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6 grand new for something street-legal, 70mph capable, with enough range for me to get to town and back, that's magically always full of energy whenever I'm rea
by pengaru 5y ago
6 grand new for something street-legal, 70mph capable, with enough range for me to get to town and back, that's magically always full of energy whenever I'm ready to leave home, does not seem like a bad deal at all.
I used to ride sportbikes quite a lot in decades past, even rode cross-country a number of times. Putting gas in a motorcycle alone is nuisance enough for me to be willing to pay good money to never have to do again if I wanted to commute to/from town on two wheels. But I'd probably wait to pick one up on the used market, since I never buy any vehicles new.
However, sharing roads with today's drivers on two wheels is a completely different problem that will likely prevent me from getting one of these. Though the Enduro model might make a good fit for my off-road play at the desert cabin, and I could put up some solar panels to keep it charged.
- senectus1 5y agonot to mention that not all countries get fuel for the silly cheap prices the Americans do.
- kube-system 5y agoTrue but the 70MPG you could get on a more capable ICE bike isn't terribly expensive even at EU prices for gas, and Americans don't ride motorcycles for primary transportation anyway.
- dkasper 5y agoDepends what you mean by primary transportation, but lots of Americans commute by motorcycle. Especially in california lane splitting is a huge time savings in traffic (and legal here).
- 14 5y agoThis is huge for places like LA. 2 hr commute or a 40 minute one where you lane split. I have never personally experienced this but my dad described getting his first bike a cb750 in LA as orgasmic. Being able to ride through traffic and not wait the hours he had to before was like nothing else he says.
- kube-system 5y agoYes, I've done it for years myself. By "primary transportation" I mean that very few Americans own motorcycles and do not have an alternative means of transportation, often a car. Motorcycles are pleasure vehicles in the US -- you won't see a family making a Home Depot trip on the back of a Super Cub in the rain.
- DrBenCarson 5y agoCalifornia looks outside and sees $5/gal. This is cheap?
- atrus 5y agoWell, looks like it's around ~$7 in Europe based on www.globalpetrolprices.com, so yeah that would be cheap.
- dkasper 5y agoYeah in a lot of Europe it’s more like $6-7. Used to be a bigger price difference, but california is not far behind. Texas though is still a lot less.
- grozzle 5y agoyes. add 40% on top of that for the UK price.
- senectus1 5y agoyeah its closer to US$7-8 a gal in Australia.
- rootusrootus 5y agoEuropeans tax themselves significantly higher on gasoline than Americans are willing to go for.
- peatmoss 5y agoI looked up the specs, and was surprised that this bike has no ABS, which is a requirement for all bikes sold in the EU. So, this is German bike that isn’t even legal in Europe? Odd.
- alanfranz 5y agoAbs is required from a certain power/engine displacement. I suppose this bike is smaller than that.
- peatmoss 5y agoYikes, I think I would want ABS well ahead of 70 mph. I’ve done some traction training on a motorcycle and it has made me 100% a believer in ABS if the statistics hadn’t already.