$315 a month for insurance on the S? WTF?!?

 

Interesting this topic has come up. I was considering learning to ride and buying a bike last summer. I changed my mind, I figured spending more money for an S I would be alot happier because I would be ALOT safer, and I could still go out for a cruise when its cold out. And the drivers here in the DC area scared me out of getting it too, no matter how careful of a drive you are on a bike, you NEVER know what other idiots are gonna do on the road. But if I lived out in the country, I would love to have a bike.

 

The S is a bike with four wheels

 

I found it interesting that a buddy and I were able to chase down some sport bikes on the Dragon with our 75 hp Fiats. The bikes pulled over to let us through. To be fair, he is an experienced road racer and I have a lot of autocross background. We were also on race compound tires and tuned coilover suspensions. I think it's easier to reach the limits in a car with less fear.

 

It seems alot of other sportbike owners besided myself have bought the S because of the fact that it is the closest feeling you can get to a bike in a car.

 

I own a S because after 30 years of riding and hundreds of thousands of miles on a bike, it was one soccer mom too many back in January. Do I miss the bike, absolutely, is the S a good substitute for a bike, not really but its close. I do like having trunk space when the wife and I go out of town for a week, we used to UPS our clothes to the hotel when we went for more than 2 or 3 days, no more of that with the S.

Is the S betters on the corners, depends on 1. the bike 2. the rider 3. the road conditions. With the right bike and the right rider I think the S could be left behind but on normal mountain roads the biker has to worry about gravel and other crap that he could slide out on, the S driver probably should worry about that too but I am not for now

Mike
p.s. the only good part about my crash is that when the police showed up, Soccermom walked up the cop and said "I am sorry, my baby was crying in the back and I never saw the stop sign or the biker", made dealing with insurance easy.

 

aw man so an r6 could actually be faster than my s thru a canyon/track. that sucks. My friends new to riding but its his DD and he does canyon runs many times daily so hes learning pretty fast. You think after awhile I will not be able to remotely keep up or are we just talking about fractions of seconds here?

 

Unless you are carrying a heep more corner speed then he will walk away from you if he can ride.

 

Glad to hear you came out of it OK.

I'd love to own a sport bike, but I'm firmly convinced that either I'd kill myself, or someone else would -- I've done too much damage to my body on bicycles and figure the added horsepower won't help.

The S is a good enough substitute for me ... and I have a healthy respect (envy, perhaps) for those with the skills to handle a high-powred sport bike safely.

 

no oops on the bike.