Learning to ride - the hard way...

**slofox** · 3rd January 2011, 15:12

Poor bike...(ripped off from another forum)

**paturoa** · 3rd January 2011, 15:18

Hey this corner turned the other way before!

**EJK** · 3rd January 2011, 15:52

Pause at 1:48.

How would he have felt at that time? :-(

**tri boy** · 3rd January 2011, 16:34

Obviously not enough Vodka had been consumed.

**Phreak** · 3rd January 2011, 16:43

Idiot not wearing protective gear LUCKY it was grass he landed in...

**Daffyd** · 3rd January 2011, 17:47

Maybe there's no russian word for 'countersteer'

**Hurrie** · 3rd January 2011, 17:56

its funny how the guy with the camera is so relaxed about the whole thing, most people would be like "oh shit" and run over. but that again he put his mate on an r6 for his first ride so im guessing he expected it to happen and just needed someone to write off the bike

**Gibbo89** · 3rd January 2011, 18:01

he was coming into that corner so much quicker then when he left it at the start of the vid

**EJK** · 3rd January 2011, 18:03

Originally Posted by Gibbo89

he was coming into that corner so much quicker then when he left it at the start of the vid

**Cayman911** · 3rd January 2011, 18:07

when i got my bike i was riding the hard way too, 'cept the riding wasnt hard, i was :P

**SMOKEU** · 3rd January 2011, 19:08

Haha what an idiot. Videos like this always crack me up, it's usually stupid Americans who have never ridden a bike before all of a sudden think they're Rossi just because they're on a nice sports bike.

**Milts** · 4th January 2011, 11:38

Originally Posted by SMOKEU

Haha what an idiot. Videos like this always crack me up, it's usually stupid Americans who have never ridden a bike before all of a sudden think they're Rossi just because they're on a nice sports bike.

Perhaps it's "stupid americans" because americans are the ones who can and do video every aspect of their lives, and having done so upload it to youtube? No nation has a monopoly on stupidity.

That said, what kind of muppet lends someone an R6 to learn on, on a road, without (clearly) the most basic instructions. Yet another video to be added to the collection on target fixation.

**SMOKEU** · 4th January 2011, 12:59

Originally Posted by Milts

Perhaps it's "stupid americans" because americans are the ones who can and do video every aspect of their lives, and having done so upload it to youtube? No nation has a monopoly on stupidity.

That said, what kind of muppet lends someone an R6 to learn on, on a road, without (clearly) the most basic instructions. Yet another video to be added to the collection on target fixation.

Logic dictates that if you can't ride a bike, then learn on something like a GN250 in a quiet carpark or an XR250 on a quiet offroad trail. Don't try and run before you can walk.