| Author | Message | ||
     Fltwistygirl |
The Super Tenere thread and some conversations I'd heard recently about people being sure it was their end all be all bike til they sat on/demo-ed it got me thinking about my buddy and his situation. Our friend from MN is obsessed over a bike. His current ride has seen better days, he's ridden with us extensively, loves the idea of hard bags, and an upright riding position of a sport-touring type bike versus his current bike with its cruiser type leanings. He is 99% sure he has found his next bike. Saw one and only one live and in person on a recent trip to Ireland, but has never ridden one, never heard one run, never even sat on one. There are a couple of them used on the internet within a couple hours of where we live and we'd be happy to ride over and check the mechanical condition of them if/when he gets serious about it. If all is well, we'd pick it up and house it here till it is convenient for him to fly down and ride it back to MN. I never demo-ed an XT before buying one, but I did demo an X. Similar critters and I went from one Buell to the next. He's got nothing to compare this to. Is he a true adventurer or just plain nuts? Appreciate y'alls feedback. BeLinda. | ||
| California |
Yes, he is just plain nuts! But that's because he's a motorcyclist, not because he wants to buy something he's never ridden! I've bought, hmmmm, at least 5 different bikes and done a fly and drive to get them, without ever riding any of them! It's part of what makes us adventure type idiots who we are! | ||
| Froggy |
Perfectly normal, I bought my 06 Uly with nothing other than seeing on one at the IMS. Ok it gave me a chance to sit on it and see how it felt, but 5 minutes before that I didn't even know the bike existed. I went and pulled the trigger a few weeks later. | ||
| Redshiftquasars |
I agree with 'California', I'm one of those idiots. Never rode a Uly ever but had seen one avail on ebay and flew from California to Dallas and rode home. Wife almost divorced me until I rode her, I mean until I gave her a ride on the Uly. I sure wish that I didn't see this thread. I'm finding myself googling that Super Tenere. Sure hope I don't find one on CraigsList. To 'Californias' point: He's a nut.... so is California... me, not so much('cause my Mom told me so). | ||
| Svh |
Bought my XT without ever riding it. Sat on it once at the dealer. With the knowledge available here and the amount people loved these Ulys I had no problem buying before riding and do not regret it one bit. | ||
| Chrisrogers3 |
This thread brings back memories of how I first became obsessed with Buell. It wasnt necessarily a fly and ride, but it was 2005 while I was in Iraq. My combat pay was burning a hole in my pocket and I wanted a motorcycle in the worst way. So I conducted all of my research and was put in touch with DaveS while I was in Iraq and bought my first Buell. I was able to come home on leave and put my first miles on it and I havent looked back since. Yes......Your friend is crazy, but we all are to an extent. I think he should go for it! | ||
| Andymnelson |
Wait, he wants to buy a Super T? Or a Buell? Or something else? If a Super T, he's nuts. There's not enough info/ride reports out there yet to make a logical purchase decision. It's not like Buell, where there is so much info to read and make a purchase decision based on it. | ||
| Fltwistygirl |
Thanks for the feedback, all. Sounds like most of you have had good experiences with the Fly n Ride. Any nightmares? Andy- My friend is looking at a Honda Deauxville. I think they are fairly new to the U S of A, and perhaps the closest thing he has ever ridden to it, and this is prolly a poor comparison, is our Beemer k75. Similar size, but that's prolly where similarities end. He describes his ideal bike as "a mini- goldwing, minus some bells n whistles". He wants reliability, comfort, responsiveness, good mpgs, and hardbags. The other piece is the past couple days I've been inundated with talk about the Super T at work. A guy there has been set on buying one for several months, actually got to see it and got very cold feet. Not at all what he expected. When we were researching our options to buy a second true two up sport touring bike, (Our X) most things we read and several people we spoke to said the FJR was all that and a bag of chips. When I demo-ed one, it did nothing for me...NADA. For starters, without risers, it was a 20 minute bike for me. That's where I fell out of love with our Triumph Thruxton, can't do the weight on my wrists riding position anymore. What people say/write and the reality of what works for you can be two very different things. "Grain of salt" applies here I guess. With my buddy, I guess the worst thing that can happen is he buys it, hates it and gets a great ride on a bike he despises. Best case is he loves it, rides the snot outta it for several years, and he has a heckuva adventure to start his new relationship with his new baby. | ||
| Ronmold |
I friend from church just flew out to Ohio to ride back (800 mi) an FJR1300, an '05 w/2400 mi on it, basically new. Ran so fast & smooth that a local official had to pull him over and present him with a certificate attesting to it's eagerness to eat up interstate! (87 in a 65) The downside was the boulder-soft Corbin seat that was on it gave him bad monkey-butt, 2 hours was all he could take at a time. |
