Uncle Larry
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But having said that, its not the bike to learn how to ride to start with.
Look in your areas for riding classes on smaller bikes to start with, pick up a smaller bike to ride in the dirt.feild to get experience on the smaller bike once you have your Motorcycle license, then once you have your riding skills down on the bike, then it time for street riding.
Truth is, best bike I can suggest, its something like a DR400 or other lighter dual role motorcycle, that you can take off road to gain riding skills/balance, then once you have mastered that and feel comfortable out there on the bike/not crashing it every hour, then time riding it on the street to lean/ deal with the "whole world trying to kill you" on the nimble bike for at least year.
Hence never ride a motorcycle, get through riding school in a parking lot, get your license and take the very heavy/handles like a Drunken ox sled of a machine out to learn how to not only refine your riding skills, but to learn how to ride in traffic at the same time, just say better have your organ donor card filled out.
And no, I'm not joking about this, since see way too many mid life crisis buyers in your same position, that never make it through the first year of motorcycle ownership; with just minimum crashes that strike fear in them to the bone to never ride again, or they/someone else take them out on the street, to end up dead isntead.
Bottom line, your first year on the streets just learning to ride in traffic, is the make or break to motorcycle riding on the streets to begin with, and that is after you have learned the needed skills on the motorcycle to ride effective in the first place (on something that you can crash over and over again off road that is not expensive to repair, before you even hit the streets).
Thanks for the advice.Originally Posted by Dano523
Congratulations on the bike.But having said that, its not the bike to learn how to ride to start with.
Look in your areas for riding classes on smaller bikes to start with, pick up a smaller bike to ride in the dirt.feild to get experience on the smaller bike once you have your Motorcycle license, then once you have your riding skills down on the bike, then it time for street riding.
Truth is, best bike I can suggest, its something like a DR400 or other lighter dual role motorcycle, that you can take off road to gain riding skills/balance, then once you have mastered that and feel comfortable out there on the bike/not crashing it every hour, then time riding it on the street to lean/ deal with the "whole world trying to kill you" on the nimble bike for at least year.
Hence never ride a motorcycle, get through riding school in a parking lot, get your license and take the very heavy/handles like a Drunken ox sled of a machine out to learn how to not only refine your riding skills, but to learn how to ride in traffic at the same time, just say better have your organ donor card filled out.
And no, I'm not joking about this, since see way too many mid life crisis buyers in your same position, that never make it through the first year of motorcycle ownership; with just minimum crashes that strike fear in them to the bone to never ride again, or they/someone else take them out on the street, to end up dead isntead.
Bottom line, your first year on the streets just learning to ride in traffic, is the make or break to motorcycle riding on the streets to begin with, and that is after you have learned the needed skills on the motorcycle to ride effective in the first place (on something that you can crash over and over again off road that is not expensive to repair, before you even hit the streets).
I plan on doing the Harley Davidson institute in Mesa AZ next week. They provide a bike to test on and learn with. its a 3 day course. I hope that is sufficient. I'm afraid just looking at the bike.
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