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Along with Joe Rocket, look at First Gear, Olympia, Shift... you can get a really good jacket for under 300 easily.

CC wise? I'd try to keep it under 800cc, though I will say that I think my Bonneville (at 865) would not be a horrible first bike. For cruisers, you'd got a heck of a lot of options. Honda Shadow VLX (just under 600cc), Shadow Spirit (or Aero) at 750 cc, Kawasaki Vulcan 500 (if you can find one) or ...

Yep, that is a whole lot of bike. It's pushing 650 pounds, hovers somewhere around 72 HP... would not be my first choice for a brand new rider. The ideal would be if you could store the bike for a while and pick up something a little more newby friendly, but if that's not an option, learning on it i...

Your entry is way better than mine...

The s40 is a good first bike and probably won't be a quick turn-over bike. The only issue I know of it is that it runs very lean and has a tendency to backfire, but you can get the carbs re-jetted to correct that, or just live with it. Some riders think it adds a little character

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Congrats!

Now...I'm on a Triumph Bonneville. I also have a Suzuki Gladius in the garage but I need to sell that one. After the Rebel I moved to an SV650, then got a Piaggio MP3 scooter... the Bonneville is most like riding the Rebel, and I think this might be *the bike.*

I hope.

I have Fickle Bike Syndrome

Piaggio MP3 500? Auto tranny, and you won't even need to hold the thing up at a stop (the tilting mechanism for the two front wheels can be locked). Lean it like a regular bike at speed, get three contact patches as a bonus, it looks like the head of an Autobot, and it's officially cool (according ...

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I miss my Rebel sometimes...

I'm not sure about the ground clearance on the Sabres, but in theory you could have a lowering link put on the back, and then raise the forks a little bit to effectively lower the bike. I'm guessing the most you could get is an inch lower (some bikes you can drop the back a good 3 inches, but cruise...

I've got a few pair of riding jeans...Australian Draggin camos, Shift jeans, and Icon Superduty. I went down at low speed in a pair of Icons and they held up well, but it was very low speed. The AU Draggin jeans have really good Kevlar coverage (better, I think, than the US version) and are very com...

I don't understand why anybody would care what they ride, That's just it...no one here cares what someone else rides. No one cared for the over 2 years I rode the MP3 scooter. If; I'd replaced it with a TMax, no one would have cared. In fact, if I *had* replaced it with another scooter it would hav...

what will the hot babes think if they seen me riding a scooter Well, I'm not a hot babe, but I can assure you that a scooter is never an issue when I look at a guy, but the moment "if they seen me riding" came out of his mouth I would dismiss him on intelligence points. Not that I notice grammar or...

I really really really want that orange shirt if you ever get anywhere near where you have them stored

How long have you guys been riding? What kind of bikes??? Have either of you had a Rebel? If so, what do you think about them? I'm really enjoying the fact that it's lightweight. Makes me more comfortable on my ungraceful take-offs and stops! Rhonda I've been riding for 5-6 years...and I started ou...

Sounds perfectly normal to me. I started out on the same bike...and man that felt big for a while (I'd been on big bikes as a teen...but when you have better wits about you, you know that little 250 is a BIKE.) Once I was ready to leave the parking lot (or in my case, the court we lived on) I putt-p...

I'm a t-shirt kind of person and rarely put stickers on anything, but were I inclined, I would rather donate...

Weren't there t-shirts at some point? I could really go for a brightly colored TMW t-shirt...

Both are good bikes, but after 20 years off a bike I would go with the Shadow (presuming you mean one of the 750cc Shadows and not the VLX, which is a good bike, too...) It would be a little more forgiving of rusty-rider mistakes, but would still be capable of any typical riding you'd want to do--ar...

I wear a crucifix and a wedding ring...never thought about losing a finger because of the ring, though...

I think a lot of people assume scooters are safer, but the little Vespas and Helix putt-putts out there really aren't. The smaller wheels and shorter wheelbases make them less stable. Move up into the big scooter class, though, and you just have a motorcycle that looks different and doesn't have a c...