[Jgrogan91]

get a ducati streetfighter, best beginner bike joking of course.

[Jgrogan91]

I completely agree with your last statement “as long as your riding”

dont matter if its a sport or a cruiser. were all motorcyclists.

[d4mn3d]

My dad is a really simple guy, he moved here from Korea in 88′ and since then has worked various jobs to support the family and two kids (my brother and I). I’ve done my best to help him around the house, but he still lives a pretty labor intensive life and he has only recently admitted to being tired of working all the time and sick of not being able to do anything fun on the days he does get off. This is what rekindled his old dream of cruising on the weekends with his two sons by his side.

I personally love motorcycles, and begged my dad when I was sixteen to let me have one. (thank god he didn’t, even with a year and a half of driving experience I still feel like I have a lot to learn). He has only recently began to acknowledge that I have matured quite a bit since I first asked him, and requested that I look for a good first bike with him so we can go riding. He is busy during the weekdays and it being summer vacation for me I have devoted my free time to researching different bikes and riding gear in order to get the best out of our budget.

His notion of motorcycle coolness involves big cruisers, leather jackets, and loud exhausts and although I do find these characteristics to be rather attractive and masculine in appeal I’ve always thought that the way sport bike riders lean into turns to be more appealing. The smoothness of their turns, and the way their bikes seem to defy gravity during the turn in has always captivated me. Because of this I have always been drawn towards sport bikes (although a big sport cruiser like the Suzuki Boulevard m109r is also just as awesome).

I know that I have a lot to learn. Looking back on how much I’ve learned about driving in a car I am prepared to do it all over again starting with baby steps on a smaller more comfortable bike. Although I wouldn’t mind riding next to my dad in a sport bike (with him in a cruiser) I think that would shatter his ideal image of a shared riding experience. Because of this I am willing to forgo my own dream in my attempts to cater to his.

** A note to the Dual-Sport suggestion, I personally love the dual sport look, but my dad wouldn’t approve of it as he thinks they’re just street legal dirt bikes (a pretty narrow minded outlook)

Thank you all for your input, I appreciate all the different opinions. I personally believe it doesn’t matter what you ride, as long as you are riding, but in order to make my dad happy I think I’ll end up getting a cruiser with him

Maybe I should’ve posted all this in an introduction thread LOL

[SantaCruzRider]

No reason to equivocate. IMHO: hook your dad up with his vision or riding cruisers with his son. Truth is that for many of us motorcycle is 90% of it, sport vs cruiser vs dually is the rest. If you eliminated two of the three above classes, I’d still find something to love riding. And I’d thank God every day I got to ride it rather than being jammed into my incrediblywell-equipped and luxurious car.

I would seriously advise you to try out a bunch of bikes, including use bikes. If you could find your way towards a slightly used bike, the Honda Magna is an awesome compromise between cruiser and sport bike. It’s often classed as a sport-cruiser, but is probably the only one in the 800 range. It’s a giant-killer and it’s power demands respect . It’s also wickedly cool looking.

[RedFireBird]

i’m right up the road in statesboro and i ride to savannah a couple times a month.

anyway, i’d highly suggest a ninja 500 instead of a new 250. they’ve been around forever, they’re nearly bulletproof, just as easy to ride as the 250 but has enough high rpm power (around 55 hp if i recall correctly) that you could enjoy the bike for years to come. parts for them are dirt cheap.

the kawasaki dealer in claxton has 5 or more brand new 500’s that they just can’t seem to get rid of, so i’m sure you could snag one up for cheap.

anyway, if you live nearby enough, i could help sway your vote with your old man that sport bikes can be proper for the street and for riding with cruisers. my mom’s boyfriend has a VTX 1300 and we get along just fine

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