do not fall for buying the beginners bike, if you look on craigslist you will see a bunch of sporters cheap with very low mileage. this is because people buy them thinking they will be a good starter bike and then 6 months down the road they realize that they can ride bigger.After learning buy...
I usually wear a skid lid, but the one I wore has club colors which I no longer belong to and I did not want to mess it up and I found a DOT half helmet at walmart that has the lowest profile I have seen, it does not give you the mushroom head look if you know what I mean and for less then 50 bucks