How do you get moving on your bike?

[lanci]

Personally, I like to slow down a long way before the intersection and wobble along at 1-2kph, madly waggling the bars from side to side in an effort to stay upright without having to flop both feet down before the lights change. When I do get a green, I most often panic and dump the clutch, either stalling or taking off in a cloud of smoke at a funny angle to the lane I'm in.

This tends to require over-correction and much flailing about of the knees.

Following my elite drag-racing start, I usually have to brake hard almost immediately. Another set of traffic lights is often coming up fast, requiring me to repeat the performance.

Fucking classic!!!

[lanci]

I pull every leaver and push every button, If im not moving at the end of it - something is wrong.

Another!!! So so good.

In all seriousness though, I practiced on my inclined driveway for 1 and a half hours and still only partially got it. What it comes down is simple riding experience (I don't have much) but eventually you stop stalling and are able to do hill starts ok, kind of like me.

[crshbndct]

well i ride a 400, (thanks to the letter i wrote them about being to big for a 250) and so for me its just 1500 rpm, and clutch out till the bike starts to pull against the brake then easy off the front brake till i am moving and feet straight up.

all my starts since a started riding have been on an uphill.

never used the rear brake for hill starts etc.

[Pancakes]

I thought this was about teaching newbies how to hill start? Of course you can hand off brake, bitta gas and off once your used to your bike/experienced etc, BUT, how was you very first hill start? Not so smooth I'll bet.

[Bullitt]

I wouldnt recommend the way I learnt to hill start when i lived in Dunedin.

I just rode everywhere and hoped I never had to do a hill start. Even if your only taking off on the flat all the time you still subconsciously learning better control of the bike and the clutch. So eventually after something like a year I had to do a hill start and even though id never done one I knew the technique so could do it second nature.

At the time I lived on a hill and had one intersection where I would have had to stop if there was someone on the pedestrian crossing or someone was coming towards me and turning right. Luckily this never happened until I was ready to handle it.

Like I said it was a poor idea however it worked perfectly and avoided the perception I had of unintentionally rolling backwards.

[Roj]

Back in my younger days when I did not have a car, I used to roll up to a set of lights and balance for about 5 seconds before needing to put my feet down, then I would put my left down. it was always good if I could time it so I didn't need to put my feet down at all, the things that were down in the name of looking cool, instead of common sense and safety...

[sprag]

for me i do the following,

Change down gears and stop at lights leaving the bike in first, left foot on the ground and right foot on the brake, right hand is also on the brake, when leaving release brake (both right hand and foot) drive off.