Riding Career flow chart

now that's pretty good!

I like that. (I'd give ya a thumbs-up smilie, but it doesn't look like we have one here?)

Good idea...terrible excecution...

Trambo said:

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Well, poo! I totally missed that one in the list... Thaaaaaaank you! :notworthy:

LOL, no problem. Sometimes those are hard to sort through!

a touch dramatic, but good.

ha ha not bad. I went all over the place, lol. I went to MSF after having my legal liscense for 10 years. I also had too much bike for me before, so ha

is the sv 650 considered too much bike for my first bike ? ? ? now that is the question....

No the sv is not too much for a 1st bike. if it was new then it may be too much $$ for a first bike but power wise it is just right imho

I just coached a guy this past weekend, who swore up and down he was getting an R6... right up until the first day of riding on the range. :spank:

After that, he said the SV650 was looking more and more attractive.

It's a great first bike... for a minimally trained rider. :vroom:

atoratog said:

is the sv 650 considered too much bike for my first bike ? ? ? now that is the question....

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4000 miles in... How far along are you in the series of "it could've been worse"s ??

All the close calls I've had could have happened on a bike any size.

The one instance where I came up on a turn way too quickly without realizing it, but nothing happened, could have ended up a lot worse on a bigger bike. Those things accelerate so quickly, and in the case of inline 4s so smoothly, that you may not realize how fast you're going.

Riding a friend's Z1000 it was a real struggle to stay even close to the 35 limit posted. Felt like I was standing still.

SaloSV said:

I just coached a guy this past weekend, who swore up and down he was getting an R6... right up until the first day of riding on the range. :spank:

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At least you and the class were able to talk him down off the R6. I wince everytime I see a recently-graduated student roll up on a shiny, new, full-on sportbike, and can't count the number of times those bikes already show evidence of having been down. :'(

Or - as happened recently with a former student who just had to have an 09 675 - I didn't even get to see the bike out (just at the dealership while they were PDI'ing it) because he high-sided it 9 days after he picked it up whilst riding, alone, on a very technical local road. :angry7:

I tend to advise my students to worry less about how many CCs their first bike has, but try to find something around 50hp. Enough oomph to get them where they need to go (and out of trouble, if necessary) but not enough juice to be unmanageable.

so far i'm on the right path.....just need to do the gear (jacket and gloves)