No WAY!!!
Learning to ride is awesome...pushing the bar forward gets you into the turn so much faster than just trying to lean into it....MAN, I wish I was there in your neck of the woods with a 250R! You have some awesome roads...I'd be so tired by the end of the day, and I'd know every foot of each road and I'd be riding each one of them in my sleep...Oh, man! Karen and I may move to Sierra Vista, AZ, which is even further south almost to the border, elevation 5,000'ASL...it's a ride t get to Phoenix but I could take all the backroads...and make the same stops everytime I went up and back...I'm really excited about finally moving after all these years at this address. I had 20 years of Navy so I've seen the world and even been over the Equator, International date line and the GMT...I still have a buddy that lives somewhere near Morenci, and I have a (High School girl) chat friend in Mesa, but i really fell for th place when we had my step-son in Ft. Haucha (spelled wrong). Sierra Vista. Surrounded by mountains, nice people, mostly military or ex-military...I love the food, and I can still se California if I want to go there. It's just far enough away to keep the relatives from "popping over". Just stay safe and when you can afford better tires, then do so...When I visited the salvage yard with over 14 250R's in it I looked at every one of them for aftermarket tires...and EVERYONE of them had the Dunlop 630 stock tires on them...I'd like to ride one day with you when I get my bike out and actually finished up. As soon as I'm ready for a road trip that far, i'll staw with my ex-navy buddy for a couple of days and try to contact you then. Right now I may be working a deal with someone with my 1974 Camaro LT. That would help me to get a bike NOW adn then I could get the one from the slvage yard and completely build it for Strictly Street and not highway. Soft tires, 14/48 gearing, shaved down lower saddle, perhaps an air shock for absolute adjustment...a true street machine...Batman Logo's, some custom work with LED's, a rear fender like the one on the front only for the swingarm on the rear no rear under fender, a custom (dremeled out tail light with LED running and brake lights and the dremeled out side lights replaced with amber panels for turn signals...easy stuff, and something to do when it's 12 below zero here in the winter and the snow plows can't do anything because the power lines are allover the roads adn the transformers and power poles are laying across the roads as well...