Roddsgto
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Get a GL650. There are plenty of options for storage or not. Or a PC800 Pacific Coast.
What vehicle do you drive?
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Get a GL650. There are plenty of options for storage or not. Or a PC800 Pacific Coast.
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These are good points. I will certainly look into them. Having two bikes wouldn't be hard, I have the storage space.
If you were looking for a daily ride in the city, what would you get?
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With how bad distracted driving is these days, you should probably just cut to the chase and get a lobotomy instead, as it's a much less painful way to get brain damage.
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Now don't laugh. I went through the same thing. My bike, a K75, was just too big for just tooling around town or for just going out for a short ride. This is what I bought about 3 years ago.
It's a 2006 Kymco Grand Vista (Grand Dink in every other country) 250. Cost less than $2k and it's a hoot. It's quick, carries a ton of stuff (you can put 2 full face helmets under the seat and more in the top box) and economical (70-80 mpg). It's twist and go, CVT transmission. It will easily do 85 mph and get there in a hurry but I didn't buy it for the freeway. It shines doing 35 around town or 45-50 on back roads with my wife on the back. We have an intercom so we can talk.
I sold my BMW and my 2 Hondas. I'm too old and there are too many crazies out there on the highways. This thing satisfies my motorcycle jones.
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Now don't laugh. I went through the same thing. My bike, a K75, was just too big for just tooling around town or for just going out for a short ride. This is what I bought about 3 years ago.
It's a 2006 Kymco Grand Vista (Grand Dink in every other country) 250. Cost less than $2k and it's a hoot. It's quick, carries a ton of stuff (you can put 2 full face helmets under the seat and more in the top box) and economical (70-80 mpg). It's twist and go, CVT transmission. It will easily do 85 mph and get there in a hurry but I didn't buy it for the freeway. It shines doing 35 around town or 45-50 on back roads with my wife on the back. We have an intercom so we can talk.
I sold my BMW and my 2 Hondas. I'm too old and there are too many crazies out there on the highways. This thing satisfies my motorcycle jones.
I love it. I had a Vespa. Almost 100 mpg. I tooled around on that thing for years.
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Sanrith Descartes
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Break
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Drove a 23 Tacoma TRD Sport yesterday. I don't get why people like these things. It drives well enough but the road and wind noise on that thing was really bad, like it would be hard to have a conversion in that thing at highway speeds. Or is that why Tacos are so popular lol?
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How many other midsized trucks have you driven? Never been in a Tacoma, but of the two trucks I have the most time in, the 2010 Tundra was far superior to a 2017 F150.
It could be a tire issue too. The run flats (Goodyear Eagle) that came stock on my Vette got a whole lot of complaints about road noise. It was great, if you didn't mind the noise, because you could find 90%+ tread life used tires all over the place, for a 75%+ discount.
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I think they are popular because they are popular. They had a reputation for reliability, but the factory that builds them shits them out and kicks them out the door. It is an old boncy loud platform.
95% of the people buy them to put cool off road gear on them and never leave pavement.
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There problem is that used to be a cheap truck, so you'd be really happy to be getting a reliable tin box even if it had a little road noise. Now it's 50k.
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A fair bit in a Colorado, they're not luxury sealed cabins on air but they're very decent on ride quality.
Well with it being legal to wear airpods in most states while driving, one could probably find ways to forgive that downside.
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I dislike driving the Tacoma. The hood is so (unnecessarily) high that front visual clearance is just stupid. It drives like a box.
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If you do some legit off road out doors stuff, a mildly used taco is great. But they are certainly overpriced now as fuck and like a studies symbol as said above with people rigging them up by never using.
I was meeting a I knew younger gun guy for a deal in a semi busy parking lot in the city, and instantly correctly assumed it was him when I saw the Tacoma roll in. like the unofficial of the 2A crowd. Michael Chen got like 20g worth of nods stolen out of his taco and any event parking lot is like half Tacomas.
Meanwhile I'm looking at low profile bumpers to put a winch on my tundra but that's because my pasture in spring consumes mowers, tractors, and unwary trucks even with mud tires
I was meeting a I knew younger gun guy for a deal in a semi busy parking lot in the city, and instantly correctly assumed it was him when I saw the Tacoma roll in. like the unofficial of the 2A crowd. Michael Chen got like 20g worth of nods stolen out of his taco and any event parking lot is like half Tacomas.
Meanwhile I'm looking at low profile bumpers to put a winch on my tundra but that's because my pasture in spring consumes mowers, tractors, and unwary trucks even with mud tires
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