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take it easy

Don't be in a rush to ride the biggest, baddest and fasted bikes yet, i know its tempting, but keep on enjoying the ER and develop your roadcraft; experience takes time. When you've really outgrown the er, look for another stepping stone, or two, before considering any of the litre bikes.  Enjoy the journey.

When will I have enough experience?

This is the wrong approach to motorcycling.....because you will never be totally experienced in it! and when you think you're that's when you have a nasty surprise.

Motorcycling doesn't involve only you but loads of factors that have an effect on your riding, oil; car drivers; potholes, speed cameras that take your eyes from the road for a fraction of time but have a potential fatal influence, and so on.

My advice after 30 years riding is: never under estimate a motorcycle or your abilities

Ride it sensibly, i.e within the speed limits, then there is no reason at all that you couldn't jump on one tomorrow. Want to ride it with total disregard for speed limits and use for track days, then i would suggest a few more years experience and a few training courses, hopefully this will get you to wise up a bit.

Any of the supersport 600's or a GSX-R 750 in the hands of a good rider would stay with a BMW all day long on the road, don't throw your money away on something that really is overkill if your only intention is road riding. But like i said, if you ride it sensibly and you really want it, go get it.

I have made the mistake of going straight to a 1ltr bike and certainly understand the allure of shiny shiny but if you want to learn how to ride a bike start off with something smaller and do it on the track.........    if I could go back and do the whole 125, 250, 400, 600 route I'd do it in a snap and learn how to pin the throttle without sh1tting myself as you are never going to learn this jumping straight on to a big boy bike.

If all you want to do is go down the local meet and look at yourself in shop windows, then buy what you want as it is your right wrist that is going to get you in trouble and not the bike.

Best of all if you can afford to do both, mince about on your shiny shiny and then rag the hell out of something that you learn to corner on :)
 

the bike

will always out-perform the rider you cannot tame the beast,u are invited along for the ride,i like to think of it asif i were a flea on the back of a raging bull,i'm on his back aslong as i can hold on.hahahaha only kidding its all in the wrist action brother,just like when you were 12 yrs old and "discovering yourself" nice and slow till you get good at it,then BANG 13 times a day,fast as anything trying not to get caught by your mother(old bill)