I live in Vancouver. How much a motorcycle usually cost? is the insurance money a lot?
Does anybody also know where I can learn how to drive one? Is it hard?
Thank you so much!!
The safest is a scooter. Very low center of gravity. Not high performance. Very forgiving.
If you want a ‘real’ motorcycle, look at cruisers. They are also low and very easy to ride. The seat is low, which is important if you don’t have long legs–you want to be able to put both feet flat on the ground. I know a coupe of women who ride and they both prefer cruisers.
You can buy a good used bike for maybe $2000. It might be different in Canada. Here in the States we have the Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF) that does classes for beginners. I’m sure they must have something like that up there.
If you can ride a bicycle, and if you have driven a car with a clutch and manual shift, you’ll find it very easy to ride a motorcycle. If you haven’t ridden bicycles, you should start with a bicycle. Learning to ride is just a matter of getting all the controls sorted out so you don’t have to think ‘Hmm, now which of these thingies is the brake?’
Insurance is less than a car, especially for liability since you aren’t as likely to do as much damage. Some other things cost more, like tires.
Good luck!
I live in Vancouver. How much a motorcycle usually cost? is the insurance money a lot?
Does anybody also know where I can learn how to drive one? Is it hard?
Thank you so much!!
I live in england so cannot comment on prices where you are, but you should have a go,you will not regret it!
There is no completely safe bike but there are plenty with friendly usable power.
I personally know a few women with bikes and all are mad for them.
It is something that you just have to try and no its not hard!
There really is not ‘safer’ motorcycle or scooter.
They all have to be driven on the road, with other cars.
Some scooters are just as road-worthy as some motorcycles. The Honda Silverwing and the Piaggio MP3, for a couple of examples, can move just as fast as the other cars on a major highway or interstate with out a problem.
On the smaller, slower scooters, you will not go on the highway because they won’t be able to travel too fast, but the highway is a lot safer than any city road because everyone is traveling in the same direction at about the same speed.
Perhaps a more practical and easier to ride machine would b e a scooter. It could be a Silverwing, Piaggio, Vespa, etc. Also, there is typically a lot more storage space designed into scooters.
If you don’t want a scooter, well, just about any bike will do. You don’t want one that is too big to start, but you don’t want one that is too small in such a way that you will get tired of it shortly after getting it. Sportbikes and cruisers are really no safer than the other. If people hurt THEMSELVES, it is because they didn’t take care of the bike (mechanical problems) or they were acting dumb or not paying attention.
Bikes and scooters can be almost as cheap as you want them and as expensive as you want them. Typically, though, they are a lot cheaper than a car to buy, maintain, and insure.
Where are you from? Apparently, in the UK, there is CBT (compulsory basic training?) and in the United States, the motorcycle safety foundation provides classes in just about every state in multiple locations.
To learn is not difficult. It is just learning to trust the design of bikes and how they work so you are not affraid of the shifter, clutch, brakes, and throttle. Obviously, a scooter just has the throttle and brakes.
Insurance is usually SUPER cheap, even for year round coverage. I payed about $240 for an entire year of full coverage.
Sep 10th 2010 • 10:09
by It's That Guy
The safest is a scooter. Very low center of gravity. Not high performance. Very forgiving.
If you want a ‘real’ motorcycle, look at cruisers. They are also low and very easy to ride. The seat is low, which is important if you don’t have long legs–you want to be able to put both feet flat on the ground. I know a coupe of women who ride and they both prefer cruisers.
You can buy a good used bike for maybe $2000. It might be different in Canada. Here in the States we have the Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF) that does classes for beginners. I’m sure they must have something like that up there.
If you can ride a bicycle, and if you have driven a car with a clutch and manual shift, you’ll find it very easy to ride a motorcycle. If you haven’t ridden bicycles, you should start with a bicycle. Learning to ride is just a matter of getting all the controls sorted out so you don’t have to think ‘Hmm, now which of these thingies is the brake?’
Insurance is less than a car, especially for liability since you aren’t as likely to do as much damage. Some other things cost more, like tires.
Good luck!
Sep 10th 2010 • 11:09
by Zoa:Ps T
I live in Vancouver. How much a motorcycle usually cost? is the insurance money a lot?
Does anybody also know where I can learn how to drive one? Is it hard?
Thank you so much!!
Sep 10th 2010 • 11:09
by dean k
I live in england so cannot comment on prices where you are, but you should have a go,you will not regret it!
There is no completely safe bike but there are plenty with friendly usable power.
I personally know a few women with bikes and all are mad for them.
It is something that you just have to try and no its not hard!
Sep 10th 2010 • 12:09
by tekwatch
There really is not ‘safer’ motorcycle or scooter.
They all have to be driven on the road, with other cars.
Some scooters are just as road-worthy as some motorcycles. The Honda Silverwing and the Piaggio MP3, for a couple of examples, can move just as fast as the other cars on a major highway or interstate with out a problem.
On the smaller, slower scooters, you will not go on the highway because they won’t be able to travel too fast, but the highway is a lot safer than any city road because everyone is traveling in the same direction at about the same speed.
Perhaps a more practical and easier to ride machine would b e a scooter. It could be a Silverwing, Piaggio, Vespa, etc. Also, there is typically a lot more storage space designed into scooters.
If you don’t want a scooter, well, just about any bike will do. You don’t want one that is too big to start, but you don’t want one that is too small in such a way that you will get tired of it shortly after getting it. Sportbikes and cruisers are really no safer than the other. If people hurt THEMSELVES, it is because they didn’t take care of the bike (mechanical problems) or they were acting dumb or not paying attention.
Bikes and scooters can be almost as cheap as you want them and as expensive as you want them. Typically, though, they are a lot cheaper than a car to buy, maintain, and insure.
Where are you from? Apparently, in the UK, there is CBT (compulsory basic training?) and in the United States, the motorcycle safety foundation provides classes in just about every state in multiple locations.
To learn is not difficult. It is just learning to trust the design of bikes and how they work so you are not affraid of the shifter, clutch, brakes, and throttle. Obviously, a scooter just has the throttle and brakes.
Insurance is usually SUPER cheap, even for year round coverage. I payed about $240 for an entire year of full coverage.