SIZE doesn't matter???
Don't take this wrong...but it's not the size of the ride...it's way you ride the size! You can destroy a 250 or a 1200 easily IF you can't ride. Learning to ride what you have properly and comfortably is the key! She's like a piece of you that must flow gracefully along not only the straightaway, interstates, the twisty windy roads, but in the crowded parkinglots where cars are larger so they just TAKE the advantage away from bikes. You have to learn not only to be courteous, but to allow people to be ignorant and just smile while you think, gee, I wish you were on a bike amnd I had a pickup to back up in front of you like that ...but all the while knowing that you are the larger man totaly in control and not losing it to someone either ignorant or stupid or just being obnoxious...it's a game that I constantly play. what ever the size of the bike it is not in command it's not getting bored, excited, or coing to cause an accident...it has limitations beyond those that most of us will never be on the edge of. so if you think the 900...1200 or 250 size doesn't matter...you need to rethink things and put them in proper order. I'd say that with your weight and size that perhaps the 250 may be to small for you, but if you could ride one you would absolutely love the way that it would handle. A 600 weighs less than you, but it would make you smile from ear to ear, and you wouldn't want to get off of it for a very long time. Tkae her out on a mountain road, obey the speed limits, enjoy the turns that almost make you drag the pegs with every lean...then pour on the throttle for a straight then hit the brake for the next series of windy road section, downshift...a 250, 500, 600,,,anything will do that for you and with you...