Wahoo - first bike a 1200??!!!

**zooter** · 6th January 2005, 20:39

you crazy mutha... best advice I ever had was " if you're scared of it it's less likely to be able to kill you, find yourself feeling in total control of the beast and it can turn on you and chew your ass off " stay scared!

**zooter** · 8th January 2005, 10:38

I suggest you park up the pride and joy and get a sacraficial stand in for your first couple of "learning experiences".
I started a poll in the "general ravings" forum How Long Before You Dropped yr Bike after getting yr full licence, or words to that effect, unless you are a legend in the making that Bandit will be the wose for wear inside a year.

**jrandom** · 8th January 2005, 20:27

Originally Posted by zooter

I suggest you park up the pride and joy and get a sacraficial stand in for your first couple of "learning experiences".
I started a poll in the "general ravings" forum How Long Before You Dropped yr Bike after getting yr full licence, or words to that effect, unless you are a legend in the making that Bandit will be the wose for wear inside a year.

Nah... if he's healthily paranoid about his riding, I reckon he has a good chance of being OK. Mr lewis_walker didn't sound like one to be overcome with testosterone the first week after he got it and start trying to get his knee down at every roundabout.

Of course, there's still a chance that something bad will happen and he won't be able to give the big Bindit the right inputs to get it out of trouble, but then it's only a chance, and the likelihood of it will be mitigated in direct proportion to the vividness of his imagination and his awareness of the fact that he's on a large scary machine that can kill him.

Betcha he'll do fine.