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FZ6If you’re looking for one bike to perform a multitude of missions, look no further.
Take it from Cycle World* Magazine - “For a more advanced rider looking for a bike to do it all, there is no other choice.”
While I find it interesting that you feel you have the right to tell another human being what they can, or cannot do... I find it deeply disturbing that your wife feels she needs your "permission" to pursue an activity she has an interest in.
But that's just me...
Oh gaaawd.
Sometimes people make decisions together...and sometimes making a decision together means respecting your SO's veto power. I'm sure she's looking to him for guidance...just like he might look to her for something else she knew a lot more about.
Sometimes people make decisions together...and sometimes making a decision together means respecting your SO's veto power. I'm sure she's looking to him for guidance...just like he might look to her for something else she knew a lot more about.
"Yea, though I ride through the valley of the shadow of the Harley, I will fear no R.U.B.: For my FZ6 art with me; thy power, thy speed and thy handling they comfort me." -- Metrics 23:4
I am an s/o that started riding on my own 2 years ago.
I had no real desire, but my s/o wanted me to try, so I took a M/C course and LOVED it.
Now if I have to ride 2 up for some reason, I hate it.
I think if she wants to rty she should. Safely, say thru a course. If she has issues hopefully the instrutor would say so. Mine would have. he was ex-military and had no problem telling those who were a chalk outline ready to happen that they were such.
My 1st bike is the FZ6. Now, had I not been prodded into it by my s/o, I would likely have gone with the Ninja 500, not 250.
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I seriously can't imagine being told I had permission to take the course. I agree with AC (let?). If she wants to ride, she needs to be in the BRC to see if she really likes.
If she progresses through that without any trouble, then begin the bike hunt. I also would go with a Ninja 250. the hp to the rear wheel WAS only like 42 hp. It may have gone up now with the redesign (as a matter of fact, it probably has)
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I appreciate all of the input (well most of it anyways!), I think I had the answer for my self after writing the thread.
She is not a bad driver, she just has a few driving hadits that are very annoying, and possibly unsafe. But I think without the cage around her, she will be much more aware of her surroundings.
I was being overly protective of her, I remembered some of the dumb things I did on a bike when I was a new rider (many years ago), and that scared me. But she is a responsable adult.
I like the idea of her taking the MSF course first, and then if she is still interested, purchasing a bike.
I had a EX500 years ago, liked the bike, but the vibration was unbearable. How are the Ninja 250 and 500? I know after a longer ride on the back of the FZ she complains about the vibration getting to her.
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I seriously can't imagine being told I had permission to take the course. I agree with AC (let?). If she wants to ride, she needs to be in the BRC to see if she really likes.
If she progresses through that without any trouble, then begin the bike hunt. I also would go with a Ninja 250. the hp to the rear wheel WAS only like 42 hp. It may have gone up now with the redesign (as a matter of fact, it probably has)
You should ALWAYS tell your woman what to do.
I'm just trying to imagine how that would go over with my GF. I think i'd have to be on guard for my life. It would not be pretty.
She flew in to visit me a while back and I didn't have an extra bike for her to ride, so I talked her into going 2 up. She said it was pretty much the first and LAST time she'd ever do that.
It's SO much less comfortable to be on the back of most bikes. Not to mention you have almost NO control over what happens. I can totally understand where she's coming from, though.
Sign her up for the MSF. That is not going to hurt anything. And then you should try something crazy. Something REALLY risky:
Fucking TALK to her. Not us. HER. Tell her how you feel. But have some grace about it. Tell her that she needs to be extra careful and it's not something to be taken lightly.
Oh- and Silent: the Ninja 250 has about 25hp at the wheel. The new one has about 30-32 or so. It has 45 crank hp, so whatever that reduces to.
I'm thinking about buying one, though. I may hold off until after me and the GF get done building the 250 track bike that is in my garage and see how i like it, though.
Having a SO that rides is worth a LOT. Trust me.
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My SO (will be wife as of this coming September) decided on her own that she wanted to ride as well back when I started riding in 2003. She's been riding (Suzuki GS500) since. She had some challenging times in the early going, especially considering her height (she's 5'2"). However, she's a perfectly good rider and I've never had any qualms about riding with her. In fact, I'm convinced she's a better rider than she is a driver
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Get her to try it in a controlled environment.
My SO wanted to ride also. I was concerned due to some driving issues and her crash stories from childhood on bicycles. She purchased a bike to train on. She crashed numerous times. She took the MSF course and crashed and could not proceed. She waited a couple of years and tried the MSF course again only to crash and break a wrist. She was very dissappointed and she has decided to give up and keep her body intact. My SO makes an excellent passenger and now has a better appreciation for the driver.
Truth: MC riding is not for everyone.
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My wife took the MSF 2 years ago and got her license. We didn't get around to getting her her own bike until last May, at which time I talked her into a used Buell Blast with low mileage. She dropped it a few times, until I took her to a large parking lot and told her to practice turns from a dead stop and other MSF type exercises. Once she did a few hours on the parking lot she has been fine. She initially wanted a used 250 (something or other/ Honda nighthawk) like what she used for the MSF.
The Buell is very torquey on the low end being a one-cylinder thumper, but it has the guts for a true highway ride, where as the 250 rebel that a friend's wife rides is too light and under-powered for anything more than an exit or two on the highway. The wife also didn't like the Ninja b/c she said it was to aggressive a seating position for her taste.
The low end torque can be a little intimidating the for a new rider, but once the rider learns how to control the throttle and open it up a little to apply the right amount of power its a decent little starter bike.
I suspect she'll upgrade, in the next year or so, to a BMW 650 .. SV650, or something else in that zone of she doesn't start riding my FZ6, especially once I get the SW Motech risers installed.
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