Are motorcycles really as efficient as people claim they are? While motorcycles may be better on gasoline consumption than regular, mid size vehicles, they are most certainly not the most practical choice when it comes to choosing a mode of transportation. Rather, whether or not you ve made a good investment choice with a motorcycle depends more on where you live.
If you live in an area where the nearest store is over twenty miles away, motorcycles may not be the best option. Additionally, if you live somewhere where the climate is always damp and rainy, then you may need to look to a different means of transportation. However, if you live in a large metropolitan area such as New York City or San Francisco, you ll probably see a ton of people with motorcycles when it s nice out.
When my younger brother sneaked behind my mother and father s backs and purchased a motorcycle, they were furious. Often times, younger people will purchase motorcycles and ride them around as a form of rebellion against authority. I ll never forget being an accomplice in my brother s big scheme to earn his motorcycle license. He had just gotten his driver s license and didn t have a car yet. Then, one day, he asked me to give him a ride to some unfamiliar address. I dropped him off and asked him what he was doing, and he wouldn t tell me. When I came to pick him up later, he had told me the that he signed up for motorcycle lessons. I was shocked, but I didn t dare say anything because first of all, I could see how much this meant to him. Secondly, I knew that I was now a little in over my head. No matter how I would try to explain it to my parents that I had no idea that this was where I was taking my younger brother at first, they would never buy it. Instead, they would believe that I had somehow helped my younger brother look up the information on where he could take motorcycle lessons. At least, this was what I believed back then.
And with that, after a few weeks had passed, and I had driven my little brother back and forth to his lessons, he got into the car one day when I was picking him up and told me that he had passed his motorcycle road test. So, now it was off to the DMV to get his motorcycle license. Sometime later, when he had saved up enough money to actually purchase his first motorcycle, my parents were both disappointed and upset. They were upset because he had been so duplicitous. But more than anything, they (like anyone else in the world) viewed motorcycles as incredibly dangerous. After some time had passed, they eventually got over it and accepted the fact that this was something that they really didn t have any control over.
Today, my younger brother is now on his third motorcycle. He started off with less powerful motorcycles and eventually kept upgrading to the point that he now has the largest and most powerful motorcycle that he has ever owned. To this day, however, every time either of my parents hears the engine start up to my brother s motorcycle, they sort of stop what they re doing and sometimes go to the window to watch him take off out of the driveway. They remain hopeful that this whole motorcycle business will just be “a phase” that he grows out of with time.
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