parking lot encounter

[homie]

You're OK with the women folk if you ride a scooter... just look it up
http://www.girlsaskguys.com/other/q4386 ... ve-scooter

but Chief says; when it comes to braves, scooters are like fat squaw... you love to ride em but you don't speak about it.

[flyingzonker]

i have had encounters like that with a lot of older couples. i think they are looking for some fun for both of them, but the wife wants her own bike. That is how my wife ended up with hers.
I purchased my Burgman 400 and she rode as a passenger one or two times before deciding that she wanted her own bike. We have even been out riding on our scooters and have had couples on Harleys come up to us and ask about its ability to keep up with other bikes. We gave them all of the stats and they were still impressed. If you are not riding on the freeways this is a great little bike, especially if you just want to ride back roads and around town.

I have both a PCX and a Burgman 400--06 model. I use the Burgman when I want to go between cities--which is fairly often-- but I'd rather use the PCX if I could, even for that. Sadly, while it can do highway work, it is just barely that it can do it. It is almost too much for it. It is passing bait for every other vehicle on the road. The limit makes no damn difference on most of these highways. It may be 55 but everyone drives as though the devil is after them. Ergo, think 70 when you see 55.I don't like to burn its candle at both ends like that.

The Burgman is great on the highway and highway-like roads. But it feels big and clunky in the tight confines of city driving. The PCX is a dream to handle. It does its job with the greatest of ease. On the Burgman I need more room for turning and I am sometimes reluctant to come to a stop at lights and stop signs because I find I have to coordinate my braking and my footwork very accurately to come to a clean stop. Otherwise the bike tends to lurch and I to stagger steadying it. A sign, I suppose, of getting over the hill. Burgman parking is also problematic. On the PCX you can pull up to any parking curb. With the Burgman you have to be careful not to go into stalls that slope down too much to the curb. I have more than once, like an airhead, parked down to a parking curb, gone to do my errand, come back to the bike and suddenly had the terrible realization I was going to have the fight of my life getting the bike into position to fire up and ride.

[flyingzonker]

You're OK with the women folk if you ride a scooter... just look it up
http://www.girlsaskguys.com/other/q4386 ... ve-scooter

but Chief says; when it comes to braves, scooters are like fat squaw... you love to ride em but you don't speak about it.

this thin-skinned fellow is riding around on a retro Vespa. No wonder he is attracting derision. Let him get himself a PCX and the brickbats will cease to fly.

As for loving to ride them, let me quote Sophocles who was asked in his old age if he could still enjoy the generative act. He said, and I quote:‘I am only too glad to be free of all that; it is like escaping from bondage to a raging madman.'

[Mel46]

Zonker, I had the same problems with my Burgman. I loved it on the freeways but around town it was just too bulky, so I traded it down for another PCX, like my wife's. We spend more time on back roads and intown than on freeways, so it has turned out to be a good trade. My Burgman was an '06 as well and I loved it, but when we would go for coffee I would have to make sure that the parking space did not slope down because the Burgman was a bear to get back out of that kind of space. I miss the speed and capabilities of the Burgman 400, but not when I am going to the grocery store down the street, or around the corner to the coffee place, or even the back country roads where the speed limit is 45 mph.