Would you buy a bike just to paint it?

[pandy]

Stop insulting the poor power rangers! 

[bubba zanetti]

Special Terry is the pink power ranger & mach1 is the wanna be power ranger. 

[SmartDrug]

You're smoking rocks for buying a used bike from a dealership anyway, so who cares.  Seriously though, there's no sense in painting a perfectly good motorcycle unless it has been damaged (scratched/dropped/got brake fluid all over it/small fire/etc.).  Get something in the color you want... like a Star Warrior Midnight Onyx...

[RVertigo]

There will be no painting and no dealers...

I bought a 2002 Mean Streak...  It looks just like the one at the top of the page, here:

http://www.motorcycledaily.com/31aug01kawasaki2002meanstreak.html

[SmartDrug]

Congrats man!  Leave the paint, it probably looks black at night anyway and most people don't care what color it is when you look that badass.   

[RVertigo]

Orange still looks orange at night.   

[SmartDrug]

Wild colors get the most attention from YWBs        

[pandy]

There will be no painting and no dealers...
I bought a 2002 Mean Streak...  It looks just like the one at the top of the page, here:

Congrats!  Even if it *is* orange!  

[spc]

YEAH IM THE PINK ONE.................. only problem is my helmet is gray and all the rest of my gear is black (like my bike)  I'm getting a black helmet soon 

[natedawg120]

thats a nice bike.  Curious as to how you are liking it, I am tossing around the idea of getting a cruiser for a second bike once the GS is payed off. 

[RVertigo]

I'm really liking it so far...  But, it's also given me even more respect for the GS.   It's super comfortable and faster than the GS, but it's also heavier and slower to corner.

It takes some getting used to putting your feet forward and not having monkey-butt after an hour of riding...  It felt wierd, 'cause I didn't feel like I'd been riding...  I felt kinda like I just woke up from a nice afternoon nap.   

If you haven't ridden a cruiser, do it...  It's pretty different.  I don't feel the need to zip around traffic and go as fast as I can (well, as much anyway).

[SmartDrug]

It is an entirely different mentality.  I'm not sure if I'm sold on it yet.  I put 250 miles on my buddy's Suzuki Savage 650 and hated it.  I didn't fit on it (way too tall) and it topped out at about 75 mph.  Then I rode a VTX1300 and it was night and day.  I didn't find it as enjoyable as a sportbike, but it was much more comfortable.  My wrists weren't aching, my back felt fine and the pace was much less intense.  I found the cruiser to be much closer in comparison to driving a car.  Your inputs don't have the same dramatic effect on the direction the bike goes and you can relax a lot more; whether or not that is actually a good thing is a subject of some debate, you really can't afford to not be paying 100% attention to the road when riding in my opinion.  But I suppose on a long highway trip with no one around, it would be nice to shut down the mind for a minute.  As RV said, check it out, very different, you might like it.

[RVertigo]

Yeah...  The Savage650/S40 is a damn small bike.  I rode my sisters and my body started to hurt faster than when I rode the GS...  After an hour I wanted off and after two hours I HAD to get off.......  But, it was still fun to putt around.