im 18 and ive been driving standard cars since I was 14 and in that time with my job i have driving ive put well over 100k miles worth of experience into driving standard. I know every trick to it.when I was younger and rode bmx bikes with friends and whatnot I could always handle myself really well. doing wheelies and no hands better than anyone else ( not that I‘d be doing tricks on a motorcycle but I just have good handeling.idk if that means anything .but would someone like me have a fairly easy time learning to ride a motorcycle?and ive wondered how long does it take yo learn and master knee drags ? seems like it‘d be the hardest thing to do.
Riding--and surviving--has more to do with attitude than with aptitude. A teen-aged non-rider talking about knee dragging looks like a future road-rash victim from where I sit. You will probably learn quickly enough, but your confidence will most probably grow much faster than your real riding skills, and that won't keep you out of the emergency ward for long. Knee-dragging is useful on the track (and I spend a lot of time there). There is NO place for it on the street, and skill has nothing to do with it. It has to do with the variables that exist on the street that are not present at the track: Dust, oil and gas on the roadway; potholes, manhole covers, asphalt patches, frost heaves; curbs, light standards, sign posts, guardrails; pedestrians, children, stray animals, wildlife, roadkill other motorists; driveways, intersections.
Well ,I doubt you have 100K miles but OK. It can take a very short time of practice to learn the basics. A street rider has no need of knee dragging, Think of the knees as curb feelers, they just suggest the angle where you are on the turn, you do not support yourself with the knees Street riding is done with the angles close to to the slash markers, / .
