In recent years, it’s become possible to get your large motorcycle license at a training school—super convenient
And the demand for large motorcycles has expanded! It’s easy to get a big bike these days
Easily 180 horsepower—yee-haw
I started riding a large motorcycle with inspection certification
when I became a working adult at 19 years old…
(↑I was broke, so I couldn’t go to practice ranges and kept failing at the test center back then)
Well, setting that aside…
The other day with the “GSX-R1100 new bike~” there was an old liability insurance certificate left over, and when I happened to look at it…
Hmm, back then it was handwritten—kind of nostalgic, you know? 1989 = Heisei year 1
Yikes! The liability insurance premiums are on a completely different economic level…
It’s basically the same as today’s commercial vehicle rates
Nowadays large motorcycles are so affordable that pretty much anyone can ride one and maintain one
but not long ago it really was an expensive hobby
People in their 50s and 60s used to own and ride bikes like ●● and ●●
I thought, hmm, interesting…
but prices were so different back then that it really must have been a “hobby” for the wealthy…
And going back even further to the 70s, 80s, and 90s
if people were racing back then, that would have been an even more intense undertaking.
I’m not even at a level where I can talk about economics
but I realized that not just motorcycles, but everything has become “affordable”!
Well, I was really taken aback
Meow
