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Originally Posted by Tanuki
Also having power will help you avoid certain potential accidents. Brakes improve as well. 250 is a very scary freeway bike too. I know a lot of people who learned on 600rr, r6, gsxr 600 etc, never knew one out of maybe 40 of my friends that was ever seriously injured because the bike was too much for them. They also all wore proper safety gear and attended advancedotorcycle safety courses.
You can ride any bike dangerously. A 600 is extremely manageable and you would have to be wreck less to lose control of it.
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By this description, a liter bike will help you avoid the situations a 600 doesn't have the power to do, and a busa or zx1400 will help you avoid those liter bike situations... Hell a 750hp drag bike will help avoid those situations
Look, many many people have started off on 600's, 1000's, and busa's and what not.. Many are around to tell about it.. In fact I'm willing to bet almost all are.. Being around bike shops, sales, racing and the scene for over ten years now.. I've seen a lot.. Seen a best friend that had experience get ran over from behind and his head popped like a stepped on grape, because he was too cool for helmets.. Not his or the bikes fault.. Watched a friend learn on a 06R1 have three accidents, none was the bikes fault.. All three wouldve happened most likely on a 250... Watched four friends all go buy brand new GSXR 1000's and learn to ride.. All alive today..
Now not one of the bikes or riders I meantioned, got out of their first year of riding with out scratches.. Dropping bikes and falls.. The argument is would they have done the same on a 250, sv650, or that type of bike.. Most likely.. But they wouldn't have been as "cool" doing it.. I almost bought a brand new sport bike.. Biker boyz just came out.. I was going to get that "busa" and be the biggest bad ass there is.. Because face it... That's why you want a sport bike.. 99% of what you can do legally on the street you can do on another type of bike.. But your a cool cat on a sport bike.. After taking advice from a great friend, I bought a old 98 GSXR 600, fixed it up looking nice.. Had a small tip over that put a couple scratches on a fairing but that's it.. After 3 years I moved up to a 03 GSXR 600 and started racing.. Had one off.. At 110 mph, bike came out good.. Those luckily have been my only offs.. Now I'm on a 2011 GSXR 750, people have asked why after all these years am I not on a thousand.. My answer, because I don't have to prove my **** is bigger then yours.. Because there really isn't a reason to have one on the street.. Like there really isn't a reason to drive a Bugatti on the streets.. It's way way over kill... Sure you can do it, but other then bragging about how big your **** is.. It's pointless..
The best advice, which you or anyone else that has to justify why your getting a 600 super sport bike for a first bike, is get a old old one.. Early 2000 late 90's.. You'll thank the people you listen to as you learn the bike.. Because your going to have 'oh shit' moments.. And it's better to have a oh shit moment on an old sv or 250, 300 then on a bike that while your saying oh shit, is tumbling through the air and shedding parts... You'll live through it, there are hundreds of thousands of riders a year, about 4000 die.. So odds are good, but when you picking up the pieces of you old ass 2k$ bike instead of that nice new 10k$ machine you bragged to your buddies about, which won't help you pay for it, you'll be thankful.. And on the chance you don't bin it, then you sell it for what you paid for it, and get your nice upgrade
Couple things finally, respect it all you want.. Doesn't mean shit.. Respect the ocean all you want, you'll still drown in it, respect a rattle snake all you want, it'll still bite you in the ass, point is, you can respect a machine all you want, it isn't the part that bites you in the ass.. It's your lack of skill, reflexes, movements, that bite you, and a SS bike will do it faster then any other machine out there