Hey there. I'm 17 now. When I was sixteen, I wanted a bike. Realllly bad. I almost got one too, but then decided I'd buy a fancy stereo and wait for the bike.JswOrLd316 wrote: Hellow, Bikers my name is jonathan and i'm 16 years old and i have never ridden a bike and i want to get a hayabussa.
NO im just playing this is my real story.
I'm 16 years old and i live in NYC. I love bikes i grew up with bikes, my father had 3 bikes and all my cousins had one. i ridden a bike before but im not an expert. Im very mature about this bike thing, i know the risks and the dangers involve with bikes. I have read a couple of riding books. I know that i should start with a small bike, thats find with me but the thing is, im not sure wether i should get a bike or wait a year or so. Im planning on taking the MSF course this summer but the money is kind of tight right now so i'm goin to have to wait. I want my first bike to be a GS500F. IS the gs500f a good bike?
Please help me and give me advise on what should i do.
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I then got a car. A Subaru Legacy L with a 5 speed manual transmission. Not really what you'd consider a "performance" car, but it takes corners and has a fun engine. I told myself "I'll never drive that fast.. I won't be agressive... I'll never learn how to heal-toe, rev match perfectly, or find out how fast is too fast around a corner!"
Wooooweeee. That was optimistic.
I am now a driving FANATIC! Same car, different driver so to speak. It took a quick jaunt off the side of a country road one summer to sober me up, and realize that bad things CAN happen! Fast foward a year or so, and now I have very good control over my car, I know my limits, its limits, and the limits of responsibility. I won't say I don't have fun, but I don't endanger others. Sunny afternoon? People will be walking. Drive slow. 2:30pm? School kids. 11:30pm? Cops. 3am on the backroads? Have a ball, but don't crash.
Why that silly paragraph about cars on a motorcycle forum? Simple really: If my first experience with horsepower was on a bike, chances are very good my little "bump-BUMP" off the road at 25mph could have rendered me rather broken. A slip up with a bike's manual tranny at an intersection could have been cataclysmic.
Wait a year. Drive a lot. When I say a lot, I mean 2-3+ years of what would be "regular" driving, and cram it all into one year. Get good with feeling G-Forces, when a tire is saying "Mmmkay, I can't hold on much longer," how to tell when a motorist cares more about thier hair than you, etc.
I was 16, someone said wait a year and drive a lot. I thought they were silly. They're not, they're right.
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