Quote Originally Posted by j_r_starr View Post
Great article....I worked with a girl who bought a 650 Shadow as her first bike...she dropped $10,000 on it and the day she was suppoed to show up to work with it, she called in sick because she was in the hospital. When I saw her at work next and asked her what happened, she said she "crashed the bike into the first car she saw" and wrote it off. She said it was too powerful for her and she couldn't control it. Case-in-point
Imho it was poor throttle and clutch control that caused her to crash.

What is your point? That her accident would have been less serious if she'd exercised poor control on a smaller bike?