AkatomboRR
"the first of his name"
you have a gf :hand
New Female Rider Here!
- Thread starter sleepy_head
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sleepy_head
simply lazy today
exactly!
Sleestack
Orange Tiger!
you were staggering after the class??? wtf??? :shocker what did they do to you in the class?
i keeed, of course, but my misreading of your comment reminded me of when I teach the racing schools (auto racing) the new students always are wiped out after one day. In fact we had to move from a weekend school to just a one-day format because most students were too wiped to continue a second day
Brother, you have no idea. I got up at 4 AfrikinM, froze my ass off on the 2.5 hour ride up, did the class, re-froze on the way back. I stalled it on the last light to my house just because I couldn't feel my arms any more :wtf
Totally worth it though :ride
Desmodromic
Captain Slow
Welcome
sleepy_head
simply lazy today
thank you...
I hope that i'll keep this alive...I'm surrounded by people (parents, friends and exes) who don't ride and oppose the idea, so I'm pretty much the only fighter on side...but i'm too stubborn, so we'll see how far I get with this.
slower than...
Peets Coffee Junkie
Well, please let me offer you this one simple piece of advice:
"Never go faster than you can stop!"
It may sound silly, but a panic and/or emergency stop on a motorcycle is not like that in a car. A car will not as readily spin out, and even if it does, you are protected by the car itself. Slide out on a bike and it is not pretty.
Go someplace like an empty parking lot and just practice emergency stops. Keep going faster and brake harder, until you get a feel for what the bike, and you, are capable of.
Then whenever you are riding, just constantly remember in the back of your mind that if I had to do a panic stop right now, would I be able to. If not, slow down.
Finally, group rides are great ways of meeting other riders. But as a newbie, the greatest danger for you is that you will try to keep up. Always stay within your own comfort zone. Try to keep up with faster riders, and you will pay the price by crashing. I can tell you that from personal experience. :rolleyes It hurts, it's embaressing, and it's expensive.
As they say, ride safe, and keep the shiny side up. :ride
Good luck to you. :thumbup
"Never go faster than you can stop!"
It may sound silly, but a panic and/or emergency stop on a motorcycle is not like that in a car. A car will not as readily spin out, and even if it does, you are protected by the car itself. Slide out on a bike and it is not pretty.
Go someplace like an empty parking lot and just practice emergency stops. Keep going faster and brake harder, until you get a feel for what the bike, and you, are capable of.
Then whenever you are riding, just constantly remember in the back of your mind that if I had to do a panic stop right now, would I be able to. If not, slow down.
Finally, group rides are great ways of meeting other riders. But as a newbie, the greatest danger for you is that you will try to keep up. Always stay within your own comfort zone. Try to keep up with faster riders, and you will pay the price by crashing. I can tell you that from personal experience. :rolleyes It hurts, it's embaressing, and it's expensive.
As they say, ride safe, and keep the shiny side up. :ride
Good luck to you. :thumbup
FemmeLaMoto
The Alpha Betch
:welcome
Riding becomes an obsession and soon it will consume your life! I go to SJSU, Business major. Fremont meets are bunches of fun if you're down. There's a great group of people on here from the area that you can definitely learn a lot from...and the rest you can just ignore. Congrats on the bike, MSF:thumbup, and the gear. Hope to see you :ride out there soon!
-Fellow BARFette
Riding becomes an obsession and soon it will consume your life! I go to SJSU, Business major. Fremont meets are bunches of fun if you're down. There's a great group of people on here from the area that you can definitely learn a lot from...and the rest you can just ignore. Congrats on the bike, MSF:thumbup, and the gear. Hope to see you :ride out there soon!
-Fellow BARFette
FemmeLaMoto
The Alpha Betch
+1 :thumbup:applause
blink-a-licious
Blinkanator
Wow...You guys must be hard up...I posted a hello thread a couple hours before she does, she's got 2 pages of responses, I have not one reply. Welcome sleepy head....
sleepy_head
simply lazy today
hey there, dont be jealous...
well i dont know what to say actually... the point is, u shouldn't compete with the minority...
well i dont know what to say actually... the point is, u shouldn't compete with the minority...
sleepy_head
simply lazy today
YES YES YES and YES...
true...i'm still pretty horrible at turning...not comfortable with making figure 8 at all...
and YES big time, I do need parking lot practice...
but the last couple attempts failed because I always got kicked out of the parking lot...
does anyone know a good empty parking lot to practice without getting kicked out?
also...anyone willing to train newbies in the parking lot? (sounds boring, i know)
the thing is I have friends who ride (to name a few: monkey, xenos...and some not on Barf) but they all want to do mountain ride or some Coooooooolllll ride somewhere pretty on earth, definitely not a parking lot...
I tried the freeway two weeks ago, and had a hard time catching up with my friend who agree to keep it at 65, but then he was going close to 75-80...And NO, it wasn't cool to do that to a newbie...
Maybe we can gather some other newbies for this practice too...
si? no?
btw, Monkey did help to fix the clutch yesterday by rotating it upward a bit and it is sooooooo much better now...
Thank you thank you. I'm so glad u are taken, Monkey.
true...i'm still pretty horrible at turning...not comfortable with making figure 8 at all...
and YES big time, I do need parking lot practice...
but the last couple attempts failed because I always got kicked out of the parking lot...
does anyone know a good empty parking lot to practice without getting kicked out?
also...anyone willing to train newbies in the parking lot? (sounds boring, i know)
the thing is I have friends who ride (to name a few: monkey, xenos...and some not on Barf) but they all want to do mountain ride or some Coooooooolllll ride somewhere pretty on earth, definitely not a parking lot...
I tried the freeway two weeks ago, and had a hard time catching up with my friend who agree to keep it at 65, but then he was going close to 75-80...And NO, it wasn't cool to do that to a newbie...
Maybe we can gather some other newbies for this practice too...
si? no?
btw, Monkey did help to fix the clutch yesterday by rotating it upward a bit and it is sooooooo much better now...
Thank you thank you. I'm so glad u are taken, Monkey.
sleepy_head
simply lazy today
That's sweet
I go to SJSU, Civil Engineering major...
PM's me if u want to meet up for coffee talk. I'm pretty busy this week, especially in down mood after
-ing my test pretty hard this morning...I'm not sure how far riding is in the consuming-life-mission, but it just consumed my test this morning...but anyway, maybe sometime next week?
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slower than...
Peets Coffee Junkie
I don't know San Jose, but up here in the east bay, I would go to the DMV on a Sunday morning. The place is empty and no one would ever bother you. You can practice your slow u-turns there. The DMV driving test course is usually painted there someplace, so if you want practice doing REALLY sharp turns, try staying in that circle.
However, the DMV lot probably isn't long enough to practice fast runs for hard braking. Perhaps a large shopping center, again early Sunday morning. Do make sure to look for a place without speed bumps.
With both suggestions, you'd need to wake up early though. No sleepy_head for you!!
And your friend was not being a good mentor if he was going that fast, expecting you to follow.
There are oftentimes group rides especially for newbs, but again, depending on the riders that show up, the pace can still be too fast for some people. The main thing is self-discipline. If you try to keep up, particularly when you are not comfortable with the speed, you are really putting yourself at risk.
kelvin8
I ain't even tryin'
Welcome. Just so you know, when I got my first bike,
my cousin the surgeon said, "It's too late now, but I'd have advised you not to get one." Urmph urmph years later he owns 3 and rides Iron Butt events, his wife learned to ride, and his daughter and her husband ride. Look what I started maybe you will too.
my cousin the surgeon said, "It's too late now, but I'd have advised you not to get one." Urmph urmph years later he owns 3 and rides Iron Butt events, his wife learned to ride, and his daughter and her husband ride. Look what I started
maybe you will too.
Mikeeh76
Well-known member
Welcome! oh and I'm :inlove:
itosan
Well-known member
:newbie Let the time go... and with some practice.. you'll master all the stuff you are having trouble with. Don't push yourself above your limits and if some one is pushing you ... well...
.... it wouldn't be a friendly rider until you got experienced..... Have you tried in the Eastridge parking lot.... I though a friend how to ride a bike in there when I was living in San Jose and nobody kick or .... out. Good Luck..!!