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Welcome To Beginner Bikes

So you've decided to buy a motorcycle. After the endless debates with yourself, after the late-night fears about getting into traffic on two wheels and adequately controlling the bike, after the uncomprehending reaction of your loved ones and friends, you're ready to choose a ride.

At Beginner Bikes, we can help. We have compiled hundreds of pages of helpful information and our growing community of newer riders is more than willing to lend a hand.

Step One: Safety & Licensing Step One: Safety & Licensing
An important consideration before choosing your bike, click here to determine your state's unique licensing requirements.
Step Two: Buyer's Guide Step Two: Choose Your Bike
Use the Beginner Bikes Buyer's Guide to choose from among 100 of the industry's best Beginner Bikes.
Step Three: Purchasing & Insurance Step Three: Purchase & Insure
Different purchasing methods and insurance considerations can dramatically affect a motorcycles cost. Click here to learn more.
Here We Are

But which motorcycle should you buy? And where do you turn for help in this decision? You've read some of the bike magazines, which seem largely devoted to riders with permanent immunity from speeding tickets or to naked women draped across $20,000 choppers. Not much help when you're looking to purchase your first bike. Where is the magazine devoted to people like yourself, men and women looking for an entrance into the sometimes overwhelming, always exciting world of motorcycling?

Here We Are

In the pages of Beginner Bikes you'll find bike tests and articles written with the new and returning motorcyclist in mind. We know you don't need a top speed of 185 mph. We know you don't want a bike that requires as many hours in the shop as on the road.  We'll help you find the most enjoyable, safest ride out there. Beginner bikes are a blast to ride, and not only for beginners. With their comfort, reliability, and high fun-factor, many experienced riders prefer them to more intimidating and temperamental machines.

We've ridden nearly every beginner's bike on the market (and are busy lining up tests for the rest of them), and have lots to tell you.

Using Beginner Bikes

Finding the right motorcycle for you is, of course, an essential ingredient in the recipe for enjoying the ride. But this task can prove surprisingly difficult. We've known many motorcyclists who have lost a sizable amount of money trading in bikes that were poor choices for them in the first place. Usually, new riders make the mistake of buying more motorcycle than they can handle--often as a result of a persuasive salesperson or magazine article. It's important to understand that--despite what some salespersons or magazines might say or imply--you'll have the most fun, and the most confident, comfortable and safest ride, on a bike built with the needs of beginners in mind. You can always move up to a larger, more powerful bike.

Enough editorializing--where are the bikes?

Proceed to step:Step One: Safety & LicensingStep Two: Buyer's GuideStep Three: Purchasing & Insurance



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Recommendations made by Beginner Bikes Magazine, it's staff, team members or riding club officers, are based on the skills of a novice rider, of average stature and do not necessarily represent the ideal for every rider. While Beginner Bikes encourages safe, smart riding, we do not assume responsibility for each individual. Please ride with care at your own risk.