First bike

boostinss · Post by **boostinss** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 9:54 pm

This summer i want to purchase a used sport bike. I have no expierience with them before but it has always been a pashion to ride one. So i was wondering what would be a good starter bike yet still look good...I love the look of the Yamaha R6's 600 but i think that may be a little much.

if it matters i am 5'9" 150lbs

Post by **racer12306** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 9:57 pm

for a small guy like you and a beginner i would think you would want the smallest you could get that handles really good.

boostinss · Post by **boostinss** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 9:58 pm

yes but i dont want it to look like a dirt bike/ motorcycle...i want the sport bike look

zerocoolok · Post by **zerocoolok** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:20 pm

If it's your first time really riding a motorcycle, buy a really cheap beater bike to start with. You want to get a feel for riding a bike first before you go with something like an R6, because its REALLY easy to dump a bike like that. My friend bought a used Ninja ZX-7R (750) completely rebuilt from the ground up and he dumped it at the dealer when he was going to test ride it.

Nick Drake · Post by **Nick Drake** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:16 am

For your first bike I'd go no bigger than 400cc. I started on a '76 Honda 400four, a whopping 80 HP and it was great to learn on. I dropped it once or twice but then I learned how to avoid dropping it.

Don't go headfirst into a performance bike.

bad04srt · Post by **bad04srt** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 2:11 pm

there's a bike on ebay.....its a 250cc 4 stroke brand new bike for $900....i'll get a link for you but its a brand new learner bike for under $1000 and you can use it for a couple months and get rid of it for pretty much what you paid.....i'll post a link for you later

rOniN · Post by **rOniN** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:18 pm

Start small...experience is needed on something that is able to kill you in a split second. A smaller and slower bike will teach you everything you will need to know.

Honda makes a 500cc bike or at least they used too. I haven't looked in a while since I bought a car instead.

600cc sport bikes have a lot of kick since they are light weight and tuned usually to be really peppy. A bigger bike will be faster but with the added weight it will seem more stable also.

I would like to write more but I have to get back to class.

boostinss · Post by **boostinss** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:23 pm

if u can a link would be great to that 250 bike

MyNeonSaysHi · Post by **MyNeonSaysHi** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:29 pm

My first bike was a Huffy.

But yeah, be safe with the crotch rocket. I heard since 1994 deaths in crotch rockets have risen 100%....

crowd00control · Post by **crowd00control** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:46 pm

My first bike was one of these babies.

If you don't have any expierence on at least one of those, I'd recommend no big bikey yet!

bad04srt · Post by **bad04srt** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:12 am

for my first bike im getting an 02 yfzr6 which is one of the fastest 600cc bikes ever made....but i grew up racing atvs, so i already got it down but an older 600 would be a good start too like a 94 ninja for $1000 that you can drop and not care

boostinss · Post by **boostinss** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:41 pm

yeah i actually race ATV's right now which is why im kind of leaning twoards a 600

kplaya186 · Post by **kplaya186** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 3:12 pm

Go with a 600 GSX-R. Gixxer are amazing bikes!

Wenuden · Post by **Wenuden** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:12 pm

yay for old thread resurrections...

a street motorcycle is noooooooooowhere similar to an ATV. barely similar to an off-road dirt bike, for that matter. and as for the bigger = heavier, easier to handle, not necessarily. if i remember correctly, the new r1's only weigh around 12LB more than a new r6, both wet. the bike that myself and 3 of my friends used as a first/trainer bike was a '02 yzf600r NOT an R6, totally different bike). it looks like a sportbike, rides like a touring bike, and has more than enough power to satisfy a need for speed (any bike will do 100+ lol) you can probably pick one up in working condition for <2 grand. for a trainer bike, don't worry about looks, cause you're prolly gonna put it down at least a couple times, and be really really pissed when that pretty plastic gets rashed to hell (then have a heart attack when you see how much it costs to replace it). The great thing about the yzf600R trainer is that after you learn to ride, you can get a new, nicer, fuel injected bike and keep the 600r as a track-day bike and not have to worry throwin your baby across the track in a corner. I love mine to death. after we all learned to ride and bought our permanent bikes, i bought the other guys out of their quarters of the yzf and track the shit out of it.

Good luck and keep the rubber side down, homie. (invest in leathers)

stig · Post by **stig** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:15 pm

Get something cheap and small that you're not gonna REALLY care if you break, learn the basics before you go headfirst into it all.