[the_lone_wolf]

having spent my cbt on a 125 i can't see any attraction of riding something that's slower than my car *with* all the added benefits of being vunuerable to anyone not paying attention, it was terrifying being tailgated by an 18 wheeler cause there was a slight incline and the lawnmower between my thighs had given all it had to give...

if i'd have had to go through a 50, then a 125, 250, 400 etc etc i probably wouldn't have bothered - SV is fine for a first bike, if you actually look at the accident statistics there's little to no correlation between experience and accident rate, but a very strong link between age and accident rate - the only thing i would say is that spending 6 years in a car before doing the bike test has given me a lot more road sense than i had when i was 17...