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The way the weather's been around here I thought nature decided to turn us into the new Seattle.

JVRR wrote:Sorry to cross-post but not getting any answers in the other forum. Basically my question is if I go practice starting on an incline for an hour, stalling out constantly, is that going to be worse on the engine than stalling out a few times, riding for five or ten minutes, and then doing it again? My concern with practice on a hill is stall-stall-stall-stall-stall, whereas my current little practice loop gives me several minutes of riding after having to start on a hill . But, I really need to practice this skill so hopefully its not hard on the engine so I can head to a good parking lot with a hill .

I had a lot of difficulty in my motorcycle safety foundation training course with starting on an incline. I (obviously) have no problem doing it now but back then I kept giving it too much throttle (so I didn't stall it) but ended up doing a wheelie up the incline! Thankfully they never had that in the final test... haha.

A. When starting up an incline I can do it without rolling back at all anymore, just use your rear brake, give it gas, then let off slowly off the rear as the bike moves forward.


Starting on a downhill with gravel is the next thing you should practice. Use ONLY the rear brake, don't touch the front, pull in the clutch and allow the bike to go down the hill by it's own weight using the rear brake only. Don't turn very much doing it.

Mike