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dsa
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 4:06 pm
by Dirtytoes
just got home a couple of minutes ago.....went out and practiced for 1-2 hours....but i couldn't find a empty parking lot so i just practiced on the streets but kept my space incase the bike jumped.....finally after a couple of hours i started to get the hang of it.
.....this morning i was seriously scared when i was on the bike, i thought i was gonna crash and kill myself since it kept jumping and turning off in the middle of the street....but now its all good, i'm actually starting to enjoy it now....ALOT!
what can i say, i guess practice does make perfect
Re: dsa
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 4:08 pm
by Ninja Geoff
Dirtytoes wrote:just got home a couple of minutes ago.....went out and practiced for 1-2 hours....but i couldn't find a empty parking lot so i just practiced on the streets but kept my space incase the bike jumped.....finally after a couple of hours i started to get the hang of it.
.....this morning i was seriously scared when i was on the bike, i thought i was gonna crash and kill myself since it kept jumping and turning off in the middle of the street....but now its all good, i'm actually starting to enjoy it now....ALOT!
what can i say, i guess practice does make perfect
Re: dsa
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 4:33 pm
by Jamers!
Dirtytoes wrote: now its all good, i'm actually starting to enjoy it now....ALOT!
what can i say, i guess practice does make perfect
the feeling of getting starting down is a great one, no longer worrying about stalling or being run into for stalling is a cool cool thing. Just keep practiceing and improving your ability to start and soon enough it will be 2ed nature
JWF
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:56 pm
by Sev
I've found that if you stall it once, you'll rush yourself panic and stall it a second time. The easiest solution is to actually rev up higher then normal and focus on easing the clutch out slowly, you can back off on the revs if you need to.
dsadsa
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 6:26 pm
by Dirtytoes
Sevulturus wrote:I've found that if you stall it once, you'll rush yourself panic and stall it a second time.
very true.....everytime i stall"ed" i did it atleast 3 times.
JWF505 wrote:
the feeling of getting starting down is a great one, no longer worrying about stalling or being run into for stalling is a cool cool thing. Just keep practiceing and improving your ability to start and soon enough it will be 2ed nature
JWF
i got it down but its not perfect...yet....i think i can make it a little smoother....i'll see if i can find that empty parking lot tomorrow.
Keep practicing before stalling on the road with traffic
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 6:54 am
by omar
I've also never driven a manual car and that was happening to me and this other rider throughout the entire MSF course, I was so embarassed
, but I just kept my cool and kept trying, each time changing my pace with the clutch and throttle. By the end of the course, it wasn't happening to me much. I think it just takes practice..
btw, there were people who had driven manual cars and said that, still, it wasn't the easiest thing to get the hang of the clutch and throttle because it's still sort of different because you're coordinating differently than you would in a car...
However, at the end of the course when we all passed, the instructor told the other driver who was doing it a lot to keep practicing, because he said even though you passed, if you were on the road with traffic and you stalled as much as you did here, you would be in BIG trouble!
So I also took heed to that and I'm gonna keep practicing in a secluded lot first
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 10:07 am
by Kal
I stalled out the bike a lot during my CBT, I'd get hot and bothered about it stress big time and then stall it again.
I still stll her from time to time sometimes because I'm at lights, sometimes because she is cold, wrong gear, whatever. The big difference is that I dont stress about it anymore.
If she is moving then its probably a gear related issue so I pull in the clutch, knock her down a gear and give her some throttle before letting the clutch out. Bump starting her in effect.
If she is stalled out at lights, I just pull the clutch, flick the kick start down, kick her over, flick the kick stand up and go with high revs. I probably do it quicker than it took me to type that last sentance.
With enough practise you will get the skills and confidence to handle anything.