‘88-’07 250’s are so common you can find one in good shape under $2k with very little effort. And if you break it you can buy a whole second bike without spending much more than you would on a financed Grom. But I’m sure the warranty is a big plus for folks who don’t want to deal with any issues.

I find it funny how quickly people jump to that response. I think most people misinterpreted my post as suggesting that the Ninja was better- I wasn’t, I was asking because I don’t know much about the Grom and wanted to be better informed. At the very least I’ve learned that it has strong cult following.

That’s why I was asking, I haven’t been on one yet. Makes sense in that light.

Now that’s a reason I can understand.

Well, to be honest, that’s not a very helpful reply. I wasn’t making an argument that you should pick one over the other, just inquiring what about the Grom was appealing. Having owned a 250, I think it’s a lot more similar to the Grom than it is to the ZX-series Ninjas. It’s not a sportbike by any means, or even…

Is the Grom really that much physically smaller than the Ninja 250? I haven’t seen a Grom in person, but I had a 250 for a while, and even at 5’9” I found it tiny.

The old school NinJA 250s aren’t really sportbikes, they’re just upright/standards with plastic fairings. Kind of like the older 650R’s. (I’ve had both, they’re nothing like the ZX-series Ninjas).

Just out of curiosity, what makes a $3200 Grom appealing over, say, an $1800 used Ninja 250?

I have mixed feelings about this. Microtransactions leave a bad taste, and it’s a slippery slope to “pay for engrams” or “Just $0.99 to refill your heavy ammo!” and “$5 to double your number of weekly raid runs that drop loot!”. But on the other hand, if there are enough people out there who want to pay for things…

Whales... don’t have those.

Maybe it would help if you actually read the linked article?

Wrong. It’s a hotspot with storage, which means the file could be uploaded to the device and then downloaded from the device in two separate transactions.

But that would require both you and the other person to meet face to face and exchange a physical object. This device would allow one person to submit the data to the “offline storage”, and the other person to retrieve it at a later time (or even in a different physical location if the device were relocated), without…

So maybe you’re not the target audience for this device.

I think Thorin didn’t fully grasp the purpose of the setup, which is to allow device communication or file sharing without using the Internet or public networks at all. Most phones can’t do that.

It’s useful when you want to transmit data wirelessly in a place that doesn’t have wifi. Or, when you don’t want to use someone else’s network or even the Internet to do it. And if you need to transmit data on a completely isolated network, you probably also want to hide the fact that you’re doing it. You could…

I’ve mixed a lot of things into hummus, but never beets. May have to give that a try.

Only one of the three pictured shirts are even offered.

Only one of the three pictured shirts are even offered.

Chickpeas and beets? That’s an interesting combo.

That poor, poor Impreza.