Five tips to choose your first motorcycle
BikeListy bring you one of these lists of tips for newbies, whether to drive alone or to do it accompanied. As is not the first time that we propose a buying guide. But as it never hurts today we are going to use an article published by Two-wheel mania that we have reached through Bikes in the fast lane to bring you these five tips to choose your first motorcycle.
And it is not that they are tips to save us money, or maybe yes, but a series of details that usually go unnoticed once you have obtained your card, some money and in some cases the approval at home to get you a motorcycle. This does not have to be new, but that aspect we are going to put aside (the second-hand market goes a long way as we did a while ago) and we are going to focus on a purchase of those throwing the house through the window. But without losing my mind. What type of motorcycle suits me best?
#1. Thinking with logic
At this point you have to put aside the feelings and cool your head well so that our purchase is as successful as possible. You would not be the first one who ends up selling a motorcycle for not supporting the harassment you are subjected to at home because that ideal purchase has become a nightmare that you hardly use. So the first step begins by asking, will I use the motorcycle to go to work? Will I use it only for weekends? How much money can I afford to spend? Am I really going to be comfortable on a motorcycle?
These answers must be answered in the most honest way we can. Because if we deceive ourselves we are one step away from the abyss, and that is not what we want. If we have sincerely answered those questions, the next step may be to do research among friends who already have a motorcycle.
These friends can tell us firsthand how one feels driving at seven o'clock on a winter day, on a road crowded with cars going to work. And they can help us see with more perspective what it means to ride a motorcycle throughout the year. These friends with a motorcycle will also help us to focus our idea of what is a usable motorcycle in front of a ruin with wheels, beautiful, but ruin after all.
#2 The list of possible
The next step in our search for the first motorcycle is to make a list of the models on the market. With this we include the new and second-hand ones. But the most important thing is that they are models that we can drive either because of the limitations of our newly obtained card or because of the physical limitations that these bikes imply. It is not easy to move a 200 kg motorcycle from the top of a seat if we can only support the putna of one foot on the ground.
That said, it's time to go through the Internet to the end to get information about what's available. Knowing the possible problems that other users have had helps to learn more about the models. Although in the forums, and other recesses of the Internet, only the evil of each model or brand usually appears because those who are happy do not experience it very often, at least in the forums that this server knows. On the positive side we are and our Test Zone in which we tell you how many of the market innovations are going.
#3 The vile metal
We have already said that one of the main factors when deciding our new mount is money. But if, in addition, you are a total newbie, to the price of the motorcycle you will have to add the insurance and municipal taxes, if they have not already been included in the final price. But you will also have to add the equipment that you must carry as a motorcycle driver. Starting from the head with a helmet that meets the standards, a jacket that will shelter you, gloves, pants, and appropriate footwear. Because remember that you will use the motorcycle throughout the year, and the whole year is not hot or good weather.
The other but your budget should include maintenance costs. Because this is not about pouring gasoline and rolling, you have to keep the chain greased, monitor and conserve the oil and fluid levels of the motorcycle. The tires will also have to be replaced at some point. Like the brake pads, which are not eternal, although some insist on braking with iron. All this, if the motorcycle is new, will not be an immediate expense, but it will be an expense to take into account throughout the life of the motorcycle.
#4 Leather or sanity?
At this point we are not talking about the equipment you are going to take, but what type of motorcycle is the one that best fits you. The problem is that this point is so diffuse and complicated to establish, that someone who wears a tie every day (which still exists) may love a Custom, and someone with a little neat appearance can love the latest technology Cruiser. I recognize that I have gone to two very radical extremes, but since the habit does not make the monk, in the end, you find very different people on the same type of mount, which leads us to not be able to give a clear position in this aspect more beyond buying the bike that you like, whatever your lifestyle.
#5 Step by step
As soon as you recommend to someone that their first motorcycle is a small displacement, there is time for people to leave saying that the motorcycle will be small right away or that they will not be able to enjoy it due to its limitations. It may be so, but nobody in their right mind can think of giving a kid who has just taken the B card a Ferrari to go to college, right? Well, exactly the same happens with motorcycles, in addition to being legislated by law so that we don't have to continue going to funerals of friends of twenty-three because they ended up stamped in a curve with their brand new and first motorcycle, Kawasaki ZXR 750 (to give an example that more than one will sound).
Luckily in recent years, the brands are staggering their offer again, so now you do not have to jump from a 125 to a 600 and from this to a 1,000 cc. There are a few intermediate options that serve as learning steps. If I buy a “fat” motorcycle and limit it when the time comes, I will have it. Ok, but if you buy a motorcycle a little smaller, and appropriate to your knowledge, and then you have to sell it to make the jump to a bigger one, you will not be the first to do it and you will see that it is not impossible mission to locate that second motorcycle of your biker path. The needs of motorcycles change and evolve according to our life, and what today may seem like a perfect motorcycle, tomorrow it might not be and we have to change it.
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