Hello everyone I'm new here and I think this is agreat site. Hopefully I can learn a lot from you guys.

I was wondering who taught you guys how to ride?

My father taught me how to ride. He had been riding for many years, he is a veteran, to him riding is like second nature.

The first sport motorcycle my dad bought was a Suzuki GS500. My first impression of it was that it was scary LOL. He took me for a ride and I was mortified, I didn't allow him to go faster than 30 mph and even that was too fast for me. I was completely terrified of the bike. I was very curious though so I eventually relented and let him teach me how to ride it.

I remember when learning getting the coordination of throttling down, clutching in, shifting, etc, was not easy to grasp. It took a lot of practice just for me to get out of first gear (a whole day). And let's not mention cornering, everytime I tunerd a corner I felt like I was going to fall over so I only turned corners doing 9 mph or less in first gear when I felt safe. And the scariest of all was riding on the road and feeling a strong gust of wind, I immedately slowed down. I NEVER went anywhere without a helmet, gloves, and my jacket, even if it was to the end of the driveway. And if there was a speeding car of truck behind me that began to tailgate, I pulled over to let them pass. I was a big puss basically.

That was a while ago. I look at my CBR now and wonder why I was so afraid of it. I am completely comfortable and confident now but it was a long journey to get to the level I'm at now. Everytime I see guys on the road with street bikes I wonder how their journey was when they first learned how to ride? Some guys just seem like naturals.

Was I the only one who was ever terrified of the big bad bike at one point?

 

I sort of taught myself.....had to earn my broken wings somehow but the more you ride the better. The MSF course was a huge help when I was ready to ride for real on the street and all.....[8D]

 

My best friend the leapurchaun tought me how...lol nah i tought myself on my 125 (first bike i ever rode) dad got it for me wanted me to wait awhile till I was older one day he came home and I was ridin down the road lol dropped it 3 or 4 times then i quickly got the hang of it

 

ya, my friends taught me on a qaud/ dirtbike for acouple years and then went to a streetbike. its not that bad tho.

 

Self taught on dirt bikes when I was younger. Just started on the street last summer. If you have a decent amount of coordination and balance it will come naturally i guess.

 

introdouced to it by my dad, he basically could only watch me practice engaging the clutch, from there on, i was self taught, on the street, straight up illegal (but insured!!) for almost 4 years

 

Hello & Welcome!!

I guess riding a quad & a moped was explained to me...then I bought my 250 and had to get it home, so again it was explained to me, but I rode it home myself. Then I took the MSF course and fully learned what I needed to know.

 

my parents both used to ride, but when I was born they put the bikes away. Very rarely my father would take his bike back out and he’d take me with him and I loved it. So when my husband got his first bike (93 ninja ex500), he and my father coached me through my first couple rides on this dead end street behind my house and at this circle where I could learn to lean. Not to long after I got my own bike (97 ninja ex500) and my father took both of us down to the high school where he made us ride in tight circles and figure eights until it was second nature. Then he made us ride through cones and walk our bikes through cones. I was just as much of a nervous wreck as you when I first learned to ride, but the more I rode the more comfortable I got with my bike.

I got into an accident with the ninja and the foot peg sliced through my knee, I didn’t even realize I was hurt until I tried to stand up and couldn’t. The funny thing is when I went down, I was more concerned about where the bike was and that someone got it out of the road, but that was before I knew I was injured. You’d think that something like that would make you more scared of riding, but really I was going nuts for two months in a cast and couldn’t wait to get back on my bike. so, as soon as I got to take my cast off I made my husband take me for a ride on his bike and as soon as I was able, I was right back on my bike again. When I first got back on my bike, I’ll admit I was nervous, but as soon as I got out onto the open road all my fears seemed to just fade away.

A couple years ago, I traded in my ninja for my cbr and that was definitely the best decision I ever made. The cbr is so much smoother, faster and handles like a dream, I wished I had bought one long before. I didn't have much of a chance to get nervous with the cbr. I thought i would be nervouse riding a bigger bike for the first time, but the cbr was actually a lot easier to ride and it just made it easy to let go of the ninja... well, that's my story

 

can't really remember it was the early 70's,(hell that was along time a go[:@]) honda 70 was the 1st, it was a hand me down from my older brother

 

A doctor tought me how to ride. This was the doctor who scraped the gravel out of my road rash with a stiff brush. That hurt a HELL of a lot more than dumping the bike and sliding down the pavement did. Before that incident I was an invincible 17 year old. After that incident I developed a deeper respect for the bike and decided I had a few things to learn.