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I Got into riding because it was cheaper than modifying my car....10k got me a new supersport that put down high end sports car figures...also cheaper than paying 90k for an m3.
 
johnnie_c said:
I Got into riding because it was cheaper than modifying my car....10k got me a new supersport that put down high end sports car figures...also cheaper than paying 90k for an m3.
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+1

I soon discovered my first (13 year old) 1988 Yamaha FZ600 for $2200 was spanking brand new Golf GTIs and Eclipses and even Corvettes up to 160kph!!! That got me into watching racing and eventually track days and the addiction to the sport of it.

By the time I got to my 2005 ZX6R for £7000, I was murdering Ferrari Enzos and Ford GTs in downtown London on Park Lane and country roads! Real life Project Gotham!
 
Johnny5 said:
Oh forgot the biggest reason i would think for younger riders or anyone who doesn't posses a G license. If you don't have a G license, you are looking at 2 years to get one, with a minimum of 1 full year after passing the written test before you can even drive a car alone.. and that's with a lot of restrictions!. Compare that to a motorcycle, where you can write the m1 test, and get an m2 60 days later. Then you are on the roads, all on your own. It's so completely backwards in my opinion. A car can do more damage sure, but a motorcycle is technically far more difficult to ride. So it makes no sense that you can be on a bike on highways in just 2 shorts months. Yet not in a car for 2 years. And with an M2 your only restriction is no alcohol. In a car after a full year you still can't ride at night, on highways etc.. totally backwards..
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+1 Clever answer. With a bike you kill yourself, with a car you kill others....hence the delay.
 
awyala said:
+1 Clever answer. With a bike you kill yourself, with a car you kill others....hence the delay.
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Not true really, you could crash on a motorcycle and cause a multi vehicle accident, you could go down in front of a tractor trailer on the highway and cause it to crash etc.. bikes can be just as dangerous as cars. the only difference is you might only kill 1 passenger on your vehicle, but you could still kill others. I still think bikes are more technical to ride than cars are, so they should require more learning rather than less.
 
Johnny5 said:
Not true really, you could crash on a motorcycle and cause a multi vehicle accident, you could go down in front of a tractor trailer on the highway and cause it to crash etc.. bikes can be just as dangerous as cars.
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It's very rare that a motorcyclist kills others (besides passenger) in accidents. I can only recall one local incident when the rider hit a car head on and smashed through the windshield killing the driver.
 
AF4iK said:
There was a recent post where someone linked to stats on bike registrations for the last decade or so. The number of bikes on the road is definitely increasing, however, the stats aren't detailed enough to say how many are new riders. It's reasonable IMO to assume that many of these new registrations are new riders.

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Found the link (posted by Deimos): http://www.mmic.ca/images/content/PDF/Annual Industry Report MMIC & COHV - 2011 - summary.pdf
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According to this the sales of motorcycles have been DECREASING since 2007-2008!!!
 
Roasted said:
According to this the sales of motorcycles have been DECREASING since 2007-2008!!!
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Drops across the board! Hmmm I wonder how the % decrease compares to auto sales. If the decrease is greater in auto sales, then we simply have a recession effect.
 
Arn't we all noobs?

I've only been riding for about 3 decades.
 
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