Motorcycle Enthusiasts

Eh.....for us folks in the States, whats this limit you're talking about?

Best Wishes,

Bruce
 
No you'll laugh

Ok I relented

http://www.motorcycle.co.uk/getdoc/b464be52-72b4-4044-9be9-664b1006c00a/Licence-categories.aspx
 
Many thanks. Some of the bits are similar to what we have in the States such as the passenger being able to straddle the bike, hold on, and reach the foot-pegs. I don't think we have size limits for the bike, but I understand that rural areas may have different rules than urban areas. I also notice that having a car license automatically entitles a person to drive a bike. Is that right? We also have Motorcyle Classes and they are strongly recommended but not required. Some insurance companies give breaks on their premiums if a person has taken a Motorcyle Riding/Handling Course. The Community College where I teach has a very well-attended course during the Summer months.

We also used to have restrictions on some of the accessories that folks put on their bikes, but a lot of that has gone away except, perhaps the side-car sorts of modifications mentioned in your link. Most folks have gotten away from the high back-rests, high handlebars and goofy lights.

I seem to remember some sort of limit on the size of the bike allowed on our Inter-State highways (125cc?) but I don't know if thats even still in effect. I can't imagine someone trying to do a steady 65 mph on a 125cc for very long.

Best Wishes,

Bruce
 
CBA to start a new thread so quick question guys, I've finally almost got my money together to get myself riding but I've just remembered I'm taking offtopic back up again in a couple of months. I doubt I'm going to be able to strap my gym bag to my back safely so are there any other options short of getting a car instead?
 
How much gear will you be riding with? And how far is the comute? Freeway or streets? It's a bad idea to ride with a typical gym bag ( one strap ) but you can get away with a back pack. You can get saddle bags or a rack for your bike. Just make sure that whatever is mounted is within your bikes center or triangle of gravity. That being the space between 3 points, your head and both axles.
 
Cheers
I could probably fit it all in a backpack I hadn't thought of that so used to my hench gym bag.
To answer your questions anyway; if I took all of my stuff it'd be all your standard offtopic sparring equipment and my gi so a fair amount of bulky gear, all streets and not many main ones and be about a 10 minute commute for that. If I took it to college it'd be about 10-20 minutes depending if I have the balls to take the A road.
 
I wouldn't be too comfortable riding with too much weight strapped to my back, even if it's a backpack while on the freeway. Luckily I'm like you, most of the places I commute to can all be reached by the street. Which IMO is easier to ride when carrying a load.
 
A back pack will be fine but not ideal. Your gym bag on your back will even work but again not ideal.

The easiest/cheapest option will be to use your normal gym bag and bungie it onto the pillion seat of the bike behind you. Get a couple of cheap bungie chords from Halfords and strap the bag down with them diagonally across the seat. Watch out for hanging straps etc; you need to make sure they don't get caught in the rear wheel, so maybe even take off the shoulder strap.

Mitch
 
I once carried a spare exhaust for my bike strapped across the pillion seat of the bike. Almost anything is possible

Mitch
 
lol, might be a divergence of possible and advisable in there somewhere.
 
The "divergance of possible and advisable" is a perfect suofftopicry of almost all that is glorious and admireable about motorcycling

Mitch
 
I’ve never had saddle bags (by choice) but all of my bikes have had sissy bars and I’ve strapped plenty to them and sometimes when traveling strapped to the center of the handle bars. I strap my gym bag to my sissy bar now.

However you’re your case just strap it to the seat.
 
I don't know how much gear you'll be carrying for offtopic, but I bungeed my loaded cricket bag to the rear of a Honda SP1 without drama. Well without a lot of drama - only became an issue when filtering!
 
I now have a Honda
Apparently someone once saw one of mine carrying 4 people in Brazil, would be happier seeing a cricket bag :P
 
It was actually the SP2 - my mistake. All the loveliness, none of the throttle glitchiness of the SP1!

In Castrol Honda racing colours. Most beautiful machine I ever rode, including the fine Italian exotica out there. Although the Ben Bostrum replica Ducati 998 ran it close.
 
per request the new guy is here to tell the motorcycling tale.....

well...i grew up on bikes, being born in daytona bch and raised 45 min from there in orlando it was kinda a no brainer. not to mention the long racing history in my family. my grand father on my dad's side, murray pendleton worked at the daytona int speedway for many yrs. he was the 1st vip pikcup vehicle, the 1st radio announcer, and the 1st abulance driver for the speedway. my grand father on my moms side, jan foster, was a drag racer for pontiac back in the day. my uncle tony, tony foster, owns PCS daytona a ducati / bimota dealership. he also has raced for yrs. was even in an issue of motorcyclist for being the builder of the 1st turbo ducati monster.
http://www.carolenash.com/insidebikes/bike-reviews/ducati/monster-turbo/

my father raced Florida grand prix riders in the late 70's and early 80's. he did roadracing on a norton coofftopicnder and flat tracked a cr250 elsinore that was given to him by bill france. my mother also raced flat track on a cr250 elsinore as well.

i got out of the army for 2 yrs and went to the Motorcycle mechanics institute for Hontech and K-tech. My 1s bike was actually my 1st vehicle period. a 1975 honda cb400f that i got when i was 15.


throughout the yrs i have owned many bikes. just a few. rd400 daytona, 84 vf750 interceptor, 88 cbr600 hurricane, 94 zx7r,
98 cbr600f3. it was ugly but the motor was built by full spectrum arcing in orlando to the tune of 108 rwhp


i now won and race a 07 cbr600rr. she was my daily rider and show bike in the beginning.
as she was in a calendar





including the price of the bike i had over 25grand in her. once i began to prepare for racing i had to start selling the pretty stuff. she now looks like this.






i started in august of 10 and raced 3 races that season. i placed 4th in my 1st race, 7th in my second and 5th in my 1st. all of them at gateway international raceway in st louis. i was prepping this winter for my next season and actually managed to gain 5 sponsors because of my results and got orders to go to korea. i had to call and cancel my sponsorships. all but one was appreciative of my calls and they told me to call them when i get back and they we redo my sponsorships contracts.

heres my dad at dayton in 08

and me

me and my old man. and yes he's fast. he has a 2000 rc51




heres a couple vids of me. this day a few guys on 1000's were clowing me because i was riding a little 600 and wearing leathers. we were at an old industrial park.at 1:33 if you turn it up you can hear the guy griping cuz i went around him on the outside with my knee down.
YouTube - sundayridemovie.wmv

this is my wife recording me and my dad at daytona for the team hammer race school
YouTube - team hammer 2

i am now working on a 73 cb750 k that i found at a farm. this is what she looks like now.

this is what she will look like
 
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