Dropping your 250 road bike

[ukiwi]

I've almost dropped my load a couple of times while riding my bike but never dropped the bike (yet).
Saying that it weighs about the same as a flat cap full of lollies, so unless both my legs fall off, without me noticing, as I pull up at the lights I have no excuse really.

[Sable]

I've had 2 since getting mine. One was relatively minor - 8 year old front tyre gave out at 20km/h round a corner, then the footpeg dug in. Second time - yesterday, actually - was following some guy on another old 2 stroke, overcompensated for the shitty front tyre by including the side of the road in my braking and hit some gravel. Over I went.

[Blossom]

So, if the advice is to buy a bike with no fairings, or atleast take the fairing's off till you feel confident, I don't see what's wrong with that. It's potentially saving the rider abit of cash down the line (Fairings are fucking expensive for what they are) and if the rider doesn't crash, well good on them. They shouldn't really be doing speeds where the fairing's make a huge amount of difference while learning, and if they are, a 250 isn't capable of doing much where fairings are really required.

As a side note to this... I found a lot of people were just as opposed to buying a 'new' 250 as a first bike for the same sort of reasons as above.
fwiw, I agree that its buyer beware. If its new and you drop it, be prepared to deal with it.

Saying that it weighs about the same as a flat cap full of lollies, so unless both my legs fall off, without me noticing, as I pull up at the lights I have no excuse really.

As disturbing as that mental picture is, I have to agree. The vl does not feel very heavy at all. Mind you I suppose its what you compare it to.

[Fatt Max]

I dropped my guts at a wedding once,

Fecking stunk the church out and no end