07-18-2006, 05:03 PM
.RJ Wrote:stevegula Wrote:Right.
Make him get a 26 year old bike so when something breaks it takes 4 weeks to get parts
GSXR's and SV's are god, everything else sucks. We get it already.
That's beside the point. The only reason I'm preaching the SV so hard is because it doesn't have a competitor to promote with it and it is a great starter bike just like the Ninja 250/500 or GS500 (I started on a Ninja 250).
asteele2 Wrote:Not to be argumentative, but aside from the fact that they're not glory bikes... there are plenty of guys racing clubman on GS & EX 500s. They're hardly up to par with the SV's, and race replicas out there... but owning one of those bikes doesn't have to be the end goal.
yea, but how often do you see them at track days? Hell, the top speed disparity alone makes it dangerous for them to be out there.
Y'all are motorheads, you already know the consequences of dumb actions. So there's no reason to start with a bike like a Ninja 500, especially if you'd like to get on the track. I respect starting small and cheap, but if you're already familiar with what's going on I think it's possible to start with the bar too low. Hell, why not just encourage him to just get a pocketbike.