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From: [email protected] (Gregory Humphreys)
Subject: New to Motorcycles...
Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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Hello everyone. I'm new to motorcycles so no flames please. I don't
have my bike yet so I need a few pieces of information:
1) I only have about $1200-1300 to work with, so that would have
to cover everything (bike, helmet, anything else that I'm too
ignorant to know I need to buy)
2) What is buying a bike going to do to my insurance? I turn 18 in
about a month so my parents have been taking care of my insurance up
till now, and I need a comprehensive list of costs that buying a
motorcycle is going to insure (I live in Washington DC if that makes
a difference)
3) Any recommendations on what I should buy/where I should look for it?
4) In DC, as I imagine it is in every other state (OK, OK, we're not a
state - we're not bitter ;)), you take the written test first and then
get a learners permit. However, I'm wondering how one goes about
learning to ride the bike proficiently enough so as to a) get a liscence
and b) not kill oneself. I don't know anyone with a bike who could
teach me, and the most advice I've heard is either "do you live near a
field" or "do you have a friend with a pickup truck", the answers to both
of which are NO. Do I just ride around my neighborhood and hope for
the best? I kind of live in a residential area but it's not suburbs.
It's still the big city and I'm about a mile from downtown so that
doesn't seem too viable. Any stories on how you all learned?
Thanks for any replies in advance.
-Greg Humphreys
:wq
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Meant to do that. (Damn autoindent)
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