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How Long Did It Take You To Learn How To Ride A Motorycle?

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Rob MacLennan said:
People rarely humble themselves, but are rather humbled by an outside source. In my case it was having a 'washed up former pro racer' casually look back over his shoulder at me while riding one handed, mid corner, when I thought that I was going as fast as, and leaned over as far as, I possibly could be.
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That sounds annoying and awesome at the same time.. :lmao:
 
RedDogDarren said:
You learned not to ride in the snow. That's a good start. LOL

Methinks your overconfidence will be your undoing.
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Going to learn at RTi this summer :)

on a different note Red Dog Darren your avatar is just down right scary!
 
Rob MacLennan said:
People rarely humble themselves, but are rather humbled by an outside source. In my case it was having a 'washed up former pro racer' casually look back over his shoulder at me while riding one handed, mid corner, when I thought that I was going as fast as, and leaned over as far as, I possibly could be.
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Yes, you are right! I should have said the OP needs to be humbled.
 
Pegassus said:
I think I just did. In what part of my post did you see I'm trolling? You don't believe that a 13-year-old learnt in 3 hours what you have not learnt in 5 years? Believe me, it did happen.
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Bring him to a trackday and put him on my Superbike. Let us see how well he's mastered it.

You break it, you buy it.
 
Pegassus said:
I was 15 when I learnt and it took me only 30 minutes but I had one advantage: I already knew how to drive shift-stick vehicles all by myself in the backroads of Houston,Texas. My uncle taught me in a 1982 Kawasaki.

It amazed me that my brother-in-law, a kid of 13, learnt how to completely master a motorcycle without even knowing how to drive an automatic car and being clueless as to what a "clutch" or "gears" was. We started at 3:30pm and by 5:30pm he was already riding the motorcycle all by himself, making u-turns on the road, stopping, starting, slowing down, all of this without stalling the bike or crashing.

I also tried to teach my 9 and 11 year old nieces but their feet could not touch the brake/shift peg but I was riding behind them without interferring and they rode the motorcycle all over the place as long as I had placed the bike on 2nd gear for them, I know that they could have ridden it by themselves if they could only reach the pegs because I also taught them how to change gears and in theory they knew how to do it, this in just one afternoon.

This is why in Humber College I had not sympathy for full-grown adults who crashed the bikes several times during our M2 tests, c'mon are you kiding me, they have been practicing for days before they go to Humber haven't they?
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Says the guy/gal who failed the M test.......
 
sid_for_speed said:
Going to learn at RTi this summer :)

on a different note Red Dog Darren your avatar is just down right scary!
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She was a photogenic young lass from Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios a few years ago.
 
Jayv said:
Says the guy/gal who failed the M test.......
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Classic. Saussage, you're awesome and like I say every time I stumble across one of your threads, I hope you never go away. You present GTAM with such entertainment that I shudder to think what would happen if you ever went away.

That you had to be almost killed by a truck in order to learn when it's not safe to ride in the winter really tells everyone who is just meeting you for the first time everything they need to know about you.

Ask Saussage about greasing his axle sticks. http://www.gtamotorcycle.com/vbforu...-Bike-Mechanics-101-With-Pegassus-(For-Noobs)

Oh, am I ever subscribed.
 
I was able to get up and go as soon as I stepped foot on a bike. However, a few thousand KMs later and I know I'll never master this thing; I learn something new every day, and if I day comes that a ride leaves me thinking I didn't learn anything, I'll watch some MotoGP highlights to bring me back down to reality.
 
wow. people taking peggysausage seriously. what has this place come to. this is peggy, the undisputed expert on greasing axle sticks
 
oomis said:
Classic. Saussage, you're awesome and like I say every time I stumble across one of your threads, I hope you never go away. You present GTAM with such entertainment that I shudder to think what would happen if you ever went away.

That you had to be almost killed by a truck in order to learn when it's not safe to ride in the winter really tells everyone who is just meeting you for the first time everything they need to know about you.

Ask Saussage about greasing his axle sticks. http://www.gtamotorcycle.com/vbforu...-Bike-Mechanics-101-With-Pegassus-(For-Noobs)

Oh, am I ever subscribed.
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OMG - 101 maintenance thread is pure gold!
 
Not long for me. We had manual cars mainly in NZ so people understand concept of gear shifting and clutch work.
That was many years ago. Now they probably have a new "automatic" generation driving
 
caboose483 said:
Bring him to a trackday and put him on my Superbike. Let us see how well he's mastered it.

You break it, you buy it.
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Hey maybe he can teach you something. Heck from the sound of it his 13 year old niece could teach us all a thing or two Lmao
 
caboose483 said:
Bring him to a trackday and put him on my Superbike. Let us see how well he's mastered it.

You break it, you buy it.
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Will you guarantee that the axle sticks are greased? Will you be providing a cross screwdriver, or should he bring his own?
 
Learned everything i need to with this

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As for the actual mechanics of riding, about half an hour. I already knew how to drive a manual car, and i grew up riding ATVs so the controls weren't foreign to me either. As someone else said tho, I never stop learning. I learn something new all the time, as there's always going to be something I can be doing better.
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