What kind of sport bike should I get?

Question

I'm interested in buying a sport bike to ride to and from school since it's a 45 minute commute, and I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions. I want a small one, I'm not a big girl. Please be specific! I know nothing about motorcycles! Thanks.

Answer 1

Good starter bike is a Buell. They're light and easy to ride. Some of them are low.. if you're around 5'2 .. it's perfect.

Answer 2

Okay, first off, NO SPORT BIKE. You are a novice rider and have to learn first. Sport bikes are very powerful and can get you in trouble faster than you can say "oh CRAP!". Stick to a small cruiser or standard style bike. If this commute is in the city, something 500 cc or less would be fine. Get something older for the first year or two. If you drop it or wipe out you won't have huge repair costs. Then after you've ridden for a couple of years you can look at upgrading. Even then, be really careful with that sport bike, it's a completely different animal.

Remember you're learning, would you expect to learn how to drive a car in a Viper?

Answer 3

Modern sport bikes are very very serious. They're not the best for just general transportation, they're very focussed on sport riding. They are really like race bikes.

If you're not already a rider, I wouldn't recommend starting with a new sport bike. You want to get an old 'beater', one with a few scuffs on it, because you're probably going to drop it once or twice, and the plastic on a new sport bike is very expensive. Something around 500cc would be perfect. If you bought one at least 5 or 6 years old you could ride it for a year and really learn to ride, and then sell it for about what you paid for it and get the bike you really want. And by then you'll know better what you want.

But to answer your question, there is a class of 600cc sport bikes that are very small and light, easy for a woman to ride. Honda CBR, Yamaha R6, Suzuki GSX-R 600. They are really wonderful machines, very sophisticated and technically advanced. Very quick. They have weight-to-horsepower ratios that are downright frightening, like 100 hp at 325 pounds. I have been riding motorcycles since the Johnson Administration (Lyndon, not Andrew) and these bikes even scare -me-!

Answer 4

First, take a riding course. Here in TX there is a 2-day course with everything, including motorcycle, provided.
http://www.texasmtc.com/index.html...

Second, since there are a million used bikes out there, especially the beginner sizes, with less than 10,000 miles` on them, shop used. You will lose too much money on a new machine, plus you often get things like saddlebags [for carrying stuff] w/the pkg instead of as expensive extras.

Third, I would not recommend you buy anything under 450cc. You'll outgrow it in a matter of weeks.

Fourth, awesome bike my wife bought for herself, but not cheap, Ridley Auto-Glide.http://ridleymotorcycles.com/

Trust me on this, over 33 years of riding including 6 years of working at shops that sold Metrics & H-D, I've seen this dilemma before.

Above all, take your time, ride at least 300 miles out of town before entering traffic & don't ride a passenger until you have at least 1,000 miles under your tires.

Ride safe & Ride straight.
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Answer 5

i would suggest a 500cc.
either one of these
http://www.kawasaki.com/Products/Detail.aspx?id=160
http://www.suzukicycles.com/Products/GS500FK7/Default.aspx
and there are other company's also
but if your route doesnt require alot of freeway then i would suggest a 250cc
http://www.kawasaki.com/Products/Detail.aspx?id=200
http://www.yamaha-motor.com/sport/products/modelhome/10/0/home.aspx
you should take a motorcycle safety course
i took the MSF course.
the 250s are alittle more forgiving then the 500s so pick your poison.
i just got a 600cc sports bike as my first bike ever and im doing fine
good luck

Answer 6

i would suggest a honda rebel they can go hiway speeds with a lite person and theres not to much power