08-30-2016, 08:55 PM
There's a danger in the back-in-the-day approach to advice. Of course things were better back then because our view of them is coloured by subsequent experience.
When I started out riding on a Honda CB175, a CB350 was a large bike and the recently released CB750-4 was unimaginably larger and more powerful. I was a beast to be aspired to after several years riding experience. It simply wasn't the sort of thing a sensible person would take on without time on a more modest machine under her or his belt. I think that was the right approach. A 750cc motorcycle is still a large beast to start out on and I'd recommend something smaller.
Having said all that, there's a number of members here who think the CB1100 is just fine as a first motorcycle. Who am I to argue? many of them have ridden a great deal more than I have.
So, if the Zephyr 750 lights your fire, buy it and enjoy it. Just be careful until you figure out just how much power it has.
When I started out riding on a Honda CB175, a CB350 was a large bike and the recently released CB750-4 was unimaginably larger and more powerful. I was a beast to be aspired to after several years riding experience. It simply wasn't the sort of thing a sensible person would take on without time on a more modest machine under her or his belt. I think that was the right approach. A 750cc motorcycle is still a large beast to start out on and I'd recommend something smaller.
Having said all that, there's a number of members here who think the CB1100 is just fine as a first motorcycle. Who am I to argue? many of them have ridden a great deal more than I have.
So, if the Zephyr 750 lights your fire, buy it and enjoy it. Just be careful until you figure out just how much power it has.