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So you’re buying your first bike? Before you do that however, you need to find out what you will be using your bike for. Will it be for commuting everyday or just riding as a hobby? Or maybe you just have a death wish and crave adrenaline that can only be achieved by traveling at incredibly dangerous speeds. Ah yes there are many different styles of bikes to choose from. Of coarse the absolute best advice a sane person could give anyone interested in riding would be to start off on a used cruiser or standard. Something that is not too powerful, heavy or hard to ride. It doesn’t make sense for an inexperienced rider to start off on a powerful sport bike with a 1000cc engine, or even a 600cc. That is simply too much bike for a beginner. Really, I would advise against any sport bike as a first bike. The riding position on them doesn’t give you a clear view of everything around you. Even sports bikes with lower engine displacement can be dangerous, this is mainly when doing city driving. Because motorcycles are harder to see in traffic sometimes a rider needs a sufficient amount of power to quickly move away from merging vehicles and drivers unaware of your position in traffic. This becomes more difficult with an underpowered sports bike like the Kawasaki 250R, a modern looking sport bike with a 250cc engine. Don’t get me wrong, the 250R is a great bike and fun to ride but the lack of power won’t help you get out of situation you don’t want to be in.
So in hindsight, the ideal first bike for a new rider would be a used cruiser or standard motorcycle. Get your riding experience on a bike like this. No offense to you the reader, but you’ll probably end up beating this bike up pretty good. You don’t want to go out and buy a new bike and end up dropping it and damaging those pretty plastic fairings. Bikes depreciate in value pretty quickly too so that’s another reason not to buy a new bike at first. Learn to ride safely and gain enough experience then when you know your comfortable go out and spoil your self with a new Ducati or Yamaha R1000.