I finally found my first bike!!!

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Brackstone · Thu May 22, 2008 6:13 am

congrats!

zed · #12 Unread post by **zed** » Thu May 22, 2008 4:25 pm

Nice looking bike!
Congrats!

slimdiggie · Fri May 23, 2008 2:53 am

Thanks guys. I founda good Venox forum. I only paid 2,000 for it!!! It was a great pick up. It's the only 250 with a V-Twin motor and it's also liquid cooled. In person its looks as big as a 750 and sounds great.

There is also a bike shop that works on them close to me.

Slim

jonnythan · Fri May 23, 2008 4:16 am

slimdiggie wrote:Thanks guys. I founda good Venox forum. I only paid 2,000 for it!!! It was a great pick up. It's the only 250 with a V-Twin motor and it's also liquid cooled. In person its looks as big as a 750 and sounds great.

There is also a bike shop that works on them close to me.

Slim

There are a few other V-twin 250s. The Virago/V-Star 250 and AlphaSports GV250 are two of them.

slimdiggie · Fri May 23, 2008 5:02 am

I guess I was wrong. I'm still a rookie

#16 Unread post by **NWTrtle** » Fri May 23, 2008 5:25 am

I started on the Hyosung GV250 (Same as the Alphasport). My wife rides it now and loves it. Like the Venox, it is physically more substantial feeling than the Honda/Yamaha/Suzuki 250's. I also looked at the Venox, but got a better deal on my GV250 (only looked at new when I was first shopping).

Great bike to start on, and you definitely got a great deal.

:happybikeday:

slimdiggie · Sun May 25, 2008 2:02 am

Thanks man. I'm glad we got my wife the gv250 after reading all the posts.

So looking at helmets yesturday. I came to the conclusion that the full face made me feel so clostraphobic (howevver you spell that) anyways does that feeling go away after you get use to it? I liked the 3/4 face, but they are not as protective.

Also since my bike is just sitting in my garage and I have three weeks until my class. Are there any practice things I can do to get more familiar with my bike. I want to make sure I don't get into a situation where I could drop my bike.

later on.

slim

Johnj · #18 Unread post by **Johnj** » Sun May 25, 2008 2:20 am

The claustrophobic feeling will pass, the same as the 'this thing is too tight on my face' feeling does.

oxbow1 · #19 Unread post by **oxbow1** » Sun May 25, 2008 9:11 am

sit on your bike in the garage and run through the controls so you can get farmiliar with them.
you don't have to make the vroooom! sound, but I found it makes it a little more fun