06-23-2017, 08:27 AM
For me the key to this issue is where you live (the bay area of San Francisco). I was just there a few months back and its my opinion that is a tuff place to learn to ride. You have steep streets, heavy traffic, lousy road surfaces, in- ground rail systems for trolleys, lot's of stop and go traffic, heavy foot traffic and on and on. In that kind of a learning environment I can see your bike hitting the ground the first few months you have it for a variety of reasons and mistakes a new rider would make including losing your footing on loose gravel/tarmac, applying the front brake too hard in a slow speed maneuver at an off angle going into a parking lot or downhill around a curve, on an uphill while turning slowly and so on. You can get into a used CB pretty cheap these days but by the time you pay to have levers replaced, a tank, bars and so forth it gets pretty expensive.
As you can tell by some of the threads on here our members have a hard time getting money back on their pristine vanity standard cruisers (VSC). Considering that, I can't image there's a market for beat up ones. Better you get something cheap and learn on it and then invest in a VSCB1100A or VSCBDLX/RS1100.
As you can tell by some of the threads on here our members have a hard time getting money back on their pristine vanity standard cruisers (VSC). Considering that, I can't image there's a market for beat up ones. Better you get something cheap and learn on it and then invest in a VSCB1100A or VSCBDLX/RS1100.