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Originally Posted by catback
You bought a bike for it's clock, what's the world coming too...hope you (or anyone else) don't start buying helmets because of their reflection of you or gear based on how well it fits in a suitcase.
Cadre: You'd never think that someone would get injured or more so killed learning to ride a motorcycle until you see it happen or have the MSF instructors telling you all the horror stories that they witnessed. Surely before I became a rider by taking the MSF, I didn't think one did have the possibility of getting injured just learning so long as they didn't get stupid. The injury and death waiver as well as the lecture about past MSF beginner injuries definitely changed my mind as did seeing beginners having "get off's" on 125 and 250 cc bikes at slow speed. Sadly the non-motorcycling public doesn't realize that learning to ride has it's risks just as actual riding does.
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Well, I can't say I felt the same way you did going into MSF but maybe that's because I grew up around motorcycles and my uncles and my father do a lot of stupid stuff. I've also been riding and racing dirtbikes for years, I know how it works and Joe has been around enough to know too. But what you know and what you feel are two different things and that's where the issue is with gixxers. It's all good though cause I'm actually leaning towards an r6 as my next bike since they stopped making the Ducati I wanted. There are plenty of alternatives to gixxers out there.
Nightshade: Congrats on the new bike, I'm sure you'll enjoy it. I think having a clock would be kind of nice actually because I lose track of time when I'm up on those back roads.
Just remember that your old gixxer is not a beginner bike, I hope your girlfriend has some experience.
Walter: Oh..that's a nice bike too. I have to say that I hate the small Ninjas because of the styling but that one is sweet.
