Progression rather than leap question.

[Bren]

i think it is about attitude, some people will crash regardless, others wont.
if you get a big one learn how hard it is to stop before you try to learn how to throw it round corners, and they will corner.

Best advice in the whole thread...Attitude is what keeps us alive...If you hit the road with the wrong attitude then it's so much easier to become a cropper, but with the attitude of a sensible person, who is aware of the dangers and aware how to minimise the risk then the chances of arriving at your destination greatly improve

[2fellas]

well i went from a hyosung gt250 to a TL1000s and man its ben an eye opener ...probably to big a gap even though i have had my liscence for 17 years i dio around 8000 ks on the 250 and had the TL for about 2 weeks now
least i can grow into the power and as long as your not a complete munter you just learn to progress

cheers

[Tone165]

Im too old to have any useful info, but I did proggressive increases from 50cc to Hayabusa over 35yrs.

I rode 500cc for most of that time.

I am a hoon, and even at 50yrs old do some pretty stupid things. I am quite sure if I had got my hands on a '08 GSXR600 when I was in my teens or 20's....I would not be here today!

Very good info in this thread.

I think you can kill yourself on any sized bike, but the bigger the bike the more choices of how!

A 600cc bike today makes more power and has more top speed than any of the bikes I had until I was around 30yrs old, but, they still need you to use the gears, and are light handling enough to allow a few small mistakes that we all make.

To many ppl go from a 250 to a grunter and lose the finesse that the 250 helped to build in favour of just twisting the "volume" knob in all situations.

Hope that input is helpful.