You guys that are like this are such a bunch of nervous pussies. The guy has experience on the dirt, he'll be fine. I literally got my mc permit and scheduled my road test the earliest day I was able to at 16. I've been riding on the street about 20 years now, precluded by years of riding and racing on the dirt, including AMA national enduros, hare scrambles, and some trials. I've never come close to dropping a bike on the street. My father was the same way, raced and rode in the dirt and the street over 60 years, never dropped a bike on the street. Riding a motorcycle is not some suicidal endeavor every time you go out, use some common sense, try to anticipate the morons in cars a bit, and you'll be fine. Yea if you've never touched a motorcycle you should absolutely learn on the dirt first or take a class, but the OP said he has dirt experience. Ya'll need to stop acting like riding a street bike is some feat of that nobody can handle. Accidents can happen, but only an absolute office chair commando with no athletic ability or a clumsy moron drops their bike or lays it down during normal street riding. The only motorcyle accidents I've ever witnessed in years of riding in clubs, doing poker runs, riding to Daytona, Laconia, etc. were the fault of bad drivers in cars, people in cars engaging in road rage against a motorcyclist, or inexperienced riders going way too fast for the conditions or their abilities, or crashes on a closed course. There are also some people that just should not ride at all because they are always afraid, nervous, physically inept, etc. they are the ones that end up hurt. You have to know yourself and your limits. The "there's only riders that have crashed, or are going to crash" bullshit is the mentality that gets people nervous and afraid and gets them hurt. Yea I've gotten pretty hurt before racing on a closed course or on the dirt, but that's riding at a level far and above what should ever happen on the street and taking risks that should never be taken on the street.