12-22-2008, 08:08 PM
By "very handily" I mean "relatively". The scale between it and other bikes is relatively small, where speed kills.
You seem to imply that a Buell is so slow that it's very easy to avoid trouble or that it doesn't lend itself to trouble. That's incorrect.
It's not as quick as most of the big crotch rockets, but an inadvertent twist of the grip and you're going much quicker than you were a second ago. That's one of the things that gets idiots in trouble.
And once you're at any kind of real speed, things happen very quickly and it really doesn't matter *what* brand of bike your on when HP exceeds talent. They'll all get you in trouble. (Like it's actually the bikes fault.)
So be it an FJ, GSX-R, Honda, or a Buell, anybody with a brain can ride them without the *bike* getting them into trouble. And anybody deficient in that department can hurt themselves equally well.
The unqualified notion that a Buell is somehow not as dangerous because of "70's tech" is ridiculous.
You seem to imply that a Buell is so slow that it's very easy to avoid trouble or that it doesn't lend itself to trouble. That's incorrect.
It's not as quick as most of the big crotch rockets, but an inadvertent twist of the grip and you're going much quicker than you were a second ago. That's one of the things that gets idiots in trouble.
And once you're at any kind of real speed, things happen very quickly and it really doesn't matter *what* brand of bike your on when HP exceeds talent. They'll all get you in trouble. (Like it's actually the bikes fault.)
So be it an FJ, GSX-R, Honda, or a Buell, anybody with a brain can ride them without the *bike* getting them into trouble. And anybody deficient in that department can hurt themselves equally well.
The unqualified notion that a Buell is somehow not as dangerous because of "70's tech" is ridiculous.