Absolutely excellent response. Just what I would expect from our crowd. Take all of this advice very seriously. The bikes you're looking into are absolutely suicidal. I've ridden a Turbo Busa, and I had hell holding on, I'm 6'4/225, well conditioned. And still, I had a hard time on it, physically. But this was the turbo, and although it is the fastest I've ever gone on land, it's still a bike for the most experienced, and honest, open-minded, secure, intelligent and super well informed rider.
With power comes many other things. Think of how much of an absolute pain in the a$s getting a Stang to handle is. Think of the uncertainty the first few times you found yourself (In your stang) coming out of a corner too fast, and it either grabs and slings you back the other way, or folds into understeer sendin' ur a$s into the grass. On a bike, the uncertainty is so much worse. Basically it's a hell of a lot easier to hit the pavement on a 1000cc that weighs the same as a 650cc, for something as simple as exact tire width, wind, angle of a turn and how much the angle changes throughout the turn. Not all turns are perfect in shape, some can start sharp, then get easy on you, in this case noobs accelerate, then sharpen up again before straightening out. You'll find yourself with hardcore burns, a broken bike, and hopefully not underneath a car or truck.
Be smart, do what most of us have already explained, seriously, get a starter bike, doesn't mean it's gonna have training wheels, believe me, even a Gsx'R 600 will blow you away. Btw it's one of the better all around bikes, also someone on here has one, that's posted already, so you can get info about it. I've ridden a lot of bikes, I ride dirt bikes, and especially quads A LOT, and I gotta tell ya, all the practice in the world can't prepare you for what one of those bikes is going to behave like. Plus you have to deal with the uncertainty of the road. Recognize a death wish. Get the right bike, for the right rider.
And like the one guy said, there's two kinds of riders, very true. Arrogance gets many people killed, it killed a good friend of mine.
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