New owner - clueless.
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RE: New owner - clueless.
ORIGINAL: Homer
Welcome from SoCal......Due to your lack of experience, take an MSF course , you use their bikes. This will save you alot of handles , mirrors, lenses and maybe some skin. Wear appropriate gear when riding.
Again WELCOME and Ride Safe
Welcome from SoCal......Due to your lack of experience, take an MSF course , you use their bikes. This will save you alot of handles , mirrors, lenses and maybe some skin. Wear appropriate gear when riding.
Again WELCOME and Ride Safe
I LOVE your sig!! Very good question
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RE: New owner - clueless.
hey Biggol....listen to ******...ride that bike....get on it, start it, point it in the direction you want to go, give it alittle gas, let out the clutch, then shift it, & enjoy it...so what its a Harley, still a bike...if youve riden dirt bikes you can ride...now git it on dude
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RE: New owner - clueless.
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I dropped my Sporty a month ago. I have ridden it for 18,000 plus miles in the past year. I have rdden Bikes off and on for 33 years. Nothing is going to save yer butt from the idiots of the road, or from circumstances beyond yer control. That said, riding the less traveled backroads with the frame of mind that all four wheeled and up vehicles are out to get you, is by far better experience than any course. The course is better for refining skills than it is for teaching the basic riding attitude. Ride yer bike to some place you deem realitively safe and ride. Be very careful in neighborhoods and around lots of traffic, but find a way to ride that Bike. Nothing beats experience. Sometimes I have seen the course give people a false sense of security too.
I dropped my Sporty a month ago. I have ridden it for 18,000 plus miles in the past year. I have rdden Bikes off and on for 33 years. Nothing is going to save yer butt from the idiots of the road, or from circumstances beyond yer control. That said, riding the less traveled backroads with the frame of mind that all four wheeled and up vehicles are out to get you, is by far better experience than any course. The course is better for refining skills than it is for teaching the basic riding attitude. Ride yer bike to some place you deem realitively safe and ride. Be very careful in neighborhoods and around lots of traffic, but find a way to ride that Bike. Nothing beats experience. Sometimes I have seen the course give people a false sense of security too.
DITTO.
The MSF course is great, but your riding small lightwieght bikes. The only way you are going to get used to the weight balance and feel of your bike is to ride it. I waited till after I took the course to ride mine and found that once I jumped on the Harley for the first time it was actually easier to ride than the little putts we used in the class. That being said be careful and go at your own pace.
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