kdawg31337
Registered
I haven't posted in a while as nothing motorcycle/busa related has happened to me in a while, but I was in Phuket, Thailand for a bit, and new events have been added to my life story.
To be quick, I essentially made a very bad decision to rent a motorcycle while I was there for various reasons the least of which is I've only ridden motorcycles for very little periods of time and it was 250cc's at most. I don't even have my own motorcycle. There are other reasons which I won't get into as I figure I will be horribly flamed for them.
However, I've returned it, and nothing bad happened, for which I am quite thankful. The bike was (supposedly) a 600cc v-twin Honda cruiser. I'm also using this experience to ask some questions:
1) The bike seemed to completely lack any pickup. Granted it was a big bike with 2 passangers, and seemed decently old, but it still took way too much effort to get up to speed. Is this normal?
2) Everywhere on the site I see people impressed by touching a knee to the ground. Now I didn't do that, but the foot pegs definitely scraped the ground a few times when I was riding even if I wasn't going particularly fast (Phuket is a curvy mountain road area). Is this really such a difficult thing to do?
3) Will a 600cc sportbike provide similar performance? I'm looking into a first bike and really want to know what to get. The 250cc I rode was dead slow, and this Honda wasn't too much of an improvement. I'd like a recommendation on a first bike essentially.
To be quick, I essentially made a very bad decision to rent a motorcycle while I was there for various reasons the least of which is I've only ridden motorcycles for very little periods of time and it was 250cc's at most. I don't even have my own motorcycle. There are other reasons which I won't get into as I figure I will be horribly flamed for them.
However, I've returned it, and nothing bad happened, for which I am quite thankful. The bike was (supposedly) a 600cc v-twin Honda cruiser. I'm also using this experience to ask some questions:
1) The bike seemed to completely lack any pickup. Granted it was a big bike with 2 passangers, and seemed decently old, but it still took way too much effort to get up to speed. Is this normal?
2) Everywhere on the site I see people impressed by touching a knee to the ground. Now I didn't do that, but the foot pegs definitely scraped the ground a few times when I was riding even if I wasn't going particularly fast (Phuket is a curvy mountain road area). Is this really such a difficult thing to do?
3) Will a 600cc sportbike provide similar performance? I'm looking into a first bike and really want to know what to get. The 250cc I rode was dead slow, and this Honda wasn't too much of an improvement. I'd like a recommendation on a first bike essentially.