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ahhh thankyouz, il look into that!

Yngvai X wrote:Yeah, my bro rides to.. hes 32 and everytime he see's me hes gotta flame me for my shoes, but i told him.. good luck with your laces getting caught.

yea i feel naked without riding with riding gear on, hmm boots.. i hope there not TOO expensive. I'm kind of drained out of money from all this.

if you have $130... this boot will be a good choice. like it says... it's great for aggressive street riding and even good enough for amatuer track riding.

you can wear them under your pants if you buy one of those riding jeans.

http://www.newenough.com/setup_vision_boots_page.htm

awesome, il look around that site and look about those boots!

Back to shifting, I use the sound of engine and the feeling of the pull of the bike against all the weight its trying to get rolling. General low RPM is the target, unless there is a traffic or single vehicle problem.

There is no magic RPM as it depends on the engine specifics and the weight it's trying to pull.

wow thanks everyone, il be sure to try this when i get home from work today, so i will post back after that and tell you guys if im doing it right

thanks again!

It sounds like you may also be grabbing too much throttle from the get go. When you grab the throttle - where are your knuckles? If they're forward towards the brake than you're grabbing too much for where you're at right now. Until you have the friction zone/bite point down to an art form, make sure your knuckles are up when you grab so that you have less throttle available to you.

Think of the friction zone and the throttle like a teeter-totter. As you start to hit the friction zone you should start giving it gas and be at the "even" point in the teeter-totter..little gas little clutch.

If you practice the stuff told to you in this thread you should be golden after a very short while though.

Oh yeah, I've read it, seen it, heard it, said it ... countless times but "The only Dumbest Question Ever is the one not asked"

Good luck with the throttle/shifting...practice practice practice!

Ya, it's not a dumb question. But you'll learn all this in baby steps during your MSF course. Don't over think things at this point. In just over two weeks, you'll be getting all this info, and you'll be happy to be learning on someone else's bike. Nothing worse than laying down your own bike in an intersection because you haven't properly practiced the basics.

And please!!!!!, get into some better riding shoes. You'll at least need something that covers your ankles for the MSF course - they will not let you participate if they can see your ankles!

Don't worry about things right now - again, you'll get into all this during the course (plus some). Good luck, and let us know how it all works out.

Cheers,
Loonette

BTW, you don't have to use any throttle to find the friction point. If you slowly release the clutch with no throttle, your bike will still start to move and usually do so very smoothly.

A little trottle helps, especially in traffic, but getting the bike started should be independant of throttle.