me the reason why i like sportbikes is because of the plastic..... i love the plastic and when the engine is unshowed.... i ride with eather sport bikes or cruisers..... my dad has a hd road king and i have more fun riding with him then my friend some times ....... shes got a fzr 400 and we have a lot of fun

I just don't like cruisers. The more plastic the better. I despise ape hangers, despise watching people in my rear-view with their legs spread to kingdom come and their big fat bellies hanging out all over. I have great friends who have harleys, and V-stars, etc.  but I just can't find one redeeming quality. We get yelled at because our pipes are too loud, yet they run free with their almsot stalling horrible loud, annoying put put cracking idle - I can't stand that. I hate the sound, I hate the furry seats, I hate the fat chicks on the back - I hate it all. Maybe it's because i live in the Harley state of Wisconsin, but I told my boyfriend if he EVER added a non-sportbike to our garage then I was moving out.

(Yet, I still wave to most all of them on a single-lane-highway. THey are still bikes even if I do dislike them so!

My bike is one of the UN-faired GS500's.

I don;t know if I would have bought it if it was faired.

I like that lump of iron on display.

"lump of iron"?   Oh ... you mean the frame. 

Quote from: common sense on June 16, 2006, 03:05:31 PM

good point, I didn't realize how nice a cruiser was until I rode one during the beginner MSF class. From other posts I got the impression that I was the only one that appreciated both, but apparently that's not the case.

I hated the cruiser seating position on the bikes we used during MSF.  I felt like it lessened control, wasn't especially comfy etc.  I very much like the upright position on my GS, though I sometimes wish it was slightly forward leaning.  At my advanced age (37) and size (big belly) I'm kind of surprised that I like that posture, but so be it.  Hopefully I'll continue to like it when I pick up my next bike (Ducati Monster 620), which is supposed to happen today, but with the weather I'm not sure.

I don't have any problem with cruisers or people that ride them, they're just not for me.  It's the same with cars - a gearhead is a gearhead and creating artificial barriers between people is silly.

C.

A biker is a biker.  While I personally dislike the design of most cruisers (insufficient lean angle, V-45 engine, too much rake angle, inablilty to use your feet for control....), we still have the joy of riding.  I wave at all motorcycles, and they wave back.  As a matter of fact, a guy on a cruiser actually gave me the wave when I was caging it with the bike in the back.  He was the only one in the entire 1270-mile trip.

That's pretty cool, I mean waving even when you have it in the back.

Goes to show, there are nice guys (even on cruisers) and assholes (squids anyone?) everywhere.