Hello from Chicago

[Social Distortion]

just went to Uno's about 2 weeks ago down town!cant go wrong there, in fact, its hard to go wrong in Chicago for pizza.
Giordanos is my fav, but Lou Minlatti and other pizza places like Dua's is great too!
Viva Chicago!

[captinamerica]

good to see people joining in on the fun of rideing. I dont know much about you but you sound like a pragmatic person so you could probably start with a 750 shadow if you are big into hondas. i think they are great my first bike was a honda 50 as a kid then i graduated to a cb550 what a fun bike

[JMack]

Well, I'm finally hopefully getting into the MSF course this weekend. My husband, the lucky devil, got into a course over a month ago as a walk in and already has his bike ('94 GS500e). I'm a standby, but since quite often people don't show up, I'm hoping I'll get in. I'm going to get there really early so I am the first standby in line. I've seen a couple of bikes that I liked, but we had a deal that we couldn't buy until we had taken the course, so I have all my gear and nothing to ride. Oh well, at least I will have my own helmet for the class. Even better, we are supposed to have relatively nice weather this weekend.

[JMack]

good to see people joining in on the fun of rideing. I dont know much about you but you sound like a pragmatic person so you could probably start with a 750 shadow if you are big into hondas. i think they are great my first bike was a honda 50 as a kid then i graduated to a cb550 what a fun bike

I looked at some of the bigger hondas, but the problem is they have a wider seat, so I'm a little more tippy toe than I feel comfortable with. I have really short legs. Once I get more comfortable riding (a year or two), my plan is to actually move up to one of the larger shadows or the Yamaha Vstars, but at first, I want to be flatfooted (or as near as I can get). I actually have seen a number of Yamaha Virago 535 and even a couple of Kawasaki Vulcan 500 for sale used around here, so I might see how those are.

[Social Distortion]

check out Craigslist in Chicago
ive seen tons of good used bike for beginners @ a better price!