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50s and sportbikes are waayyyy different but if you're motivated you'll figure it out quick. I'd start on an f4i, I'm still learning on a 636, but I wish I would have gotten an f4i instead. My kawi breaks all the time, f4i's are tanks
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I'm motivated to learn so I'm not stressed and I have rode a couple street bikes. I rode an 01 r1 and my neighbor had a 2012 BMW 1000rr that I rode. I have just never attempted to clutch up any of them because they were full fairing nice bikes and they weren't mine lol. But so I should probably find like an f4i and just go threw the motor and take my time and build it up?
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I have stunted supermotos, I know there's a big weight and power difference so i can't really say much but I have more background than just spinning circles on a 50 lol.
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Go for it then! I rode dirtbikes for like a year before I got my 636 as my first ever street bike. Never even sat on one before. It took me a few practice sessions to figure out I needed a lot more throttle and aggressive clutch action to get the front up that I thought I would need coming off a dirtbike. I was also way thrown off by the steering the first time I took it out on the streets, but I was totally in love!
Now after about 10 months of owning it, and being able to ride it for about a third of that time due to weather or working on the bike I was just starting to pick up circles and drifting... then my motor took a dump and the snow started falling. fml... oh well at least my motor didn't blow in the middle of summer!