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After the best part of 30 years without a bike, I bought a decade-old 750 Virago a year ago. A couple of thousand miles later, and I've regained enough of the reflexes to get a permanent bike (at a combined weight of 450+ pounds, my wife and I constitute cruel and unusual punishment to that size of a twin).

I'm planning on ghosting around the forums (forii?) to see what people are saying about the mid-size/larger cruisers. thinking maybe Star Tour or 1600 Cow Nomad (happy memory of Kawasaki--I scored the first KZ900 in my area, a bike that was referred to as the Harley Hunterfollowing the theory that if you can't out-cool them, you can always outspeed them--at least in the early 70's.)

Welcome to TMW Jim! I'm glad you found us. This is a great site for moto-info. (#1 on the web I understand. ) Check out all the info from the main page - there should be specs and tons of other info for virtually every bike you might be interested in.

And good luck on the search for a bike - sometimes that can be half the fun.

jimtully wrote:(at a combined weight of 450+ pounds, my wife and I constitute cruel and unusual punishment to that size of a twin)

You, of course, accounting for 330lbs of that total. (You never know, she could be reading this thread when you're not looking. Just trying to save your butt here.)

Always the diplomat Gummiente

G'Day JT!

Welcome to TMW & back to motorcycling!

Aint it Grand!?

The spirit was willing, but the flesh was weak. We fully intended to try the full complement of bikes--I was even willing to change my hair style so I'd look cool enough to get on a Harley--but fell in moderate lust with the second one I rode last weekend. I am now the proud, and somewhat impoverished owner, of an '05 Kawasaki Nomad. It had eveything that I needed (a bike big enough to haul my corpulent corpus around) and everything my wife wanted (a seat long enough that she'd have room to do knitting while traveling.)

As to the latter, apparently knitting compatibility is not a common element of the motorcycle purchase decision, judging by the look I got when my response to the question, "Jim, what would you consider to be the most important characteristic of a new cycle?" and my response was, "Well, it has to be easy to knit on."

I should be thankful that knitting is the only thing she's wanting to be fiddling with while cruising--the mind boggles at the size of the bike needed to handle either a spinning wheel or, heaven forbid, her loom.

[quote="CentralOzzy"]G'Day JT!

Welcome to TMW & back to motorcycling!

Aint it Grand!? [/quote]


It is all of that, and sometimes then some.

I've been wondering--how do you put a Roo guard on a Harley?

I was in Burnaby Kawasaki one day recently and had a look at the Nomads. (I was there buying gloves, but the salesguy was busy....so, off to browse the bikes). Those Nomads are gorgeous. What colour did you get?

jimtully wrote: It is all of that, and sometimes then some.
I've been wondering--how do you put a Roo guard on a Harley?

Roos are creatures of the night (Usually!)

Here we don't recommend riding at night unless, ya want to roll the dice?

Another thing we have is these little plastic things called "Shoo RooZ" Ya stick them on ya bike & it's supposed to emit a frequency that puts the Roos off heading towards you. Don't know if it really works, but then, I haven't hit one yet. I have come close a few times riding just after sunset....

Congrats on that new Nomad! Those are nice bikes. Please read rule # 1 in the TMW rule book:

Rule #1: All TMW forum members are strictly required to upload at least one photo of any bike they purchase (new or used) within one week of purchase, so that the other members can drool.