see although I feel that it's more than I need right now... I don't and haven't ever felt like it was TOO much for me to handle...

I still recommend that people start small because it's been my experience that I learn much quicker than the majority...

oooooooo... aren't we special :lol:

yes you are... fucker... hurry up or you'll miss the short bus


what I meant was I can't judge everyone's mentality... so better safe than sorry... I'd rather tell them to get a 250 and they be disappointed in it... than recommend a 600+ and they get hurt or worse...

I started out easy, my friend adviced me to start small so I bought a slightly used 2001 ninja 250. Road it for a year before moving up to a 05 GSXR 600.

I had never ridden anything on two wheels when I got that bike. Well, thats a lie. I rode a friends bike once when I was 15, before I even knew how to work a clutch with my hand. Rode it like 10 feet into the side of an RV, picked it up and moved it back to where it was, friend never knew any better :D

I learned how to work cluthces by hand later on, rode a lot of quads. Kicked the shit out of an 87 LT500R for about 4 years, that thing was a freakin beast. That fucker was on its last leg so i traded it to some douchebag for the 80 GS850, it had a big ol' windjammer fairing on it and shit, gay ass bars, ripped all that shit off and ordered some drag bars first thing. Spent like 7-8 years riding that before I finally could afford the SH in 04.

The guy that got the quad... I told him he had to fix the rear axle bearings before he even thought about riding it... that and it had a wasted clutch. Dumb ass fixed the clutch, didn't do shit with the rear axle bearings (they were loose as fuck, made the chain throw REAL easy, had already snapped the guard around the front sprocket, so I knew it was one more throw away from serious damage)... anyway, he fixed the clutch, fired it up, did 2 laps around his yard, threw the chain and it totally cracked the engine case, quad was done for. He got 10 minutes of riding enjoyment, I got 8 years. I think I made off better in that trade :D

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My current ride, 06 R6. I'm doing just fine.

my first bike was a kawasaki LTD 550

my current bike
06 CBR 600RR

My first bike was a 65' Yamaha 60cc. It was street legal but I wasn't by a few years. Rode it on the street when I could getaway with it, but mostly in the woods.

My first real street bike was a 250 Yamaha DS7 that I bought new in 72'. It was as much (maybe more) as I needed at the time and my only transportation for the next 11 months. I don't know how many times I crashed that poor thing, but I'm sure I would run out of fingers and toes before the last one was counted.

i, like fnfalman started out on a honda hurricane. no msf (yet) however i did read my way through nj's (excellent) state manual 2 or 3 times and it really saved my bacon in the two bad slappers i had. rode the 'cane from october to febuary and then bumped up to the 954. i never intended to jump that fast but i found a perfect example at a decent price and had to jump at it. went down on her ONCE and it had nothing to do with the power of the bike, too much rear brake started an oscillation and i didnt have the space to recover.

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man i miss that bitch