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I wish it was only 25 minutes… I forgot that I was on hold… listening to music…

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Welcome from another SoCal’er

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Here in California, I have seached the DMV site top to bottom and can not figure out how long the instructional permit is good for… a year? 6 months?

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Now I feel like a total noob… highside, lowside pretty self explanatory if I had of just thought about it… ( “and why does my gas pedal make the bike go slower?”)

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Hey Weapon, glad you are okay… this post raises some questions/comments from me:

1) What does “highside” mean?
2) I dont even have my learners permit yet, and I think I need a proper riding jacket and gloves right away
3) any know if in California you need to ride with an experience rider “nearby”?

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My boys love going in the garage and looking at the bike… so I thought a photo op was called for. Nicholas (giving a thumbs up) is only 4, and small for his age… when he had the helmet on he could barely stop himself from falling over!

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Wow… if you don’t work for the paper maybe you should!

Since I am newer to street bikes than you are I won’t offer any advice, but as a father I wanted to compliment you on your maturity level. You have taken such a unemotional view of motorcycle riding and selection that I am sure you will make the right decision.

Trust what the guys/gals here tell you, Munch had advised me to go with the 500R rather than the Vulcan 900 as my first bike, and I do very much appreciate that advice, as I am sure I would not feel comfortable with the 900 right now and would be suffering from buyers remorse…

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Hey Congrats! I just bought the same bike on Saturday.. pretty much for the same reasons!

And the center stand, dont feel bad I am a big guy and I dont find the center stand easy to use.

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Man was I glad to read this post, I thought they were BS’ing me when I made the comment at the dealership that I had not even had a test drive (as we were sitting to sign the papers)

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Now I feel better about my choice… bought my first bike yesterday, and got them to throw in a helmet free… told them that the $70 did not fit, so they threw in the $110 one…

btw, was that a big bug?

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Well, I used to have an RM 125 that was modified for dirt racing… but I only raced against friends and family on my older brothers farm… and that was more than 15 years ago!

Thanks for your advice… I think in the end I will end up going with the Ninja 500 for a few reasons… cost and size being two big reasons… I just have to remember that this is my “first” street bike… and by first I need to remember it wont be my last!

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