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Newbie lacking confidence. Help please
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geof
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| Posts: 95
| Joined: 09/05
Posted: 12/23/05
12:23 AM
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Thanks guys this is great advice.
Geof I do know how to ride a regualr bicylce and I can do that well. I can balance the motorcycle I don't have a problem with that. When I'm at a light or stopped completely I can balance with ease with both feet on the ground and no hands on the handle bars. Balancing doesn't give me problems.
As a matter of fact I have a fair amount of confidence in other aspects of biking. I just lose it when it comes to turning it's the weirdest thing. I never feel like the bike is going to tip over I just think it will. My confidence with turning hit an all time low because I dropped the GS500 twice while turning. Don't worry guys I wasn't on the road I was in my driveway LOL. I was turning from the driveway into the garage and I was going far too slow and gravity took over. Of course when it starts to go down I just abandon ship because it is far too heavy to try to prevent. This happened a while ago and I can turn into the gargage easily now LOL but those incidents still affect me.
As for going at very slow speeds; that is about the only thing I can outdo other bikers in LOL. I can go very slow and feel at home, it's no problem. Going faster is fine with me too.
I am going to take the MSF course when it starts up. I hope it helps I hate feeling underconfident. Anything that will help me is worth a try.
Smalltime, I think you are misunderstanding the fundamentals of balance. If, at slow TURNING speeds, you feel the bike is about to tip, you don't know A: countersteer and B: counterbalance. This is where your "problem" lies. It's easy to keep a bike upright with both feet on the ground, you are a tripod... Can you do a trackstand at all? This is a dead stop with both feet still on the pegs?
If you ride a bike do this, it will help. Take two trash cans and place them about 8-10 feet apart. Then on your bicycle, do figure eights around the cans staying no more than a foot away from the cans with the handle bars. ride just fast enough to keep moving. Do this without touching your foot to the ground. Try it, it's harder than it sounds. Becuase you have no gyro effect from a motor or power to the rear wheel, you must learn to countersteer and counterbalance the bike. It will fall over if you don't. It's cheaper to learn this skill on a bicycle than on a new CBR... give it a shot...
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Vitaly
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| Posts: 65
| Joined: 01/05
Posted: 12/23/05
02:15 PM
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My confidence with turning hit an all time low because I dropped the GS500 twice while turning
Did you pull the clutch all the way in while turning??? I used to have that problem when i first started riding, on a dirtbike.
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056R
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| Posts: 38
| Joined: 02/05
Posted: 12/23/05
04:38 PM
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Geoff if you would read her post a little more carefully she states that she does not FEEL like the bike is going to tip over, she just THINKS it is going to tip over.
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Posted: 12/24/05
02:04 PM
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Some riders find it helpful during a low speed turn to drag the rear brake a little bit while keeping the throttle slightly open. This helps to eliminate the throttle accleration jerk that occurs when going from off-throttle to a very low throttle level. A friend of mine used to have trouble with low speed turns, and after showing him that technique and practicing it in a parking lot, he hasn't had trouble since.
I think some racers even use this technique to steady their bike in low speed turns (although I think they use a thumb operated rear brake).
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Posted: 02/09/07
10:26 AM
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I still cannot belive your father thought you could a 1000cc bike after barely knowing how to ride the 500. wow..I mean if you are complaining about having to be in 1st gear in order to turn you have no business being on a motorcycle with 150+ horsepower...
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Posted: 02/11/07
09:23 PM
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I second that.......Did anyone see the result of that accident in orange county, California last years on the freeway when rich parents bought there 18 year old daughter a brand new Porche 911. She was passing a Honda Accord on the right at 100 plus miles an hour, she clipped the Accord and smashed into a concrete structure on the side of the freeway and crushed the car. The paramedics had to put her brains in a bag during clean up. The performance on a brand new CBR1000 is as dangerous if not more in the hads of an inexperienced rider.
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woose
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| Joined: 02/08
Posted: 02/13/08
01:13 PM
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Go take the MSF now, and you have to have faith, you have to just give up skepticism, it will not just fall over, the tires WILL stick, and Your front brake does work!
You are actually working against yourself, in slowing way down and wobbling around the corners. it makes you feel unsteady,which just makes you more apprehensive, it is a vicious circle,
do not bother with a twist of the wrist yet, go get motorbooks how to ride a motorcycle, and lee parks Total Control, and hit the parking lots, I still hit one once or twice a week for ten or fifteen minutes, even after a lot of years, but I can also do a fig 8 in four parking spaces on a wing too.
Take the Course, and take your time.
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