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From: molefeuvre@watarts.UUCP (Michael O LeFeuvre)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Considering a First Bike -- A Decision
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Date: Mon, 15-Apr-85 13:57:24 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 15 13:57:24 1985
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Well, I finally decided not to do it.

The basic reason for deciding against buying a bike to do this trip
is that I don't know what I am getting into and it involves too much
of my savings.

I might have ignored a lot of warnings and done it anyway if I had the
money to buy a good, *new*, bike and to pay for repairs I didn't learn
to do myself.  But as it was the plan involved risking about half my
savings on a second-hand bike.  

The part about finding out if I could really enjoy long touring on a 
bike did not really worry me -- I have done bicycle touring, and that
is no more comfortable.  I am arrogant enough to believe I could become
fairly familiar with motorcycling within a month.

My thanks for the many responses to my questions (some were quite long)
-- they were a definite factor in my decision.  I still want to get 
a motorbike, but this does not seem to be the time to do it.  The other
thing I decided was that I would take lessons and get my license 
(in Ontario you need a seperate licence for motorbikes) anyway, so I
won't have to do it later.

                      Thanks.

                                 Carlo @ the U of Waterloo