Bought the latest issue of Motorcyclist..

when I was at Wally mart buying a couple of presents for Marley, who turned five today. Looking at the cover, I was happily surprised to see three 250cc bikes on the front cover, a comparison of the new Honda CBR 250, the Kawasaki Ninja 250 and the Hyosung 250.

Very cool. Seems that the bike mags think that anything less than a 1000cc superbike is not powerful enough to do anything except maybe ride a few blocks down the street at 35 mph. I still read them, but it gets a little silly when you read an editorial or their 'Smart Money' feature that points out really good bikes, regardless of their engine size.

So, a few pages into the magazine, they do a road test of the Suzuki GZ250.

I rode one of those when I took my MSF, pretty cool little cruiser. Not for me, and not really for anyone wanting to get on the interstate but a fine little bike for riding to work, or around town, while enjoying around 134 mpg. Well, ok, that's slightly exaggerated, but still, 65 mpg is still darn good. Ought to be millions of these bikes on the road, considering the number of people commuting where 60 mph will be as fast as any traffic along the way.

I was thinking it was about time that bike mags started talking about bikes that would appeal to newer riders or people like me, who could care less about a bike with 160 hp. I mean, sure, they are cool and all but there's a lot more bikes out there, right? Not everyone rides a BMW 1200GT or Ducati or GSXR, right?

Anyway, went on and read the Joe Gresh article and then continued flipping through the magazine. Came to the reviews section and they reviewed a video game. Seems they thought the graphics were great but lacks 'the realistic riding experience' that real riders would want. Well, duh. I doubt the game designers really cared too much what real riders thought and were more concerned with what real gamers (and there are of course a heck of a lot more gamers that don't ride than gamers who do) want.

So, the next review was for a movie. Skimming over the article, seems someone in Motorcyclist thought it would be cool to review a porno and then whine because it didn't have enough motorcycling stuff in it.

Really? This was worth wasting a half page on? Nothing else that was actually motorcycle specific could be reviewed? So we had to have a half page of sophomoric innuendos about some low budget prono?

Wow. Lame.