CRUISER VS. BANDIT!!! WHO WINS??

[jbrough7]

1.  Handling......................                                Bandit
2.  Pickup.........................                                Bandit
3.  Out and out speed........                                Bandit
4.  Looks..........................                                Bandit
5.  Sexy Quotient..............                                Bandit
6.  Elixir of Youth Quotient.                                 Bandit
7.  Sound.........................                                 Bandit
8.  Rider can smoke a
     cigarette at 60 mph......                                 Cruiser

3 out of 4 dentists agree!


Jim

[Red01]

Since I don't smoke cigarettes, it's a no-brainer for me.      

[zeebandit]

9. POTATO-POTATO-POTATO.....Cruiser

[Red01]

Well, not all of them... the one Jim had went THUMP-THUMP-THUMP.
And there are other cruisers out there without the V-twin config, like the V-Max, Royal Star, Valkyrie, etc.

[jeepskate99]

Well, not all of them... the one Jim had went THUMP-THUMP-THUMP.
And there are other cruisers out there without the V-twin config, like the V-Max, Royal Star, Valkyrie, etc.

Triumph Rocket-III !!!!!!!   mmmmmmmmm-tasty

[DaveG]

i have never actually ridden a cruiser

everthing from trials to streamliners (except speedway, which i would like to give a try just once.)


bandit is my favorite

[ATC'er]

Back in '88 I owned an '85 Honda Magna V30.  It was a cruiser and it was my first motorcycle.  In fact, it gives me such a warm and fuzzy feeling inside thinking of it, I'm gonna go out now and get some potpourri for my underwear drawer.  Talk to you later.

[jbrough7]

i have never actually ridden a cruiser

everthing from trials to streamliners (except speedway, which i would like to give a try just once.)


bandit is my favorite

You should try one sometime - they are fun  but in a more sedate way - guess that's why dentists and doctors ride 'em!

You're right, though - a cruiser doesn't even come close to a Bandit!!

Jim

[stormi]

I rode one once.  Suzuki Marauder 250.  Nasty nasty little bike.  

In corners it felt like it was falling over, and the pegs are in the wrong spot.    All in all, not a fun bike to take your motorcycle license on, especially when you don't get to get the feel for the bike before the low speed part of the test.

[GETFURIOUS]

I AGREE!!!

1.  Handling......................                                Bandit
2.  Pickup.........................                                Bandit
3.  Out and out speed........                                Bandit
4.  Looks..........................                                Bandit
5.  Sexy Quotient..............                                Bandit
6.  Elixir of Youth Quotient.                                 Bandit
7.  Sound.........................                                 Bandit
8.  Rider can smoke a
     cigarette at 60 mph......                                 Cruiser

3 out of 4 dentists agree!


Jim

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[B6mick]

Many moons ago when fuel was a damn sight cheaper than it is today, a young foul hardy neighbor bet me he and his 750/4 would whip my butt at any ride anytime. I still had the Hardly Dangerous. So I gave him the challenge, Melbourne to Brisbane, and back, anyway anyhow. Crushed the poor fella when I showed him the fuel receipts to prove I’d been there up the Newell Hwy and back via the coast, and still beat him by 12 odd hours. So I guess thats 1 for the crusier.

[scooter trash]

Now it all depends what you classify as a Cruiser. Susie’s 2004 HD 1200R Sportster is a quick, agile ride. It’s got a watered down Buell engine that is rubber mounted to the frame. The joke around the house is; I had to buy the Bandit to keep up with her because my Springer was so slow. Ask the Robinson’s about Susie riding the mountains last year with them on her Sporty.

So I think it would all depend on what you consider a cruiser to answer the question..


           

[Maximus]

and probably the best bike HD makes.  OK, the Road Glide is an excellent bike for its intended purpose also, but neither are cruisers.

Cruisers are nice and comfy to sit on in the showroom.  And they look cool.  You can pretend you are an outlaw biker instead of a systems analyst.  Get a chain for your cell-phone pouch and buy a Buckmaster to wear on your hip.

The downside of cruisers is that the ergonomics are all wrong for responsive riding.  Your feet are up in front of you - all of your weight is on your butt.  Not to mention the fact that most of my cruiser-riding buddies do odd, bizzare, crazy things to their bikes like 1) moving the foot controls MORE forward, 2) adding fringe to the bar-ends, 3) lowering the bike even more, 4) relocating gauges to the tank if they were not already there, having the seat "tooled" with their club symbol (or corporate logo), 5) replacing the nice, comfy rubber or gel OEM grips with billet grips (Why?), 6) replacing the OEM footpegs (with rubber decks) with billet footpegs, 7) replacing the functional OEM mirrors with tiny, billet mirrors that are impossible to see anything in.  To a man, they all dress in black jeans or chaps (Y----MCA!), black t-shirts, black leather vests, etc. and buy "Harley" brand boots.  Ornamental helmets and "gargoyle" shades complete the ensemble (along with the cellphone chain and Buckmaster knife, although many forgo the knife for fear of running afoul of the local constabulary).  They then complain that their butts hurt because of the tooled leather, their hands are numb, their feet slide off the pegs, they nearly hit that "stupid cage driving idiot" while looking around on the tank for their speedo, the fringe hit them in the face from the wind, the stupid DOT engineers made the off-ramp too sharp and their lowered bike scraped hard parts during the exit, the "stupid cage driving idiot" was driving in their billet mirrors blind spot, their feet either hurt from the billet pegs pushing into their cheap, Harley boot's soles or slide off the billet pegs when they get wet, and the "cage-driving idiots" keep giving them dirty looks (maybe because they look like criminals?).  These were the complaints I heard last weekend alone.  The loud-pipers were bitching about the tickets they got from the Chimney Rock, NC cops for violating the noise ordinance.  Meanwhile, the rest of the guys practiced their "biker glare" by giving the little old ladies this pissed-off look like Paul Sr. from OCC.

[rider123]

You guys are all wrong, the cruiser wins, what else can you ride and wear these pants:

[ATC'er]

You guys are all wrong, the cruiser wins, what else can you ride and wear these pants:

Not too many places come to mind.  However, I did wear something similar to these to work last week and rode the copy machine for a good part of the day.