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Detcord · 02-09-2006, 00:10

For $9,000 a 20 year-old kid who has never ridden anything faster than a bicycle can walk into a Yamaha/Honda/Kawasaki/Suzuki dealer and buy a bike that will do 10-second 1/4 miles and hit 165 mph - showroom stock.

And those are the 600cc bikes, forget about the 750's, 900's, and 1,000's.

Kind of like giving a first-time shooter a .300 Win Mag bolt gun to learn on.

Nobody wants to learn basic handling skills on something less powerful like a 250 or whatever since those bikes are "uncool."

Here's the formula:

(inexperience)(youth)(bravado) + rocketship with throttle = fatal combination.

02-09-2006, 00:10	#11
Detcord Guerrilla Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Orange, CA Posts: 129	For $9,000 a 20 year-old kid who has never ridden anything faster than a bicycle can walk into a Yamaha/Honda/Kawasaki/Suzuki dealer and buy a bike that will do 10-second 1/4 miles and hit 165 mph - showroom stock. And those are the 600cc bikes, forget about the 750's, 900's, and 1,000's. Kind of like giving a first-time shooter a .300 Win Mag bolt gun to learn on. Nobody wants to learn basic handling skills on something less powerful like a 250 or whatever since those bikes are "uncool." Here's the formula: (inexperience)(youth)(bravado) + rocketship with throttle = fatal combination.
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