Who wheres one-piece suits? Primarily Racers
Who wheres two-piece suits? Primarily street riders
If I'm wearing a business suit, put a one piece over it, ride to work for about 30 minutes, will my business suit be wrinkled? Yes
Are Ninja 500s the same seat height as 250s? The 500 is a tad higher, check out the sticky about seat heights at the top of the new riders forum.
i was told "the 250 is too small for you" as well, but im still getting one because it looks like a hella fun bike. it weighs 300lbs! you can throw that sucker around easy. and when i do get bored of it, i'll go sell it for 4/5ths of what i originally paid and laugh about how everyone elses bikes lost 30% or more of their value when the odometer rolled over the number 1. i found the 500 to be uncomfortable but you are a lot shorter than me so you may have better luck with it. my sugestion is also to check out dragonhawks page, he knows a thing or two about beginner bikers who want sport bikes. i would wait till you take the msf to get a bike, you'll ride 125's and 250's there and you can see a 250 has more pep to it than the guy at the stealership wants you to believe. i also recomend a blog here. theres a sticky in the blogs forum explaing how to get clearance to start one. Good luck whatever you decide. Ride safe.
[b]Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms should be a convenience store, not a government agency! [/b]
Anyway, back to the question: ninja 250 is a very good choice. It's very newbie friendly, and from what I understand, it's especially good if you want to learn how to ride a supersport because its engine behaves in a very similar way (i.e. you need to rev it up to get performance out of it, and it redlines at 14000 RPM). Yes, you will outgrow it eventually, but *that's the point*. Since riding a motorcycle depends so much on skill, it's never a good idea to buy something beyond your skill level. You will be a much better rider if you ride ninja 250 for a year, and then get a supersport. Remember this is your first bike, not the last.
Anyway, ninja 250 is a well-known starter model, so you will be able to resell it after a year easily, and it will depreciate much slower than a supersport. It will also save you a lot on insurance.
Is it crazy to dream about motorcycles? I mean not the concept of physcial motorcycles, but even the word and idea being said over and over again. It was a normal overcast morning day at work, and I walked into the office. As usual, I make my trip to the break room to get some caffine in me. I pass the production area of the office (I work in the design area) and I say to Emil, one of my co-workers, "Good morning."
He says, "Ninja! Ninja ninja!"
With the most perplexed look on my face I do a double take and ask him why he felt the obligation to say ninja 3 times. Emil says, "Sir, are you okay this morning? I said 'Good morning sir,' why would I say ninja?" Then he laughs.
Emil is funny, cause, he likes to call everyone sir, eventhough he's been with the firm for nearly 20 years. "I say, yeah, I'm going crazy, no coffee yet, you know?"
"Okay sir, take it easy...ninja"
I could've pointed out again that he said ninja again! But I didn't, I needed my caffine.
Three pack of sweet and low, a large dab of vanilla cream, mix together in a small plastic cup, and in with the coffee. Mmmmmm, I love my oversweetend generic brand coffee. It's like the technique you use to put lots of syrup on the scrambled eggs you get back in college cafeterias. Somthings doesnt taste right about them, but, you drown that with sweetness.
So, I'm enjoying my candy coffee, and Kristen fom production comes in. He says "Ninja!"
I'm ofcourse stunned and say "Huh?' much like an Conan O'brian 'Huh?'
Then Elena from accounting comes in and says "Ninja! Ninja, Ninja!"
"What the heck is going..."
The principal designer walks in and interrupts me to say, "Ninja, ninja ninja ninja ninja. Ninja!"
Then everyone starts chanting Ninja! I'm going nuts! I take another sip of my coffee, Just then an actuall ninja in yellow garb walks in and says, "You know what you want..."
And thats when I wake up and scream out "Ninja!" I also woke up my girlfriend and she was puzzled.
"Whats wrong babe?" she says softly.
"Nothing honey, please just don't say ninja."
"Um, ok, just go back to sleep." By the end of that sentence she was already off to lala land. I also realized thst staying in that night and watching Being John Malcovich wasn't thae best thing to do in a Saturday night. I got up, went to the kitchen, and sure enough saw a yellow Kawasaki ninja ride down the street. I gotta get me one of those.
I know, I'm crazy... but hey, who wants to be normal?
