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Originally Posted by acalliste
I sat on a GSX650F yesterday in Daytona. I wasn't that impressed with it as a beginner bike. Perhaps for someone who has at least a little prior experience of some type (dirt, or coming from cruisers maybe), but for someone with zero experience I would think it would be a little intimidating. It's kind of top-heavy. Didn't seem like it would be easy for a no-experience-new rider to maneuver.
Then again, I sat on the Ninja 250 about 10 minutes before, so perhaps I was comparing it to that, which felt like a bicycle.
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I haven't had the chance to sit on or test one. I would like to, but the local Suzuki dealership is anal about sitting on bikes, let alone test-rides.
If it's anything at all like the Katana that it replaces, it stays on my second-or-third-bike list. The Kat is infamous for being topheavy, and it gets worse when you stack 75lbs of luggage on top of it.
Add to that the characteristics of an I4 and it just reinforces my point.
SilentR1, I remember reading that thread several times. You seemed to have recovered pretty well.
