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DaddyStu
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PostPosted: 22:11 - 07 Feb 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
Keithy wrote:
…by the door?


Near the toilets.
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dave001
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PostPosted: 14:11 - 08 Feb 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
DaddyStu wrote:
Keithy wrote:
…by the door?


Near the toilets.


now now no crusing for ass on the newbies
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AlanSmith7
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PostPosted: 13:10 - 09 Feb 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi! Welcome to this forum. Feel free to post and I also hope we help you in every possible way and you learn something new and cool and also enjoy being there.
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Nute
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PostPosted: 11:32 - 12 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
I got a 125 to rattle round on for a bit before doing the DAS. As someone who was new to bikes it helped with general road awareness and confidence.

When I drive a car I don’t even think about what gear I should be in or when to change, holding it on a hill etc, it’s become second nature because I’ve been doing it for so long.

Buzzing about on a 125 helped in a similar way so when I did the DAS I could concentrate on what they were teaching me rather than having half my mind on was I in the right gear. I found it worked for me but appreciate everyone’s mileage Is different.
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arry
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PostPosted: 12:16 - 12 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nute wrote:
I got a 125 to rattle round on for a bit before doing the DAS. As someone who was new to bikes it helped with general road awareness and confidence.

When I drive a car I don’t even think about what gear I should be in or when to change, holding it on a hill etc, it’s become second nature because I’ve been doing it for so long.

Buzzing about on a 125 helped in a similar way so when I did the DAS I could concentrate on what they were teaching me rather than having half my mind on was I in the right gear. I found it worked for me but appreciate everyone’s mileage Is different.


Yup, there's definite merit in it. Although I didn't go that route. I had ridden 125's in the past as a kid but it didn't all come flooding back to me when I got on a motorcycle again for the first time in a couple of decades.

My instructor said to me if you divide up where your attention is going to go in the first 2 days, it's going to be 80% controls and 20% roadcraft. By day 3 you're going to swap that around the other way. He was about right, I'd say.
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Nute
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PostPosted: 23:14 - 12 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
My instructor said to me if you divide up where your attention is going to go in the first 2 days, it's going to be 80% controls and 20% roadcraft. By day 3 you're going to swap that around the other way. He was about right, I'd say

That’s a pretty good way of putting it. As I’m the wrong side of 50 I thought it would take more than 3 days to learn new tricks than most, hence the 125.
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