[dizzyblonde]

i jumped on an Sv straight after a DAS. Before that I rode around on a 125 cruiser. The Sv was very difficult for me at first...in fact on one hairpin, left hand, downhill bend I plonked it on its sidestand, stalled it (on purpose)and sat on the opposite side of the bend til Im Indoors came back up the hill and rode it down the hill for me.
It was completely alien for me, I've done my fair share of guff ups over the years. But if you compare my old head on a birds shoulders, to young head on blokes shoulders......god i can see you all jumping to stone me.....in my 4 years of riding I have dropped my bike once, a few times nearly, no points for speeding...blah blah blah.
Now compare to Im Indoors, who, has ridden for ten years...but... in his first few has crashed and bashed himself more times than i can write about. He in his infinite blokedom has always chosen the most stupid bikes to ride, and paid the price. His first big bike was an RD500...for you experts of 80's bikes know well its reputation....he wanted it and well it spat him off and ate him for breakfast. As his experience has grown so has his taste for mental bikes. Take the Raptor1000, he claims its a pussycat, well it would be because of his overall bike experience....now give it to a newly passed DAS bloke and he'd get thrown off and eaten for dinner.
I've never ridden any of his bikes, when I passed I could of had the choice of two or three of his RD's, Sv's etc, but I didn't have anyone to impress did I???? If I'd have wanted I could have been goaded into jumping on Elsie just to show him 'I wasn't scared'. Nope I'm not a bloke with bloky friends egging me on. So I got a girls bike....which incidently half of you ride
Sorry to get all lady on you all, but the gixxer thing and the romper suit newby, is really usually a bloke, with blokey friends blah, blah, blah. You ride the bike you want to suit yourself not to suit others, I can't understand why these blokes go and buy bikes that are clearly out of their headrange


now discuss if you will, no doubt you'll all rip me to shreds