The safety of any bike does not lie in its lack of CCs but in the riders right hand and between his ears. My first real road bike was my 06 bonny america,within a yr I was on the tiger 1050 and rode a whole slew of bikes in between. Bikes such as my buddys busa,demo day rides on speed triples,daytonas,tbird big bore,rocket 3. I didn't feel in any more danger on the busa then I did on my bonny. Its not HP that gets new riders in trouble,its the lack of the wire edge awareness that is needed in traffic. If anything the tiny little 250 is a liability in traffic due to its inability to take off quickly when the need arises. Combine that with a top crusing speed of about 70 and highway use becomes a nighmare real quick when everyone I running up your a$$ and blowing by you because you have no more twist left in the throttle.
