Comparable Bikes to the Honda Rebel,Nighthawk? - Page 4

 



Who are 'ordinary people'? I have a 250. I've owned lots of small bikes
in the last couple of decades. I use them for city trips, pure urban
transport where their light weight, economy and agility really score and
where their relative lack of performance isn't an issue.

I've taken my BMW to work - it took longer than it did on the GN250
because it was more effort and because it just couldn't get throygh the
gaps that the 250 could.

And I wouldn't dream of using my Ducati as urban transport.

In short, more bullshit from you.

--
BMW K1100LT  Ducati 750SS  Honda CB400F  Triumph Street Triple
Suzuki TS250ER GN250  Damn, back to six bikes!
Try Googling before asking a damn silly question.
chateau dot murray at idnet dot com

 

On 3/23/2010 8:12 PM EST, Twibil wrote:

I agreed.  I still have my EX250, bought it new as my first bike, and
rode it for the last 11-1/2 years logging over 65K miles.  Great bike
for learning--not only to ride but to wrench on too.  Cheap to own and
maintain.  Averages 65-70 MPG.  Nimble and agile through traffic.  Loads
of fun scraping the pegs too--still puts a grin on my face every time.

 

If you're looking for bikes comparable to the Honda Rebel, start at your
local Schwinn dealer.

Granted, the Schwinns will have a higher top speed, but who wants to
start at the bottom?

 

On Mar 24, 8:54 am, High_Colo...@webtv.net (Miss Anne Thrope) wrote:

The Schwinns are more ruggedly built than a Rebel, too...

I was hanging at on the Hill overlooking Hollyweird and some freaky-
deeky dude about the size of a s'mee parked his Rebel in one of *our*
reserved motorcycle spaces.

One side of the Rebel's swing arm had broken in half just ahead of the
lower shock absorber mount, but the keith-like retard was still riding
it as if there was nothing wrong with it.

The square section swing arm material was about 1 millimeter thick, or
less.

The typical tubular steel swing arm will be made of steel that is 3 to
4 mm thick.

Granted, a tubular section swing arm has excess strength in directions
where that much strength isn't needed, and a deep box section swing
arm has plenty of strength in the vertical axis, but the thin pressed
box section is susceptible to buckling from dings and cracking from
invisible internal corrosion...

Back when I first started riding on a 1960 250cc Honda Dream with the
square fenders and pressed steel forks and swing arm, sophisticated
riders used to laugh at such cheezy structures, even though pressed
material frames can be adequately stiff for their intended use as long
as they don't buckle under load.

Honda started building frames that *looked* like they were fabricated
from steel tubes, but, if you put your finger on the back side of some
of those tubes, you'd discover that it was actually a pressed c-shaped
section, like the rear subframe of a 1968 CB350...