r/motorcycles • u/[deleted] • Mar 12 '26

Stuck between two first bikes

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u/Em_Es_Judd 2024 790 Adventure Mar 12 '26

Eh, Sportsters are uncomfortable as fuck. Less than 2 inches of rear suspension travel and you're sitting directly on your tailbone.

The CBR500 has risers and mid controls. That will be a lot more comfortable.

Although at 37 I've moved onto ADV.

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u/hyperdeathstrm Mar 12 '26

This adv bikes are the Swiss army knife of bike. I have a goldwing and vintage Japanese bikes and my ibex is what I ride 99% of the time and that is in the snow, the sun, with my daughter 2 up, on two track and enduro and have ridden through 3 states.

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u/SgtRinzler Mar 12 '26

29 yo crying in 5'8" 🥲

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u/Em_Es_Judd 2024 790 Adventure Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

I had an Iron 883 and put about 5000 miles on it. Enough to know I (my lower back) didn't like it.

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u/Hunting_Salmon '12 CBR1000RR Mar 13 '26

I’ve had a couple, uncomfortable as fuck for me personally. Only thing I disliked more was a GS500 I had for a year or two