"I'M A CRAZY MOTHER IN A DRUNKEN STATE, A REDNECK A**WIPE THINKS HE'S GREAT"

Yeah, just use this. Warning, Henry Rollins may show up and beat the crap out of you though.

Can't they just put speakers on them, like they're doing for neutered road car cabin noise? Well, that crossed with Apocalypse Now helicopter PA systems....

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Unless you're a 944 guy. Not that I know anything about said condition.

Sounds like a personal problem

I'd suggest new or slightly used (get a 250/300 someone claims to have outgrown and hence is selling) small bike - even 500 can get a new rider in big trouble quicker than is preferable (by this I mean Ninja 500, not Blast). I'd avoid older stuff as particularly braking and handling won't be up to modern snuff, and…

This is not a supersport - the big thing to look for is the bars are at tank-top height, not seat height. I commuted on a first-gen Ninja 250 and it was fine - and I'm 6'2" (I looked kinda funny on it).

"This all sounds so fantastic. If the Skunk Works' prophesies come true it could change the political and socioeconomic balance of the world forever" - exactly right. If this goes, it is truly Atlas Shrugged static-electricity-motor type stuff.

Read Kevin Cameron's books. He explains better than anyone why engineering and progress are so great for motorcycles, and why nostalgic attitudes have their place but ultimately progress is fantastically great for everyone involved.

Exactly why the VTEC in the VFR is so vilified. Not that it's so extreme to "control" but that it's an unwelcome bump in power right at the rpm range you don't want it, especially when cornering.

VTEC received a "cool welcome" because it was unnecessary technology on a bike (not to say true VVT, as discussed here, is not) and primarily because the power bump in the midrange is the last damn thing you want on a bike especially in a corner.

The V-TEC employed by the VFR is the same - basically pointless I might add - and infuriating and annoying to motorcyclists who wish Honda would either give up or do it right I might also add - me being one of them - old-school "shut one pair of valves until x rpm" system that the first VTEC in their cars was - i.e,…

That said, I'd suggest a stronger edit than "that's not entirely true" - Kawasaki had the first production bike with true VVT, period - in 2007.

Well, cool on updates etc - as far as "kicks" - well, headline implies that Ducati is the first here, and clearly Kawi beat them to that by the better part of a decade. And carbs may be a "thing" but only on a minority. Most bikes are FI these days, easily.

Um "kicks"? - you may wish to look into this a bit further. For instance, Kawasaki.

Edit - see here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki_….

Nailed it. Just like squids with mohawks on their helmets blasting thru traffic and helmetless "f word" loud pipe types do for motorcyclists.

These guys are um slightly skilled riders. http://www.cycleworld.com/2014/09/19/rep…

"THEY'VE" - damn. Can't edit the misquote.

This is COTY (Comment of the Year). WE'VE GONE TO PLAID!!!