When you bought your bike...did you ride it back?
August 2011 ROTM
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From: Aloha State
After they assembled it, I had to have dealership drop my bike off to a shop to lower it. Once it was done, my then-bf rode it back. Since this was my first bike, he took it to the park, and I practiced. That was my first ride. I was bit overwhelmed!!
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From: St. Louis, MO
when you bought your bike...did you ride it back?
No. The dealer I bought mine from was nearly 500 miles away and it was December (cold). I drove down there, paid for it, drove back home and had it delivered to my driveway via a transport company about a week later. It then sat in my garage for over a month until it got warm enough for the ice and snow to melt off the roads so I could take it on a test ride. I hadn't even ridden it yet. My first motorcycle in over 20 years.
It was an agonizing month. I would occasionally go out to the cold garage and just sit on it, sometimes in my bathrobe. Sometimes I would turn the key to the ON position and look at the pretty lights and things and beep the horn. Never buy a bike in the winter unless you live in Hawaii.
No. The dealer I bought mine from was nearly 500 miles away and it was December (cold). I drove down there, paid for it, drove back home and had it delivered to my driveway via a transport company about a week later. It then sat in my garage for over a month until it got warm enough for the ice and snow to melt off the roads so I could take it on a test ride. I hadn't even ridden it yet. My first motorcycle in over 20 years.
It was an agonizing month. I would occasionally go out to the cold garage and just sit on it, sometimes in my bathrobe. Sometimes I would turn the key to the ON position and look at the pretty lights and things and beep the horn. Never buy a bike in the winter unless you live in Hawaii.
August 2011 ROTM
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From: Aloha State
It was an agonizing month. I would occasionally go out to the cold garage and just sit on it, sometimes in my bathrobe. Sometimes I would turn the key to the ON position and look at the pretty lights and things and beep the horn. Never buy a bike in the winter unless you live in Hawaii.
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From: dallas, TXS
When I bought my bike from a buddy of mine, i was missing the rear wheel and anything attached to it. Once I got some parts from some of the guys on CBRF, I rode her the entire block to my house .lol
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From: Paradise (DFW), Tx
My very first bike, no. I was 12 and Dad put it in the back of the car (in the trunk). Wasn't until the 4th or 5th one was I able to ride it home, and then all of the street bikes after that. Track bikes always got trailered...picking another one up tomorrow.
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From: SE PA
rode both bikes home. f4i only had bout 20 miles home on a beautiful sat afternoon in march. 600rr rode 65 highway miles with salt and snow still on the rodeway in feb with 22 degree weather.
want something bad enough and youll do whatever it takes to make it happen.
want something bad enough and youll do whatever it takes to make it happen.
