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Hi Emlyn. With the experience you have just related I wouldn't class you as a novice and so I retract some of my advice. Your height may or may not be a factor. Sit on both and make your choice. You can get the TBA sidestand modified if necessary. Both bike weigh about the same - from memory the TBA is 15kilos heavier - so there's nothing in it. Both bikes have low centres of gravity - but the v-star is lower of the two. So I think you'll soon get used to either. Physical strength is not required unless you drop it.

You'll love either bike. I did - but I prefer the TBA. More power, more culture, less plastic, more unique, more history, more man stuff.

BTW - I'm 5' 8" and 55yo (edited: I just wrote 57yo (???) - I'm not 57 but that proves I'm getting old - can't remember my age!). Other TBA riders in this forum are shorter and older than me (without naming names) and have no issues with the TBA.