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I've got three. I ride all year, and I take a bike everywhere we go so I have the little TU250X--it's skinny tires do well in the winter, and it's easy to put on the back of our skoolie or our 15 passenger van. We've been out west the last couple of weeks and I was able to ride the Million Dollar Highway from Durango to Ouray. You lose 1/3 of your power at 10,000 feet and that 250 was down to about 10 hp at the rear wheel.
The bike I ride most during the regular riding season is the Moto Guzzi 750 Breva. It has some sport bike feel to it and handles really well; it's very comfortable and has hard boxes so I do the shopping on it--I only drive a car when I absolutely have to so I often come home with cereal boxes stuck down my shirt. The Guzzi has a garden tractor engine so it's very easy to drive in traffic. You don't have to feather the clutch and such like you do with a high performance bike. It's like driving an old Duster 340 or something--musclecar feel to it, quicker than cars, but not fast for a bike.
The Honda is a 919. It's my hooligan bike. It's really only good for losing your license. It reaches the interstate speed limit in first gear in about 3 or 4 seconds--then you upshift 5 times to get in in high.
Honestly, the 250 is more fun with the idea of pure motorcycling in mind. You use all of the gears--you have to. You ride it like it's stolen--you have to. You learn to keep your speed up through corners because you can't accelerate out of them. You can totally kick the machine's ass and get everything it has out of it, and rarely break the speed limit. The 919 is fun for the thrill of crazy-ass acceleration. And it's built for cornering so it's like sitting on a big ball and it rolls easily into turns rather than having to force it down.
I ride a lot on Indiana 135 through Brown County--which is a very popular motorcycle road. I like taking the 250 on it. There are lots of Harleys around here, and they are slow, but are quicker than my 250. When I come up behind them, some wave me around, which is cool, but a lot try to outrun me on the straights, which I like better. It's a challenge to carry enough speed through the corner to beat them to the next corner.
I'm thinking of getting rid of all of my bikes and getting that Yamaha 400 they just starting importing. Kick-start only, same size as my 250, but a good bit more power.
The bike I ride most during the regular riding season is the Moto Guzzi 750 Breva. It has some sport bike feel to it and handles really well; it's very comfortable and has hard boxes so I do the shopping on it--I only drive a car when I absolutely have to so I often come home with cereal boxes stuck down my shirt. The Guzzi has a garden tractor engine so it's very easy to drive in traffic. You don't have to feather the clutch and such like you do with a high performance bike. It's like driving an old Duster 340 or something--musclecar feel to it, quicker than cars, but not fast for a bike.
The Honda is a 919. It's my hooligan bike. It's really only good for losing your license. It reaches the interstate speed limit in first gear in about 3 or 4 seconds--then you upshift 5 times to get in in high.
Honestly, the 250 is more fun with the idea of pure motorcycling in mind. You use all of the gears--you have to. You ride it like it's stolen--you have to. You learn to keep your speed up through corners because you can't accelerate out of them. You can totally kick the machine's ass and get everything it has out of it, and rarely break the speed limit. The 919 is fun for the thrill of crazy-ass acceleration. And it's built for cornering so it's like sitting on a big ball and it rolls easily into turns rather than having to force it down.
I ride a lot on Indiana 135 through Brown County--which is a very popular motorcycle road. I like taking the 250 on it. There are lots of Harleys around here, and they are slow, but are quicker than my 250. When I come up behind them, some wave me around, which is cool, but a lot try to outrun me on the straights, which I like better. It's a challenge to carry enough speed through the corner to beat them to the next corner.
I'm thinking of getting rid of all of my bikes and getting that Yamaha 400 they just starting importing. Kick-start only, same size as my 250, but a good bit more power.
