A 600 - or a step too far?

[Hans]

I think the biggest issue with jumping too far is that your brain simply cannot think fast enough in the early stages of having the big bike. You might like to think you can, but really, you can't. Couple that with a lack of skills to manage the bike (riding a 250 fast doesn't count), and it can be a dangerous mix.

+1. It takes a while until you are able to process info fast enough. Usually manifests itself in finding out that you're approaching that corner wayy too fast.

[R-Soul]

Another problem is dealing with the ego that comes with having absolute power.

Instead of overtaking cars one by one,- the safe way- you decide "fuck it, I will overtake three at a a time, because I CAN, hee hee", and end up hitting the next left turn over a blind rise after the cars going 60kph faster than you can expect or handle, drifting over the white line into the line of oncoming traffic, and creating lots of paperwork for the local coroner.

When you want to show off all that power, you better have planned bloody well for all the possibilities...