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Metalstorm
Posted on Monday, February 18, 2008 - 08:55 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

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 : D
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Froggy
Posted on Monday, February 18, 2008 - 11:23 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

+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:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

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
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Terribletim
Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 03:35 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

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!
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Buell2001b
Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 04:49 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

get her a blast, its plenty to get started and not get killed.
then when she is better move to the XBs
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Metalstorm
Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 04:50 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

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
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Terribletim
Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 05:13 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)


quote:

unless it's pink, fuzzy or both



Are we still talking about the bikes?
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Cityxslicker
Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 02:48 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

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:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

She is a certified fiend on that bike
She could certainly hand me my arse any day of the week.
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