I can give a little insight here. The problem is three-fold:

No one gives a shit.

Jason Pierre Paul had a small hand in it.

I would like to reply as a counterpoint to Yuji Ide. I started out on a Ninja 250R and it was wonderful. The new ones are even better still. If you were talking an air cooled 250cc like a Rebel or a V Star 250 or a TU250X I would agree with him. But you are not. You are talking about a liquid cooled 250cc, and that…

The way they do it in England, where you have to spend time on a lower cc lower HP bike before graduating up to the next level makes a lot of sense. Their training and licensing process is so much more thorough then here in the US. It’s really absurd that a freshly minted grom can go from a MSF course straight to a…