I started riding dirt when i was 12 then got onto the street on my 91 zx-6r when I was 18. I paid $800 for it and figured that it's cheap enough to where I don't care about it, but as long as it ran good I was good to go. Never took msc but I still knew better than to try to keep up with the badasses, and to stay away from old ladies drivng. Then I got a 00 zx-6r about 3 years later and I loved it. Had to sell it just last fall because I was poor.
But I'm looking at one of the new cbr 600rr!