Home > categories > Automotive & Motorcycle > Motorcycle Brakes > Questions about buying a motorcycle?
Question:

Questions about buying a motorcycle?

Ok so Im looking to buy a motorcycle. Im 16 ill be 17 in 4 months. Im taking tests on the net to help me so ill be ready for a bike at 18. I want to get a motorcycle because they have more benefits than a car like they get better gas mileage and theyre cheaper than buying a car and because I think theyre cool. I have a few questions about buying them and all. 1) Do you have to have a drivers licence before you can drive a motorcycle? 2) How old do you have to be in NYS to own a motorcycle? 3) when they put you through the course to learn how to drive it what are the obsticles like? 4) Is motorcycle insurance cheaper than car insurance? Thats all the questions I have know but ill probably think of more to ask :) Thanks for any answers :)

Answer:

Assuming she is in a CSA approved car seat, NO. All newborns have been in a vehicle at some point or other (they have to come home from the hospital) and some may even have to - GASP - go over a railroad track. And they live to tell about it.
She's in a car seat. Bumps on the road are absolutely fine. She isn't going to sustain brain damage. As for her picking up her head and it dropping on your shoulder . my son did that a few times as well. He's just fine. It didn't last long and after the first few times he did it I was a bit more prepared for it.
I always wondered about bumpy roads too and drove extra careful the first month after she was born. I'm not sure if that would do any damage? It seems like it would because of the whole shaken baby syndrome, but I'm sure thats not the case. I don't think your baby will hurt herself by bumping her head on your shoulder though. Just be gentle and help her hold her head up while shes building those muscles.
1. In N.Y.S. you need a motorcycle license. 2. You can 'own' at any age. You can 'drive at 18, (16 in some rural areas under 'learner' limits). 3. It's a standard driving test with 'skill' portions, (slow circles and figure 8s), in a limted space aded. 4. Liability insurance is still pretty high if the bike can carry a passenger. General. * Yeah, they're pretty 'cool' all right, 'specially when you get caught a long way from home in bad weather. * They lose a lot of 'cool' when you're reminded that there's only a layer of denim between your butt and a whole lot of hard, uncompromising, high speed, reality. * They don't get mileage all that better than the new more efficient cars.(35 MPG in cruise)

Share to: