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Originally Posted by JimmyD
That's all fine and dandy but that's 251cc-500cc.
IIRC the cut-off in Tiered countries is 33hp and 125/250 is the prefered bike for this horsepower rating. A Kawasaki 250 is actually 248cc (I think) and your statistic bracket doesn't mean anything. If it's even true, for that matter.
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The ninja 250 (yes it is 248 cc) has 36 hp(or up to 40 depending on where you get your info) and would be too much bike for a beginner if we followed that system. I can only think of 2 bikes that would be weak enough for that requierment.The Honda Rebel 250 and the Kawasaki eliminator 125.
101-250 cc bikes account for 9% of bikes on the road yet are involved in 13% of accidents
751 and up account for 23 % of the bikes on the road and only account for 16% of accidents. So based on the number of bikes statistically speaking the 751 cc and up bikes are safer then 101-250 cc group.
These stats are taken from the Hurt report via Proficient Motorcycling by David L Hough.