Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:32 am
fiveoboy01 wrote:I personally am not ripping on him for his bike choice. I don't think it's the best idea. A cheaper bike can be bought to learn on and that's a smarter thing to do. The extra $ can be spent at a quality riding school. I think if a person is VERY careful, they could go with a 600 SS for a first bike and be OK. I know I rode a 2001 R6 a good bit one summer(it was my roommate's) and I never had an "incident". Looking back, I guess I was lucky and I'm glad I didn't start on something like that.
But the main reason Verm is getting ripped apart here:
Being that he completely ignores every piece of advice given to him by EXPERIENCED riders on this board and basically says "shove it up your "O Ring", I'm going to do it my way." He will say anything to justify whatever the new thing is he's going to do today.
He constantly talks about track days, dragging a knee, etc. Concepts which are reserved for riders WAAAAYY past his skill level. Yet when he's told he should stick to basics, he starts talking about, you guessed it, track days and racing school.
Taking a new bike and wanting to do stupid modifications to it which will only screw it up and increase HP, neither of which a beginning biker needs.
All he breathes and eats is "racing, racing, racing" but won't go buy a shop manual and show the ambition to do basic bike maintenance.
He doesn't "take the abuse". He only hears what he wants to hear.
You have to take small steps before you can run.
Think about who you'd laugh at more at a trackday:
A nice, humble apparent beginner on something like an SV650 or EX500. He bought used leathers and the bike is used too. He wanted to have $ left over to pay for some instruction. He's trying to learn but he's not very fast. He's eating up advice from the experienced riders like there's no tomorrow. Slowly he improves but it takes a while.
Some DOOD on a brand new GSX-R 600 with full racing leathers that costed half the price of the bike. He goes on and on about dragging his knee in the parking lot, trail braking, his new TRE. But he's a mess on the track and can't turn a lap time to save his butt. He won't listen to any advice and has a bunch of excuses for his poor performance. But damn he looks cool though.
Soon, the guy on the EX/SV is whacking the pants off "rossi" on his gixxer.
I know who I'd laugh at harder...
So basically yeah, I agree with mintbread here.
I dont think you have a clue as to how VX would actually do at a track. Maybe he would ride within his abilities and improve, maybe not. Why pre-judge him and assume he will do terrible and then go off on him about a hypothetical??
I think we need to tend our own backyards here.
