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Sure. Fair.
Restraint is required on any bike, you don’t have to ride a fast bike fast, I know Brommers to be a sensible sausage but certainly wouldn’t advocate jumping straight on one of them supercharged Kwaks or a Panigale.
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I've received quite a lot of conflicting advice about whether to do CBT and potter around on a 125 for a while or do direct access and go straight for a larger bike. Geoff Northcott (remember him?) says go straight for a 600 (a cruiser not a sportsbike) while another friend who's an experienced biker says I should go for a 125 just to get used to the controls on a bike which will forgive the occasional fuckup when it comes to gears, clutch and brakes etc.
At the moment it's all hypothetical as until Cycliste removes both the Minor and the Ginetta I've got nowhere to put the Poxy Fury and so nowhere to keep a bike other than outside.
I know Brommers to be a sensible sausage
You sure you're not confusing me with someone else?
Brommers
For a counterpoint, I had a lot of friends who did direct access, bought a 700 or 1000cc sportsbike and almost immediately had huge crashes. Goodbye new bike, hello hospital.
I did my test on a 125, which was scary enough at first, then bought a 33bhp 400cc bike which scared me even more, and was a bit of a tractor, and after 2 years traded it for a 900cc Triumph (which still scared me shitless almost every time I rode it in the following 5 or 6 years. Way too much power for the available grip)
Progressing gradually made me acquire the necessary skills at a speed I could handle.
Bigger bikes are heavier and, ignoring the speed, worse to ride. Litre bikes are too big and heavy.
All bikes are horrible on dual carriageways, even mobile sofas like the Triumph Sprint 1050.