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Metalstorm
| | Posted on Monday, February 18, 2008 - 08:55 pm: | 
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The EX500 is a very nice bike. I don't know if they changed any from the 1987 model but I remember mine being very comfortable with good ergos.
Power is very manageable but once you get the tach past 7K she had plenty of pep on tap.
I sold mine a decade ago and the owner still has it and rides it to this day.
He says it's the best darn speed bump jumper he ever had  |
Froggy
| | Posted on Monday, February 18, 2008 - 11:23 pm: |
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+1 on the GS500, i had one, overall it was great, but it took over a month to get ANY part for it.
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Xbswede
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 09:06 am: |
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I stuck my wife on a Honda TRX250 to learn the controls. Then had her in the 5 day Motor Safety class through Team Oregon.
She now has a Sportster 883 low. Low on power not too fast. Easy to plant both feet on the ground. Perfect for her.
The other option was the Kaw 250R |
Terribletim
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 03:35 pm: |
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You guys and your 250cc's. . .get a real woman! Here is a shot of my girl and her first bike. . .
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff213/TerribleT im68/100_1680.jpg
. . .that would be a Dyna Low-Rider. Not a Sporty. And yes, it has plenty of power "for a girl". I love watching her scoot out across Montana at about 110 laughing at "the guys" trying to find the nerves to keep up. She rules!  |
Buell2001b
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 04:49 pm: |
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get her a blast, its plenty to get started and not get killed.
then when she is better move to the XBs |
Metalstorm
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 04:50 pm: |
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It's funny that I hear Sportsters referred to as a "girls bike" all the time. Mainly among the HD crowd.
I only know one woman that rides one.
I've seen only 3 or 4 women riding them.
I've seen hundreds of women riding Dynas though. And now more than ever I often see women on GSXR 1000s and CBR 1000s.
There is no longer such a thing as a "girls bike"
unless it's pink, fuzzy or both  |
Terribletim
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 05:13 pm: |
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quote:unless it's pink, fuzzy or both
Are we still talking about the bikes?  |
Cityxslicker
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 02:48 pm: |
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WWPFBGD "What Would Pink Fuzzy Buell Girl Do?" She is a certified fiend on that bike, I am of course smitten.
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Metalstorm
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 08:37 pm: |
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She is a certified fiend on that bike
She could certainly hand me my arse any day of the week.  |
