June 25, 2009 at 3:49 pm
#20188
SantaCruzRider
Participant
No offense, but your plan sounds like you’ve bought a bike that is way too much for your experience, so you’re going to get a learner bike that is too small to really teach you all you should know before moving up and then will have a big experience gap to clear when you move from dirt bike to liter+ bike.
The typical advice on this site is that dirt bikes teach alot about balance and use of controls and may be the factor that makes a 650 manageable as the first road bike. But they won’t set you up for the 1125 (IMHO).
I think a better plan would be to find an older 500cc standard or sport bike. After a year of riding, the jump from that to the bigger bike will be more reasonable and less dangerous.