Confidence drop??

[Marmoot]

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?

true wot he said.
Inflating my tyres usually helps.

Unless if it is caused by accidents (or witnessing an accident)

[Str8 Jacket]

I had a couple of accidents within a month of each other a while back. The first accident being a write-off. After the second accident I started to think that "someone" was trying to tell me something and for about a week started making plans to sell the bike etc etc.
Anyway, long story short I have found that taking things reeeaally slowly by not going out for a ride if your not feeling a bit off (mentally and physically). I also found that riding familiar roads over and over again by myself really helped. why I say by yourself is that its just you and your bike, no one to keep up with absolutely no pressure..... you'll find that it'll just come back to you.

[The_Dover]

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...

Fuck, you'd think Nuanh was on commision for promoting my stable of man whores!

JSG, just button off when you feel you're riding like shite. Wish I'd taken my own advice a few times! But you will find days where you go out after a good nights sleep, the weather is fine, you know your scooter is in fine fettle and you are mentally focused. Then give it tits and you'll see that it's just a feeling.

You can't have gotten any shitter anyway!!

[NhuanH]

Fuck, you'd think Nuanh was on commision for promoting my stable of man whores!

I don't even need to collect my commission in cash...

[avgas]

I actually had a dead spot in my motorcycling life when i hated them (11-13), this just came down to a fear thing cos i had crashed too often.
Just sit on the bike in the gargage, rev it a bit in there, and each day go for a short ride (longer each day) - the confidence will slowly come back.

[Macktheknife]

JSG, most riders feel a bit like that after a bin, dont let it worry you. I learned from a good friend that one good way of restoring your confidence is to go back to BASICS, preferably in a carpark somewhere and do your slow speed handling skills for an hour or so. Then do medium speed, then go find your favourite piece of road and do a ride on that just focussing on the basics you have just been practicing. This helps you to remind yourself of how much you have learned and freshens the skills a bit. Another idea is you can do a medium speed test on your favourite road, note down the time and set your self a MAX speed limit on that run (eg.110km), without increasing your MAX speed limit how much time can you take off your run time? This makes it all about skill improvement not speed. Hope this helps,
Mack

[The Stranger:Me]

What do you mean?
I saw you doing about 180 down the back strait.

[Teflon]

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

Yes, when i lowsided and came close to going over a cliff. i'm still only riding around half the pace i use to ride, even slower on the Raglan road where it happend.

Have you played with the suspension on the CBR?.

I'm finding the TL difficult to ride compared to the VTR, you could be having the same sort of trouble.

[stevedee]

Mate I think everyone gets this on occasion. Make sure when you ride you are in ride mode, not thinking of work mode, argument with girlfriend mode or I ain't got no money mode.

I rode a few weeks ago after having a particularly shit week at work, I did all things I never do. I stopped at Upper Hutt for a coffee with a mate and then rode home. It's been around 30 years since I started riding but that day I was a learner again. I gave it a rest for a while, thought about the dumb arse things I did, (braking hard with the front in the rain pitched over, going way to deep in to corners, undertaking, ignoring the white lines in the light rain that was falling...) and now I am back to normal. I did find a carpark and rode around a bit, and I did get out the good old "Proficient Motorcycling" book and read a bit. Good things take time. Don't sweat it to much.

spd:-)

[Oakie]

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.

Yeah, wot he said! In HR circles it's called 'The Dance of Learning'.
First Step is called 'Unconciously Incompetent' and is when you don't know what you don't know.
Step Two is called 'Consciously Incompetant' and is when you know you don't know stuff
Step Three is 'Consciously competant' and is when you know how to do it but have to think about it.
Step Four is 'Unconsciously Competant' and is when you know it all and it just happens without you having to think about it.

I'd say you're moving from step one into step two. Don't fret. It'll come back and the confidence will be real ... not just feeling good because you don't know any better.

[texmo]

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?

His tyres you have gp70's

[chickenfunkstar]

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

Mate, I think you you should just stop thinking about the whole confidence issue and just ride. The more you think about it the more you'll doubt your self. I think it was Ben Harper who said 'The less you expect the more you'll be pleased'. If its any consolation you seem much quicker than you did a couple of months ago.

If I were you i'd stop trying to hang off the bike and focus on getting the bike leant over in the turns. I can corner ok without hanging right off the side of my bike.

Thirdly, definatly listen to Strat and get a watch with an alarm...

[HDTboy]

His tyres you have gp70's

I'd be keen to swap bikes and try your theory out, cause I know mine's well set up

[Motu]

RIB's got it - you couldn't ride for shit before,and thought you were oh so shit hot - now you realise just how useless you are,and have to learn all over again.Like Oakie says,it's steps...some are big,some seem to get you nowhere,some seem to go backwards...just keep on keeping on and you'll get to even more steps.You think I know how to ride after 35 years non stop?

[SixPackBack]

I wonder if the lack of confidence is anyway connected to your much discussed Erction problems.....just a thought but maybe Viagra would harden you up [ if you know what I mean }