I would like to learn how to ride a motorcycle. The problem is last time I tried, I skidded and fell off twice. Thankfully it was in the grass so I suffered just brusing and mildly skinned arms. So I‘d rather not get on one again. But I was hanging with the relatives last night, and it turns out I‘m the only guy not riding. They could basically start a club/gang. I‘m looking for motivation and inspiration to get on it again. What got ya‘ll riding?
There is always going to be that fear when your on the bike if this is going to be the last time or not. I have that fear all the time. The thing I did to get over the fear and know my bike and know it well. Understand what your bike is capable of and DON'T HESITATE. That is the one thing I learned and it has saved my life at least 5 Major times. The more you know the vehicle your driving the better state you will be in. Take it to a large parking lot and see how well it stops and how fast you can avoid by going left or right and the one that has saved me the most is by learning what gear I can be in at what speed to get out of danger. Once you have become fully familiar with your motorcycle just be careful that's all I can say. I have been in 2 wrecks. One was when I was learning the limitations of my motorcycle. The other was a jerk that pulled out in front of me. Slammed on the rear brakes and hit the truck flush sideways and got up, bike was fine I was missing a little skin and to top it off the mother $^%er HAULED $$ and ran over my helmet and got away. Anyways hope that helps out any, I am starting to ramble now :-P
Just for the sake of curiosity, what was your first bike? I first started riding because I was kind of pushed into it but I just wasn't ready at all and I'd had zero training - not even a CBT. I didn't have a clue what I was doing and I wasn't safe at any speed. To give you some idea how totally inept I was, I thought I was supposed to put my feet on the rear pegs and hit the brake on bends and corners. I gave up for a long time after my bike skidded on black ice - no harm done but it scared me. I did the CBT two years later (to ride for another two years on learner plates) and after some p*ss poor training at a local motorcycle training school I took the motorcycle test and failed five times. A couple of years later I got back into it (I had to do yet another CBT!) and trained on a full-size bike (two 650 Nighthawks) at a much better school and took the test again. I failed again but only by a whisker and the examiner told me himself I had just been unlucky so I didn't feel too bad and when I took the test again six weeks later I passed. I only just got back into motorcycling again this year but for the first time ever I'm riding with a degree of confidence and I'm slowly learning how to corner. I'm still slower than just about anyone else on two wheels but I'm making rapid progress and I'm enjoying it. I'm looking forward to the summer weather so I can get out there and spend some quality time in the saddle.
Take a safe RIDING course, it will start you the right way. It IS fun , but not for everyone.
