nup, get the GT250R. Now get some proper training. Clean, polish, love, and respect it, and yourself (especially the cleaning and loving bit).
If you are not comfortable on it, then have someone take it to the park for you, for some basic slow-speed circles and figure eights on the grass until you are not afraid of it. This will stop most of the low speed oopses and dropping it in your driveway type of situations. Keep the bike accurately on balance point at all times.
You MUST learn to steer it properly before taking your speed over 80k. Push left bar to go left, and right bar to go right. Rinse and repeat. Embed in brain.
Learn how to do a U turn by placing your body weight AWAY FROM the center of the turn.
Learn how to take a corner at speeds over 30k by making sure your body weight is TOWARD and INSIDE the bikes' centerline.
Use a three second following distance at all times, and stay well clear of all motorists. Be really careful in the wet.
You will be fine on the GT250R, and more importantly, you will ground the rest of your motorcycling career with respect, training, and personal responsibility, which is what sport-biking is all about. I taught an brand new biker to ride her 250R (she was dead scared of it) and now shez as solid as a rock.
Now post here regularly, so we get to see the birth of a new sport biker.
be cool
DB
p.s. ah yeah, you probably will tip it over on the concrete at some stage. You will put a nick on a fairing, a bar end, and a mirror, and it will polish off just fine. You will not like it, and unlikely you will repeat it.
"I am a licenced motorcycle instructor, I agree with dangerousbastard, no point in repeating what he said."
"read what Steve says. He's right."
"What Steve said pretty much summed it up."
"I did axactly as you said and it worked...!!"
"Wow, Great advise there DB."
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