They had all three there (Idiot’s GUide, Proficient, Excellence). Thumbed through them all and ended up picking up Proficient Motorcycling. It seemed interesting, I’ll probably crack the cover as well.
That happens to my friend. I told her to wear the bandanna like you do. She says the manual states that it makes the helmet less safe. I’m not sure how it would however. Makes it easier to slide around or off?
When the bike gets ‘squirrely’ like on ground up road or going over a bridge grating, I just make sure my arms are super lose as was said above, and I tighten my legs and steer with my butt (shift my weight). If it feels really squirrely sit back further and to put more weight on the rear and give it more gas like ‘A’ said to unload the front shocks like he said. Works for mud and sand stuff too.
If you are changing altitude alot, I would go with Fuel Injection hands down. With a crab you would be rejetting constantly or running a ‘happy medium’ jetting where you can run not to lean down low and not to rich up high. I had a buddy go up some Colorado mountains and barely making it up some mountains due to his jetting.
It was on my extremely shortlist, when I first saw it I fell in love with it. I’m sure you would do it justice, as long as you got long legs lol! I think you can get a short seat with it though, I don’t know if that is an issue for you. I’ll keep you up on the trouble I get into for sure!
Good advice from all above too, there is no rush to get the most badass bike asap. You’ll enjoy an aggressive bike more with better skills learned on a tamer bike.
Will do. She is taking the MSF where I took it and they have Nighthawks and Rebels, both good short beginner bikes she can see what she likes there to.
