June 5, 2009 at 10:55 am
#19336
SafetyFirst
Participant
At no point have a felt the Ninja 250 to be underpowered. I never noticed the engine go over 5000 RPM while I was riding (redline on the 250 is 14000 RPM)
In one of the rough friction zones mishaps, I ended up finding myself reving it way too high then all of a sudden deciding to dump the clutch (oops) and the result being me jolted way more than I was expecting. It could have been bad but I just hung on, stuck with it, hoped for the best and it turned out OK. But that’s a “don’t do that again!” moment.
I’m worried that if I was in that Ninja 650 you want, which has WAY more torque than a 250, I’d be picking up the bike off the road, assuming the damn tailgating cager didn’t run either me or the bike over first.