First Time rider...Suggestions?

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Mrk_loves_animals

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Hey everyone!
So I just got my bike license (on a borrowed bike) and I've saved up a decent chunk of change to buy a new bike. I was looking at quite a few (Yamaha, Aprillia, Benelli, Triumph, etc.) and I have to say, the Ducati's really made my heart race. I found an 05 Yamaha R6 for a good price, but I also found a used 848 with low mileage. Not sure which is really for me, any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
- Slinky
 
Buy what trips your trigger and is within your budget.
Take the ribbing from the peers but I would start with something relatively small. Cheaper to keep and face it,, you won't get in trouble as easily as with something with a gazillion horsepower.

*Get something with a decent rear seat so you can take the ladies for a ride.
 
Gain experience on a Jap bike 1st, it's much less painful to drop one of those than a 848. Plus I'd rather get a CBR1000 or GSXR1000 over the Ducati 848 if was me. I'm currently a 1098 owner, and no that would not be a cool 1st bike. Get your wanna wheelie, learn to corner, how to break techniques out on a bike you can abuse. You really don't want to abuse your 848 for the 1st 10k miles. By the time you get your kinks out, you've blasted your bike.

Hope this helps
 
As above look for something alot more practical to learn on, spend 2k on a shitter learn to ride do a few courses then buy what floats your boat but not until you can ride..
 
I just came off of 5 years with no riding to an 848. I was surprised how much my skills faded. My body feels like its trying to fight everything. I will have to be very careful. So ya, get a ninja 250. You will be happier. BTW my last bike was a 996, not an easy bike to ride compared to the 848.
 
Got to go with the guys on this one, ninja 250 is a great first bike, light and easy to handle plus its hard to let the throttle get away from you on this bike, also you can get it used for dirt and when you lay it down (and you will lay it down) you wont care
 
If you've got an entire afternoon to kill, read through the early threads about this topic; there are as many opinions as there are posters. That said, there's definitely an argument to be made for starting out on a "disposable learner's bike" for a year or two. You may be a natural-born superbike rider--like some of our fellow forum members--who can hop on any bike and set a new lap record. But, if you're a mere human, like the rest of us, you WILL drop it in a parking lot, slide it in a corner, and snap off bits doing the stupid learner's shit that EVERYONE does. You will spend orders of magnitude more money fixing the damages from those learning curve mistakes on a Ducati than you will buying and fixing the starter bike. Plus, being designed for new riders, the starter bikes will be more forgiving of mistakes and less likely, though still fully capable of, killing you.

That's my opinion, for what it's worth.
 
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