considering getting a motorbike / scooter

cossie · #1 04-15-2010, 01:43 PM

Hey,

I'm weighing up the options of what sort of motorised transport to get and I've been saving up some money for the last year to be able to pay for it.

I'm quite hampered with cars as I've got a degenerative bone condition in my right hip which makes it very difficult and painful to use the clutch, accelerator etc in a car. There is the option to get control "paddles" mounted around the steering wheel. Which only adds extra cost to a car as well as my insurance.

The hip thing means that touring / cruiser style bikes are the most comfortable for me to ride. But added to that is the fact I'm 6'5" and I weight ~250lbs so I think I might be too big for a scooter.

I also doubt that I will be able to lug my bass or even my amp around to gigs? I think this will probably make me have to get a van / car. I'd need the bike for going to work too, as I can't keep up the long bus rides for much longer!

Does anyone regularly travel to their gigs with their gear on a motorbike?

Thanks

MatticusMania · #2 04-15-2010, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by cossie

Hey,

I'm weighing up the options of what sort of motorised transport to get and I've been saving up some money for the last year to be able to pay for it.

I'm quite hampered with cars as I've got a degenerative bone condition in my right hip which makes it very difficult and painful to use the clutch, accelerator etc in a car. There is the option to get control "paddles" mounted around the steering wheel. Which only adds extra cost to a car as well as my insurance.

The hip thing means that touring / cruiser style bikes are the most comfortable for me to ride. But added to that is the fact I'm 6'5" and I weight ~250lbs so I think I might be too big for a scooter.

I also doubt that I will be able to lug my bass or even my amp around to gigs? I think this will probably make me have to get a van / car. I'd need the bike for going to work too, as I can't keep up the long bus rides for much longer!

Does anyone regularly travel to their gigs with their gear on a motorbike?

Thanks

There is no way I could fit my gear onto a motorbike with me, and I am not a large man.

Yerf Dog · #3 04-15-2010, 01:49 PM

Burgman?

cossie · #4 04-15-2010, 11:43 PM

Yeah I've been looking at a Burgman as a possibility. I think I'll have to go and check out a bunch of bikes in person, I'd really just be traveling in and around the city at low enough speed so something like that might work.