u/Consistent_Reason906

Hey guys!

I posted here last week how I crashed on my CBT (link: https://www.reddit.com/r/MotoUK/s/y0OB4WkIW1)

I just wanted to do a follow up post to say how overwhelmed and thankful I am to all of you. The amount of support you all showed was amazing and it really helped me feel a lot better about it all.

I went out to do my CBT yesterday and passed. It felt so much better this time round. I felt a lot more relaxed on the bike and actually had fun! I tried some counter steering out which gave me so much more control. Thankfully one of my best friends throughout this whole process has guided and supported me which has helped me out so much too.

But yeah, just wanted to say that and thank you everyone being amazing and supportive on here. Next week I train for the bigger bikes so onwards and upwards up wards. I do have a 125 that I’m going to go out and practice on too. Also if you’re reading this and you scuffed your CBT too, go out and do it again, much more fun the second time round for me.

Much love all!

Hey guys, just hoping to get a little confidence boost and hear from others with similar experiences. For context, I’m in my 30s and been driving a car since I was 18.

I did my CBT and this was my first time ever riding a motorcycle so I was excited and nervous. To begin with everything went really well. I was riding around in the car park, managing it and the instructor was lovely and encouraging. Got through the whole morning and all was looking great.

We then went for the road ride and instantly I made an error. When turning right out of the training centre, for some stupid reason I just let go of the clutch all in one go, as the throttle was on and because I was looking straight ahead, wasn’t turning. Panicked, and went straight into the curb and the bike came down on me. The instructor was behind me he pulled up, reminded me I need to hit the kill-switch before asking if I was okay. I felt so embarrassed and couldn’t stop apologising but the instructor was lovely and kept saying “it’s okay don’t worry it happens”.

We sheepishly went back to the training centre and filled in an accident form checked the bike over which was, apart from a few scuffs, okay somehow. He asked if I wanted to continue or call it. I really didn’t want to go out like that so asked if I could try again. We the went out and did the 2 hours of riding. Part way through I was thinking to myself, I just want to go home this is scary as fuck. Other times I was cruising around nicely.

I need to go back and redo my CBT due to lack of confidence on the ride and some errors I was making and I completely agreed with him. It was so scary on the bike. My target fixation wasn’t good as there were times when I wanted to turn and just… wasn’t. Panicked slightly but then corrected and it was okay. I was a bit erratic with the controls in general at times.

Did anyone else have a pretty rough experience? I was expecting to come out buzzing but I’ve come out just feeling a bit worried. Riding the bike itself was a lot scarier than I thought it would be but that’s manly due to me not feeling like I have full control of the bike (especially when turning at speed) which in turn doesn’t make feel 100% safe. I guess it’ll come with experience but I just feel a little disappointed and deflated as it didn’t go quite how I expected. I don’t want to give up and will be booking another CBT with them as they said they should be able to squeeze me in for another day pretty quickly if I wanted. The instructor felt confident I just need another day and I should be good. But I’ve just got in the back of my mind that I don’t want to do it but I think that just the scared part of me. I feel another day will give me a good idea of whether this is for me or not.

Tl;dr Crashed bike on first turn during riding section, got back on and finished anyway. Very scary riding the bike and have to redo CBT. Don’t want to give up on it after one try but part of me is tentative due to feeling worried about it.

Also it’s given me a whole new appreciation for you guys. I always take extra care when looking for bikes on the road, try to move out the way and give space etc but this really opened my eyes to it all!

EDIT

Thank you everyone for being so supportive. It really does help me feel a little less silly about it all. I’ve got another CBT booked for next week so hopefully this time it goes better!