10-22-2013, 07:21 AM
(10-22-2013, 05:46 AM)SnowCrash_imp Wrote: I have to say, this is literally the first forum I have ever visited where users WELCOME their brand new motorcycles being LIMITED. I can't believe what I am reading, has anyone read my previous post here? My mind is completely blown.
Part of owning and riding a motorcycle is taking responsibility for the dangers and power that you have at your wrist. You are giving up that responsibility by letting them cap you with a limiter.
For those of you who never do three digits and say 'oh it doesn't affect me so I don't care', then you have no reason to post in this topic or the right to an opinion, because it (as you said) does not affect you. I'm all for safety, but good god what happened to your motorcycling spirit?
If you feel Honda should limit you for your own good, you really shouldn't be riding. or driving. Hell, you should just go to a place where they wipe your butt and feed you through a tube for maximum knowledge of 'what is best for you'.
Interesting. I can't speak for anyone else but my motorcycling 'spirit' isn't limited to top-end speed, far from it. Very few dirt bikes going 130 MPH on single track yet plenty of motorcycling spirit there. Personally, I like the rush of 'off-the-line' acceleration more than the rush of top-end speed. I love the feeling of dropping a bike into a curve and grin when I hear the scrape of the peg (again, nowhere near 100 MPH). I enjoy just winding through country roads with no particular destination on a cool fall day. My motorcycling spirit is doing just fine.