Oh God that’s so embarrassing compared to that handmade flat plane V8. “Hey I found this in a junkyard, make the bike huge so it fits.”

I don’t think you should have any more than 334hp in a motorcycle.

All this banal shit and I got two stars out of this post? C’mon, it was the best I could do in the 30 seconds before I ran out of the office to go to a street party.

Yeah people say that about 250s. “You’ll outgrow it.” Funny how I still have mine more than a decade and half a dozen other bikes later. And I ride like a bat out of hell on everything, so it’s not like I’m thinking “oh this 250 is too slow for me.”

And then marijuana happened.

The faceless woman who murdered an entire generation’s worth of laughs.

Man From Fifth-Coldest Country On Earth: "It's hot here." C'mon man, you guys get heat for a couple days as a vacation from the cold.

Frickin futurephiliac '80s. It's like they were telling you the future was an analog speedo hidden behind a plastic sheet and space-lookin digits.

Yeah that's kind of insane that someone can credulously say 180hp and 3,000ish lbs is slow. My wife's Scion tC weighs maybe 2,700lbs and has 160hp and it feels very torquey and jumps off the line in a satisfying way (I have taken so much shit for saying that in the past for some reason). My 1983 Volvo 240 wagon had…

You can teach people, yes, but no way in hell is knowing limits instinctual. If it were, people wouldn’t buy a sportbike and wrap it around a phone pole half a mile down the road, and they wouldn’t die of alcohol poisoning at their first frat party. That happens all the time, precisely because of what I said already.

I appreciate your thanks, and apologize for my well-meaning but boorish behavior.

The problem with people who don’t know their limits is they have no idea that they don’t.

Funnily enough a Bonneville 650 (the old kind) is the reason my dad forbade my brother and I to ever buy a motorcycle. He rode like such a maniac on it when he was younger that he thought we’d do the same.

But you missed “site”/sight? C’mon. “Less” is easily colloquially acceptable, but he misspelled damn near every other homophone in there.

Just make sure you check the oil on any freeway ride that’s more than an hour. Mine only had 10,000 miles and, after riding it around town for months with almost zero oil consumption, I learned the hard way those things start drinking oil at sustained high rpm (and mine was geared 2 teeth taller than stock). It will…

It’s not really responsible to say “well, I’m still alive after buying something that’s way too fast, so...” Sure you added the caveat of “ride within your limits” but a lot of people have no idea what the hell those are.

That really is a great choice, but unless you’re tall they can be really intimidating. They have high centers of gravity, feel like they’re about to fall over in turns, and can be really dicey in the rain at a stoplight when you’re just toe-touching on one foot. Hell, I’ve dropped a Katana in that situation, and those…

Holy shit that’s beautiful. I’ve seen a lot of modded mopeds and that might very well be the best.

Oh God, or the Can Am Spyder: all of the lack-of-crashworthiness of a bike, none of a bike’s maneuverability to avoid the crash.

As long as the brakes work. Mine liked to leak air into the line overnight. Yeah that caught me by surprise a couple absolutely horrifying times.