What Is Better For A Beginner A 250 Cc Or 750cc

What's the best beginner cruiser motorcycle?

I’ll put my vote in for any year of a Honda Rebel 250. It’s well built, reliable, will cruise at 55 (maybe a bit more, but it is a bit light for the interstate), and above all a very confidence inducing bike for a beginner.The real advantage for the bike is that they’ve been built from 1985 thru 2016 (the Rebel 300 just replaced them this year). You can buy a clean used model for about $1800-2000.00, ride it for six months to a year, make sure you replace any damaged parts from when you drop it (and you WILL drop it at least once), and then sell it to another beginner for about the same money you paid for it.Second choice? Yamaha Virago 250/Star 250, depending on the year. Every I’ve said for the Honda goes for the Yamaha, except that Honda sold a lot more Rebels, so it’ll be easier to find. Other than availability, the two bikes are very equal to each other. Feel comfortable with either.And yes, I’m talking a 250. After about six months of riding, you’re going to outgrow the bike and start shopping for something larger (750 and up). I still recommend your first bike be a 250, because by the time you sell it you’re going to be comfortable on a motorcycle, know what you’re doing, and transitioning to a bigger bike will be a two or three day process. Start with the bigger bike, and you’re going to spend the first six months wobbling down the street, desperately trying to get used to this (relatively) huge mass of metal between between your legs, and you’ll probably drop it more than once.To keep things in perspective: My first motorcycle in 1976 was a new 1975 Kawasaki G3-SS (100cc two-stroke street bike). After six months I sold it to my girlfriend and bought a clean 1972 Honda CB350. Which I rode for the next four years before buying new 1979 Triumph Bonneville.Looking back, I’m convinced I did it right.

What is a good beginner cruiser motorcycle (around 750cc) for a larger man (6'1" 270 lbs)?

Think of a starter bike:It’s okay don’t be scared. Its just a friendly and docile Ninja 650. It’s a fairly pedestrian ride with great road manners with hyperbike looks. Dubbed one of the better beginner bikes along with the smaller 250/300. It’s quick and light but it may be a tight fit for you. AND it’s not a cruiser.Combine it with this.Hello there, Pure explosion of testosterone! Yeah 6′1″ Bro, you’ll fit this one alright. Now this guy eats up beginners for breakfast with its hefty mass of 730lbs. (331kg) It packs a whopping 1689cc V-twin. Now, imagine riding a vibrating refrigerator that does an easy 62mph (100kmh) in a tick over 3 seconds. Yikes. I promise you’ll be dropping it within a week - whether it be on your driveway or at 124mph (200kmh) on the interstate.Then think of this:Goldilocks and the three bears. Choices of sizes.You get this.A beginner bike that looks and feels like a cruiser but handles and accelerates like a sportsbike. But wait… there’s more!The seats, pegs and bars can be swapped out for huge manly men like you.Although it’s only a 650, it punches well above its weight. Armed with a sportbike parallel-twin, it’s currently the quickest cruiser in the Kawasaki lineup - even quicker than their 1700s. It’s less than 3 inches shorter in length than the Harley, so it still looks imposing. Weighing in at a sportbike svelte 500lbs (228kg), the low seat height and center of gravity makes it a cinch to do low speed maneuvers. It has a friendly torque-band to keep you out of trouble. It also has a healthy amount of power to keep you entertained for years. This would definitely fit you.“Features like optional ABS and instant fuel economy read-outs make it a great fit for beginners to grow into. It's also a great bike for veterans who want something fun and nimble, without sacrificing comfort.” -RideApart.comToo bad it doesn’t have that V-twin rumble.Oh, what a horrid noise…Sources:10 Great Motorcycles for Advanced Beginners2017 Softail® Fat Boy® Specs & Pricing | Harley-Davidson USAKawasaki Vulcan S ReviewThe Kawasaki Vulcan S Riding Impressions - From a | RideApart

Is Yamaha Virago a good bike for a beginner?

I’m assuming you’re asking about the Yamaha Virago. During the years these bikes were made (1981 - the introduction of the Star motorcycle line) they came in four sizes: 250cc, 535cc, 750cc, 1100cc. The 250 is still made, but it’s now called the Star 250.The 250’s and 535’s are excellent first motorcycles. I’d normally recommend that you go with the 250 first, on the understanding that within six months you’re probably going to have outgrown the bike. However, at that point, you’re going to be completely comfortable with the bike, completely comfortable with motorcycle riding in general, and have very little problem with adjusting to a larger bike.The 535 is going to work, but it’ll be a slightly more difficult learning process due to size, somewhat balanced by not having the six month later switch to a larger bike.The 750 and 1100 are a bit large in my eyes for a first motorcycle. They’re excellent second bikes, however. I had a 1981 750 Virago for four years back in the late 80’s/early 90’s, and used to use it for a 1000 mile round trip between Johnstown, PA and the Boston, MA area every other weekend to visit my girlfriend. It got replaced by a Kawasaki Vulcan 88 because the size of the bike was pushing things a bit for a trip that long and that often.In general, the Virago’s are good candidates for a first bike, because they’re what a first bike should be: A competent, used, Japanese motorcycle that will take the inevitable beating a first bike gets (you are going to dump it), and will teach you riding.Little known fact: When Yamaha dropped the Virago models in favor of the Star motorcycle line, they took the 535 (which hadn’t sold all that well, due to its size and lack of a butch appearance), bored the motor, put fake chrome tubing around the exhaust pipes, and put it in a larger, more masculine frame. And called it the Star 650. Which sold like hotcakes, usually as a first motorcycle, a role for which it’s a bit too big and heavy. But that’s the American motorcycle market. No beginning wants to be seen on a “beginner” bike.

What is better for motorcycles? 750cc or 150cc?

A 150cc bike can do everything that a 750cc bike can do, just a lot slower and cheaper. A 250–500cc bike offers a compromise between the two.There are some significant cost advantages to using a smaller cc machine for hardcore one up “adventure riding”In practicality terms, some terrain (loose sand, ice, deep boggy mud) is far easier to cross on a low cc standard motorcycle with no special equipment, than it is on a fully kitted out 750cc adventure bike.In the famous long way round series there is a most amusing scene where the protagonists are really struggling to get their BMW R1150GS Adventure bikes through deep mud, their cameraman Claudio has broken his own BMW, and is riding a Russian made standard 125cc road bike instead. At a point where both Ewan & Charley have fallen off and are stuck, Claudio, a less experienced rider, comes blasting past on the “red devil” 125 with apparent ease.The ‘C90 Adventures’ channel on YouTube shows (amongst a great deal of other adventuring) a couple riding through Canada on completely frozen roads on 125cc engined Honda C90 step through motorcycles. They fall off several times but are unharmed owing to the light weight and low riding position of their bikes. 750cc machines would have been far more at risk of damage, far harder to keep upright in the first place, and more likely to injure their rider in a fall.Where the 750cc comes into its own is in the ability to cover long distances quickly. Some crazy distance riding has been done by owners of low cc machines - a number of British members of the UK Honda C90 owners club have done the 900+ miles length of the UK ride between Lands End & John O’Groats (known as “lejog”) nonstop in less than 24 hours. The difference is, on good roads, a 750cc bike can be ridden 300+ miles a day, every day. Low cc bikes are a lot more tiring to ride, and will take longer to cover the same distance as well.

How many cc's should a motorcycle engine have to commute on a highway?

Never, under any circumstances, buy a motorcycle that cannot keep up with traffic.A major safety problem with motorcycles is other vehicles, especially cars and trucks. Very often they really don’t see you, although you are in plain sight. When driving in traffic, their brain starts looking for other cars and trucks, and completely ignores a motorcycle, scooter, or bicycle because it does not conform to the appearance your brain has sensitized itself to. They say, after they have run you off the road or hit you, “But, officer, I didn’t see him!” And they mean it. Their brain screened you out as not relevant since you did not look like a car or truck.This problem is compounded if your movement is such that it does not conform to the rest of traffic. If you are going slower than traffic (or faster) they are likely to miss seeing you, and if they do, they are likely to assume you are moving at the same speed as the rest of the traffic and misjudge their actions around youWhen I studied driving safety while cramming for my license, back in the late 1950’s, I remember reading an article about a study that showed that for every 10 miles per hour your speed differed from that of the traffic flow, you doubled your chance of having an accident. This was true for 10 miles faster and ten miles slower. If the traffic is moving at 60, and you are going 50, you are twice as likely to have an accident, and if you are only going 40, you are 4 times as likely to have an accident.So you have two considerations: one, drivers of cages often don’t see you, and, two, going at a different speed from the traffic flow increases your chance of accident.Therefore, when you buy a motorcycle, make sure that you can go at least fast enough to keep up with traffic. In general, 100 cc will be OK on city streets, but not on major highways (my first bike was a Suzuki AC100, so I know from experience). But much depends on the setup of the bike. I owned a Kawasaki 440Z and it would keep up with traffic just fine on most roads. It topped out about 75. I currently ride a 750 Moto Guzzi, and it will go 70 or more all day long. It is also heavier that the 440 was, and much less subject to buffeting by the wind (it is buffeted, but not as badly).As your cc’s go up (or your cubic inches for Harleys), so does your weight. That helps keep the bike steady in crosswinds, but can make it a bear when you have to move it by hand. Remember that most bikes do not have a reverse gear.