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Hiya - :spudwave:
Any of you'll experienced a stage where you felt a drop in your confidence levels??
I learnt to ride in Dec04 and have been riding regularly since late Jan, done bout 35K's of mostly weekend rides since then.
Suddenly I can't ride. I wasn't that great to begin with but now I'm having problems with the absolute basics..... I was a lot more efficient 6 months ago.....
What did you guys/gals do to get out of your rut??
JSG
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Yeah mate I've lost a lot of confidence since my bin - and my biggest fear at the moment is not actually about riding, but that I might hurt myself and not be able to complete my qualification. I think once I've got that out the way I will start feeling a lot happier. I was riding like a complete nana at the trackday until I had that session as pillion with WT. After that I had more confidence about leaning my bike over and going a bit faster into the corners. Work out what is worrying you with your riding and work on correcting that. I'm sure your confidence will return.
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Originally Posted by justsomeguy
Hiya - :spudwave:
Any of you'll experienced a stage where you felt a drop in your confidence levels??
I learnt to ride in Dec04 and have been riding regularly since late Jan, done bout 35K's of mostly weekend rides since then.
Suddenly I can't ride. I wasn't that great to begin with but now I'm having problems with the absolute basics..... I was a lot more efficient 6 months ago.....
What did you guys/gals do to get out of your rut??
JSG
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Cheers RR
I know I can lean further and ride harder (done it before several times) - but for some reason I can't seem to do it........
My fall actually made me more confident - I now LOVE riding in the rain. I was fastest at the session where it rained yesterday - I even remember passing a few people........
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Yeah Andy I love you too. Come on, don't ya have any pearls of wisdom??
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Only out on the road because of the cagers, dodgy roads and plastic tyres. The track is different
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you can ride..??
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should have taped up ur speedo!
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Just ride the fuckin thing. You've done more Ks than me, been riding longer, have the same bike, and crashed fewer times.
What's stopping you from being a better rider than me?
Ok im coming out of my closet just this one time, I too kinda have a curvy figure which makes it worse beacuse im a guy. Well the waist kinda goes in and the bum pushes out. When I was in college the girls in my year would slap me on the arse and squeeze because apparently it is firm, tight...
I wear jeans
.....if I find this as a signature Ill hunt you down, serious, capice?
Best Frenemy you could have!
You also have days where everything goes completely wrong, everything feels weird etc etc.
Time... it will all eventually come back. After my offs, I was over-cautious, seeing and imagining huge danger in ridiculous places...
Return Of The Black Panther
Your probably just about to make a brake-through. It's not that your riding has got worse (you only think you were better but you didn't have the experience at the time to know that),it's just you are just starting to realise just how much you need to learn. This is the point you have just enough riding experience to know that your riding lacks skills but not enough knowledge to know what you need to improve. Relax and let it come. Hold your lines, don't do any silly moves and it flow. I ride like shit when I second guest myself (very dangerious if it happens in a corner), but if I just chill the flow soon comes back.
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Kia kaha, kia toa, kia manawanui ( Be strong, be brave, be steadfast and sure)
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His front brakes - connect them back up!
And the lack of fairings affecting aerodynamics.
The cure - sell the fucking bike and give up. Pick it up when your manhood is back. Oh, and get a watch with an alarm....
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look at the bike check your tyres and preasures , get a second opinion on the bike b4 you think its a lack of confidence, have you had an eye test , do you need sleep?
All Hail King Carl!
you need more strength. Go spend some time at the YMCA, with Maurice. Dover can hook you up.
With Maurice behind ya, you'll be riding real fast buoy...
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