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    #16
    Originally posted by Nicademus View Post
    RZ350 so awesome.

    Insurance is really cheap on bikes. Mine is 1200cc and the insurance is still really cheap.

    I want one of these RZ350 or RZ500's so badly:

    RZ350

    RZ350

    RZ350-R !!

    Custom RZ350
    I didn't know you were into bikes! cool.

    Yeah i think the fewer the ccs the better insurance wise. im thinking 250ish. I wont need much freeway capability

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      #17
      and the RZ500 which is ridiculous!!






      Well, posterity, you will never know what it cost us to preserve your freedom. I only hope that you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.
      ~ John Adams ~

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        #18
        These bikes are way cooler than new bikes and the cc's are low which is very very deceptive with these beasts. The insurance company only looks at cc's.

        I love the yellow wheels on this RZ350:



        another RZ350 (hope I'm not pissing anyone off, I just love these):


        Last edited by Nicademus; 10-12-2008, 04:25 PM.

        Well, posterity, you will never know what it cost us to preserve your freedom. I only hope that you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.
        ~ John Adams ~

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          #19
          How much do some of these guys run?

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            #20
            you need to pick up one of these bad boys:

            R.I.P 07/01/09 - 04/23/10 :(

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              #21
              haha, i have seen the ruckus, and what people do to them... Whats the deal w. them?

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                #22
                I can't stand riding "bikes" like the ruckus, scooters or anything where you sit with your feet in front of you. It doesn't feel right; especially when going into a corner. (I saw you mention Aprilia, I like them). If I was you I'd buy a bike out of the 80's. Streetbike, sportbike, or a dirtbike. Dirtbikes with street tires are really cool. I've noticed more people getting into it. You can also do urban biking that way. Just vear off the road and fly down some stairs or something....or just have fun cruising around. You also will be riding a real bike that way and there's a lot you can do with them. You could buy and older bike and make it into a streetfighter type or cafe racer. Buy some magazines. Maybe horse, or.....ummm can't think of the name but just go check um out.


                Here is a link to some RZ350's on eBaymotors: click here

                They were the last of the 2stroke streetbikes and they've been steadily increasing in value. The RZ500 is a lot more money. These are classics.

                Well, posterity, you will never know what it cost us to preserve your freedom. I only hope that you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.
                ~ John Adams ~

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                  #23
                  What is Cafe racing, i've seen it mentioned, and the bikes look cool. remeber that im an EXTREME bike newb. i just know about a few euro bikes i cant afford

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                    #24
                    Here check out these bikes: click here

                    Well, posterity, you will never know what it cost us to preserve your freedom. I only hope that you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.
                    ~ John Adams ~

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                      #25
                      A Café racer, originally pronounced "caff" (as in Kaff) racer, is a type of motorcycle as well as a type of motorcyclist. Both meanings have their roots in the 1960s British counterculture group the Rockers or the Ton Up Club, although they were also common in Italy and Germany and other European countries.

                      Rockers were a young and rebellious Rock and Roll counterculture that wanted a fast, personalised and distinctive bike to travel between transport cafés along the newly built arterial motorways in and around British towns and cities. The goal of many was to be able to reach 100 miles per hour (called simply "the ton") along such a route where the rider would leave from a cafe, race to a predetermined point and back to the cafe before a single song could play on the jukebox, this was called record-racing. They are remembered as being especially fond of Rockabilly music and their image is now embedded in today's rockabilly culture.

                      A classic example of this was to race from the Ace Cafe on The North Circular road in NW London to the Hanger Lane junction as it then was - it is now the more famous Hanger Lane Gyratory System - and back again. The aim was to get back to the Ace Cafe before the record you'd put onto the jukebox had finished. Given that some of the Eddie Cochran tunes that were in vogue at this time were less than 2 minutes long, the racers would have had to traverse the three miles round trip at extremely high speed.

                      Its kinda where I think bikes like the Monster and Buell were fashioned after.

                      Here go to this link (most of these are them): touch me

                      wiki definition of cafe racer: asldfjlskafh

                      Well, posterity, you will never know what it cost us to preserve your freedom. I only hope that you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.
                      ~ John Adams ~

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                        #26
                        Yeah, makes sense, Monster is my all time fav most likely

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                          #27
                          Street Fighter bikes are basically the new Cafe Racers

                          Check it out yo!
                          or click here to go to the source

                          A streetfighter is a superbike that is customized by removing the fairing, and making other changes that result in an overall more aggressive look. Made popular by European riders, this type of custom motorcycle is gaining popularity all over the world.

                          This particular term should not be confused with a street motorcycle or street-use motorcycle, which is a generic term (used by the motorcycle industry) applied to urban street bikes.
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                          Though it has its styling roots in the Café racer culture of the 1950s and 1960s, the streetfighter is very much inspired by the new Japanese bikes of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The term "streetfighter" appears to have been originally coined by Steven Myatt, to describe what the guys like Huggy, Irish Stewart and Huffy were building in the late 1980s. He applied the term to motorcycles which were modified to enhance their practicality, performance and handling, as opposed to the custom scene which preferred style over outright ability. Though it's unclear when and who built the first of the modern streetfighters, the first sighting of the design template was seen in Bike magazine in 1983 when the editor commissioned Andy Sparrow to draw a comic strip to replace Ogri. It was entitled 'Bloodrunners' [1] and featured despatch riders, delivering blood and live human organs for transplant operations. They rode enormous japanese inline fours with turbos, with no extraneous parts. Fairings, mirrors, pillion seats & rear footpegs etc were all binned in favour of lightness and handling ability. Under-seat exhausts, dual headlights and the widest tyres were de-rigeur. Huggy Leaver was inspired to start customizing bikes in this style and there was a proliferation of 'ratted' streetfighters in London in the late eighties.

                          The term has since been diluted somewhat, and is now regularly applied to any bike with motocross style handlebars, no fairings or other typical customizations. In recent years, the term has also come to be applied to motorcycles manufactured without fairings in this style, usually based on the same engine/frame combination as an equivalent fully-faired motorcycle in the manufacturer's product line-up.

                          Currently, race replicas, like the Suzuki GSX-R Series and the Honda CBR series, that have been damaged in accidents or through hooliganism are generally the starting basis for a streetfighter. The GSX-R 750 was initially often favored, due to its light weight and flexible engine. A side effect of the use of the 1980s GSX-R was the retention of the dual headlights in the subsequent streetfighter. This feature is now a common trait in both custom bikes and factory streetfighters like the Triumph Speed Triple.

                          In 1993 Ducati introduced a new naked sportbike called the Monster. Since that time it has been a perennial favorite amongst streetfighter enthusiasts. In 1994 however, Triumph Motorcycles introduced the Speed Triple, based on its Daytona sportbike. This was an immediate success and rapidly eclipsed the Monster in sales. The Triumph is now the current favorite among factory streetfighters due to excellent performance, low ownership cost, and high reliability.

                          In the intervening years both bikes have been substantially improved, and have been joined by a rapidly growing group of other manufactures producing naked sportbikes. These include: Benelli, Aprilia, Bimota, BMW, Moto Guzzi, Moto Morini, MV Agusta, and Buell, a subsidiary of Harley Davidson. Even the "big four" Japanese motorcycle manufactures, Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, and Yamaha, have tried to enter this market, but with limited success to date.

                          Well, posterity, you will never know what it cost us to preserve your freedom. I only hope that you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.
                          ~ John Adams ~

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                            #28
                            Then agian i like sport bikes too... so idk

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                              #29
                              Just remember it can get old slumped over on a bike for a long time. Watch a guy on a sport bike on the freeway. You'll often see him with a hand on his hip or something. He's generally trying to stretch his back and sit up more from discomfort.

                              Well, posterity, you will never know what it cost us to preserve your freedom. I only hope that you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.
                              ~ John Adams ~

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                                #30
                                Cool article! ill check more stuff out

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