Any modern day sport bike is no joke. There's a lot against you..target fixation..traffic..lack of time and space..bad road surfaces.. Rarely have do-overs...
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Been through this someplace else here I think, My mom wouldn't let me get a mini bike or 125 when most of my other friends had them. Best I could do then was get one of these and abuse it every day. Friend's dad was a pipe fitter and great welder. He fixed them as fast as we could break them..
Fast forward to January of 2020. Son started working part time fast food job 5 miles away. Rather than buying another car I bought this.. 49cc scooter designed fir light off road use along regular city street cruising. Kid rode it through the pandemic when no other car was available. Sometimes I'd take the car there when I was done working so he could drive home.. especially if the weather looked questionable. It worked out well as an extra vehicle not always needed every day. He saved his money and we ended up buying two more cars. He bought our 2010 Sentra and took it to Oklahoma for college. Now I have the Roughhouse all to myself WOOT WOOT. It's destricted and will do 45 with my fat ass on it. Weather permitting, I take it for everything within 5-10 miles of home unless I know I'll need to haul something bigger than the box on the back.
Fast forward to January of 2020. Son started working part time fast food job 5 miles away. Rather than buying another car I bought this.. 49cc scooter designed fir light off road use along regular city street cruising. Kid rode it through the pandemic when no other car was available. Sometimes I'd take the car there when I was done working so he could drive home.. especially if the weather looked questionable. It worked out well as an extra vehicle not always needed every day. He saved his money and we ended up buying two more cars. He bought our 2010 Sentra and took it to Oklahoma for college. Now I have the Roughhouse all to myself WOOT WOOT. It's destricted and will do 45 with my fat ass on it. Weather permitting, I take it for everything within 5-10 miles of home unless I know I'll need to haul something bigger than the box on the back.
Finally got the Gas Gas 300 late last week and rode on Saturday up towards the mountains, had a great day. A little beat up today but can't wait to go again.
There’s nothing like riding the dirt.
Always cover the rear brake!! 
LOL, that's gonna hurt.
People shouldn't be let loose on those things without some training. You just can't give some bikes full throttle at certain speeds in certain gears, even if you're crawling under the paint on the tank. Learned that before I even got my hands on the grips (Brother treated me to a wheelie accelerating in third as a passenger - being a nice guy, he let off when he noticed my feet going by his ears).
Jeez
I'll confess..we had a bump here we called the Humber Hump..expansion joint that was poorly aligned on one of our highways. So I was on the RZ 500..which has a bit of a power band...and I was being smart guy and whacked it open on the joint to bring the front up. Trying to be wheelie hero..well it got up a bit high...I missed the rear brake and left off abruptly..and no engine braking so it was going over I thought..so I started standing up to push on the front and it suddenly started going down and dang if that gas tank didn't have two dents in it where my boys collided with it! 
I mean it's funny now after the swelling has gone down....
I mean it's funny now after the swelling has gone down....
So you know Nicki Manaj's cousin??I'll confess..we had a bump here we called the Humber Hump..expansion joint that was poorly aligned on one of our highways. So I was on the RZ 500..which has a bit of a power band...and I was being smart guy and whacked it open on the joint to bring the front up. Trying to be wheelie hero..well it got up a bit high...I missed the rear brake and left off abruptly..and no engine braking so it was going over I thought..so I started standing up to push on the front and it suddenly started going down and dang if that gas tank didn't have two dents in it where my boys collided with it!
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I believe somebody, somewhere mentioned that one should always cover the rear brake?!
The Tenere 700 continues to please, but we're having a windshield standoff at the moment.
Stocker might as well be called a Turbulence Inducer.
None at all is great, but exhausting on longer rides, at highway speeds.
Tried a shorty sport screen, still no bueno.
I really don't want to go "big" but I'm starting to wonder.
I have a Givi Airflow on my V-Strom. It manages air better than the batwing on my Glide. I set it about an inch below sightline so I am looking above it, not through it. I get 0 buffeting on interstate.
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Thanks! No Airflow for the T7, so I'm going to try a cheapo clip on that a friend recommended. I just put one in my cart.
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Started Riding when I was 15. I think a Yamaha 50. Then bought a 1966 Honda 305 Scrambler followed by a '69 Kawasaki 500 Mach III.
Sold that and didn't ride for for probably 40 years. Bought a new 2009 BMW R1200RT in 2009 and still own it! Every gizmo & gadget known to man on it! Fantastic machine!
Sold that and didn't ride for for probably 40 years. Bought a new 2009 BMW R1200RT in 2009 and still own it! Every gizmo & gadget known to man on it! Fantastic machine!
Me airing out my Honda XR75 back in 1973.
The 1985 Honda XL350R I've been riding lately, and some of the places we go.
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Me, chasing the local pro, on a 1980 (or 79?) KX 420. The last of the fire-breathing 2-stroke open bikes without water cooling, disk brakes or power valves. A beast!
The order in this pic was reversed on the last lap -- the only one that matters. Just sayin!
The order in this pic was reversed on the last lap -- the only one that matters. Just sayin!
The ubiquitous #69.. (the most popular number in beer league hockey...)
(the most popular number in beer league hockey...)#69 puts you in good company.
Will the USA ever come up with another rider who can take it to the Aliens?
Will the USA ever come up with another rider who can take it to the Aliens?