well now that i've been lurking around the forums I know it was a stupid thing to do. Definitely should not be on a 600 for my first ride ever. My buddy is F'n retard for letting me get on there and go cruising. I'm a retard for not looking into what I was doing before jumping on. There is way more to riding than i even imagined. I had no idea what could go wrong let alone how to avoid it, and got no instruction from him.

Bought him a 24 sack of beer today cause i was just feeling horrible about the whole thing. Going to run me 700 for his insurance and another 200 or so on my license, so i think that ride is going to cost me 1k total.

My riding career is over, i cant afford it and judging from that ride I'm going to kill myself in the process. What a waste, well live and learn . . . .


Cheers

 

Dont be a puss and quit, there's so much fun you can have on a bike for you to quit now. Damn your gonna spend 700 bucks already, thats part of your education bill. You shoulda had your friend go over what to do in a turn and you probably should have taken it a little slower. I still remember my first ride and that was scary as hell, and i've had mustangs, and camaro's all my life. But my buddy told me to get on that fricken bike and keep riding it, and prepped me for the basic potential disasters that you can come accross. The main thing is to stay cool whenever you get yourself freaked out, and if you are have a drifter mentality when it comes to riding this is what happens. If i were you id get on another bike as soon as you can and learn from you mistakes or else just stay in your car.

 

So thats it.Find your self a dirt bike or something, and learn to ride like most people do. No one jumps on a 600 supersport the first time they operate something with 2 wheels and a motor. Its nice thatyou offered to pay but your buddy should take some responsibility. Don't give up now, if you do bikes will scare you the rest of your life.

 

Judging that you think your riding career is over just because your friend let you ride his bike and you dropped it maybe riding isn't for you?
Yeah right. BS you're being a total wuss! I think you should take the safety course, a quick google search and I already found it for your area. http://www.sasksafety.org/programs/motorcycle.html
I took the course and it was the best thing I've done, and what I've learned from it will definitley save my life for future riding.
Don't be so quick to give up, things like this happen if you aren't taught properly and you start on something that has over 90hp. Goodluck.

 

Mate ...... Don't let a little accident discourage you, jut get yourself a 250cc.
I had a CBR250 RR for 1.5 years -it was a light,powerful, good looking bike.Once you've mastered a 250 then go for a 600 or a litre bike.

 

You will love riding...I agree with those that say you shouldn't let a little spill stop you. We all have gone down (my wife ran me over me at one point). Get back on the horse...you will be happy you did...trust me!!!

 

Welcome

 

These guys aren't steerin' ya wrong! I rode some dirt bikes and trials bikes when I was younger... but when I went out and went for my first road bike, I bought a Honda Rebel. It's an awsome, durable, little 250cc 'cruiser'. I still took the riding class and all that, but the leasons I learned on that bike during the year that I rode it really helped alot of things sink in deep where they need to when you're working on building confidence and skill. I would NEVER recommend something bigger than a 250cc for your very first bike... and if anybody gives you crap for it, what worked for me was "Well, if you're so concerned about my bike, why don't you buy me a new one so I can ride what you want me to ride?" Haha... that shuts em up quick.

Welcome to the forums, and yeah, don't wuss out on us. Riding isn't for everyone, but a timid 30 minutes can't show you the life of a rider and what we all enjoy so much. That being said... EVERYONE drops a bike at some point. Maybe sitting in your driveway, maybe doin' 5 miles an hour in a parking lot, maybe big-and-bad on the freeway. It'll happen. That's another good thing about most 250cc bikes... get a used one and you're not going to spend very much $$. That makes you feel alot better if you do drop it while learning. Killer is when you drop your $10K+ (american) bike with your countless, hard-to-replace kits and mods. Live and learn! (Oh, and a little 250cc bike has hella cheap insurance, and you're gonna get 60-70+ mpg. It was cheaper for me to buy my 250cc new, make payments, pay insurance AND gas... than it was to JUST pay for GAS on my 1971 Dodge Polara.)

 

don't let it discourage you. if he didn't give you instructions on how to handle the bike at low speeds (which, in my opinion, is tougher than at high speeds), then it's not completely your fault. here are a few things i did before i went for my first ride on my 600 Katana (which is so slow that it's more like a 500 or 250 even). first of all i read the Texas DPS motorcycle manual and got my permit. the manual went through the basics on how to steer and lean and all that. i also looked up as many videos on YouTube as possible. i probably spent at LEAST a couple hours watching youtube videos, Mordeth13 has some good videos for beginning riders. i also found a video that's sort of an ad for the MSF course, and they showed a few of the "drills" that they do in the course, so i learned a little bit there as well. the toughest part for me to learn was turning at slow speeds, like taking off from a stop sign and making a sharp right-hand turn, especially on that heavy Katana, it was frightening at first. the first right turn i took, i wasn't sure how much steering input would be enough or too much, and i went way too wide and almost went headfirst into an oncoming car who (fortunately) saw what was happening and pulled over to get out of my way. i felt completely retarded, but i learned from it and moved on. i learned pretty quick though, i did some slow strolls through my neighborhood and within an hour i was riding in traffic through town. Just keep at it, try to find you a decent used bike to learn on, and then when you feel confident enough, sell it and get a 600F4 or something like that. definitely don't jump from a 250 to a 1000, you'll learn real quick the price of a little too much throttle input.

 

Learning can be a biotch. But dont fret. I think a dirt bike is a great way to go. It teaches you more than you would think.