[VaSteve]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

It's the poseurdom of it. A full-on race bike is not the most ideal thing for training. It's like showing up for your first DE event in an F1 car.

Who says you have to start with the training wheels on? If you can afford it and want it, why not buy a nice bike. This is the same arguement people throw up when someone with no prior Porshce goes out an buys a 997. You don't have to earn these things, you just get them.

I figure if that what made you get outside...all the better. I paid a lot less and use the **** out of my bike....well in the basement.

Originally Posted by the

Surely some of those newbie bikers could wear something a bit less, umm, "ambitious" when they are starting out. Perhaps something that leaves a little more to the imagination.

Although it is funny watching clipped in, overweight newbies in their full grape smuggler regalia toppling over at stoplights.

Nothing makes you more motivated than to have that spandex stuff start fitting properly. Besides the fatties need it the most. Denim chafes!