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"Decay buys too many beaters" (decay) 05/26/2016 at 13:22 • Filed to: None

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Ever since seeing Dust to Glory, I’ve wanted an XR650R. Thankfully my trucklessness and Oregon’s prohibitive plated dirt bike laws have kept me from actually pulling the trigger. Well, I was looking through some of my IFTTT hits from the past week and saw this.

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Of course I’d Supermoto it and turn it into a poor man’s Husky 701

...Now to convince the wife that I need to buy another motorbike this year.

Pickup_man > Decay buys too many beaters 05/26/2016 at 13:38

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I’ve wanted an XR600R for a while now too. In South Dakota licensing one of these isn’t hard at all, but finding them seems to be. Also, like you, convincing the wife that I need a...hang on a second... fifth motorcycle is quite the challenge. Luckily for me my friend gave me an XR200R for free because he didn’t think it was worth fixing, and it just so happened that I had all the parts it needed (minus a few things) laying around my garage. Unfortunately I don’t have the title, so it’s an off road only machine. It’s no 600R, but it’ll do for now.

Decay buys too many beaters > Pickup_man 05/26/2016 at 13:49

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This would make 5 total for me too (I’m +2 year over year right now)! Just curious, why the 600 vs the 650? Though the 650 was basically just an updated version of the 600 and there seem to be a lot more of them on the market at any given time. At least that’s what I’ve noticed in my area.

Pickup_man > Decay buys too many beaters 05/26/2016 at 14:02

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I’ve had all but the XR200 from before I met my wife, I’ve picked up an ATC200x, plus a spare parts machine as well. All of this is stuffed into a single stall in our garage, so on top of convincing the wife, space is almost at it’s limit as well.

Typo on the 600, meant 650. 650's are still a little tough to find around me though.

Decay buys too many beaters > Pickup_man 05/26/2016 at 14:16

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Mine has been extremely tolerant so far of my shenanigans ( I only had 1 bike back when I met her). But space is not something I’m needing, our agreement when we bought our current house last year was I get the garage exclusively for vehicles (no storage) and 1 room downstairs for all my music shit and I wouldn’t question anything about how she wants to set up the rest of the house :)

I could probably fit 4 more in there now that the BMW is sleeping outside...

Luc - The Acadian Oppo > Decay buys too many beaters 05/26/2016 at 14:18

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Dust to Glory is an absolute MASTERPIECE! I’ve had this huge boner for the XR650R ever since because of it. Here they are easy to make street legal for me it’s not the bike that’s the problem it’s the 37" seat height.

37" seat height and 26" inseam does NOT mix.

Decay buys too many beaters > Luc - The Acadian Oppo 05/26/2016 at 14:27

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I know right! That movie probably did more to sell Honda dirtbikes than any advertising campaign they’ve ever carried out. I mean, all those bikes were basically stock (with the exception of the hop up kit that you can buy directly from Honda) and they were dominant for years in all forms of desert racing.

But damn, I can’t imagine trying to kick over a bike that tall if I were a few inches shorter.

Luc - The Acadian Oppo > Decay buys too many beaters 05/26/2016 at 14:34

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I’m comfortable enough on a 33-34" seat height. but 35" it is my absolute max that I can ride without having to stop next to a tree or curb.

At 37 inches I’d just tip over every time I stopped. I can’t even tippy toe it on one foot.

Pickup_man > Decay buys too many beaters 05/26/2016 at 14:36

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Mine has been pretty tolerant as well, although I feel I’m starting to push the limit, so I’ll back off a bit (except for the bigger roadbike/cruiser I want to buy, which is for the both of us really). When we were house shopping there was no convincing her to park outside for extended periods of time so she gets to park on one side, but other than parking and some of her gardening stuff, the garage is my domain.

She’s letting me build some shelving (when I actually get around to it) for my collection of die casts, but other than that, she gets the most say in the actual house, which is perfectly fine by me. I’m hoping to be out of this house within the next 4-5ish years because I’ve known from the start that I need space, I’ve still got a project vehicle or two, plus a couple engines still at my parents. Unfortunately acreages around my area are a little spendy and were just out of our price range when we were house shopping. Just gotta have patience I guess, or a better paying job.

Decay buys too many beaters > Pickup_man 05/26/2016 at 14:57

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We started out with each of us on half of the garage, but she ended up hitting our fence twice in the first few weeks while backing out (driveway has ONE very specific line you need to take the clear the fence and the garage door) so she doesn’t want to park in there any more. Obviously, I was crushed when she told me my garage space had doubled...

My plan for getting more motorbikes is to buy her a Rebel or a Ninja and light that spark. If I can get her riding I’ll be able to have as many as I want because they’ll be for “us”

...Also, I’m jealous of your overhead space! It’s big enough for a lift! I searched high and low for a bigger (600+ sq ft) garage with overhead space, but found absolutely nothing in the Portland area that met those requirements. I actually decided on my place about 5 minutes after walking into the garage, because it was about twice the size of any other I’d seen in my price range.

Pickup_man > Decay buys too many beaters 05/26/2016 at 15:17

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I can only imagine your disappointment haha.

She has no interest in riding herself, but she does like to ride with me so after a couple things are paid off a bigger bike is on the list. Biggest problem with that is that she likes the big bikes with bags and chrome, and I don’t. I’m hoping to find something a little more “sporty” (for a cruiser), that I can swap a regular riding seat out with a big cushy seat. Top candidates at the moment are a HD Wide Glide, Victory Hammer, and Yamaha Warrior.

10' ceilings are great! I added all the shelving in that garage (actually I finished the entire thing) and it gives me so much more room for parts/tools/anything I want.

Decay buys too many beaters > Pickup_man 05/26/2016 at 15:29

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Yeah the chrome/cruiser scene isn’t really my bag (though I really have a soft spot for the Indian Chief!) but If it got my wife out there I’d buy one in a heartbeat. She doesn’t really have a desire to ride but I figure I can pick up a 250 pretty cheap and sell it at no loss if she doesn’t take to it. I’m also kind of hoping that getting on a bike herself will make her a better passenger, she seems to have a mental block about leaning as it stands right now which can be pretty unsettling.

Pickup_man > Decay buys too many beaters 05/26/2016 at 16:09

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If I lived somewhere other than eastern South Dakota cruisers wouldn’t be my thing either, I still wouldn’t say they’re my ideal bike, but they just work so well around here with our long straight roads. My wife isn’t too bad of a passenger, she shimmies around sometimes, which I don’t like, and she bumps helmets sometimes, but she’s pretty good in the corners.

Decay buys too many beaters > Pickup_man 05/26/2016 at 16:24

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Yeah, I’d have a very VERY different collection if I wasn’t surrounded my mountain passes and fire roads. The DR-Z makes me hate everything about motorcycling on straights. Not powerful enough to induce a grin on throttle crack at speed, not heavy enough to feel stable above 70, not comfortable enough for real long hauls, but put it through a series of 10 mph hairpins and it is bliss.

The SV on the other hand can do highway really well, but doesn’t have any gauges so it doesn’t work great for longer rides. Unless of course I want to play “Ok how much fuel do I think I’ve used?”