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Learning to ride a Street Bike
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July 14, 2008 at 11:27 pm #8778JirikiParticipant
it varies wildly depending on your location/sate
in bay area, california… it was $250 (and I am pretty sure it is all booked up)
July 14, 2008 at 11:39 pm #8781jfbayleyParticipantDo you know whether it’s required in CA in order to get operator’s license or insurance?
Jack
July 15, 2008 at 5:09 pm #8811ScottyJParticipantJack, read this…
http://home.ama-cycle.org/amaccess/laws/result.asp?state=CA
Here’s an excerpt…
State Funded Rider Ed – Available for all eligible applicants – required under age 21
July 15, 2008 at 6:41 pm #8817jfbayleyParticipantThanks
Jack
September 18, 2008 at 8:25 pm #12334briderdtParticipantMickey wrote (regarding a road bicycle vs a street motorcycle): “…unless you are used to riding your racing bike fully tucked and going over 50mph there is no compareason. if you want to get the feeling of a 600cc street bike find the talllest mountian you can and go down the mountian using no brakes! if you like that feeling you may be ready for a 600cc streetbike!”
Total newbie here, and I’ve never even thrown a leg over a motorcycle… But I HAVE raced road bicycles (bike races and triathlon), and I’ve done the 50 mph tuck in a crowd, and it is a rush… So maybe I’m gonna be okay. But I think I’ll stick with something smaller, like a Blast or a Ninja 250…
September 19, 2008 at 12:19 am #12349RupmiscParticipantI may be wrong, but I don’t know that anyone ever tried to answer this question. Your statement seems to be as accurate as anything I have read in the “Complete Idiot’s Guide to Motorcycles” or in other books. There are more bikes than definitions. See Sport-Touring, Enduro, Adventure, Dual Sport (etcetera ad nauseum).
It might, perhaps, to be more accurate to say that a café racer was a street bike, decorated and customized to look like a racing bike, but was primarily aimed at display to others for bragging rights at the local bar or coffee shop. Triumph makes an “upright” bike, designed to be ridden by a rider way forward hugging the tank. Real sport bikes are, at the extreme, street legal rocket ships which are racing bikes. I’ll leave it to others to decide if a sporty looking bike with less threatening power should be called. I mean, what is the Kawasaki 650R, or the Suzuki SVs?
Warning: the preceding was my best guess based on reading. I wouldn’t be surprised if I were wrong, or offended if someone has better information.
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