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Reads at you pressed the front brake at slow speed to come to a stop and IMO is why you dropped the bike.
Examiner is a fish cake and wasn't watching you properly or you've forgotten, amongst it all, to recall what happened and was said.
Rear brake at very slow speed coming to a stop and, providing you don't stomp on it, this won't happen again.
Getting you to do slow speed and wobble around at a dead stop isn't really confidence inspiring stuff to be honest because it's where you'll feel the weight of the bike the most. Understandable you've got to do it so you don't take a nap on the ground when the light turns green/red, slowing down and taking of, but I wouldn't spend more than a short while on it, in my imaginary instructor land I've suddenly somehow devolved. Providing you can demonstrate you're able to control the bike without dropping it a couple of times I'd be saying "yes, I feel ready to go out on the road." Well, providing your not brown trousering too much and actually are ready.
I dropped the GS 500 on a lesson once, almost, and the instructor and student sodded off. Foot down to save it and pulled it back up, instinct hulk mode kicked in. Kids looked on, local yobbo's who'd probably byklyf me in todays world.. a year and a bit on, but beside that all was fine.
It happens. Training school bikes get abused way more than what you've done. Recent video demonstrating student riding into parked car proves the point.
On to the next lesson. Point out to the instructor what happened last time and work on it.
Training on the road is where its at, the Module 1 is only about twenty minutes IIRC. Get em to get you out of the yard as soon as you can.
Still, my advice is given because I turned up for first ever lesson and "You ride a 125 regularly for work?" followed by "Yes, good. Right we've run out of 125cc's, or can't be bothered, so here's the big bikes and we'll crack on in the sunshine to x,y,z for the day, sound good?"
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Shake it off. You didn't drop it, you saved it. You're getting less likely to drop it the longer you ride it.
<Old Man Roger Tells His Anecdote Again>
When I was still tooling around on a 125, I dropped a chum's brand new Bandit 650. By new, I mean fresh from the dealer. His face. My face.
It put me off bigger bikes for a while, and I prevaricated about getting licensed up and told myself that 125s are just fine.
That was a mistake. You don't learn to handle a bigger bike by doing anything other than riding a bigger bike. They're more stable and safer under most circumstances. The only exception is at 0mph if you end up leaning them over.
You've done that, you rescued it, you won't do it again.
Any more time on the tiddler will be wasted, I assure you from experience.
</Old Man Roger Tells His Anecdote Again> ____________________ 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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OP has learnt two important lessons.
Firstly a big bike is a lot heavier than a 125 when its NOT moving, so you need to think a little harder about keeping it upright when its NOT moving.
Secondly big bike front brakes actually work. Ok that's a bit unfair, 125 brakes are designed to pull you to a halt from a mere 70mph if your lucky, big bike will typically have brakes that can to the same thing from 160mph, so they're that much more powerful at 20mph.
There's a third lesson to be learned, how to look and feel a complete idiot when you drop the bike outside a secondary school at chucking out time, or Tescos car park during the post school run rush. This is what most of us do sooner or later. Enjoy. ____________________ They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa, hey-hey,
the men in white coats are coming to take me away.
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I dropped a Gladius when I failed to swing my leg high enough and just kicked the bike over. Broke the brake lever, felt a total twat, got over it |
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It's all experience, you now know how crappy a 125's brakes are and how much better a bigger bikes tend to be . |
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Dropped my SV in the back garden because I forgot to put the side stand down
Also dropped it on a car park practising U turns. I stalled - momentum did the rest. Felt a cnut picking it up in front of a coach load of old age pensioners.
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 7 years, 23 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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