Nah, the ninjette is going hasta-la-bye-bye. Assuming I can actually manage to sell it. I'm not very good at selling. I'm worse at negotiating, but for the B-King because of its 'good' looks, I got it for so low a price that it was irresistible.jstark47 wrote:Rhadam- I haven't looked at this thread in a few days, I guess. You actually pulled the trigger and bought the BKing?Doood- that's a seriously fugly bike, heh, heh.... there's one in our local dealership, sitting there and exuding fugliness all over the place!!
Watcha going to do with a bike that's 5 times as powerful as the Ninjette?? 90mph wheelies in first gear down the Garden State???!!!!!
Gonna keep the Ninjette for Mrs. Rhadam??
The B-King has some serious electronics in the dash board that I like a lot.
I'm thinking the fugliness factor played a part for me and for other people.
I wanted a big bike, that was original looking (basically, everything I showed my wife until I showed her the B-King she said - yeah its a motorcycle... I'd be like compare these two bikes - which looks better.... Bleh.) And different. The B-King hit those for me. It just so happens it fits the 'put a bag on your head to ride it' for most other people.
It seems (according to the dealer, anyway) that they are not really making any more B-Kings - because they didn't sell out their limited production first year.
Hopefully, wheelies down the parkway are not in my future. I'd probably "poo poo" my pants. Although it does seem that I'm destined to not get out of third gear.
Oh, and strictly speaking - it is 4.8 times as powerful as my current bike.
(if you take some online number as it having 160 hp)I just have to be very cool and very smooth. But at least I won't have to shift halfway through a turn started at a stop light...
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