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[Homer61]

Just saw the yamaha holland 2011 price list on http://www.motorfreaks.nl/algemeen-nieuws/yamaha-heeft-2011-prijslijst-vrijgegeven.html

XT1200Z Super Ténéré ABS Explorer (NEW!!!) € 18.999,00
XT1200Z Super Ténéré ABS € 15.999,00

My guess is that the 15K one is without first edition options.

 

[Swagger]

The price difference looks a bit too much for it to be just the panniers, bash and light guard. It must be something else.

 

[MortiisMachine]

Yeah I would like to think there has got to be more to that for the price, been trying to turn up the UK prices for 2011 but no luck as of yet.

 

[HoebSTer]

i have never understood the high prices of comsumer items both in Canada and Europe compared to the USA. How do you guys afford stuff like motorcycles? I understand motorcycles are used alot instead of automobiles. Are the automobiles high priced as well?

 

[MortiisMachine]

i have never understood the high prices of comsumer items both in Canada and Europe compared to the USA. How do you guys afford stuff like motorcycles? I understand motorcycles are used alot instead of automobiles. Are the automobiles high priced as well?

I guess when you have lived here all ya life ya just use to the prices of stuff and you just get on with it. Choose your hobbies and run with it, for me I don't smoke or drink so all the cash some people would spend on that I sink it to my hobbies and random gadgets (I prob don't need).

 

[HoebSTer]

Mortiis, I am in the same boat as you. I don't smoke or drink, therefore my only hobbie is this bike thing. My thoughts are that we here in the USA spend too much money on stupid stuff just to keep up with the neighbors. I try strongly not to do this. It drives my wife crazy after just 2 years of marriage.

 

[MortiisMachine]

Mortiis, I am in the same boat as you. I don't smoke or drink, therefore my only hobbie is this bike thing. My thoughts are that we here in the USA spend too much money on stupid stuff just to keep up with the neighbors. I try strongly not to do this. It drives my wife crazy after just 2 years of marriage.

Lol, some people do like to be number 1. I have a few other hobbies as well like playing the drums, Playstation 3 (online as well) and running (sometimes!), tend to put money in to one hobby for a bit and then switch it around from time to time, like start of this year I got myself a new drum kit etc, start of next year is the bike again, kinda goes round like that, save n spend, save n spend, you get the picture.

 

[HoebSTer]

as i am sure you have read before on here, the little one is due within month or so. My time will be well spent trying to play catch up or keeping up. It will be fun but hard. I will ride the bike for an escape or something.

 

[MortiisMachine]

as i am sure you have read before on here, the little one is due within month or so. My time will be well spent trying to play catch up or keeping up. It will be fun but hard. I will ride the bike for an escape or something.

Never let ya hobby go mate, your always find a way. Congrats on the little one due soon, hope all goes well.

 

[p3ga]

as i am sure you have read before on here, the little one is due within month or so. My time will be well spent trying to play catch up or keeping up. It will be fun but hard. I will ride the bike for an escape or something.

Congrats in advance on the little one. You'll be playing catch up for a long time, but enjoy every minute of it. Before you know it, you'll be looking at PW50's for your kid. Then the fun really starts...just videotape as much as possible.

Here's mine from the days of the 50......after a bit of time off to try football & other stuff, we're getting ready to run a few of the winter series, now on an 85. They grow up far too fast..

Polini X3 at Durhamtown Plantation (Youth Track)

 

[Homer61]

WOW.......a champ in the making there

 

[HoebSTer]

thanks P3ga, we are having a girl, so there may be a chance she won't be into the bikes.....well not if i can help it. I do think the girls can get into it as well. on a side note, I think sometimes now a days parents try to push the kids into doing stuff too young and take away them just being kids with no worries. We all know we have enough worries as adults.

 

[p3ga]

thanks P3ga, we are having a girl, so there may be a chance she won't be into the bikes.....well not if i can help it. I do think the girls can get into it as well. on a side note, I think sometimes now a days parents try to push the kids into doing stuff too young and take away them just being kids with no worries. We all know we have enough worries as adults.

Agreed.

And between riding / racing, football, and basketball, I think I've seen it all with moms & dads absolutely ruining the kids' having fun. Too much pressure being put on them. I let my delinquent make the call, the deal is he has to keep his grades up.

 

[Venture]

thanks P3ga, we are having a girl, so there may be a chance she won't be into the bikes.....well not if i can help it.

I have two kids myself. My 5 year old is a boy, and has never really shown interest in my motorcycle. My 3 year old, a girl, has already said the following phrases:

"I like this motorcycle!"
"Can I go for a ride?"

I'm thinking I'm going to regret this motorcycle obsession at some point in the future.

 

[HoebSTer]

I have two kids myself. My 5 year old is a boy, and has never really shown interest in my motorcycle. My 3 year old, a girl, has already said the following phrases:
"I like this motorcycle!"
"Can I go for a ride?"
I'm thinking I'm going to regret this motorcycle obsession at some point in the future.

I have thought that a kid (either sex) may do better in future driving a car if they have had some atv or dirt bike experience. It teaches them to look around and undertand how to control the machine in different situations. At 16 i think kids should take a motorcycle MSF class for a different angle on driving in general, even if they aren't going to ride a motorcycle.

 

[Venture]

I have thought that a kid (either sex) may do better in future driving a car if they have had some atv or dirt bike experience. It teaches them to look around and undertand how to control the machine in different situations. At 16 i think kids should take a motorcycle MSF class for a different angle on driving in general, even if they aren't going to ride a motorcycle.

I've thought this before myself. Simply taking the MSF class makes you a better driver. It's extra driver training.

My kids will get plenty of seat time on our ATVs, I'll make sure of that. Probably something else I'm going to regret at some point, but hey, that's life.

 

[HoebSTer]

regrets, yeah we all have them. my wife won't ride a motorcycle, but she did ride an atv on her own while on our honeymoon. maybe there is hope yet!!! I will take an atv riding with wife and kids anyday over riding alone on my bike!!! Yeah, i might have to one day shift over to the trail side where license plates aren't needed to ride.
Well by that time the F'ing Gov'ment will have shut down all of the land and we will only be able to ride a horse on the trails. Hmm, if i am correct, isn't that the way Lewis and Clark explored the west????