New Kia Truck
01-04-2005, 03:15 PM
#3
Remember stock is BAD!
SuperSport
SuperSport
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Jacksonville FL
Posts: 760
Re: New Kia Truck
Why would you want to haul the VTR when it rides fine?!!!!
That is like tralering a bike that runs!
You have had been hanging around with the harly crowd too much
That is like tralering a bike that runs!
You have had been hanging around with the harly crowd too much
01-04-2005, 10:58 PM
#6
Hmm?
SuperBike
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: San Gabriel Valley
Posts: 2,069
I enjoy the low height of the trailer when loading my bike, too, but damn if parking ain't a b!tch.
I believe the problem with Kia vehicles is that their price-point puts them in competition with used cars that appear to have more value, ie older generation Accord or Camry.
However, I see more Kias on the road everyday. Maybe they're like Saturn now...?
I believe the problem with Kia vehicles is that their price-point puts them in competition with used cars that appear to have more value, ie older generation Accord or Camry.
However, I see more Kias on the road everyday. Maybe they're like Saturn now...?
01-06-2005, 04:02 PM
#7
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Superstock
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: San Jose, CA
Posts: 318
I have asked and contemplated riding the bike to tracks that are close by (2 hour drive), but those experienced track riders have all advised against it. You will start the track day tired, you won't have any means of coming home if something happened to you or the bike at the track, and you will be dead tired by the time you got home on your bike.
It is definitely nice to have a truck or trailer.
01-06-2005, 07:03 PM
#8
Junior Member
Squid
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Texas
Posts: 26
Re: New Kia Truck
For the most part you're getting good advice... Although i'd doubt you'd be tired in the morning, you would be up for a brutal ride home after a track day. I've actually seen guys who've tried it send their bikes home with a buddy with trailer space instead of risking it.
UHaul has a little 4x8 open trailer with a little cut out up front for the front wheel of a bike for about $20 a day. I've seen a lot of them at track days...
UHaul has a little 4x8 open trailer with a little cut out up front for the front wheel of a bike for about $20 a day. I've seen a lot of them at track days...
01-06-2005, 07:15 PM
#9
Hmm?
SuperBike
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: San Gabriel Valley
Posts: 2,069
Some of my friends have ridden to trackdays in the past, but they would throw their extra crap in my minivan (cooler with drinks/food, wallet, cell, etc etc). If you have other people who are going, then it's not so bad to ride to a track event.
Even still, try to find a friend or someone else who's going to the track with extra space for your bike.
Even still, try to find a friend or someone else who's going to the track with extra space for your bike.
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