[barryf1fan]

New guy on a sport bike is Russian roulette.. one mistake and it may be your last.

And I guarantee you won't be riding in five years cause you'll be doing it wrong..... ass backwards as they say.

How do I "Do it right?"

Lot's of posts told you how to do it right, but will you listen?

If you do drugs, smoke, drink excessively, can't hold a job, can't keep a relationship, have a disregard for the law (tickets, court appearances), don't keep insurance on your vehicles, won't get a motorcycle license, won't take an MSF course, ride in flip-flops and shorts and a helmet and that's it.............. The sport bike will be perfect.

If you have personal responsibility, take care of yourself, have a future, have family obligations (you need to be around and healthy and not break the heart of people who love you)..... The sport bike is the best way to throw away that bright future.

I've seen and read about this so many times it breaks my heart.

If you live in NC, PM me and I'll be happy to bring my KLR650 "training bike" and run you through a skills test that will convince you how right everyone else is and how WRONG you are.... Seriously .

That ALL needed to be bold for you... If you only take one post in here to heart (or head) - this is it my friend. Please take him up on his offer, you will be doing yourself and those who care about you a HUGE ****in' favor. :thumbup:

Good on'ya betts. :thumbup::thumbup:

 

[barryf1fan]

I'd take something like this in a heartbeat over ANY modern sport bike.

This has a soul, it's two wheeled perfection.

Classic Cafe racer, Steve. Love it. You sir, are A-OK in my book.

 

[Nliiitend1]

I'd take something like this in a heartbeat over ANY modern sport bike.

This has a soul, it's two wheeled perfection.

*pic*

Hey Steve, you still check in on this thread from time to time?:

http://forum.svrider.com/showthread.php?t=61824

This beaut was just posted recently, among others:

 

[FORDSVTPARTS]

Hey Steve, you still check in on this thread from time to time?:

http://forum.svrider.com/showthread.php?t=61824

This beaut was just posted recently, among others:

I hate you

God is that a gorgeous bike!! :thumbup: needs more clubman bars though.

BRW-No I don't look at those threads, it's pure torture.

Now I REALLY miss my 500,

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[FocusOnPunk]

I've had an SV650 for a little over 2 years now (it is my second bike), and I still don't think I've gone full-throttle in first gear. Rarely in second. It has plenty. I can pass accelerating cars on the highway in 4th gear without shifting. I can add 20mph with small wrist movements, and also with its hellacious engine braking, I can subtract 20mph in a couple seconds by closing the throttle (it's kind of funny how little I ever use the brake when in moving traffic).

It's not a bike you get bored with. If anything, you keep the SV650 forever and buy a sportbike as an additional bike. But I bet that person rides the SV more often.

 

[HotRodKougar]

If you do drugs, smoke, drink excessively, can't hold a job, can't keep a relationship, have a disregard for the law (tickets, court appearances), don't keep insurance on your vehicles, won't get a motorcycle license, won't take an MSF course, ride in flip-flops and shorts and a helmet and that's it.............. The sport bike will be perfect.

Don't forget:

That helmet is an open face style with a skull on it, will never do a track day, will put LEDs on the bike, will put a pipe on the bike without tuning it, subscribes to SuperStreetbike magazine, has seen all the Fast & Furious movies way more than is healthy, texts/uses their cell phone while driving more often than not; and thinks that by 'handling' a bigger/liter bike it means they can do wheelies, cut in and out of traffic like a fool, and go tear up the local twisties while passing cars on the right and scaring normal drivers.

I guess the same can be said for people who modify cars, then go on these forum/club supported twisty days and think that they're some kind of drift star or 'racing' (when they wouldn't know proper corner entry/exit from a mole on their butt) and end up crashing, or getting pulled over, or pissing off other people.

 

[FORDSVTPARTS]

Don't forget:

That helmet is an open face style with a skull on it, will never do a track day, will put LEDs on the bike, will put a pipe on the bike without tuning it, subscribes to SuperStreetbike magazine, has seen all the Fast & Furious movies way more than is healthy, texts/uses their cell phone while driving more often than not; and thinks that by 'handling' a bigger/liter bike it means they can do wheelies, cut in and out of traffic like a fool, and go tear up the local twisties while passing cars on the right and scaring normal drivers.

I guess the same can be said for people who modify cars, then go on these forum/club supported twisty days and think that they're some kind of drift star or 'racing' (when they wouldn't know proper corner entry/exit from a mole on their butt) and end up crashing, or getting pulled over, or pissing off other people.

LOL, My mom saw a guy behind her stand up un his pegs of his sport bike the other day to get something out of his pocket.

Turns out it was his smokes and lighter, then he proceeded to spend the next few minutes trying to light it with a bic lighter on a moving motorcycle

Dropped a few too many times on his head as a child maybe? :screwy:

 

[FocusOnPunk]

I see guys smoking on motorcycles, usually cruisers, all the time. It really confuses me.

 

[FORDSVTPARTS]

I see guys smoking on motorcycles, usually cruisers, all the time. It really confuses me.

Me too, I smoked years ago and I tried smoking and riding a motorcycle exactly once.

Not a good idea unless you enjoy hot ashes blowing up inside your glasses and getting in your eyes.

I'm sure I looked ultra-cool though :bang:

 

[wakeboardjl20]

Although I don't have experience on street bikes, I do have some experience on ATV's. And although the riding is different, the concept is the same. I can get in just as much trouble on a 300 as I can a 750, and flip both just the same as well. And learning to ride on a 300 taught me a lot of good skills that were very useful when I started riding larger quads. It's not just a sit on it and twist the throttle type of thing. There is a lot of work that goes into riding, and doing it safely. You should listen to the people who have been riding a lot longer than your buddy, and take the collective knowledge that has been given to you and apply it. You might just save yourself a trip to the hospital, and I don't think you will get much sympathy when you tell everyone you laid your GSXR750 down.

 

[wakeboardjl20]

04cdsilverzx3 - out of curiosity, how old are you?

 

[EastAl]

Yeah, but his buddy owns an R1... whose gonna give better advice? A guy he actually knows who also happens to own a litre bike, or a buncha armchair quarterbacks on a car forum that he just so happened to ask advice of?

I guarantee he buys the Gixxer because it's a "good deal", and I guarantee he destroys it or sells it with 3-6 months of riding it. I hope he is pretty limber, because he's gonna need to be to ride that 750 for any extended amount of time. At least the ones I've sat on. :lol:

 

[HotRodKougar]

Or he'll drop it, destroy the fairings, and make it into an icy-hot-stunta

 

[FORDSVTPARTS]

Yeah, but his buddy owns an R1... whose gonna give better advice? A guy he actually knows who also happens to own a litre bike, or a buncha armchair quarterbacks on a car forum that he just so happened to ask advice of?

You mean the armchair quarterbacks with 20-30 years riding experience? :lol:

 

[EastAl]

You mean the armchair quarterbacks with 20-30 years riding experience? :lol:

Doesn't matter, his buddy has an R1. :what:

:lol:

This link is so fitting to this thread.

http://biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=21816

Edit: This link was sent to me, I can't read the actual site... but I probably wouldn't go anywhere else besides this link if you are at work. :lol:

 

[Stolle]

guys i think this is enough. after reading every post since i last posted your all being huge dbags.

 

[HotRodKougar]

guys i think this is enough. after reading every post since i last posted your all being huge dbags.

Is it wrong that we care about the OP's safety and well-being? Sheesh.

Having a 750cc+ crotch rocket for a first bike is like learning how to properly road race in an F1 car.

 

[wakeboardjl20]

guys i think this is enough. after reading every post since i last posted your all being huge dbags.

Heres the thing. I see you are 22. There is that area in life around 17-23 years old or so that you think you know everything. And he falls into that category. Now, I am only 26 but I am able to recognize that when I was younger and thought I knew better, I didn't. There is a lot of things I don't know and won't know. It's something that everyone has too learn. Looking back these last 8 years or so there are many times I wish I would have listened to people and I didn't and it cost me. Everyone here is just looking out for him because they don't want him to get hurt on something that is more bike than he needs. Just because his friend did fine on his R1 doesn't mean he will be ok on a GSXR750. And people are just telling him to go the safe route. And maybe this comes from other people finding out the hard way that they should have listened to other people's advice when they were younger. Like I said before. There is a collection of knowledge here that he can apply to better himself as a rider. He just needs to recognize that people are saying not to get the 750 for his first bike, but instead to get something that he can really learn to ride on.

 

[2xtremefocus]

Look, here's how it works. I've owned 6 bikes thus far, most of them lower displacement bikes. I have never lost money on a bike, and I've never had one for sale for more than a week. In fact, over the course of those 6 bikes, I've made probably $1500. So I'm not sure I'd call that a waste of money at all! Also, if you think you'll outgrow a SV650 in a couple months, then you're lying to yourself.

edit: oh yeah, also, the amount of money you spend on that starter bike will probably be about equal to the cost of repairing the damage when you drop that 750 the first time, with or without insurance

I've had my SV650 since February of 2009, and I have no plans to get rid of it anytime soon. It has plenty of power for my liking. It's tons of fun to ride, handles well, and gets good MPG. Not to mention it's easy to mod and work on.

SV650's can be had fairly inexpensive too.

Great resource for those bikes is svrider.com. I'm a member over there, and it's like the FJ of the motorcycle world to me. A community of owners of a single style of bike not commonly thought of by most riders, kinda how FJ is a community of owners of a specific car not commonly thought of by most car enthusiasts.

 

[2xtremefocus]

I've had an SV650 for a little over 2 years now (it is my second bike), and I still don't think I've gone full-throttle in first gear. Rarely in second. It has plenty. I can pass accelerating cars on the highway in 4th gear without shifting. I can add 20mph with small wrist movements, and also with its hellacious engine braking, I can subtract 20mph in a couple seconds by closing the throttle (it's kind of funny how little I ever use the brake when in moving traffic).

It's not a bike you get bored with. If anything, you keep the SV650 forever and buy a sportbike as an additional bike. But I bet that person rides the SV more often.

You hit the nail on the head!

If I ever get another bike, I'm definitely keeping my SV. I kinda want to get a cruiser. But, I still enjoy going out and thrashing thru the twisties too much to get rid of my SV.