Where do you guys usually go to find good deals on used bikes? I haven't found much in my area despite always hearing that you can find decent sub 3k or even 2k bikes if you look.
Parker Price
Craigslist
Zachary King
Suzuki a shit.
Nicholas Carter
>tfw -3C tomorrow Spring fucking WHEN?
Eli Parker
March.
Jace Gomez
Guys, what's a good yet cheap camera for insurance proposes?
Camden Wilson
>cherries & berries
Josiah Russell
That cockpit it pure sex.
Sebastian Thomas
Hey guys looking at getting a full system for my CBR 500r 2016. Is it worth it?
Carson Ross
For me, it's the simple 250R.
Luis James
>full system on a beginner commuter bike Really?
Alexander Morgan
>guys looking at getting a full system for my geo metro -you right now
Kevin Young
stahp
Ryan Robinson
>500cc >beginner bike Top wut
Chase Brown
Should we tell him?
Leo Powell
Go back to bed Nigel. It's only nine bong.
Sebastian Taylor
Yes, its tame as fuck
Matthew Adams
Do you live in India??
Christopher Watson
Of course not.
You'll gain two or three horsepower and the bike will sound like absolute horse shit.
Jordan Cooper
Literally just a generic early 2000's, mid-late 90's cockpit
Jayden Kelly
Consider suicide
Nathan Ortiz
Stay plebs.
Aaron Martin
You got the sena tube camera thing. It has audio mic so thats kinda nice. But if you want 60 fps a go pro session is pretty good if you bring a charger pack.
Colton Morgan
The tribe has spoken.
>Slip on it is
:^]
Asher Sullivan
Do you guys weigh like 400lbs or what? 500cc is more engine than any man would ever need.
Dominic Thompson
Post boipucci desu
William Evans
I just don't see the point in doing it. Just get a nice slip-on if you want but not a full system.
Then again it's not my bike and it's not my money and if someone has a hard-on for a full system on a little honda I really don't give a shit. But if you are going to go full system on a 40hp bike make sure to get the best one on the market. Don't puss out get it and post pics
Kevin Cruz
nth for Yamaha
Luke Miller
ok
Ethan Brooks
more cockpits
Henry Diaz
Your money I guess.
Nicholas Morales
Ayy. I see what you mean user.
I considered a nice slip on but >Full system Senpai
But selling it in about 3 or so years once I've been on big boy liscence for a bit. (Australian LAMs laws)
Colton Robinson
I don't get the hate user.
In b4 > IF ITS LESS THAN 1000CC ITS NOT A REAL BIKE
Caleb Reed
I want to see that bike with pic related paint.
Jackson Ramirez
It's also quite a bit less than any man would ever want, especially since it's one of those 360 degree parallel twins
And in a fake sportbike getup too. Top lel. Don't you know that the only two cyllinder engines that go in sportbikes are V shaped?
It's a dressed up, understressed, understated commuter bike designed to be as cheap as honda can make it without chinking out. It sounds like a fart and really has no purpose but to bring new motorcycles to people who can't pony up an extra two grand for something better.
Asher Jackson
>wasting money on a LAMS bike instead of saving for a decent one once you're on your fulls
If you want to spend money, get a tail tidy, sticky tyres and adjustable rearsets so you can actually lean the bike over more than 20 degrees.
Samuel Butler
So you're saying if a bike is designed with commuting in mind, that is must be terrible by default?
What's wrong with one bike Bing used for one or more purposes >Its actually is a pretty good commuter bike with good fuel consumption >Twisties are still good fun and have no trouble keeping up with other bikes though the turns
So most bikes 500cc or more will lose me in a straight line, but at least my spine won't be shattered should I decide to daily commute. Still don't get it user.
Ayden Martinez
Ayy good point. Already picked up some tyres.
Rear sets sound like a good idea, kinda over looked that desu. What about clip ons? Yay or nay?
Lincoln Howard
at that point you might as well sell it and buy a $3k 600 off craigslist ' just upshift at 9k RPM until you're gud and it's basically a 500
Parker Jenkins
Pretty much yeah. It's built with cheap poor quality components in order to be affordable as a temporary bike for learner's and a cost efficient vehicle for commuters. You won't see the money from aftermarket parts back after you sell it
Oliver Wood
There's a lot of assumptions in this post and all of them are wrong, pretty much what you're saying is you know your bike is a slow budget shitbike and you're somehow proud of this?
Dylan Morris
Everything from the swingarm and frame to the weight distribution to the size of the forks on a sportbike improves handling, making them stable and predictable at higher cornering speeds. They're not toy bikes. They're not drag racers. They are built to corner. Even the way the rider is set up to sit on them is part of their handling characteristics. What you have is a standard with a lawnmower engine haphazardly bolted to a bunch of welded together steel conduit, with a steel box on a hinge out the back and a couple of twigs in front, which wallows, wobbles, and reluctantly flips and flops its way through corners, scraping a low-set peg every now and then to inform you that you picked the wrong bike to push the limits on.
Ryan Reyes
Tell him what!? Tell me.
Jose Cooper
...
Grayson Garcia
>shattering your spine on any bike
are you a nobike or a feet-forwards harley rider?
>lean forward over the bars slight improvement >stand on the pegs what fucking bumps
Eli Cox
reminder that a 250cc commuter made today has a better chassis than 1000cc racers of the 20th century and a supersport is basically an F1 car
>You need a sportbike chassis and a 180 section rear to corner >you need to put your feet on the passenger pegs so they don't scrape >You need clipons to go fast >You need two front brake discs to stop >You need 200hp to keep up with middle aged men on touring bikes on a somewhat curvy road
So I missed my service interval by about 2,500km and now I found sand like chunks of metal in my oil, of which there was about only about half of the actual oil capacity. How fucked am I?
Bentley Williams
nobody said this, who are you quoting?
Christopher Campbell
How big are the chunks? Post pics What bike?
Austin Adams
You fucked up
Unless it's a BMW in which case this is a standard feature
Eli Torres
I tipped the oil out. I literally thought it was sand until I noticed it was shining so picture that size.
1993 CBR250RR. It only has 32,000km on it so I wouldnt think it could be fucked already
Gabriel Cox
>japanese efficiency
David Cox
>digital tach I will never like these
Asher Jenkins
>tfw Kawasaki will never bring back their old school designs It hurts...
Joshua Allen
But they just did.
Ayden Thomas
a bike shop
Dylan Robinson
why would you want a bike that is already a racebike for the road to go even faster?
Henry Gray
Might buy a ninja 400 as a daily this Summer.
Seems like a nice package. As much power as a cbr500r but 60lbs lighter and they kept the price the same
Ryan Lee
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Bentley Bailey
rekt
Benjamin Morgan
Any of y’all had your bikes stolen before?
I wanna get a motorcycle again, but after having my civic stolen, im thinking I should move out of the city first.
Levi Moore
I hate to say it but I think Kawasaki have lost their way with this one. It’s just a modern bike that looks nostalgic. It’s kind of lame.
Angel Rivera
Just change the oil and keep up on it this time. It's surely still okay to ride but there's definitely going to be some damage to the internals whether you feel it or not.
Grayson Rodriguez
>It’s just a modern bike that looks nostalgic. Do you want drum brakes and sloppy suspension? Its one of the only retro bikes that actually got the aesthetic properly unlike the XSR's
Samuel Scott
That's all any old/new reproduction is. No manufacturer is going to bring back non ABS, carby drum brake air cooled bikes.
Someone on Veeky Forums owns a new RS I think
Cooper Jenkins
I think it looks too modern.
The Zephyr got the aesthetics properly. But I guess why get it right twice in such a short span of time...
Jose Robinson
Ducati's best selling bike is air cooled m8
Eli Cooper
Sup.
Carson Miller
With everything else being brand new tech
Easton Butler
What part of the Scrambler is new tech? That it doesn't have drum brakes?
If it wasn't for the bags of mid range that modern bikes have and EU cuckery we wouldn't eve have abs or TC on most bikes
Tyler Turner
How come 125cc bikes aren't more popular in the US?
Ryan Hughes
Leno just sold me on the Husky 701 as the perfect daily motorcycle: ‘small’ bike size and weight with big-bike power.
Is there a catch I’m not getting? Will a big single like this shortly grenade or something? (From his description it’s plenty smooth off idle, which would mean shedding a lot of weight and complexity vs. Multi cylinder)
Lucas Sanchez
They're not highway legal here. 250 is the minimum and unless you have navigation, long distance travel without using Insterstates is difficult
I'd buy an mt125 in a heartbeat though if they sold them here.
>tfw no 100mpg touring bike
Anthony Torres
It makes as much horsepower as the three Japanese liquid cooled twins of the same size. Not a recipe for longevity. But I'm sure it'll go 20k. Not sure why you'd get one over the aforementioned Japs unless the name gets you hard.
Rather have a scrambler
Mason Cooper
Constant mesh box, trellis frame, inverted forks mono shock on the rear, radial calipers and floating disk, ABS.
obviously its not brand new tech but its newer than what user wants out of a old 250r
Jordan Nelson
Kys
Austin Martin
I have a 125 in Vietnam and it’s too fucking slow, considering a 150 kit (which sound like an absurdly small increase, but import laws force this sort of nonsense).
Chase Hill
Because it sounds like it’s the better part of a hundred pounds lighter unless I’m being deceived?
Asher Perry
>riding a 250/500/650 on the highway good luck when semi trailers overtake you
Chase Wood
And how do they achieve that weight difference? Sure, the engine is smaller but you're also going to get weight savings in places that might make it less resilient to wear and tear.
Carson Scott
Its liquid cooled too The catch is the price
Samuel Butler
i love Leno, id totally deepthroat his unshowered, uncut cock. No homo
Jose Martin
Still pisses me off that Triumph didn't actually mass produce and market the MGSV promotional T100.
Gavin Hill
Anyone here have high mileage KTMs with no rebuilds? No hate just wondering because I do like the spec sheet and want to buy one (maybe a 790 adv in 2020) I just can't believe Yamaha would avoid building the same bike if they could do it reliably.
Parker Sanchez
Wtf I swear someone just said “nice, now your banned” but then I reopened my browser and the post gone and I’m not banned.
Elijah Butler
Why do they keep suspension from ww2 but put on disc brakes
Ryan Edwards
This is why I asked. What’s the catch?
It’s notably more expensive than an SV650 or whatever for sure, but it seems be to a whole class above in terms of power, and a whole class below in terms of weight and bulk.
Makes me wonder why the Japanese don’t do a high-tech big single if it can do it all.
Ian Lee
Wondering the same. The most reliable Continental bikes match the Jap offerings very closely on paper
Carter Morris
>high mileage >KTM they snap in half before your're able to put any kilometres on them. The only thing worse is a cuckasaki
Michael Jackson
Because the japs just want to fill out a spec sheet instead of actually making a fun bike
Evan Hill
>cuckasaki Unironically neck yourself.
Nathan Lopez
>if you happen to be a complete fucking idiot, long distance travel without using Insterstates is difficult
FTFY. Buy laminated state maps and a globe compass. Boom, done. And personally, I find off-superslab travel much more rewarding.
Alexander Nelson
This is the big question around KTMs/Huskys. They seems to be impossibly powerful and light; it’s not like the Japanese don’t have just as good engineers and manufacturing, so it makes me wonder if the Euros just design their bikes to barely limp past the ~20k/km of warranty whereas the Japs designs bikes to still be running right in 20 years, with accordant compromises is weight and power.
Colton Wilson
OP is that your zx10 ? if so did you notice much of an improvement from upgrading your rear caliper ? pic related, its mine