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Originally Posted by catback
Well there you go, you have prior background but for beginners that are new to bikes most don't realize that you can get seriously hurt just learning in the parking lot, especially if it's a powerful or heavy bike. I've seen beginners have some pretty painful mess ups and I'm sure most of the people there didn't think what they saw would be seen there or could happen to them while learning there. Actually from my experience most beginners i've seen go into learning to ride with the assumption that they could drop the bike and at worse it could fall on them until they get on the street where they could have a collision with a car, none seem to expect that they roll a wheelie or a stoppie or that they crash into a wall 50' away. That's all I'm saying, beginners never really know the possible bad things that could happen while learning.
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I think that what makes things harder is that alot of people are trying to learn how to operate a manual transmission, and learn to ride a bike at the same time.
when I first took the MSF, I had no previous motorcycle/moped experience, though I had always wanted to. and when I went to the class, everything came very naturally.
I had been driving a manual transmission car for a few years at that point, so I could concentrate on learning to ride, not how to shift, etc.
some people just get overwhelmed trying to learn it. I was watching a MSF class one saturday, and one of the ladies was having trouble. she kept getting worse and worse, and more panicked. one one of the stop and go excercises, she pegged the throttle, dumped the clutch, and the bike stood up. then she mashed the brake, the bike came down, and she fell over with the bike.
from the looks of it, she would have cracked her head pretty good on the lot if she hadnt had her helmet.