Teaching my G'f to ride on the blade....

**Fishy** · 9th March 2006, 08:15

Ok, so my girlfriend has never ridden a bike in her life and she has been wanting to learn how to ride for a while now and I have shown her the basic accelerator and clutch operation and how the gears and brakes work.

I have let her ride my blade around the driveway in first a few times. We haven't had any luck in trying to get our hands on a dirt bike to ride around the farm on so I thought ah fuck it she can learn on the blade.

Now Sarah is far from a wuss

and she is well coordinated :spudflip: so I took her down the road to a quite area and let slowly let her ride my blade

through first gear for about 50m just so she can get a feel for balance steering and brakes. She did fine doing that so I showed her how to change up into second and then back down to first and let her ride about 400m slowly up and down the road a few times

, again she was really good. She got her feet up and on the pegs and her gear operating skills were really good, she even managed a u turn ok.

Will do this a few more times and then might get her to steer around some cones a couple of times then she will be all set to go for her basic handling skill test......

Hahaha a girl learning to ride on a CBR1000RR!.

She'll be teaching me how to pull 12 o'clock wheelstands soon :slap:

**terbang** · 9th March 2006, 08:17

And very soon you will be the pillion..?

**Finn** · 9th March 2006, 08:19

Not exactly a learners bike Fish. You can borrow my dirt bike for a couple of weeks if you want. I'm not using it at the moment.

**Fishy** · 9th March 2006, 08:20

Yeah I very well might be....hmmmm no come to think of it no that would be against the law and I don't break the law

**Grahameeboy** · 9th March 2006, 08:20

god that she is learning on a restricted motorbike........

**Fishy** · 9th March 2006, 08:21

Originally Posted by Finn

Not exactly a learners bike Fish. You can borrow my dirt bike for a couple of weeks if you want. I'm not using it at the moment.

Shit that would be awesome man!. What is it?

**Insanity_rules** · 9th March 2006, 08:21

Way to go Fishslayer's GF. I learnt on a Suzuki GS550E and I thought I was hard. Mind you the big ol suzi weighed three times more than me and couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding.

Keep us posted on how she goes!

**imdying** · 9th March 2006, 08:22

I love it, absolutely love it! You'll never get her on a ZXR250 now!

**phoenixgtr** · 9th March 2006, 08:23

Haha. Well done. I've been doing the same with my missus, only not on a fireblade.

She's starting to understand why I love riding so much

**Fishy** · 9th March 2006, 08:25

Yeah she absolutley loves it, she is already wanting to go faster!. :slap:

**Colapop** · 9th March 2006, 08:26

Jeez I'm glad this thread is about actually learning to ride a bike (I thought when I saw the title you might be talking about something else...)

No-one loans me their bike....

**Finn** · 9th March 2006, 08:26

Originally Posted by Fishslayer

Shit that would be awesome man!. What is it?

It's an 05 stripped down CRF250x. Very loud Pro Circuit pipe with some mods. How big is your farm?

**Grahameeboy** · 9th March 2006, 08:31

Originally Posted by Colapop

Jeez I'm glad this thread is about actually learning to ride a bike (I thought when I saw the title you might be talking about something else...)

No-one loans me their bike....

I am glad for you too Mr Fizz.......

**bugjuice** · 9th March 2006, 08:34

I've seen and heard horror stories of newbs learning on bikes like that.. and it ain't pretty.. just watch how it goes.. only takes a sneeze, and it's all over

hire out a 250 and have some fun.. be way easier to learn on