blitzburgh
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I agree 100% with ya.. Heck just goto Youtube and do a search for the dragon... I have seen MANY MANY videos of wrecks that are by people with WAY more riding skills(skills not common sense) than prob 50% of the people here. People on one corner are completly under control with a knee scrapping the ground in full leather and the whole nine yards.. Then the next turn they try to pass a car and crash or hit a bad spot in the road and crash or (insert something here) and crash..I bought my wife a Katana last year. She drove it and put about 1200 miles on it. We traded it in and got a 2008 Hayabusa. She knows that she has to be careful and respect bike since I have a busa as well. She has drove it already around a little and loves it. I think it depends on the person's intelligence/common sense if they can ride a busa. I think she will be fine after some more seat time. Also, I taught her how to ride last year. So I would still consider her a beginner. I am impressed in her being able to listen to me and understand certain things that I point out that are important to understand about riding bikes. I expect her to be fine.
point is people with the best skills who have started with small bikes and worked their way up to a busa but lack the small part of their brain that stores common sense. To me at least, is FAR worse than someone with a good head on their shoulders and bought a busa as a 1st bike.
I don't want to single any age group out but... I would say that 90% of any male between 16 and 23 should NEVER be alowed on a sport bike let alone a bike like a busa and when I was that age I would put me in that group also. Not because of their skills but more because of their mindset.. Matter of fact I think having some skill would be even worse.. They would push themselves way to much..