I want to buy a motorcycle, but I don‘t want to just go out and buy one without knowing how to ride. And how do I practice riding?? Is some guy really going to let me test-drive his motorcycle without me being licensed or experienced.??
Beats me. I have been keep a finger or two on both brake and clutch. In 50 years I have never crashed. Ask those who *do* crash why they do not cover the front brake.
Take a motorcycle safety course, or buy a moped.
ride a bicycle-that will introduce you to some basics of balance, steering, braking and road rules. go from there- yes if you pay enough, someone will hire you a bike to learn to ride on. Damage it you will pay the excesses on his insurance. The hardest part of riding a bike is developing safe thinking. Controlling the bike is easy, controlling yourself is much more difficult, but essential if you want to live to get old. Emotionally unstable people should not ride, nor drive.
Google a local motorcycle safety course. It's usually just a 20 hour (or so) weekend program where you spend a Friday afternoon and Saturday morning in a classroom then a Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning riding tiny little 250cc road bikes. The bikes are seriously not much bigger than a bicycle, so they're super easy just for learning how to shift and brake, etc. At the end, you take a SIMPLE written test and then they give you a card to take to the DMV. You head to the DMV on Monday and they give you the endorsement just like that. It costs like $150 or so, but it's definitely worth it. They give you the basics, and once you start to ride, you learn really fast. Don't get a moped haha.
