r/NewRiders

Was driving on a wet, slippery (cause of all the paint) garage parking lot earlier today when a Camry in front of me slams its brakes. I had enough time to slow down (I wasn’t tailgating), and then I noticed he wasn’t moving at all so I went around him. Every spot immediately around us was full but there were a whole section of spots around 10 spots down that was empty so I assumed both of us would be going to that area, especially because no one in the spots around us at the time had gone into their car for him to assume that a spot was about to open up. But I get it, for some disabled people getting a spot as close to the entrance as possible can make it much easier.

As I rode around him on the driver’s side he rolled his window down, scowled and then smirked at me and said “you got lucky you ain’t crashed dawg, you feel me.” Then rolled his window up and sped out of there.

Some cagers are just psychopaths that genuinely WANT to hurt bikers and make it look like an accident. I don’t understand it. It’s truly evil. But it exists and you have to ride knowing these evil people are out there.

Just got off the phone with my 23 year old cousin who rides an R3 and thinks he’s outgrown it because “like, dude, I REALLY have to crank the throttle to get it up to 80 on the highway man.” He said this after renting a GSX-8R.

No, you haven’t outgrown it. You just don’t have the skill yet to unlock its full potential, and there’s no shame in that.

Yes, high cc bikes have more low end torque that makes it easier to start on a hill and prevent the bike from lugging at low speeds in 2nd gear. But if this bothers you that much on your 300cc bike then it just means you haven’t mastered friction zone and clutch control yet. A skilled motorcyclist can work a 300cc bike in 2nd gear without going down into first using just clutch control, and that includes stopping and starting in 2nd (yeah you don’t need a crotch rocket to start in 2nd, shocker!).

And yes, it’s annoying having to crank the throttle to get it up to 80-90 on the highway. But with just a few months under your belt, you have no business going that fast on a highway anyways. The last thing you wanna do is get up to 95 on a highway only to come up to a curve you were not ready for and risk paralyzing yourself.

Learn. Enjoy. Unlock the potential of your beginner bike before moving on. Because trust me, you haven’t unlocked that potential yet.

Finished the first day of riding today, and passed the written exam. It’s so much fun. It’s so much easier to learn than I expected, a lot of similar principles of a bicycle but with faster and much heavier machinery haha. Much more dangerous, but my goodness it’s fun. Lots of muscle memory to get down, but so satisfying when things start to “click”

Totally worth the cost. If someone is curious about getting into riding and is on the fence of signing up for training, go for it!! Do it when the weather isn’t blazing hot. It’s still reaching the triple digits here in LA, but the riding portion started in the wee hours of the morning so it wasn’t too terrible.

Go for itttt