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Riding => It's not a Concours - other Bikes => Topic started by: Slideways on November 07, 2012, 09:43:35 PM

Title: I think I've figured out my next "bike"
Post by: Slideways on November 07, 2012, 09:43:35 PM
I have this stupid rule. Only one bike in the garage. I love my Connie but she is a big girl for running quick errands to town and I live just far enough away to make the bicycle not a great option. Okay there's also the 500' elevation gain in the last two miles on narrow twisty roads with no shoulder coming back also. Well my boss has an Aprillia SR50 scooter with all of 40 miles on the clock he'll sell to me at a fair price. Great in town transportation and bonus, the wife said she'd learn to ride it and she has shown zero interest in being anything other then a passenger. Breaking my stupid rule is easy to rationalize because it is not a motorcycle, it's a scooter.

Any thoughts? I mean aside from the "riding a scooter is like dating a fat chick..."
Title: Re: I think I've figured out my next "bike"
Post by: Conrad on November 08, 2012, 04:51:15 AM
One bike, one scooter in the garage. Nothig wrong with that. Besides, if anyone asks, it's your wife's scoot.  ;)
Title: Re: I think I've figured out my next "bike"
Post by: Gumby on November 08, 2012, 08:23:35 AM
Quote from: Slideways on November 07, 2012, 09:43:35 PM
I mean aside from the "riding a scooter is like dating a fat chick..."
Better then dating a fat chick on a scooter huh?
http://youtu.be/T3AeRbqhi0I (http://youtu.be/T3AeRbqhi0I)

Oh ya, one bike in the garage......BAD RULE!
Title: Re: I think I've figured out my next "bike"
Post by: Pokey on November 08, 2012, 09:23:40 AM
Some pretty sweet scooters out there, You could for sure see me on one.
Title: Re: I think I've figured out my next "bike"
Post by: George R. Young on November 08, 2012, 09:28:13 AM
Not an EX250?
Title: Re: I think I've figured out my next "bike"
Post by: twowheeladdict on November 08, 2012, 10:19:42 AM
What is wrong with having more than one bike in the garage?  Of course you may have other toys in there that we don't know about. 
Title: Re: I think I've figured out my next "bike"
Post by: ZG on November 08, 2012, 10:54:18 AM
Quote from: Tom V on November 08, 2012, 08:23:35 AM
Better then dating a fat chick on a scooter huh?
http://youtu.be/T3AeRbqhi0I (http://youtu.be/T3AeRbqhi0I)

Oh ya, one bike in the garage......BAD RULE!

 
 :o   :-X
Title: Re: I think I've figured out my next "bike"
Post by: Conrad on November 08, 2012, 11:00:41 AM
Quote from: Tom V on November 08, 2012, 08:23:35 AM
Better then dating a fat chick on a scooter huh?
http://youtu.be/T3AeRbqhi0I (http://youtu.be/T3AeRbqhi0I)

Oh ya, one bike in the garage......BAD RULE!

Hold on thar! The info says that's a guy?   :o   
Title: Re: I think I've figured out my next "bike"
Post by: Pokey on November 08, 2012, 11:56:58 AM
Yes.....1 bike rule is stupid.
Title: Re: I think I've figured out my next "bike"
Post by: Skinny on November 08, 2012, 12:09:47 PM
Quote from: Pokey on November 08, 2012, 11:56:58 AM
Yes.....1 bike rule is stupid.

I agree, bikes get lonely too.  Plus, what do you do when a buddy comes out from far (my old buds in Akron,OH) away and wants to ride.

By the way I have a Honda 110 scooter in the garage that is my wife's ride.
 I want a T-Max for my scoot though.
Title: Re: I think I've figured out my next "bike"
Post by: Slideways on November 08, 2012, 01:50:53 PM
Jeezzz Tom V you and that avatar.  :o

I like it. "Naw, it ain't mine it's the wife's scooter."

The Connie ain't lonely there are are about ten bicycles in the garage. Pedal bikes, my other obsession. Also my 2003 Honda Insight. The Connie is always giving the Insight crap for being slow but the Insight scoffs and calls the Connie a gas hog. It never ends between those two but I lov'em both.
Title: Re: I think I've figured out my next "bike"
Post by: Pokey on November 08, 2012, 01:55:25 PM
The insight gets better than 40 mpg and goes over 150 mph?  ;)
Title: Re: I think I've figured out my next "bike"
Post by: Slideways on November 08, 2012, 02:46:16 PM
Over 130,000 miles on the Insight. Avereage mpg since day one has been 69mpg. This is the original Insight, not the new Prius wannabe. Had it up to 113 mph once on a downhill just to say I did. In the Insight community there is a saying, "80mpg @ 50mph or 50 mpg @ 80 mph." it is pretty spot on actually.
Title: Re: I think I've figured out my next "bike"
Post by: ZG on November 08, 2012, 04:11:09 PM
The first rule of scooter club, never talk about scooter club...
Title: Re: I think I've figured out my next "bike"
Post by: Elfmaze on November 08, 2012, 04:56:10 PM
right now i have a z1000 and the connie.  I have talked about getting a honda ruckas, ninja 250, or sportster when the z1000 dies.  same concept.   

BUT i will say the concourse has became my goto vehical.  I almost never drive the truck and the z1000 doesnt have the cargo space.  I even grocery shop with the connie anymore. 
Title: Re: I think I've figured out my next "bike"
Post by: Gumby on November 08, 2012, 05:53:15 PM
Quote from: Elfmaze on November 08, 2012, 04:56:10 PM
I have talked about getting a honda ruckas, ninja 300
FIFY  ;)
Title: Re: I think I've figured out my next "bike"
Post by: Slideways on November 08, 2012, 09:23:48 PM
DONE !!!!

The Aprillia SR50 came home with me tonight inspite of a less then auspicious start. Rode the thing from the seller's house back to the shop in the rain (hey, I am in SoCal rain is like, well you know...). At the bottom of the hill from his house I grabbed a fist full of left hand lever to pull in the clutch. That was exciting a little. Then it stalls at a light a mile from the shop. At this piont I have had exactly z-e-r-o instruction and know pretty much nothing about scooters. It doesn't want to start. Sigh, rain and pushing. Once I make it back I am asked if I held the brake lever while trying to start it. DOH !!!

Time to R.T. F. M.
Title: Re: I think I've figured out my next "bike"
Post by: martin_14 on November 09, 2012, 03:18:10 AM
:rotflmao:

sorry, couldn't help it...

:rotflmao:
Title: Re: I think I've figured out my next "bike"
Post by: booger on November 17, 2012, 06:30:08 PM
Quote from: Slideways on November 07, 2012, 09:43:35 PM
I have this stupid rule. Only one bike in the garage.

Geez, my wife has the same rule.  And she is totally insane.

Change your rule