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It's understandable and probably rightly so. Reduced grip affects you in every direction. You won't get the kind of confidence from skinny 125 tyres in the wet that you get from hot sticky fat big bike tyres in the summer.
On the other hand you need to spend a bit of time experimenting with the grip especially in the wet because your tyres can get very slippery on the sidewalls if you're not leaning it that far.
Airhead
A year has flown by and the little YBR 125cc plods on and on. 21k miles I've done now, bringing its total to 53k. Its been pretty good, just needing regular oil changes, 2 bulbs, air filter, new rear tyre, two chain and sprocket sets, clutch cable and a bit of soldering where the plug between the magneto and reg/rec melted... I kind of feel like I should be doing more to maintain it but it just keeps going and engine wise it feels/sounds fine.
What's eating me is my complete lack of confidence in the damp still and wether the caution is justified. I just can't relax which is counter intuitive, I know.
So it's time to start looking into this full licence malarkey, I wasn't intending to do the cbt again so need to crack on!