Stories of people admiring your CBR250R

[HMenke]

OK, let's feed our collective egos here - let's tell stories about people admiring our bikes! If this has been done before here, sorry I don't claim this to be a highly original thought! I'll take the noob defense...

Anyway, last night after dinnertime, my boss at work organized an ad hoc Sunday morning ride with me and some guys we work with.

Now, Kentucky state route 22 east and west of Falmouth is a very popular sport bike run. Guys come from nearby states just to run it.

On our way through the hamlet of Willow, we stopped off for a break at the Willow Farm Center near the intersection of 10 and 22. Apparently this is a popular place to pull over and rest a few minutes, because the store is closed and there aren't a whole lot of public places to pull over out there in the countryside.

Here's a picture of our group pulled over (ours are the four bikes on the right; my CBR250R is the second from the right):



Not long after this picture was taken, we heard a throaty roar as a BMW S1000RR pulled into the lot with an Indiana license plate:



The rider, wearing full leathers, got off and lit up a smoke. He was an older guy with a grizzled look, obviously a very experienced rider. I could hardly see any chicken strips on his tires, maybe 1/8" at most. He took a couple of questions about his bike, then ambled down the line of parked bikes to see what was there. The only bike that drew his attention? You guessed it - he gravitated to my CBR250R!

My boss, who has been riding 30+ years, said that most experienced, veteran motorcyclists are just fascinated and intrigued by the CBR250R.

I have to admit: as a newbie it felt kinda cool to be surrounded by all these bigger and more powerful bikes, yet be recognized as someone with the good sense and taste to be riding an interesting and alluring motorcycle like the CBR250R.

[Wynne G Oldman]

Great idea for a thread, sadly, it hasn't happened to me yet. I'll post back when (if) it happens.

[Ibex250R]

Chics dig it!

[superfly]

1st time - I stop into a local Mexican restaurant, of which there are not many in Champaign, IL!, and the waitress can't help but bat her eyes as she brings my guacamole.

"That's a really sexy bike," she says.

"Do you ride?" I ask.

"No, but I want to."

We went out that weekend.


2nd time - Okay so this isn't so much admiration as a funny story (at least I think so). Driving down the main drag of campus, guy on a beat up old 600 (I don't know the older ones well enough to tell what it was) is swerving around cars on this two lane street until we come to a stop light and he pulls up beside me. No helmet, t-shirt, laces dangling freely from his tennies.

He looks over and tries to ask me about the bike. I'm in full gear, so I'm struggling to hear him through my helmet, but trying to be courteous and entertaining him while we're stopped.

"Nice bike," I think he said.

"Thanks, they just started making them last year," I yelled, hoping he would realize how futile communication efforts were in the midst of traffic noise.

"Is it fast?" He asked about 4 times before I understood him. Then he revved a bit.

I nodded. When the light turned green, he yanked on the throttle and in a huge cloud of smoke took off around a few more cars that were in front of us, with his legs spread wide for at least another 100 ft before he went into a full tuck in a 25 mph area.

I assume he is dead.


3rd time - At a stop light (that's most of the driving here), a rather tall man driving a convertible Mini Cooper sitting alongside me shouts to me through his roof, "Hey, man I love the colors on your bike." I have a Red and Silver and it is pretty.

[HMenke]

1st time...doesn't get any better!

[CBlackR]

Got a good laugh from your assumption in story 2, but I hope he's alright.

[6fOOt6]

WOW! That's a nice BMW.... Just the last week my MSF instructor who was a very experienced Harley guy took a major interest in my '12 cbr250r! By the time the 2 day course was over he said he had fallen in love with my bike and offered me $3500 cash for her!!! He was really serious but I just took it as a joke.... I knew he was not joking when he asked if I wanted to go out for a cruise after class was over, he would ride my bike and I would ride his ape hanger Harley!!! It was AWESOME we had a great time! I told him I was not interested in selling mine but I told him how the bike was only $4400 out the door and rated for 77mpg and he said he hat to have one!

[TrueFaith]

I don't think I had my new CBR250R more than an hour before I got my first compliment. After riding it home from the dealership I stopped to fill the tank at a service station near my home. I barely got the hose into the tank when a guy in his 30s walked up and said "That's a beautiful bike. What is it?" When I told him it was the new Honda CBR250R he continued with "Where did you get it?" and before I had the tank full my local Honda dealer gained a new customer.

[Bullseye]

EVER TIME I ride with my circle of friends .............they all comment on how great the little 250 does !!!

Just got back from a two day trip with 3 friends.. 1)2011 BMW 1200rt 2)2012 Victory Cross-Country 3) 20?? GSX-R 750. They all loved how well the little bike ran. They could not believe how well the bike does on the open road !!

[DamianW]

I'm not sure if this really qualifies but on Saturday when I went back to the Honda service department to collect my CBR after its first service, I saw the mechanic test riding it back and I thought to myself 'wow, that's a really great bike' and then I remembered 'it's mine!'


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