What makes a bike fun?

recman · World Chat Champion Joined: 26 Mar 2012 Karma :

For me, fun is a bike with handling that you can dictate rather than having to ride the way the bike wants to be ridden while having the power to put a smile on your chops.
Either that or a bike with the capacity to take you to places off road that you'd normally never see.

G · The Voice of Reason Joined: 02 Feb 2002 Karma :

Indoor it keeps the speed down.

Also so does, to some degree, not having about the most powerful possible pit bike you can get Smile

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Minimotos while still pretty nippy, are generally a bit lower - ones I've got are 6.2hp and around 8.5hp.

Hong Kong Phooey · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Apr 2016 Karma :

I think when the environment is suited to any particular bikes abilities, there's fun to be had on anything. Not necessarily connected to speed and acceleration. Sports bike on flowing twisties, naked for filtering lols, busa on the autobahn etc. Good weather definitely helps.

Obviously some bikes do a lot of things better in many situations than others, but even when the planets aren't quite aligned, you're still experiencing a kind of freedom and feeling that your body is exerting influence (for better or worse) on the handling and that gives you a direct feeling of connectedness that you don't get on 4 wheels.

There's days when I take the car instead, and after a few of those days I'm itching to ride. It makes me appreciate the smell, sound, buzzing of the engine transmitted through the testicles, legalised queue jumping. It gives me back my sense of perspective as to the performance difference once again.

Do the same thing day in day out and you start to build a tolerance and immunity. Bikes are fun, and to realise that (if you've lost your biking mojo) stop riding for a while.
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I believe so but as far as I'm aware once you've learned to drive a cage you don't become a risk again until you're nearly dead.

You don't get the fun times (with bikes) without the bad times. You have to remember that when you're sliding down the road, freezing your bollocks off, or are caught in a shower without your Rainpal...

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