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Yeah, but it's only availible in 125 and 250cc, which isn't too bad as it tends to be more economical and you don't ride cruisers fast. There is a 650cc version, but it's styling is quite different.

I like fast bikes... The faster, the better.
And of course I'll have to check their top speed for myself, you know?

I don't think any of my bikes have been capable of going over 100mph..in fact most of the ones I've been looking at max out at around 80

Ok, right, now how do I convert that to kph?

I think 1mph is about 1.61kph. 100mph is 160.9kph and 80mph is 128.7kph

Ahhhh.... no I'd never survive on a bike that can't go faster than that!

ah, well going faster than that where I live is also conducive to not surviving. Plus I prefer to ride along at a nice relaxing speed, I'm not big of flying along the road.

Yeah you have a point there - although I'm getting kinda used to that

Another thing, a guy I used to know who had a Honda Valkyrie told me, is drivers in the UK treat people on a cruiser differently to those on a sports bike or an offroader. They seem to assume that all bikers on sports bikes want to be speeding around like they're on a race track and that those on offroaders are kids who can't affored a propper bike.

Here people tend to move out of the way of bikers - out of respect for the cruisers and out of fear for the superbikes.

Unless it's a harly, you don't need to move out of the way of a harly...unless you're going backwards, then it might, eventually, catch up with you.

Well said!
And those things chug petrol too!

As I used to have in my tag line, "There are two types of biker, those who ride Harleys and those who aren't retarded."

Although there's something beautiful about Harleys anyway...

What, you mean the way they hold up all the traffic behind them?

This, http://www.cyberium.net/imagine/M/indian-chief-1948-1024.jpg , is a beautiful bike

Bad colour though - that brown just doesn't work for me.

Well what about this one, it's red, http://www.vespaclassics.com/vintageredscoot.htm

It's a scooter...

Although I did laugh at the thing by the name coz it reminded me of the one on here.

Ah, you see I like classic scooters, not the modern automatic things but the old manual Vespas and Lambrettas are cool