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Indybuell
Posted on Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 10:40 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Ok, so yesterday was full of ups and downs. First let me preface this with saying, this is my first bike, ever.

I show up to pick up the bike. The bike is about 3 miles from my house on a country road. I figured, I would have my wife follow me home, and I could just ride it.

I guess that's where my logic went horribly wrong. The friction point on this bike, to me a total noob, seems to be very small. I kept either giving the bike too much throttle, and it would take off like a bullet, or not enough and it would stall out on me and die. So to make an hour long story short, I drained the battery starting the bike so many times. In the end I ended up having the guy ride the bike to my house, and then I gave him a ride back in my truck. Talk about embarassing : ) Hopefully I'm not the only person that has done this. By the time I went to bed, I was ready to sell it already.

Don't worry, I'm not selling it, just more determined now than ever to figure this thing out. Anyone else do this, or am I the only loser here?
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Ezblast
Posted on Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 10:58 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Congrats! You are the only person to do that! - lol
EZ
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Ezblast
Posted on Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 10:59 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Seriously - take an MSF course - you'll thank me.
EZ
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Indybuell
Posted on Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 11:04 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I am however I couldn't get in until October 3rd : (
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Mytripb
Posted on Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 11:05 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

My boyfriend took me to a parking lot and had me practice - Well about a 1/2 hour after I bought the bike and 5 minutes after I started riding it, I dropped it trying to come to a stop. There I was laying on the ground thinking, thank god I bought a used bike (and was wearing a helmet). Got up, checked the bike and only had a broken blinker. It took me a couple days of parking lot practice and a Rider's Edge course (perfect score on the skill eval!) to really get the feeling of the bike.
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Indybuell
Posted on Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 11:07 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I'm almost thinking the $300 for the Rider's Edge may be worth it as opposed to waiting forever for the local ABATE class.
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Mytripb
Posted on Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 11:08 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

With Rider's Edge - you'll be learning on the Blast, can't beat that.
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Reepicheep
Posted on Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 12:16 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

The classes are really good. The clutch gets really easy with practice, though it feels nearly impossible the first time somebody tries it.

The MSF course I took, and the Honda NYPUM class I helped teach, used the same excercise to teach it... You take a running bike, sit on it with your feet on the ground, and use the clutch to rock it forward and your feet to push it backwards. So you never really move any distance, or even lift your feet, you are just kind of sitting there rocking.

Do it until you are bored out of your mind, and the clutch will start feeling natural.

$300 is money well spent... cheaper then most accidents, and the training is just about certain to save you from at least one hard bounce over the life of the bike. And I would much rather have taken the class on a Blast then that stupid Rebel 250 I had to use for the Ohio MSF classes.
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Ezblast
Posted on Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 03:55 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Concur!
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Berkshire
Posted on Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 08:36 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

you need to give it more gas!
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Gearheaderiko
Posted on Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 09:38 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Good advice from Reepicheap, Loser!

Seriously, if thats the only stupid thing you ever do on a bike, you'll be ahead of the rest of us! Glad you have a sense of humor about it.


EZ LoL!
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Ezblast
Posted on Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 09:49 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

humor!
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Reuel
Posted on Saturday, August 02, 2008 - 07:29 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I crashed into a snowbank on the second day I had my new Blast! Thank God snow is soft!!!
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Berkshire
Posted on Sunday, August 03, 2008 - 03:34 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

snow is not always soft. some snow is VERY not soft!
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