{"id":74710,"date":"2011-02-22T01:25:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T16:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=74710"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:42:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:42:53","slug":"adult-large-motorcycle-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20110222\/everyday-events\/adult-large-motorcycle-edition","title":{"rendered":"Adult Large Motorcycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"decob-1567762456\" class=\"decob- decob-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/advertise\" aria-label=\"ad_sample_1456_180_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png 1456w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-300x37.png 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-1024x127.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-768x95.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1456px) 100vw, 1456px\" width=\"812\" height=\"100\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p>In recent years, it&#8217;s become possible to get your large motorcycle license at a training school\u2014super convenient<br \/>\nAnd the demand for large motorcycles has expanded! It&#8217;s easy to get a big bike these days<br \/>\nEasily 180 horsepower\u2014yee-haw<br \/>\nI started riding a large motorcycle with inspection certification<br \/>\nwhen I became a working adult at 19 years old&#8230;<br \/>\n(\u2191I was broke, so I couldn&#8217;t go to practice ranges and kept failing at the test center back then)<br \/>\nWell, setting that aside&#8230;<br \/>\nThe other day with the &#8220;GSX-R1100 new bike~&#8221; there was an old liability insurance certificate left over, and when I happened to look at it&#8230;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_62210077_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Hmm, back then it was handwritten\u2014kind of nostalgic, you know? 1989 = Heisei year 1<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_62210077_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Yikes! The liability insurance premiums are on a completely different economic level&#8230;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s basically the same as today&#8217;s commercial vehicle rates<br \/>\nNowadays large motorcycles are so affordable that pretty much anyone can ride one and maintain one<br \/>\nbut not long ago it really was an expensive hobby<br \/>\nPeople in their 50s and 60s used to own and ride bikes like \u25cf\u25cf and \u25cf\u25cf<br \/>\nI thought, hmm, interesting&#8230;<br \/>\nbut prices were so different back then that it really must have been a &#8220;hobby&#8221; for the wealthy&#8230;<br \/>\nAnd going back even further to the 70s, 80s, and 90s<br \/>\nif people were racing back then, that would have been an even more intense undertaking.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not even at a level where I can talk about economics<br \/>\nbut I realized that not just motorcycles, but everything has become &#8220;affordable&#8221;!<br \/>\nWell, I was really taken aback<br \/>\nMeow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, it&#8217;s become possible to get your large motorcycle license at a training school\u2014super convenient And the demand for large motorcycles has expanded! It&#8217;s easy to get a big bike these days Easily 180 horsepower\u2014yee-haw I started riding a large motorcycle with inspection certification when I became a working adult at 19 years old&#8230; (\u2191I was broke, so I couldn&#8217;t go to practice ranges and kept failing at the test center back then) Well, setting that aside&#8230; The other day with the &#8220;GSX-R1100 new bike~&#8221; there was an old liability insurance certificate left over, and when I happened to look at it&#8230;&nbsp; &nbsp;Hmm, back then it was handwritten\u2014kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[91,55],"class_list":["post-74710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-gv73a","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}