Women’s first motorcycle?

You would be absolutely insane to let her ride the thing. Forget about what damage she would do to the bike, you should be more worried about scraping her off the road.
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I have to agree with the previous posters. A 600cc sportbike is NOT a good choice for a "first bike" for anyone, regardless of age or gender. Smaller bikes have lower power outputs which are more forgiving for a novice rider. If she cracked the throttle on the sportbike, it’s probably lift the front wheel right off the ground. If she cracked it on a bike ranging from 250-500 cc’s, it would definitely surge forward, but it wouldn’t throw her off the bike or injure her. Slower, less-powerful bikes teach technique and skill. Once those are grasped, then she can move up to a more powerful bike if she so chooses.

If she likes sportbikes, check out the new Kawasaki Ninja 250 or Hyosung 250 GT bikes. I have friends who ride both these bikes, and they have no problem keeping up with highway traffic doing 80+ mph.
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I’ve been riding bikes daily, as my sole means of transportation, for 14 years. I’ve built 4 bikes from the ground up and customized many more. My personal bikes include cruisers, sportbikes and streetbikes, ranging from 200 to 700 cc. I’ve ridden bikes from 80 to 1340 cc.

I always thought a smaller bike was best to learn on and then started reading the pros and cons in this forum. I decided to teach my wife to ride. I put a helmet on her and explained the controls to her, then put her on my new Shadow. I stood beside her and let her roll it foward and stop it. Then after a few times of that I let her take it around the property (about a quarter mile ride) in low gear. Then I had her stop on a slight slope and explained to her (after choking it down a couple of times) she had to give it a little gas to start off on a slope. Now she has a Mazda Miata and has driven many standard transmissions but the bike lurched and rolled the throttle WAO (what we refer to as wide ass open). Making a long story short, some 100 feet away is where it finally came to a rest on the right side with no damage but mirror pushed back and footpeg full of dirt. She was fine and lucky because it landed exhaust side down and she was wearing shorts.

I have since confirmed that one should learn on a lower powered machine and graduate to a higher powered one when they are ready. Not everyone is incapable of riding a large bike to learn, but the majority can’t control the power. A motorcycle’s throttle response is different from a car and a motorcycle doesn’t have a seat that holds the operator up to the controls. My wife now is the proud owner of a Rebel 250 and is learning a little every day.

Do her a favor and get her a Ninja or something like she will eventually own. Even with that said, I see many Sportsters and other large bikes that are dirt cheap because a man bought his girl/wife one to learn on and discovered that she didn’t want to ride after she got a bike. Not everyone is a biker.
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