I can buy a lot of bikes for under $3000 that have amazing performance, but the first time I sat on a BMW R1200R, I fell in love, and paid almost three times that amount for one. Motorcycling involves passion, and that drives you to personal choices that may be different from others. It’s above my pay grade, but I totally get it. If you're planning on hitting the track, I highly suggest you swap to a set of pirellis or something with a much stickier compound. I mean it's not a bad bike, but a 128FXDR or LRS is going to really out do this thing for a lot less, and you'll be able to get almost all the same features, but with more power.ĪRCH is giving you Keanu's personal touch, sure, but I couldn't reason for that price.Īlso the KRGT-1 is running Michilen Commander IIs, which are not cornering tires, they're long range tires. Especially when there are options and customization features you can get into for an FXDR or a lowrider S that will give you just as tuned in ride, but with more power. It's simply too hard to justify the cost. There's a Tubro FXDR at Bert's Baracuda that's putting up 200hp on a 128ci kit. They Ohlins is making carts and monoshocks specifically for those bikes.Īnd that FXDR can get a bolt on 128kit, 475C cam, and ported heads, and blow past 140HP in about 4000$. Especially with the way people are building up FXDRs and Lowerider S's. The big difference here is that while you do have a custom tuned machine, there isn't a big incompatable parts thing really happening. The reality is that you're getting into a boutique product, like a Falcon Northwest PC. But it's still the same 2 valve per cylinder 124ci with ported heads. The intake is different, but there's a lot of options for throttle body and manifold for twincams. There are people who take Dynas, and rebuild them from the ground up with custom seats, custom swing arms, ohlins suspension, massive engines with wild Cam profiles, and crazy ported heads, and insane exhausts, with tunes, and build monster bikes for literally thousands and thousands less than an ARCH.ĪRCH bikes are customizable in as much as they are Boutique products. Others turn them into flat trackers, others turn them into choppers, and all kinds of bikes. There are people who take sportsters, and make them go from 47HP putput starter bikes, to monster 100+HP race bikes. There are 160HP+ FXDRs out on the Road today. Build either one up to the point if absolutely beating an ARCH on the track and on the strip, for less money. The truth is, you can get a brand new Lowrider S today or an FXDR right now. The ARCH motorcycles are using stock production S&S versions of the twin cam engines. There are many motorcycles avalible out there that are built from the ground up. Harleys are by far the most customized motorcycles in the world. It is expensive but I don't think any other motorcycle is customizable to the extent that Arch bikes are. I suspect arguing on Reddit is not going to be something that's too lucrative tho. I want to encourage more young people to think opportunistically about how they can lean into their edge, whatever that may be. That sort of opportunity never existed for most of human history, and still isn't true for the 80% of the world who aren't fully English-literate. The internet has created a lot more surface areas for ambitious people to find/monetize niches that would earn them a year's worth of income in days - if they figure out the right hustle. At best, you work super-hard, you'll make 10~15% more $$$ than your peers. You inherent your father's vocation, and if you hate your job, tough cookies, that's how it is. If you weren't born rich, you have ZERO chance of being wealthy yourself.

And accumulate/stack edges as you progress through life.Įvery English-literate kid in a Western nation has 'access to resources others did not' and is in the 'right place at the right time' compared to the billions of subliterate same-age peers in Third-world nations.įor most of human history, it was IMPOSSIBLE to transcend your socioeconomic class. The point is to lean hard on every edge that life presents you. Join us on Discord! Showing off Bikes or Gear? Click Here Looking for purchase advice? Click Here

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