Sports Bike For Beginners

With so many choices in motorcycles, selecting your first motorcycle can be challenging. Here are several tips to help you select the right motorcycle for you.

What type motorcycle should you purchase?
There are at least eight different motorcycle types (styles) of motorcycles: touring, sport-touring, standard, sport-bike, scooter, dual-sport, dirt-bike, and cruiser.
Many new riders begin their search by looking at Harley Davidson motorcycles. Don't make this mistake. While cruisers are extremely popular they don't necessarily make the best beginner motorcycle. They're heavy, loud, expensive, and unforgiving (loaded with chrome) of minor spills.
Touring motorcycles are generally built for long distance riding. Examples include the popular Honda Gold Wing and the BMW K1200. These motorbikes are heavy, powerful, expensive, and require significant skills to operate properly... making them a poor choice for new riders.
Sport-bikes (also referred to as crotch-rockets) are built for speed, agility, and performance. They're light weight, brightly colored, and quick. Engine sizes for sport-bikes usually range from 600cc to 1000cc.
Note: Don't let a smallish sounding 600cc engine fool you. A Honda CBR600 sport-bike can run circles around an 1800cc v-twin cruiser. Crotch rockets can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 3.5 seconds! That's faster than 99% of all production sports cars.
Do sport-bikes make good beginner bikes? Probably not, unless you have the maturity to handle the temptations of power, speed, and agility.
The next style of motorcycle is pretty easy to describe. Dirt-bikes are made to ride off-road. Tread patterns and suspension components on dirt-bikes are very different than their street-bike cousins.

While many models have headlights and turn signals, most won't easily accommodate interstate travels. If you have convenient access to dirt roads or other off-road areas, a dirt-bike is a good beginner motorcycle.
Don't have easy access to off-road areas? Consider a dual-sport motorcycle. These bikes are made to accommodate moderate off-road conditions, and handle highway speeds. A compromise of sorts, they don't perform on-road as well as street bikes, nor off-road as well as dirt-bikes.
But, most dual-sport models can easily travel at interstate speeds and handle moderate off-road conditions. When you take that motorcycle tour (you've been dreaming about) to the Northern tip of Alaska, you'll most likely be riding a dual-sport motorcycle, like the popular Kawasaki KLR650.
A standard motorcycle is an older style that once described the majority of bikes available... hence the term 'standard'. Standard motorcycles are generally upright and moderately priced. Picture that 1970s bike your dad owned. It was most likely a standard motorcycle. While not the fanciest or flashiest bike, standard bikes can be good starter motorcycles.
Scooters? Before you form an opinion here, visit your local motorcycle dealership. Gone are the 50cc mopeds of the 1970s. Instead, several new scooters fancy large 650cc engines and automatic transmissions. With a top speed of over 100 mph, and a 0 to 60 acceleration time below 5 seconds, scooters can keep up with most anything. Want to embarrass a Harley rider or Mustang owner... no problems? A Honda Silver Wing 650 scooter can do both.

Do scooters handle like motorcycles. Sure. Do they operate easily on interstates? Yes. Do they make good beginner bikes? Why not?
A sport-touring motorcycle is the last style of motorcycle addressed here. Sport-touring models are sporty versions of touring bikes. Or conversely, relaxed versions of sport-bikes. This class of motorcycle falls between a touring bike and sport-bike.
The sport-touring class was designed as a balance between ergonomics, engine performance, and long range touring capabilities. It's a popular class of motorcycle that combines the best of both worlds. The Honda VFR Interceptor 800, Triumph Sprint ST, and Yamaha FJR 1300 are examples of popular sport-touring motorcycles. Most models utilize 650cc to 1300cc engines.

Do sport-touring motorcycles make good first bikes? They can. Most, however, are relatively heavy... utilizing high performance engines and creature comforts like hard rear storage bags. Before you select a sport-touring model, make sure you have the discipline to use only the power that matches your skill level.

Design Elements of Sports Bikes

Sports Bikes are specially designed for racing purpose or some other sports. There are some bikes which offer some other usages as well alongside being sport bike and that can be called as variations of sports two wheelers. Sports vehicles which offer touring features like carrying facility, comfortable sitting, and general purpose designed are considered as sport touring. They are mostly used by bikers who go for biking all over the world. These touring race bikes have better agility, and lighter weight.
Another variation in race bike is race replica which are specially designed for general public and have features almost same as sport bikes. Main idea behind racing replica is to attract common man towards sports bike. R and RR suffixes are used for replica and race replica. Not only as per its usage but term race replica is also used to differentiate bikes of super bike era and some older bikes. Time of race replica bikes was begun in mid 1980's.
Naked bikes were introduced in year As sports bikes are special purpose bikes they need special designed and different elements to design them. So it's important to find out that which design elements play pivotal role in design of sports motorcycle. First thing first, body movement of rider and design of bike should complement each other while on road for cause. So, sports vehicles are designed in such a way that one corners and curves legs of rider comes closer to body and that allow rider to transfer his body weight forward which help to reduce overall load of rider weight on bike.

More often than not, sports bikes have high performance and heavy engines inside light weight outer body. To reduce weight of outer body, manufacturers use specialized and expensive materials made with high technologies. Multi-piston calipers are used with brake pad and disc brakes to make sure that sport bike get much needed high quality braking. High quality materials are used for long life and better stability of suspension system. And more importantly adjustments can be made as far a suspension system is concern.
Tires of sporty bikes are slightly different than those used in motorcycles. Usually broad and large tires are found in sport motorcycles to make sure that have better grip with road and higher speed. To reduce aerodynamic drag, engineers use fairings in some of the Sports Bikes but one necessary in all bikes. It also help rider to get protection from wind.

Weight distribution on front and back side, location and weight of engine, lighter weight of outer body and position of rider are designed in such a manner that sport bike can have best acceleration, cornering, road rigidity, as well as quality braking. TO say the list, all areas of concern are included while designing super bike so that it can provide racing performance.