ride a Moto Guzzi

[annchriss234]

Motorcycle aerodynamics features is very awful and consequently is fuel utilization not lower than when you're riding an auto, despite the fact that your bicycle just gauge 1/4 of the normal family auto. Bike tires are more costly than auto tires and don't keep going as long. Protection is horrendous, and the estimation of your bicycle will fall apart very quick in the event that you enable yourself to ride it on salty winter streets .

In this way, as I would see it a great many people riding a greater bicycle is doing it because of premium and for delight, not trying to set aside some cash. This implies our decision of bike relies upon our own inclinations (and size of the wallet), not on "what we require". This is the manner by which we pick between games , visiting , or custom bicycles. Be that as it may, why pick a Moto Guzzi?

[Huzo]

First and foremost welcome to the forum.
If I read you properly, you are making the point (quite correctly), that motorbikes do not make a lot of sense in the cold world of statistics and common sense. That, I suggest is what lends them the charm that they seemingly possess.
To purchase and ride a bike, you have thumbed your nose at convention to some degree or other and being close to the fringe of the herd is where the air flows freshest.
Why Moto Guzzi...?
To move further away from the safety of the "mob" and breathe the air that those who habitually choose the safe option will never taste....

[reidy]

I think the cost of motorcycles is often skewed compared to a car. If we look at a normal basic commuter car it has cheap tyres, low fuel economy and it gets you from A to B with limited performance. To do a fair comparison we would need to compare with a basic commuter motorcycle. My son in law has a Honda Grom. The fuel economy is excellent, tyres are cheap and for his commute to work it has enough performance. He save 20+ minutes on his ride which is in Adelaide, Australia and as a plus his boss lets him park it in the corner of the office with the push bikes so he saves a fortune in parking. The Honda Grom also costs a fraction of the price of a car plus rego is cheap. I took it for a ride in suburbia and it is fun to ride. My Daughter has said that he always comes home less stressed and is saving over forty minutes a day on the Grom. For the warmer months he registers his full sized Honda. South Australia has a scheme were you can register your bike for either three, six or twelve months of the year. Most if not all of the Moto Guzzi range is not aimed at the cheap commuter market. Yes you can commute on one but they would not be the first choice if you only wanted to ride in suburbia to work.

Steve   

[Lannis]

Here's the way I see it.

Motorcycles in the USA have always been toys for the great majority of people, ever since the days of the Model T Ford.   Space and economic considerations had Europeans and Asians on motorbikes ever since they were invented, INSTEAD of using cars (not along with a car).   

Up to the advent of the Ford Popular and the Mini and such, a typical working class English family would have something like an M21 BSA double-sidecar outfit instead of a car.    Americans never did that - the bike was always Uncle Buck The Family Outlaw's hell-raising ride.

Now, for those few of us in the USA who started out on bikes and didn't have a car until they got married, we used to ride CB-250 Hondas and Yamaha DS3s and Harley Hummers and Honda Super 90s.   They got 60 MPG on $.20 per gallon gas, tires were $10 out of the JC Whitney catalog, replacement chains would get cut off the huge reel of industrial chain at your cousin's workplace, and the bikes themselves were $600 new.   Even a young fellow making $2/hour could afford that when it was hard to afford a car.

Today, tires are massive $230/each propositions, the marketeers have convinced people that unless you're straddling 1400cc you've got nothing between your legs, bikes get 30 mpg, and motorcycle oil is $6 a quart (not $.29/quart).   Insurance is through the roof for young men.   My own little car is WAY cheaper to run per mile than most all of my motorcycles.

We've sort of done it to ourselves ....

Lannis