Um a pothole on 95 ate 10 cars' tires last week and I vaguely remember a news story about one totalling a man's BMW. Undercarriage damage and airbag deployment. Sooo yeah the roads are about normal
I remember starting with my old F3. The nervousness and heart racing whenever I climbed on. My neighbor still has fun retelling the very wobbly first ride out the driveway and down the street. Remember a guy pulling up to me at a light and asking if it was my first time riding. I also remember how the members on another forum spent time encouraging me, giving life saving tips and advice. If they had spent their time telling me about how big a mistake I made, scaring me about how sensitive and twitchy the 600 was, I'd not be here today. I'd either be a cage you guys complain about. Or I'd be dead cause I'd have gone it on my own, without any help from them, cause why bother to listen to ppl insisting I can't do something or I'm going to die trying? I get those comments enough from the suicycle crowd today.
A 600 is not the beast people are making it out to be, period. Depending of the person, it MAY be the wrong bike to start with. But that depends on the person, their attitude, their mental makeup and their physical capacity. Regardless of what the rider starts with THEY DO NOT NEED PEOPLE SCARING THEY ABOUT THEIR RIDE. That can fuck with them as much as a throttle twitch.