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Originally Posted by honestlyinsane
My wife was getting into riding 6 yrs ago and I wanted her to get a zx6r then considered a supersport.
Only due to the fact that if she got a 250 (which she did) I knew she would get sick of it (which she did).
and got rid of it in less than a year.
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I have a question for you
honestlyinsane (and for everyone else that has the notion that people "will get sick of a 250"): Isn't it better for someone to learn on a smaller cc bike and "get bored" with it in a year rather than to get a SuperSport and possibly be dead in a week? I'm not trying to start a fight, I'm just trying to gauge how conservative I am overall.
Responsibility and maturity aside, people make mistakes. Very early on there were a couple of times I twisted the throttle on my little 500R--my first bike--a bit more than I wanted and I thought, "Thank goodness I'm not riding a ZX6-R, I'd be planted in the back gate of that SUV right now if I was". I wasn't doing anything "squidly" or daring...I was just riding in rush hour traffic. After a year of riding, I twisted the throttle on my friend's '06 CBR600RR--in nuetral--just to see what it feels like and I couldn't believe how quickly that bike went up to 9k! I asked, "What the hell is that!?...how the hell do you ride this thing in traffic!?". He calmly replied, "It's called power...and you ride it with experience".