DAG PZ Part 1

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The only problem with old motorcycles is that they're old. Lots of people my age (Jay Leno, even) seem to love old bikes more than new bikes. Old bikes are cool, unquestionably, it's just that I have a huge problem with this movement that seems to say that old bikes are better than new bikes. I know guys that forgo new machines so they can continue to ride old beasts twenty years or older. "This is when they made real motorcycles," a friend of mine once said when we sat looking at his early 1980s Suzuki GS1000. I didn't burst his bubble, even though I wanted to. He won't ride a GSX-R750 or even a Gold Wing because he says they don't offer the things to him that his pristine old Suzuki does.

The cool thing about my job (I edit AMASuperbike.com as my day job) is that I get to sample lots of new bikes. And I'm here to tell you, on almost all levels, a new bike beats a seriously old bike any day.

This is not to say a 1997 Yamaha R1 should be shunned because it's a clunker. I'm just saying I have a real hard time understanding why people buy 1970s Honda 350 scramblers as daily drivers. My reasons for this are multiple and I won't bore you with them here.

So, ironically, I found myself driving back from Chicago the other day with a 1981 GPz550 in the back of my truck.