Crash course on how to ride a geared bike

[benandthe]

It's easy enough to learn, although some people do make it look hard.



My easy way of teaching how to ride geared bikes is simply:

1) Make sure bike is in neutral,
2) Start the engine,
3) Sit on the bike,
4) Lean the bike off the stand,
5) Lean on your right foot and put the bike into 1st (still holding th clutch in!!),
6) Bring the bike up level and slowly find the "bite point",
7) Give the throttle a few revs (on a 125 no more than 3,500 will have you moving),
8) Slowly let the clutch out while holding the rev's at around 3,500- 4,000,
9) Go along slowly and get used to the bike,

10) To stop simply pull the clutch in and pull gently on the front brake
11) While still holding the clutch in, put your right foot down and use your left foot to pull the gear lever up into neutral again.

TA-DA!!! crash course on riding a bike.

[Frost]

I once taught 2 complete biking newbs everything they needed to know to ride in less time than it took everyone else to drink a beer. God i miss thailand.

Most important thing to learn is head up look where your going, not at the front wheel (think that seems to be a car driver thing, trying to look down as much as possible). Neutral can be found by clicking all the way down, then a click and a half up. Repeat this. If you can't find it, give it a few revs. It's also worth reminding people that they don't need to stop in neutral

[EUMP]

My crash hooligan course to riding a 125;

Switch on the engine
Rev up in red
Grab in the clutch
Pop to first
Rev to 7k and drop the clutch --- Weeeeee!
Do a bunch of zig zags for about 100 meters
Chuck the bike through corners flat out at 65-70mph and fly back out

FIN.

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[Digitalize]

Learn to pull away as you described.

Pull out of your road, and learn the rest where YOU HAVE TO, on the road, just do it, comes naturally.
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[Paxovasa]

Poor choice of thread title
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[pinkyfloyd]

way back in the days of dinosaurs when i first started riding bikes i was told to practice the movements whenever i was in taxi's, car's busses etc.

its 3 movements that need to be mastered to work together, right hand, throttle off, left hand clutch in, and left foot, change gear.

every time a car your a passenger in changes gear, run thru the movements as you would on a bike. you may look a twat but it will help the gear changing movements become more natural to you.
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[Redoko]

[benandthe]

[metalangel]

[Frost]

Saying that though Mate T taught mate A to ride a bike. I wasn't there and assumed everything had gone okay. Mate A got on his bike and went to ride off outside a shop. He put the bike into neutral okay, started it up, revved it, slowly let the clutch out till it was all the way out then with the revs pretty high he clicked it into 1st

On coming to a stop he nearly went into the back of me a few times. When asked what the fuck he was doing he said "It wouldn't go into neutral!" So he was trying to click it into neutral whilst still moving without using the clutch. Being a car driver doesn't help people much, but at least they'll never do anything THAT bad

[Flip]

A crash course on how to ride a geared bike is a CBT isn't it?

[Frost]

Nay, you can do a CBT on an auto. Quite a few people do a CBT at 16 on an auto then need to learn gears to ride a 125

[benandthe]

[Frost]

I had the option, but did it on a geared bike on purpose. I thought it was important to learn how to do it and prove i could do it under assessed conditions. Almost like a practice for the test maybe.