July 4, 2008 at 5:19 pm
#8339
Matt
Participant
Honestly, I’m not the best person to say which is better. I’ve ridden neither. Everything I’ve read, and my experiences with other bikes tells me the 500R will be a friendlier bike.
As for the MSF, no the courses are not the same. The lot you practice in makes a big difference, but the individual instructors make the biggest difference. No matter how uniform the ciriculum, the difference between a good instructor and a great one changes everything.
When I took my courses we did it in a pretty big lot. We were able to get up to 40km/h and turn at about 30km/h (roughly 20mph).
When you do get your bike, I highly recommend some time in a large parking lot. If you have a stadium near by, they tend to have great parking lots for it.