yup. completely agree... every state has local MSF courses. Highly recommend taking those and NOT starting with a brand new bike cuz it's pretty much guaranteed that you will drop it or worst, do some stupid crap and high side it.

748 and 749's are fairly slow and heavy bikes. I have to disagree with Rick also about the Ducs vs Japanese bikes.. my modded R6 doesn't have much torque but has plenty of power after 7K... >10000rpm.. you will really feel the 110+ hp to the wheel... that is unless you take a liter bike out like the ZX10R and GXSR1000... All the Duc I've ridden have a ton of more torque.

BTW.. a CBR600RR is a honda.