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Originally Posted by waltert
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.
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I didn't get to witness this one but my instructor told us of an incident where a lady brought her young son to the class with her and the kid was playing around on the outside of the practice area while she was learning/riding. She was doing one of the exercises where you have to do it some speed and the instructor tells her to do it again but faster because shes too slow. Well she does it faster the next time but too fast and she's heading straight towards her kid on the outside of the track, instead of stopping any number of ways she panicks. And you know when you panick your muscles tense up well she panicked and her grip on the throttle tightened and increased her speed a bit while she froze up. She ended up running over her son and later tried suing the school and instructors.