Cruiser or Super-sports

[FirestormMike]

[chris1984]

Point taken

Those two look very.... German.

[AndyR]

Originally Posted by chris1984

That's kinda my point, one is a lot faster, one is louder and therefore has more road presence etc. I understand riding style would still come into it, but is it not also true to say the type of bike can influence your riding style?

Hell yes!!

On the Triumph I'm a more sedate gentle rider who's happy sitting at 60/70/80.

On the GPZ I become a nutter.

[stumpygoth]

I am coming back to biking after a good number of years away, I have considered a number of different bikes including Harley's and sports bikes such as a CBR 600 but I have decided to go for a quite mundane XJ 600 diversion.

The reason for this is because 1) I have not ridden for 12 years & 2) I need to get used to actually riding again before I get a fast, agile handling sports bike again.

My advice is try a few out and decide which style will suit you best but for the first year I would not consider anything bigger than a 250cc bike.

[Manky Cat]

Chris i'd go with the " how confident and how capable" theory when choosing your bike. Some people have told me "Not" to go for the Yam YZF R6R when I step up next year because i've been only riding the R125? Well I say Bol*&cks to that theory, if Can drive a car, ride horses & drive 7.5 ton lorries then It won't matter a jot to me.

Bikes don't kill you, how you ride doe's. It's all about how confident you feel and what your caperbilities are mate, if you feel a bit intimidated by bigger more powerful bikes then go for something a bit smaller pal. In the past when I was a bit naughty I used to ride one of the old Honda 400/4's. Can't wait to do it properly and legally this time though...

[Baggy]

I have been riding for 5 years now and have had 7 bikes, the only cruiser style bike I have had was an M800 last year which I had for less than two months before a Focus pulled out of a junction and wiped me out when I was doing 40mph.

In my opinion there are so many variables when riding that the style of bike is only one of them.

[Manky Cat]

In my opinion there are so many variables when riding that the style of bike is only one of them.[/quote]
Well put Baggy, just re-red my last post, didn't quite get off what I meant to say, mind you I have been up on the pish all night!!