It's a good bike to learn on,.. and to keep for a good while (possibly forever)...
...as long as you avoid that initial,.. panic, and lock the throttle WFO...
(that's the stuff Youtube was made for)...
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If you can avoid that,... or take a rider course on a 250 for a bit,... I'd say it's the ultimate...
Seems like you just need 10 minutes on any bike to know...
Some people seem to have an instinctive... freeze... upon panic...
... and if you freeze, at full throttle,.. that will be bad...
... (even a moped, just not as bad)...
Just remember.... if you panic... let the throttle go...
Practice,.. releasing the throttle, a dozen times before you start your first ride...
You get past that,.. and a Savage is a great stater bike...
It's just capable of shooting you a good bit faster than a 250,.. on those first couple of launches...
That's why a safety course is such a good idea for a noob rider...
Don't be sacred,.. I don't mean to make any new rider scared... just be calm,.. and wise...
(Funny,.. I never thought about it before... but, in a car, it seems much more natural to release the gas pedal in a panic... so many people on bikes, lock the throttle-hand wide open)...
So many more videos of bikes shooting through fences and sheds than cars on Youtube...
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