I finally rode a GZ250!

[alazar14]

Today at 6am I started the ridden portion of my MSF course and I happen to have chosen the GZ250 that they had there as my learning bike for 6 hours of riding.

I gotta say it takes sometime getting used to the closeness of the shift and footrest but other than that I had virtually no problems with the GZ at 6ft tall. The bike did feel a bit weak though and I am starting to see why people tell me I may want to gravitate for a 600cc cruiser as my starter bike even though it may have about 20,000 miles. Chances are ill use it much longer than the GZ. I still don't know though something about both the Yamaha Virago and the GZ250 I like a LOT and its not the small size so much as it is just knowing their MPG and capabilities on surface streets. Tomorrow at 6am I get to do my 2nd and last part of my MSF course and I plan to get right back up on that GZ again.

The GZ is very cheap bike (Iv seen it on craigslist for as low as $1300 with less than 10k miles on it.
but it does feel very underpowered (In comparison to my only other experience my 1995 Chev Camaro). So Most likely I may want to try out a Honda Shadow 600 since Iv always kinda loved the look of the shadow and reliability of Honda.