Motorcycle Thread

HD announced this week they are canning their electric bike project. $35,000 for a bike that had 100 mile range or 150 depending on where you looked. I think HD is going to realise one day their target audience is dying off over time.

It's a matter of head geometry as well. Shoei helmets fit me nicely and I had the... X-900 and XR-1000? Something like that. Great helmets.

That's pretty cool. It'd be fun to try it out.

I guess Kawasaki is bringing back the zx25r.. 249cc with an i4 setup. Unfortunately might not come stateside.

I just want the Aprilia rs660 to hit production already :c

Idk, I'd imagine it could still be fun in a series of twisties.. my immediate mind goes to this mad lad on an R3.. I thoroughly enjoy the nimbleness of the smaller classes, i'll still fire up the 250 every few weeks to just go joyride and fuck off.



I think the main concern I am reading is the price, pretty much the original reason the zx2r didn't do well in the early 90's.

edit; ended up grabbing a beer with the dad and brought it up to him, since he his a small bike enthusiast haha.. and his imagination of it, is it scary with that extra power on such a small bike.. Having had pushed a 250 to about 120-ish myself, although the struggle.. could the i4 alleviate that strain and just making it slightly smoother pushing the top end. I know moving into the apex on a 250 feels amazing since its twitcher, but leaving it feels much better on a 600 and a litre. Other than that, we talked about issues in the US with emissions? the power of a small block can only be so much, which could be adjusted aftermarket? but that might be a big prevention from seeing it state side, also seems like its heavily marketed toward the Southern Asian regions where having a 600 or even litre is just stupid.

Other than that, in typical dad fashion; he talked to me about a Gilera he once owned back in the day. Four stroke, single cylinder.. I believe he said 149cc but that I needed to look it up because it sounds super unique..

Goes hand in hand why I'm very leery of ordering anything off from amazon anymore. tourniquets for public safety and many other type of products will get sold at close to full price or the more obvious big discounts, and you end up with fake products.



I always weep when on cheaper bike groups (ninja 400) you get the tards asking about $80 helmets etc hoping someone will tell them it's fine when they already know better.

While that looks interesting, it looks horrible to drive.

Going to be in the 50-60s here in Minnesota this weekend. Very tempted...

I'm tempted, too. Not going to pull the trigger yet, though.

Already been braving 30f mornings to take advantage of 55f afternoons. Shame traffic in north CO is so fucking bad gets in the way of a nice ride.