Hi eveyone – I’m new! I’ve wanted a bike for a good ten years or so, and bought a 1981 Suzuki GS850G this week that is in great shape. I’ve been reading all about first bikes all over the internet and realize that it might make sense to start with something smaller, but her I am – I loved it as soon as I saw, had been on the back of a big bike for a while, and took a friends for some rides a while back – oh and I did the safety course – twice! I got my licence 10 years ago, let it expire, and then re-certified about 2 months ago. I’m 5’10 and 130 lbs so the height feels ok, I did drop it the second day I had it on a gravel road stopping on a hill at the cottage, which made me feel like an ass, but I now know how to pick a bigger bike up (pushing with my legs not puling with my arms) and I have a set of engine bars on order. I love riding it and learn something new absolutely everyday. I’ve been trying to do at least 100km every day and am planning my first big road trip (2000km or so). Reading the fourms today made me feel way better about riding the highway (I thought I was the only one white knuckling it all the way) and who know ear plugs made that big of a difference! So, I was wondering if anyone had any advice to new riders about riding a heavy bike (other than don’t start with one)?
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