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Do you really need that liter bike?

FXCLM5 said:
who has the quote

"a ninja 250 is all the bike you'll ever need bro"

or something like that
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I think its in budmans sig

And yes, yes I do need 1300ccs, 175hp and over 90 ft lbs of torque. Why? Because I have a very very small penis.
 
You want thumpers, you want not-thumpers... :teeth Fine, SV650, Ninja 650, FZ6/R, Street Triple/R, Shiver, Versys, V-Strom, that Honda 700 strangeness, the new Honda 500s...
 
Started on an SV

'Upgraded' to a VFR

Found my soul mate on a Speed Triple.

Sure the smaller guys still dust me in the twisties, but I almost enjoy staring at my bike as much as I enjoy riding it :leghump
 
Asking someone else if they need a liter bike ..

Well the person asking isn't me, doesn't use their bike like me,
doesn't get the same sensations as me...They aren't me.

So they can't know, when told.

Liter isn't enough of a definition...All liters are not the same...How could that not be known?
 
Literbikes made me lazy. At least on the track.

Maybe that's why I have two of them... :p
 
Going from a 250 to a 1000 just seems like such a jump. Especially if that person hasn't completely explored their 250.
I'd love a bigger bike (500-650) but it's also fun knowing my way around a small one. New bike=all sorts of new learning curves. I want to know the hell out of this one before moving up.

Sounds like your friend has a case of the "someone made fun of my bike once"s.
 
Hooli said:
Literbikes made me lazy. At least on the track.

Maybe that's why I have two of them... :p
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Hooli said:
Or small pen0r syndrome. :laughing

Wut
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Wut is right. You may have stuck your pen0r in your tailpipe, there. :laughing

The first liter bike I owned was a GS1000 prototype, straight from Japan. Fastest thing on the planet, at the time. I have been totally addicted to four cylinder liter torque/hp power curves ever since. They are great for the street, because like Hooli said, you can ride them lazy. I actually go faster, sometimes, at the track by staying up a gear and rolling on power earlier. Something that is difficult to accomplish on a small displacement bike. I am a liter addict. I admit it.

Having said all that, my favorite bikes of all time to ride weere small displacement TWO-strokes, and Spanish/British thumpers <=500cc. (Except the braking part.) :laughing
 
Roadstergal said:
You want thumpers, you want not-thumpers... :teeth Fine, SV650, Ninja 650, FZ6/R, Street Triple/R, Shiver, Versys, V-Strom, that Honda 700 strangeness, the new Honda 500s...
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SV650 : the Gladius is ugly and not the same IMO. And it's over 600cc.

Ninja 650: Had one, didn't like it. Over 600cc

FZ6R: not a fan. Too cheaply made. The FZ6 wouldn't be so bad on its own except that it's running a neutered R6 engine. See earlier comments about I4 600's on the street.

ST/R: These are nice bikes, but they're expensive for what you get. And they're over 600cc

Shiver: An honest contender...but over 600cc.

Honda 700's: Have you ridden one of those yet?
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That engine has about as much character as a block of wood...and it's over 600cc.

The 500's are the only bike on your list I haven't tried out. I'm interested in doing so as soon as I can find a place that will let me take one out for a spin. :thumbup

I'm looking talking more about the naked 350's and 400's of the old days. I'd love to see something like that for sale in the US again.
 
Wow...We have choices that number off the chart...and someone has to ask someone else, cause they don't have enough personal experience What to get...

This buckles my knees....I could tell just by looking, what a bike was like.

It wasn't very long ago (say 1967) we only had a handful of choices, and they didn't change enough to sneeze at, from year to year.

A lighter return spring on a throttle was like a major item.
 
russ69 said:
The new Ninja 300 pretty much is the CB350 of this time period.
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No it isn't. The CB350 was a standard. If they took all the plastics off the 300 and put handlebars on it (amongst other things), then I'd pay attention.
 
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