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mustang121 L Plate Warrior
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hedgehugger World Chat Champion
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Posted: 14:32 - 05 Jun 2012 Post subject: |
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Sounds like a plan.
When I first started riding a bike after CBT. I felt brave going up the road and back. Then I made it out to the roundabout a mile down the road and back again. Once confident I wasn't going to kill myself I made it to the next town and back again (see a pattern there? )
Take it at your own pace.
I had my own 125 and didn't take any lessons before passing test.
BTW, please explain quarter age rider? under 25? |
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I was exactly the same, Living out in the sticks I had the advantage of hundreds of miles worth of deserted country lanes to play around on. Take it at you own pace and ride within your ability to keep yourself out of trouble |
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Jynister Nitrous Nuisance
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Posted: 15:16 - 05 Jun 2012 Post subject: |
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I was a little nervous on the roads at first as there was a bit of a gap between me passing my CBT and getting the bike. All I did was head out really early in the morning until I was comfortable on it, then I worked on getting comfortable in traffic.
I did what hedgehugger did, pick a place to ride to and go back, next time go a little further. ____________________ Current Bike: 2002 Honda CBR F Sport / Previous Bike: 2005 Honda CBR 125 (R.I.P)
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Posted: 15:18 - 05 Jun 2012 Post subject: |
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Neither did I to be honest.
I just threw myself in at the deep-end though, out on to the open roads. It was very weird not having an instructor in my ear; I felt alone and it was kind of scary in that respect. Not prepared at all.
I quickly picked it up though and you will too.
Just a note though, when you're out on the road, don't change gear at 3-4k RPM like you could in a car. Not if you want any half decent acceleration. Took me ages to figure out why I couldn't get past 40 ____________________ 2004 R1 & 2018 XSR900 |
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Posted: 15:19 - 05 Jun 2012 Post subject: |
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Bite the bullet and go for it
I made up a track in my head of quiet country lanes, about 6 miles round I think. On my first day I did over 150 miles..
If you don't have to think where you are going you can concentrate on learning, gears, clutch control ect. I loved it.
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Back in the day it was legal to buy a 125, stick an L-plate on it and take it straight out onto the road. I think it was legal to do that on a 250 too but I could afford only the 2nd-hand 125. I stalled at every light for the first couple of miles. ____________________ "There's the horizon! Ride hard, ride fast and cut down all who stand in your way!" |
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I did my CBT and that day jumped onto my 125 and went for an hour long ride with my brother to get used to it.
Rode to work the next day, then to the other halfs after work.
Did that for a week and it all became quite simple after |
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Posted: 20:00 - 05 Jun 2012 Post subject: |
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CBT is training, not a test. If you weren't actually trained, then you got mugged off.
But yes, it's really not that hard to learn to ride a bike, and some of us find it a lot easier to do it ourselves than with some failed examiner or traffic slaphead yelling at us. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike |
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15+ years of driving experience
CBT
2x lessons on a 125
Hired a CG125 for a few days
2x DAS lessons on a GS500
and passed test first time ____________________ 1st bike (Sept'06 - May'10) : 1991 GPZ500S / Current bike (since Nov 2009) : 2003 Suzuki Bandit 600N
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mustang121 wrote: | Thanks every one. I might have a couple more lessons and see how I feel.
At the moment all I want to do is ride around a carpark to get a feel for it. |
Dont send too much time pootling around in a carpark.
Yes its a good way to get a feel for the bike, but it seems you lack
confidence with being on the roads, and the best way to combat that
fear is to get out there on the roads.
In a carpark you will be in your comfort zone, you will be enclosed, no
fast moving traffic, few people around, you will feel 'safe'
There's a whole world of difference between feeling confident in a carpark
and feeling confident on the road, and the only way to start to feel confident
on the road is to get out there and get some miles in.
Go out and find some quiet roads to ride aroun on, you WILL feel much
better for doing it.
I wasn't confident at all after my cbt, picked up a bike from 60 odd miles away
a week later and was nervous as hell, thinking of all the what ifs, but after half
an hour riding back 'solo' I felt much better, think I ended up doing close to 200
miles on that ride back, and I didn't die...
Get out there and 'do it' it'll all come to you, it will build your confidence by being
out on the open road alone. ____________________ ......................................................................... |
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kernow24 wrote: | Get out there and 'do it' it'll all come to you |
+1 to most of Kernosw comment, really.
Yes, get a bike, you ent going anywhere without one.
Yes, go play in a parking lot - get a feel for it...
but you'll have exhausted everything you were tought during CBT withing maybe three four hours... pottentially dizzy focusing close and riding round in small circles, and potentialy in danger of getting a Section 59 Antisocial Use of Motorvehicle 'warning' if any-one moans!
Yes, get some lessons booked; learn to do some 'stuff' right, right at the start; give yourself something to practice.
Steel your self; brave some quiete roads... trundle over to your lesson.
Come home.... practice what you learn.
Repeat until you are grumbling you want a bigger bike!
It will come... in stages.
You wont build confidence, without stretching yourself, nor by chucking yourself in the deepend & hurting yourself.
YOU are the RIDER..... you choose when and where you ride; you choose how fast you go, what direction, whether you stop or go.
Look where you want to be.... thats where the bike goes..... focus on the floor in front or besides you THAT is where you will fall.
Same goes in the bigger picture.... learning to ride is a journey; one of discovery.
Focus on the floor around you, you wont go no-where. You will fall down and frustrate yourself.
Look up the road, to where you want to be, and you WILL get there.....
Trick is not to let the enormity of the journey daunt you, nor fixate too much on the here and now.
Be AWARE of where you are, NOW where you want to go; keep your head up, your feet neat, STOP THINKING - START RIDING, and ENJOY the Journey. ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 11 years, 327 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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