I like old sport bikes. A lot. Don't get me wrong, I am not stuck in any decade or anything, and there are some new bikes I would kill for. Its a feeling and a style that I find trancends generations of motorcyle enthusiasts from the early days to now, that hooks me. The biggest bubble of production motorcycles that get my heart going are from those from the early 1970s until the end of the about 1992. I love em.
The beginning of the end of motorcycles with style came in 1993 or so with the introduction of the CBR 600F2. Every squid with a testosterone overload rides some version of that machine now. Its a formula. Get a license, get an bike too powerful for you and become a statistic. You see them coming down the road, and hear them too. They give our passion a bad name. The only good thing is, they are rarely in it very long befor they are broken, disinterested or miss the Nintendo Wii too much.
Its not the bikes' fault, I don't hold the machines or the companies at fault. The machines are technical marvels. CBRs, ZXs, YZFRs and GSXR's at the forefront, with the non-Japanese brands following suit. The companies are merely doing business. Supply and demand, and demand currently is for race replicas. In essence these are the K cars of the motorcycle world. Huge production numbers of flashy race replicas targeted to the 20 something adolescent market.
They need to be stopped....
The beginning of the end of motorcycles with style came in 1993 or so with the introduction of the CBR 600F2. Every squid with a testosterone overload rides some version of that machine now. Its a formula. Get a license, get an bike too powerful for you and become a statistic. You see them coming down the road, and hear them too. They give our passion a bad name. The only good thing is, they are rarely in it very long befor they are broken, disinterested or miss the Nintendo Wii too much.
Its not the bikes' fault, I don't hold the machines or the companies at fault. The machines are technical marvels. CBRs, ZXs, YZFRs and GSXR's at the forefront, with the non-Japanese brands following suit. The companies are merely doing business. Supply and demand, and demand currently is for race replicas. In essence these are the K cars of the motorcycle world. Huge production numbers of flashy race replicas targeted to the 20 something adolescent market.
They need to be stopped....
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