I play on another website thread that is totally dedicated to posting Cool looking bikes. In fact I ended up playing bikes-on-line while I was looking for ideas on how to soup-up my GS850-Shaftie (Suzi, not BeeEm). Anyway, I never gave up. I just got my mits on these images and thought you RATS might appreciate them too. I am not a twin fan, or a scrambler fan, or a wafer thin seat fan, but this ROCKS! Dig the FCR's. Then I thought to label the thread as I did so that you might post your favourite bike images in the future too.
What is so wrong with CX's?
You Guzzi lovers sound EXACTLY like Harley owners talking about a YammaHondaKwakaSuki...
Sits back and waits... opcorn
You know anything you Guzzi Lovers post is going to be butchered by me and the words Harley Davidson inserted where the word Guzzi exists.
Let's have at it fellas. What is so wrong with them?
What is so wrong with CX's?
You Guzzi lovers sound EXACTLY like Harley owners talking about a YammaHondaKwakaSuki...
Sits back and waits... opcorn
You know anything you Guzzi Lovers post is going to be butchered by me and the words Harley Davidson inserted where the word Guzzi exists.
Let's have at it fellas. What's so wrong with them?
I don't argue their utility. But Bo is right, they are inelegant at best and ugly at worst. The aesthetic failure is not because it's a bike trying to be something it's not, but because it doesn't try hard enough to be what it is. We're (mostly, if not all) men posting on this thread, surely we understand the sad female compliment "he's...very nice".
Speaking for myself only, it is a visual antipathy. They look ugly to me. Round lines, quasi 70's/80's mish-mosh styling with proportion issues and comstars, just ticks all the wrong boxes.
Their redeeming virtue is basic, cheap utility biking.
But I don't see the point of owning a mediocre-across-the-board bike given the costs of rego/fuel etc. There are so many things counting against getting about on two wheels that I want to enjoy some of the positives of riding a bike, for me that includes some sort of extreme performance, like suck-your-eyes-out brakes. Riding a CX is like driving an underpowered hatchback back except you get wet when it rains.
Now hippo riding makes sense. When it gets old and dies, you eat it. Not like a dead bike you have to make a project out of or pay some one to haul away or fix.
Ballet is not just for poofs. Have you ever tried a pirouette in a kilt? The weight of the wool really hampers the angular velocity. And my Mum made that tutu - you barstard.
Happo,
How is riding an Aprilia to the trough "KTM adoration extreme"?
Proof that you should ride what ever you want and ignore common sense or some one else's sense of good taste.
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