so i should start with 600's-700's cc for the first bike? 1000cc and plus would be to much to handle off the bat huh
If you like Suzuki get a 750, it's a good mid-range bike. I agree with Deeto that a 1000 is very unforgiving, I sometimes lift my front wheel with little effort exiting a lean by cracking the throttle hard on my 1000. Everybody is different though, I got bored of my 600 very fast (three months), and I was a novice with NO bike experience, I couldn't even drive stick. The one thing I miss about my 600 is actually riding it through all the gears. Being that we live in the city I don't feel like I ride my 1000 to even half of the bikes capabilities. Between light to light riding and traffic, on a 1000 you will spend most of your street time in 1st and 2nd gear and most of your highway time in 3rd or 4th gear. I rarely use 5th and 6th gear in NY most of the time you will run out of road first lol. On a 600 you will use the gears more often therefore learning the bike better. All that being said, when I had my 600 I kept up with the bigger bikes MOST of the time with no aftermarket upgrades other than an aftermarket steering damper.
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Since you're looking for a sport bike I would reconsider this conclusion. I have a lot of seat time on different 600s and I can say with certainty your ability will never eclipse the bike's. 600s are lighter, more nimble and more forgiving than liter bikes yet they accelerate hard enough to drain the blood from your head.
My 06 R6 with exhaust and power commander put out 121 hp at the wheel. It pulled like a rabid dog. A f*cking rabid dog.
Its your first bike. Grab a used late model 600 with some mods for short money and have fun.
The problem with this is that in NY there is no such thing as a used late model ANYTHING for short money. Ever since the price of a brand new sports bike has gone up, people have followed suit and raised their selling point price regardless of the year. Of course I'm talking about later models though, if the year is 08 or better and the mileage is low the price is usually an investment nowadays. More of an investment than to want to buy with the intentions of upgrading after a year or two. It sounds to me like hammermill is looking for a bike he plans on keeping for a while. A few years back you could buy a good used 600, learn it, then sell it and upgrade without loosing too much money. It's not that easy to do that anymore.
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You will have fun regardless I know people who learned on 1000's and have never wrecked (knock on wood). Buy what you like, TAKE A GOOD COURSE LIKE TRAMA'S, this way you learn the correct way to do things and not the short cuts that most street riders will teach you, and take your time learning the bike and you should be fine. Here is the link to a very good three day course that will give your your license after successful completion. When I took the class I had already been riding for three months and boy was I doing a lot of things wrong. It was one day in the class room and two days on a bike, they will teach you everything from learning the sweet spot on the clutch, to the proper way to look through a turn. Ask around they come highly recommend in NY:
http://www.tramas.com/
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