Dennis The Menace
05-13-2009, 07:57 PM
Uwe and I must be leading parallel lives or something. Or maybe he just wants to be like me. I get that alot. :D
I currently ride a Hayabusa. The whole 50 over thing has really put a damper on ownership. Not that I am the type of rider to constantly looks like a dick on the street screaming by the cages. But I pick my spots and have some fun, when its me, and only me.
As comfortable and easy riding as the Busa can be its a little like giving a kid a BB gun and telling him not to shoot anything. It just ain't gunna happen.
Over the last few years I have been dealing with on going arm pain issues, tennis elbow if you want to call it that. I've cut back on working out, mountain biking etc. Put the old man kit on the Busa (bar risers). And I am constantly running through my head what I can do to keep riding, not get a ticket and not be in pain all the time.
I test road a bunch of cruisers last summer, and one was almost good enough to make me turn cruiser. I rode the Yamaha Raider twice last summer and it was a sweet bike. I have also owned a dual sport but that just wasn't for me. Even with mountain bike racing in my past. There are no good places to actually go off road around me.
Anyway. Great column Uwe (as usual), I will continue through this year with the Busa and then deside what I want to do. And no Ken...... I will not go back to a VFR. Any sport, sport touring bike will seem like a heap after the Busa. So I will need to go to something completely different. Maybe I will even get a vest with some neat crests on it. That would be cool.:rolleyes:
I could put sparky peg feelers on the Raider when I grind the living $hite out of it.
I currently ride a Hayabusa. The whole 50 over thing has really put a damper on ownership. Not that I am the type of rider to constantly looks like a dick on the street screaming by the cages. But I pick my spots and have some fun, when its me, and only me.
As comfortable and easy riding as the Busa can be its a little like giving a kid a BB gun and telling him not to shoot anything. It just ain't gunna happen.
Over the last few years I have been dealing with on going arm pain issues, tennis elbow if you want to call it that. I've cut back on working out, mountain biking etc. Put the old man kit on the Busa (bar risers). And I am constantly running through my head what I can do to keep riding, not get a ticket and not be in pain all the time.
I test road a bunch of cruisers last summer, and one was almost good enough to make me turn cruiser. I rode the Yamaha Raider twice last summer and it was a sweet bike. I have also owned a dual sport but that just wasn't for me. Even with mountain bike racing in my past. There are no good places to actually go off road around me.
Anyway. Great column Uwe (as usual), I will continue through this year with the Busa and then deside what I want to do. And no Ken...... I will not go back to a VFR. Any sport, sport touring bike will seem like a heap after the Busa. So I will need to go to something completely different. Maybe I will even get a vest with some neat crests on it. That would be cool.:rolleyes:
I could put sparky peg feelers on the Raider when I grind the living $hite out of it.