why would anyone want a big bike for starter - Motorcycle-Journal Forums

chrisan · 01-05-2006, 03:23 AM

Is it only me or there are others that were afraid to jump on a big bike, even more buyng one as a first ride.
My first bike after I mooved to the states was bandit 400 and it took me a year and a half before I felt ready to try a 600 althoug a lot of people were telling me to dump the 400 and get faster bike. there was this guy at work with a suzuki 1000 v engine sports bike /I don't know the name of it/ and I would get the chills only by looking at his bike. The bike looked so big and heavy and very, very fast, wich was scary only to imagine, and the idea of trying to handle this kind of bike was out of the question.
Also to clarify, I wasn't new to bikes when I got the bandit, I started riding bikes when I was 11, ,my dad used to have a 50cc two stroke Simson /eastern germany brand/ wich I mastered, then I tryed bigger bikes like CZ 350 two strokes and some others, comming from eastern europe we didn't have anthing good when I was growing up and I was accustomed to ride on the side roads, most of the time dirt where the bikes were sliding crazy.
There were a gap of almost 10 years before I got the Bandit and now the gsxr600 and it felt like I started a new, all the experience riding **** bikes helps a lot of cource but I just couldn't make myself go out and buy a gixxer 1000 right away.
So I wonder how is that possible, that people of this forum spend so much time and energy convincing newbees to start small as to me this is a no brainer. Not natural. As I said; no one could've made me start big, when I was thinking of bying a bike. Big is a handfull, while small is managable for a start.
sorry if the tread is too long just felt like saying it.
cheers