01-21-2015, 06:55 AM
Sold my cruiser and after last weeks ride on my friend's paint shaker I came to realize it was the best MC decision I made in quite a few years concerning motorcycles.
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No disrespect intended to the 1100 but it seems to me that one of the things it can be is a thinking person's cruiser: sustainable ergo's, reliability and excellent visibility. Now with some maturity, that primary visibility desired can be the unobstructed perspective of what lies before: landscape as seen from the road being consumed. The way the bike looks and performs, although quite important, ultimately becomes a secondary consideration. For these folk, the bike can just disappear for extended periods and then come back into consciousness in a very nice way.
Many others who think cruiser think first of the pose and the platform - about image. Sure their rides can be well thought out, artful. But not uncommonly the sensory perspective derives primarily from the machine. Thoughts and sights, pleasant ("good, good, good, good vibrations") and not so much (sore butt, aching back, looking along the gas tank and at the shinies) generally are centered on the bike than with what's different - the details of the changing scenery. Not wrong but another path.
Finally, who wouldn't want more lean angle in their cruiser?
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No disrespect intended to the 1100 but it seems to me that one of the things it can be is a thinking person's cruiser: sustainable ergo's, reliability and excellent visibility. Now with some maturity, that primary visibility desired can be the unobstructed perspective of what lies before: landscape as seen from the road being consumed. The way the bike looks and performs, although quite important, ultimately becomes a secondary consideration. For these folk, the bike can just disappear for extended periods and then come back into consciousness in a very nice way.
Many others who think cruiser think first of the pose and the platform - about image. Sure their rides can be well thought out, artful. But not uncommonly the sensory perspective derives primarily from the machine. Thoughts and sights, pleasant ("good, good, good, good vibrations") and not so much (sore butt, aching back, looking along the gas tank and at the shinies) generally are centered on the bike than with what's different - the details of the changing scenery. Not wrong but another path.
Finally, who wouldn't want more lean angle in their cruiser?