Hi All,
Hello from North Carolina!
My Background: 40+ years ago as a kid I spent many days ripping through the woods and open fields on dirt bikes. Honda MR50, XR75 and MR250. That 250 would really move with my light weight body on it. I've had a few BMW's- but the 4-wheel variety. My favorite of them is my e30 325ix's- BMW's first all wheel drives, and I still own 2 of them. I never wanted to try a road bike because as a young guy I was an adrenaline junkie and had a feeling the rush would decrease my lifespan. I am now in my 50's, and think I could stay alive. I have never ridden a road bike on the street. I'm going to sign up for a local community college motorcycle training weekend, which culminates with the motorcycle permit added to the license. I have a feeling at the end of that I will want a bike asap.
Type of riding I think I want to do: Day trips on road only. An hour here and there, maybe a saturday ride of 3-5 hour to a destination, ride back sunday.
My current thoughts on which bike to get: Used it fine, the newer the better i think. I would love to start out in the $5K range, maybe go to $7K max for the bike itself. That will leave me with enough to get pants, boots, jackets, etc. I really like the idea of comfortable riding like can be done on my friends k1600gt. It's not in that price range but more importantly that is WAY too much bike to start out on. I want enough power to not have to work too hard to stay at speed on the highway, and enough power to make a move when getting on the highway. My thoughts are the G310 does not fit that goal. Since I want something primarily designed for the highway I think I want a GT of some sort, not a GS. But I am a small guy. Not saying I'm weak but at 150 pounds I don't want to be trying to wrestle a big bike.
At the moment I'm looking at ads for The F series- like F650, 700, 800, 850 models. All the GT variant. Not sure that all those exact models exist, I've been looking at so many they are jumbled in my mind.
So what would you folks recommend?
edit: PS-I may have committed the cardinal sin of not searching enough for the answer to "which bike" before posting. So if anyone's feathers get ruffled just take this as an intro "hello" and ignore the rest. TIA
Hello from North Carolina!
My Background: 40+ years ago as a kid I spent many days ripping through the woods and open fields on dirt bikes. Honda MR50, XR75 and MR250. That 250 would really move with my light weight body on it. I've had a few BMW's- but the 4-wheel variety. My favorite of them is my e30 325ix's- BMW's first all wheel drives, and I still own 2 of them. I never wanted to try a road bike because as a young guy I was an adrenaline junkie and had a feeling the rush would decrease my lifespan. I am now in my 50's, and think I could stay alive. I have never ridden a road bike on the street. I'm going to sign up for a local community college motorcycle training weekend, which culminates with the motorcycle permit added to the license. I have a feeling at the end of that I will want a bike asap.
Type of riding I think I want to do: Day trips on road only. An hour here and there, maybe a saturday ride of 3-5 hour to a destination, ride back sunday.
My current thoughts on which bike to get: Used it fine, the newer the better i think. I would love to start out in the $5K range, maybe go to $7K max for the bike itself. That will leave me with enough to get pants, boots, jackets, etc. I really like the idea of comfortable riding like can be done on my friends k1600gt. It's not in that price range but more importantly that is WAY too much bike to start out on. I want enough power to not have to work too hard to stay at speed on the highway, and enough power to make a move when getting on the highway. My thoughts are the G310 does not fit that goal. Since I want something primarily designed for the highway I think I want a GT of some sort, not a GS. But I am a small guy. Not saying I'm weak but at 150 pounds I don't want to be trying to wrestle a big bike.
At the moment I'm looking at ads for The F series- like F650, 700, 800, 850 models. All the GT variant. Not sure that all those exact models exist, I've been looking at so many they are jumbled in my mind.
So what would you folks recommend?
edit: PS-I may have committed the cardinal sin of not searching enough for the answer to "which bike" before posting. So if anyone's feathers get ruffled just take this as an intro "hello" and ignore the rest. TIA