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General SportbikesThis area is made for sportbikes in general. Posts that dont really belong anywhere else besides here. Questions can be answered and addressed to fully understand certain aspects. If your question is Manufacturer specific please post it there.
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Sportbike: closes thing i got is a 1987 yamaha tw 200
people keep bringing horsepower into the conversation, harleys arn't known for there hp but they do have tremendious amounts of torque. take your sportbike and cut the rpms in half and see how much hp you make.
This is comming from a guy who cant stand harleys.
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Sportbike: 2004 Ducati 749S...totaled, now 2007 Honda 25th Anv Interceptor
I agree. I took a cruiser for a ride the other week. And I dont mean just a test ride. I borrowed a family members Victory for a 130 mile ride. I love the amount of torque that it had. I could leave it in one gear and use the cubes to just accelerate out of any corner. Not to mention it was the most comfortable ride that I have ever felt on a bike. Now I do not like Harleys but I will consider buying another brand of cruiser. I think a Honda will do me best.
"As Americans, we live in the greatest country, the greatest country in the entire world. We, as Americans, are driven to be the first in everything. It's our nature. We're not slackers. We take second best to no one. It's a national point of pride. No one can beat our military, our pride, our technology, our determinedness, or our ingenuity. There is nothing in the world, no problem, no tragedy, no foe too great that America cannot triumph over them."
I stopped reading after this. 15% of us make the country good at what it is good at. The rest are just lazy selfish consumers that have 'pride' even though their only contribution to the country is spending their meager paychecks on shiny crap that keeps the economy rolling. That and spawning more fat little consumers. That is why harley and other image over performance products are so popular.
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Sportbike: 2003 Kawasaki Z750S, 1996 gs500, daily driver, who needs a cage ;p
If one more person posts this thing, i may just gauge out their eyes (not my eyes mind you, that would be silly).
Do you know when this was written?? I will give ya a hint, it is at the bottom
"Written by Christopher T. Shields, October 18, 1993"
14 years ago.
Yep. A long damn time. Is it true day? Sure, in a lot of respects. But you know what? In my couple years on these boards, I have seen this posted, I shit you not, over fifty times.
We ride sportbikes. By and large we are not the audience that harley is aiming at. If people want to ride em, thats fine. Its not your money, so who cares? Please god stop posting this thing.
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As a woman I've been given more vulgar, suggestive comments from ricky racers or snobbish Beemer riders than I can count. But I've never received anything but absolute courtesy and helpfulness from Harley riders. I don't like their bikes, but in my experience they are the most polite, down to earth, real people I know and they accept me no matter what I ride.
Trashing them like that because they don't fit your stereotype of what riding ought to be is so schoolyard! Your style is right for you. Theirs is right for them. Get over yourself!
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