06 600rr

 

1992 CBR600 F2, kept it until 1999.

 

Lets say a person has never rode motorcycles, dirtbikes, or quads before and they get a CBR600 or a NINJA250 as their first bike. How long would it take that person to ride to get used to the bike and get used to shifting the gears and using the brakes? Basically to get comfortable riding a motorcycle?

 

Only takes the first couple of times of stalling out to get used to riding. Looking stupid at a stop light and stalling out makes you learn really fast! J/K! I was actually surprised at how easy riding a rocket was. I figured that they'd be really hard to get going from a stop and riding smoothly. I was shocked when you don't even have to gas them to go. I showed everybody in my family how to ride my bike. My little brother (14), my little brother in law who was 13 at the time, my wife who hasn't ever ridden anything. I didn't take them out on the road but took them to my college's parking lot. The 1994 yz 125 I rode once was harder to ride than my 900rr or the 04' 1000rr I rode for that fact. That fuel injected bike was no harder than mine. Also it was easy to show people that don't even know how to ride a bike. Just my thoughts sorry they are so long.

 

I've been riding my first bike, which is a 94 F2, for about two weeks (for a total of about 10 minutes so far, since I haven't registered it yet and it's not street legal as of this point).

And I haven't hurt myself yet, so I guess that's a good sign.

(I've had two incidents so far... A "woops" moment at the end of my first ride and an "LOL, I crashed" moment this weekend. But seeing as how I don't have a full set of useable plastics, and none are on the bike, this isn't such a big deal...)

IMO, whether or not a 600 Supersport is appropriate as a first bike depends entirely on whether or not you don't do anything stupid, and whether or not you're able to keep calm and deal with the situation properly when you DO go and do something stupid.

Yes, it's stupid fast at WOT, but it's more than civil enough at a more reasonable location on the power band.

Although there's no excuse to not take the MSF course (which I haven't, YET).

And wear full gear, or face the consequences.



(DOH, and then I realized I found this thread while searching...)

 

My first bike and still my current bike is a 2005 CBR600RR. Never had ridin a street/sport bike before in my life, the closest street motorcycle was a 250 Nighthawk that they let me ride at the MSF school. Other than that its been the Honda XR100R ive been ridin since 8th grade and still runs like a champ

 

My first bike was an 01 Kawasaki Ninja 250....with 5 different colored paints, 2 different colored wheels, and scratches galore. I laid that bike down once because I had no clue what I was doing and took a turn way too fast. Luckily, I am apparently good at bailing and didn't get more than a burn on my leg from the exhaust.

I then moved onto a Honda Shadow 600. Put some Hines & Vance's on there and actually had a good time on it, but in the end cruisers just aren't for me and that didn't have nearly the power I craved.

Then I got my 05 CBR 600RR and I'm in love. I know that this bike wouldn't have been a good starter bike for me, as I was too hungry for speed and too stubborn to realize I was irresponsible. Though I still dostupid things at times, I learned to respect the power that even a 600 supersport bike is capable of, and I think that's the key.

My cousin, against my advice, started out on a GSX-R600. As predicted, it's now in his garage with the entire left side destroyed by pavement....thankfully, he was alright. The fact is that most young riders aren't ready for a powerful bike. But that's not to say I'm the perfect rider...if I felt that way, I wouldn't have dumped $200 into fork, axel, and frame sliders and I wouldn't gear up when I rode. **** happens. Stay safe out there everybody.

 

My first bike was a 1990 Katana. bought it in 06 and sold it in 07 when I bought my f4i. I do still wish I had the ol' Kat around still. Those are very durable and comfortable machines.

 

my first bike was a 86 honda shadow 500 rode it for 2 days and got a 92ex500...rode it for 7k miles then bought a 05 600rr...i still have all 3 bikes lol

 

My first was a 1976 Kawasaki S1 250. A three cylinder 2 stroke ripper. Up in the rpm's it was crazy fast and oh how I miss the exhaust note, but the little beast was almost impossible to keep running properly.