Plastic

    Wow, can't believe you could get a bike licence so easily in those days. Yep, the danger element is quite off-putting - no matter how competent you are as a rider, you're so vulnerable to other drivers being idiots.
    Drifters are nice motorcycles, I like that vintage look. I do envy the camaraderie amongst the biker lot, like when you see them nod to eachother out on the roads.

  • in reply to luisarey

    It was high-tech engineering.   I'm of the age where I should have ticked a box on my driving licence application all those years ago and I'd have had a full bike licence too - now I'd have to spend a load of cash on a Direct Access training & test.

    Unfortunately, every one of the bikers I worked with was carrying an old biking injury so it sort of put me off.

    If I was going to have a bike, I'd probably go for a Kawasaki VN1500 Drifter (the Indian Chief lookey-likey with relaible Jap mechanics).  It has big street-presence so you can justify your position on the road rather than being squeezed into the weeds by the BMW-idiots & trucks.

  • in reply to Plastic

    nice, what sort of place did you work, with all those bikers around?  I'm not a biker either, as it's an expensive hobby, and I can't afford it, but wish I could.  I do love a good Fireblade. What types of bikes/aspects of bikes are you into?

  • I'm not a biker but I got into bikes by working 20 years with a bunch of bikers - I was the only one not on 2 wheels.   They brought in all the magazines so I assimilated all the data - everything from Rudge-Whitworths to Fireblades, Goldwings to BSA GoldStars.

    Do you have a bike?

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