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02-25-2007, 07:03 PM
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| Seat Tester  Join Date: Oct 2006
Bike: in my future
Location: Roswell, Ga.
Posts: 62
|  What to buy, what to buy...
I am just clueless on what to buy. I've looked at so many bikes and read about so many that I'm just frazzled. Nothing seems to fit for me. Maybe you guys can help. I'm getting back into riding after a thirty year layoff. I'll be buying a bike to take with us on our RV in our upcoming retirement....and that's part of the problem. You see, most RV's are very limited on the amount of weight you can carry on them; usually only about 1500 extra pounds after driver, passengers, fuel and water are loaded. So once you take 280 lbs. off for the lift in the back to hold the bike, you really need to keep the weight of the bike itself down to no more than about 600 lbs. So that pretty much blows out big bikes like big Harleys or Goldwings. Then you have the fact that I'm only 5'8"...and to make bad matters worse, I've got a long torso and short legs; only a 29" inseam. So there go all the sport bikes (not to mention that I really don't like the looks of modern sport bikes anyway). So now we're down to medium and small cruisers, damn few of which seem to have enough power or enough ground clearance to do any decent corner carving. Add in the desire for windshield, bags and a halfway decent short touring bike that my wife can ride on and the list gets tiny in a hurry. So here's my "short list". Help me out. Which one to buy? 1) Harley Davidson 1200 Sportster 2) Triumph America 3) Kawasaki 900 LT 4) Suzuki C50T The Sportster is very suspect as far as its ability to be a short tourer with wife on back, the others are suspect because I don't think they have enough beans and the Kawasaki and Suzuki are limited on their lean angle as well because of the floorboards. Help me out. Where am I wrong or do you have a better suggestion? |
