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Originally Posted by Jordan777er
I'm going to have to go with suggesting a 250 if you zero experience. I own my 250 still in addition to my ZX6, and I still love riding it. I hate the term "outgrowing" the bike because until you can ride that bike to its absolute limit, you haven't outgrown anything. That little 250 is capable of far more then people give it credit for, and the learning curve to become a skilled rider is much easier.
EDIT: the 500 was mentioned as well, that's also a very good first bike, especially if you'll be on faster roads a lot. The 650 is pushing it, but it's definitely doable.
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My beef with the 250s (and certain 500s), is the way you can get yourself in trouble by not having enough power....a lot of this comes down to location, but I constantly found myself unable to accelerate away from situations on the highway with my gs500. With a 650, I felt like the bike had enough grunt that it could move, but you still didn't have the risk of sneeze-throttling yourself to death.
Of course, a 250 is probably more than enough if you don't have high speed highways to deal with.