It turned out to be quite a lot of fun, overall. Riding around on a little 250cc Suzuki that weighs about half of what my FZ6R does however was something that took a lot of getting used to. The engine kept stalling out on me at low speeds (once it even stalled out when I was going ~10mph and didn't even touch the clutch or anything) or threatening to stall out when I was having to do slow, tight turns. At one point we had to do a figure 8 inside a confined area, and no matter what I did, the engine would just randomly jerk and either push me out of the box or threaten to push me to the ground. I think the most fun I had was doing the emergency stops and swerves.
Some of the exercises were ridiculously boring, some were a little challenging, and some were just downright fun. We had 3 people drop out of the course before the day was over, sadly. They struggled a lot, but I still think they might have managed to pass if they had just kept going.
One of the people who showed up lives about 130 miles north of here. She rode all the way down on an '09 blue FZ6R for the course, with her boyfriend (at least I assume he was, never really asked actually) who was on a Ninja 650R. Was a real surprise to see somebody else show up on a 6R to say the least.
Some of the exercises were ridiculously boring, some were a little challenging, and some were just downright fun. We had 3 people drop out of the course before the day was over, sadly. They struggled a lot, but I still think they might have managed to pass if they had just kept going.
One of the people who showed up lives about 130 miles north of here. She rode all the way down on an '09 blue FZ6R for the course, with her boyfriend (at least I assume he was, never really asked actually) who was on a Ninja 650R. Was a real surprise to see somebody else show up on a 6R to say the least.
I had LOTS of problems in the figure 8 u turns also, but on my 6R, I can do them easier. Still dont know if I could stay in that box though!