I have only been riding for a couple of weeks now. I have a 94 katana 600. It is a great starter bike in my opinion. Not so powerful that it is uncontrollable but enough to keep you happy.

I agree with the whole thing of people getting bikes and saying I will be careful. That is bs. Like said above, it is the when that matters. You will mess up. The less experience you have, the more likely you are too. Take cars for instance. When you first started driving,you told your parents you were going to be careful, right? Well how many times did you push your luck? Do burnouts? Fly through the yellow lights? Speed? Almost rear end someone at a light because you weren't paying attention(everyone has done this at least 3 times, so no bs on this)? All this happened even though you were 'being careful'. Maybe nothing happened from it but on the bike, it is a lot less forgiving.