I agree. Telling somebody they are going to crash on the first turn they take, and that they are a danger to others just because of the bike they ride is judgemental, insulting, and childish.
Perhaps a person who takes snapshots of themselves riding with no hands on the handlebars, and admits to pushing their bike isn't the proper person to tell somebody else they are asking for a wreck?
As somebody who has ridden snowmobiles since I have been 4 years old (I was riding full size sleds at the same time as that Kitty Kat avatar was taken), dirtbikes for years, and just about every other motorized vehicle, I can say with experience it's the respect you have for the machine and your limits that keeps you out of trouble. Learning not to fear the machine, but to respect it is the most important lesson anybody can learn. All the experience on dirt bikes will no doubt transfer that knowledge, and the workings of the systems on a bike to him. While the 9R is not the same machine as a dirtbike, it's not much more dangerous for a person who respects it.
The only difference between the 9R and the 6R that I can see is the rider. The liter bike is much more capable of surpassing a persons limit in very short order than a 600, but either will have you doing the street luge on your back if you take it lightly. My FZR has more than I can handle right now. It didn't take much for me to comprehend that. I don't feel the ZX-9R I was looking at would be any different. In other words, I didn't fear the 9R, and I still don't even knowing I cannot handle it's potential.
As I said above, MOST people would kill themselves on a ZX9R if it was their first bike. Some will not. The person who comes out okay doesn't take the machine or their abilities lightly. That's all there is to it.
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