The RG250 may now be gone but my daughter has decided that motorcycling is for her so she has purchased herself a TU250-X that she picked up today She wasn't confident enough to ride home half way across Melbourne so I got the job. What a blast these bikes are. I can myself needing to "borrow" this regularly just for the grin factor. Needless to say within minutes of arriving home she was kitted up and off for her first solo run around the local area.
You must be a very proud dad, photo's are brilliant as per usual. We would love to get her impression of the new bike, see what you can do.
Alysia probably isn't the best person to ask about impressions her motorcycle experience so far is one day at HART and about 16km around our local streets. I rode the bike about 25km from the dealer to home and all I have to say is that I haven't had so much fun on a motorcycle since I had access to an RV125 with sidecar back in the 1970s. These things are brilliant. The power is linear and they are so easy to ride its not funny. Let the clutch out in first gear with no throttle and the bike just moves forward, open the throttle and go up through the gears and you are keeping ahead of the traffic no problems. Speaking of traffic the only thing easier to split lanes on would be a motorised bicycle as the narrow size and light weight with plenty of steering lock means there is no excuse not to be at the front of any line of traffic at the lights. The riding position is neutral and the controls are typical Suzuki they just work. Brakes seem more than adequate for the size and weight (and expected speeds). Being new I didn't thrash the little beastie but 80kph was very comfortable and supposedly 100kph is easy on a run in bike with 120 or so possible flat out. Lets just say I was able to exceed the posted speed limit going up the Dandenongs which is way more than most tourists can do. So when we got home son set about installing the L plate and Alysia got dressed up and headed off on her first solo run. Shortly after she left it started raining (nice first ride experience) and she was back about 40 minutes later quite wet and laughing her head off about how much fun she had had and how wonderful BK (the bike, I have no idea, I'm only Dad) was to ride. If it's fine over tomorrow I'll see if we can go for a little ride together so I can no doubt get slightly frightened watching a learner who is my daughter as opposed to getting frightened by watching a learner I don't know.
Thats a good looking bike,well suited to your daughter,my gz is very similar to ride so i know how you felt bringing it home...ken