[QUOTE="Bear"] On 12 May 2006 01:39:46 -0700, said ...[QUOTE] Bear wrote: [QUOTE] He needs to learn to ride first, and worry about the 200 mph top speed stuff second.[/QUOTE] Agreed. Trouble being that he's coming from big cars where the only way to get any fun out of it is to have lots of horses and big engines. What I really need, I suspect, is to get him out on a sports 600[2] for an afternoon. I wonder if anywhere would be mad enough to rent him one..[/QUOTE] Try him on a SV650 for a day and see what he thinks. I'd bet fair wedge that he'll come back gibbering. Or maybe a Bandit 600? Not cruiser-shaped, true, but retro enough maybe?[/QUOTE] There's a Dragstar 650 he's seen ? Any good / better ?