Tue Apr 8 08:55:49 1997 - Message No. 579
From: Michael Dipper

Subject: Re: Is the AT a beginners bike?


Hi Erik,

At 20:46 07.04.97 +0200, you wrote:

>- is it feasable to start biking with an AT? A motor school instructor told
>me that a good bike to start with should not have more than 50 or 60 HP,
>and that HP and the character of the motor (smoothness vs. very sports;
>i.e. max. power at a give rmp, couple of the motor) is more important than
>the cubic inches.

My first bike was the AT, too and I didnŽt expect any serious problems. The
main difference to the CB500 in driving school was the very high weight.
While stopping in curves made no problems on the CB, the AT went down at
the first try to do that :-)  But if you have learned, that keeping up the
AT below an angle of lets says 60 ° is nearly impossible, youŽll be
impressed by the excellent driving performance.

For better wind protection you may (must !) install a higher windscreen.
See the discussions on the list, seems to be very effective :-)

For the discussions about cubic capacities I would think about the (german)
sentence "Hubraum ist durch nichts zu ersetzen" :-))) (try of translation:
*nothing* is better than cubic capacity) So think about buying an 1100GS
:-))) 

Bye,

--- Micha ---


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