Recent content by bnolsen

I'm 200 or so normally so probably 220 or so geared up. Since I live in the Denver area if this bike can't make it up the passes at highway speeds that may be a very serious problem. Trips up mt evans and/or pike's peak may be a possibility as well. As for luggage I would normally do at most...

Wow thanks for all the replies. I'm about 200 normal so at most 220 with all my normal junk. High speed riding will mostly be in flat areas but there's one sort of fly over that I have to go over. I'm not really interested in going over 90mph at all on anything, never have been. slow...

I hope not having abs is going to burn me if i want to try to commute year round with this. I guess I just need to test drive one (2015) and see if the 5k out the door for a showroom model gets me, wasn't really considering a new bike...

I certainly do not like revving the ninja (nor do i like the seating position). It took me a couple months to figure out that it should be run at 6k or higher on normal roads just to be able to even respond to any conditions. h yeah i'm 6'2" with 34" inseam so hoping I can sit up comfortably...

This spring I started consistently riding to work and have been exclusively riding around this summer. I put almost 3000k miles on a 2007 kawasaki ninja 250. I commute mostly on highways, leave about 0500 and the highway speeds at that time aren't nice to that 250, and I hate high revving it...