Day (X-4): Crotch Rockets

This Santa Wish is a bit different due to one overriding factor: I just don’t know all that much about motorcycles.  Heck, I don’t even know how to ride/drive a motorcycle.  I had a friend when I was at A&M who promised to teach me how but that never happened before I graduated.

The lack of knowledge or experience hasn’t kept me from always having a bit of a background fascination with bikes, though.  Lots of people love Hogs and other big touring/road bikes and I can see the draw of that but for me it’s always been the sleek, quick, racing and sport bikes.  “Crotch rockets” many people call them.

So, if I were to get a motorcycle I think it would definitely be a sport bike like, perhaps, the Ducati Supersport 1000.  It’s pretty and powerful and I know Ducati makes quality bikes.  Another similarly priced possibility might be something like the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R with an MSRP of “only” $11k.

Heck, maybe one of these days I’ll even get someone to teach me how to ride a motorcycle…

Posted Thursday December 18, 2003 in X Days of Christmas by Chris Curtis

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Yeah, I don’t get people’s fascinations with motorcycles that are always broken.

Anyway, yeah, the crotch rockets are cool, but man they get uncomfortable quick.  Could just be because I’m so stinking tall, but I still have an eye firmly locked and an obsession with one particular bike, especially its latest incarnation: the Valkyrie Rune.  At 800 pounds dry weight, it’s not for the light hearted, and if you lay it over, you definitely need a friend or a wench to get it back up.  It evokes a strong memory for me of the Lucasarts game Full Throttle, or even some psycho mesh of Akira and the Rocketeer. rasberry

By Derek Jones on December 18, 2003 at 02:12pm link

And oh yeah, my dream bike’s MSRP is “only” $25k.

By Derek Jones on December 18, 2003 at 02:13pm link

Heh.  If you want real power try checking out the Dodge Tomahawk.  Basically, they took a Dodge Viper V-10 engine and made it into a motorcycle.  500hp, 0-60mph in 2.5 seconds, and an estimated 300+mph top speed.

Oh, and it has four wheels.  Which, technically I suppose, means it isn’t really a [d]motorcycle[/d]…

By Chris Curtis on December 18, 2003 at 02:37pm link

Yeah, I’ve seen that one.  I read somewhere though that no one’s actually driven it, that it’s just been on testing frame.  I’m sure it would get airborne pretty quickly. wink

By Derek Jones on December 18, 2003 at 02:41pm link

LOL!  Speaking motorcycles…

By Chris Curtis on December 18, 2003 at 03:22pm link

Airborne yes.. but i would ride the hell out of it until it killed me. I would totally put neon lights all over it, it looks so much like tron allready with those double wheels. rasberryirate: 

By Greg Ferrell on December 18, 2003 at 03:24pm link

BTW i would also kill for a production of Kanada’s motorcycle from Akira. Ive got little models of it and its so damned cool.

By Greg Ferrell on December 18, 2003 at 03:29pm link

I think that suzuki has some sweet rides and the crotch rockets are awesome i’d do anything just to own a crotch rocket.

By dustin on December 12, 2004 at 07:07pm link

[jingle type=klondike bar] what would you do for a crotch ro-cket?[/jingle]

By Greg Ferrell on December 12, 2004 at 10:50pm link

lol funny funny

By dustin on December 13, 2004 at 05:43pm link

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