They definitely don’t sell like hot buns straight from the showroom anymore. The adventure bikes have taken over, with the naked bikes as a second best. Luckily you can still find quite a few of them on the second hand market. Why is that? Why do people thing a sports bike is difficult to ride? Or unpleasant?
You don’t really learn how to ride a sports or race bike when you take motorcycle riding lessons. Shifting your weight from one side to the other, the leaning and trusting the front brake. And – heaven forbid – braking into the corner. Those are just a few aspects to which little attention is paid. And that’s not so strange. The average motorcycle on which you ride while taking riding lessons doesn’t require you to do any of that. Not all of the aspects at least. So you miss out on that information from the start. Frankly, you don’t know what to expect if you want to ride a sports bike.