250 Ninjas are tiny. That girl is probably 3 feet tall.
If you buy a bike that's pre 1998ish, you're going to spend a LOT in maintenance and upkeep. What you 'save' by spending a grand on a mid-80's magna you're going to end up spending anyways fixing the damn thing. Old magnas are pieces of shit. Spend the extra change and buy something newer that's going to require less upkeep, ESPECIALLY for your first bike. Bikes are high maintenance anyways, you don't want something that's going to spend more time getting fixed than it does getting ridden.
But then again, I only work on bikes for a living, and spend 99.999% of my time on and around bikes, so I probably don't know what I'm talking about.
If you buy a bike that's pre 1998ish, you're going to spend a LOT in maintenance and upkeep. What you 'save' by spending a grand on a mid-80's magna you're going to end up spending anyways fixing the damn thing. Old magnas are pieces of shit. Spend the extra change and buy something newer that's going to require less upkeep, ESPECIALLY for your first bike. Bikes are high maintenance anyways, you don't want something that's going to spend more time getting fixed than it does getting ridden.
But then again, I only work on bikes for a living, and spend 99.999% of my time on and around bikes, so I probably don't know what I'm talking about.
