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Honda Grom: Beginner Bike Profile + Owner Reviews
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My dream bike is the Triumph Bonneville SE in BLUE. Same here, when finances permit. When will that be I ask myself????
CandiceParticipanthttp://www.motorcycle-superstore.com/1/2/50/13693/ITEM/Scorpion-Womens-Savannah-Pants.aspx
Spring color
Hope I don’t low/highside before my birthday!
Mountain Dew is gross. I like Green Tea or if I’m real stressed a COCA COLA CLASSIC.
CandiceParticipantThat would be too distracting for all the other drivers, cagers and bikers, I would worry about their safety. That would make me noticeable to cagers though….. White helmet vs chaps and a thong for visibilty…
CandiceParticipantI keep mine in my wallet with my debit card, ins card, and driver’s license. I think you have to have it – Driver’s license and registration, please. Right?
CandiceParticipantYeah, my jacket is textile. What was I thinking? Chaps? Yuk. I am going textile – I just wasn’t sure if cruiser style bikes and textiles went together but now I don’t really see why not, right?
CandiceParticipanthttp://www.motorcycle-superstore.com/1/2/50/13693/ITEM/Scorpion-Womens-Savannah-Pants.aspx
They have them in plain black also.
CandiceParticipantGlad it all worked out and congratulations on your new bike! Yeah, rain gets in the way of riding a lot lately. Ah well, glad you were able to get on it at some point at least. Have fun, be safe.
CandiceParticipantThat’s exciting – where’s the pictures. Do some modeling for us!
CandiceParticipantI was thinking of a white leather jacket but I bought a white non leather jacket. I was kind of wondering about the leather getting dirty but if you can clean it up then I vote for the white.
CandiceParticipantI used to read the stats like these when I first started riding. I totally understand. I just keep it all in perspective now and don’t rely on them to give me any real answers. But I did read that people wearing white helmets had the lowest number of deaths on a motorcycle, so I got a white helmet.
CandiceParticipantHe had a bad case of roadrash back in college and after that he was scared all the time so that was the end of that. Some cager’s tire blew and all the pieces were flying towards his head, he swerved into gravel and skidded to a stop. He didn’t want to ruin my dream though, I’m 36 and I only decided last June or July that I wanted to ride so he said if I passed the class and I still wanted to ride that I could get a bike. I really liked it, I ride the 33 miles to work when the weather is cooperating, it’s great!
So, that’s good that you and your husband can ride together, you will both have fun for sure. I ride with my brother sometimes, he’s been riding a sportbike for years.
June 5, 2009 at 6:50 pm in reply to: How to convince dad to let me get a ninja 250 instead of cruiser? #19367CandiceParticipantThat’s what I was thinking. I ride with my bro and he has a Yamaha R6 sportbike and I have a cruiser, so there!
CandiceParticipantThat’s awesome, good job! I completely felt the same way the first time another biker acknowledged me, I couldn’t wait to come home and tell my husband, very exciting.
Enjoy your cruise, your bike will be there when you get back.
CandiceParticipantHave a great time! My hubby doesn’t ride so all my rides were alone last year. I liked it at first but then I got kind of lonley when I saw whole groups of bikers all going somewhere together so I joined a women’s riding group. It’s been fun so far, I am also going to start riding with my work friend who rides. I rode to work today and it was freezing this morning (45 degrees) but at 230p when I get the heck out of here it will be 78, yeah! Which reminds me I need to take the liner out of my jacket now!
Have an awesome summer by the way, I wish I had the whole summer off, how cool would that be? I can not even fathom.
CandiceParticipantParking the bike, I just park my bike in it’s own spot, another woman I work with rides too and she sometimes will park her bike in the same spot as mine, I haven’t done that yet because I’m a noob and I might do it wrong.
If it’s street parking, I back up in there and it should look like this: |
– my bike – front tire towards the street bike tire towards the curb.
| – the curbStopping at stop lights, I usually stay to the left of the lane and always in first gear so if someone behind me is not stopping I hopefully will be paying attention and I can move all the way over to the left quickly out of there way. Also as I’m coming to a stop and there is a car behind me I flash my break lights to wake them up. Or if no one is behind me I stop rather far from the car in front of me and wait for a car to come up behind me, flash my break lights vigorously and pull up a bit so they can see, hey someone is there.
When approaching intersections that are really busy, and there are cars waiting to make left turns in front of me, I slow down a tad if possible, wiggle my headlight a little if I’m afraid they are going to go, and I try to follow a car or be beside a car while I am going through the intersection. Just some little tricks I use to make myself feel safer I guess.
Or if I’m travelling and I see a car coming from the right who is going to make a right hand turn, I move into the right side of my lane so they can see me. I think when I ride on the left side of the lane that sometimes they can’t see me.
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