Oopsie

[bezajel]

I dropped my bike again!

Turning out of our little street to head up into the hills where I've been practising (nothing but hills around here). Cocked up changing into second, slipped into neutral, realised why I wasn't going anywhere, got her into second and voom! stall! fallover to the left!

Wasn't hurt at all except feeling like a noob in front of WasPhantom (luckily following behind me) and some neighbour. Neil assessed the damage, determined that the 'bike still worked, and we took her back home for straightening up (clutch lever had a strange wee bend to it).

Swallowed my pride and we went for our little ride anyway. Went well apart from being very timid with speed still (largely narrow, hilly, windy streets granted, but 40 on the easier bits still felt like OMG).

[Mom]

OOps! It happens. Maybe an idea to get the bike taken to a more learner friendly flat area for a bit of confidence building. Riding really slowly is actually harder than riding fast, momentum is your friend

Keep at it though.

[portokiwi]

Chin up girl. Accidents happen.
At least you were ok. Bikes can be fixed. Bones take time.
Great to here you got stright back on and went for that ride.
That keeps the confidence up.
Remember what mum said... try flat and a little more speed as it helps the balance. Main thing.... DONT GIVE UP.

[CB ARGH]

^^

I can just imagine that being used in the worst case scenario...

Officer: Sir do you have a reason for doing 165 in a 100 zone?
Noob: I do indeed sir, momentum is my friend.
Officer: Your an idiot
Noob: Have a donut

[carver]

consider yourself lucky, last time i crashed i could have easily killed my ex and myself.

[CB ARGH]

Oh by the way, yeah, shit happens some times! I thankfully haven't dropped the bike (thanks to dropping my old motocross bike 100,000 times and learning the true feeling of gravity)... but I have done something a bit... stupid.

I filtered through about 20 cars and went to the front of the que. The light went green, I felt a bit under pressure knowing there were 20 angry bastards behind me thinking "F**king teenager"... I over-revved and stalled. Haha

[Mom]

Chin up girl. Accidents happen.
At least you were ok. Bikes can be fixed. Bones take time.
Great to here you got stright back on and went for that ride.
That keeps the confidence up.
Remember what mum said... try flat and a little more speed as it helps the balance. Main thing.... DONT GIVE UP.

I had a very slow speed whoopsie a couple of years ago, try as I might, the area I had to manouver in to avoid this dog that wanted to munch my legs as I came up HIS driveway, was insufficent to avoid a fall. That and the friggen kerb my rear tyre connected with...LOL. Going very slowly up a gravel drive, curving left through 45 degrees, GN with no chop down/open up power to assist me, curbed the rear and over she went. Worst of it was a simple foot plant would have stopped me toppling but... I picked the only place this bloody driveway had a deep culvert hard against it, my foot hit fresh air and the rest was history GN went down, I attempted a hollywood that was ignored the bike was tyres up, bars down in a ditch...LOL

It happens, momentum

[Number One]

Keep on keeping on - you'll get it with practise! AND YAY another chicky out and about on a bike in Welly...might see you round sometime

[CB ARGH]

Keep on keeping on - you'll get it with practise! AND YAY another chicky out and about on a bike in Welly...might see you round sometime

There's not many of the biker girls out there (WAAAAAAH!!!!). I take note of each biker and give a nod or a wave or whatever, probably seen about 50 bikers in the week (650km's distance btw) and finally today, a biker chick! Sadly wasn't the real Bik3rChick (or however it is spelt - sorry mavis!)

[Number One]

There's not many of the biker girls out there

Actually there are fucken heaps of us girls out there...you just not looking hard enough

[MadDuck]

There's not many of the biker girls out there

Probably more of us out there than you realise. Sometime tough to tell with all the gear on as we fly past you at "warp" speed

[Mom]

Probably more of us out there than you realise. Sometime tough to tell with all the gear on as we fly past you at "warp" speed

Warp speed is right, in your dreams

Girls are everywhere!

[howdamnhard]

I dropped my bike again!

Turning out of our little street to head up into the hills where I've been practising (nothing but hills around here). Cocked up changing into second, slipped into neutral, realised why I wasn't going anywhere, got her into second and voom! stall! fallover to the left!

Glad you weren't hurt,remember the clutch is your friend.Use it to smooth things out,great when you get it in the wrong gear by mistake or the engine ceases etc,etc.Don.t worry about the speed thing,take it as slowly as is comfortable,the speed will come with time.It's probably best to take it slowly for now.Just keep riding.

[shafty]

Hand in there Girl, as Mom says, learning on hills is blardy hard, so don't beat up on yourself, you'll do great.

Nice bike BTW!

[MadDuck]

Hand in there Girl, as Mom says, learning on hills is blardy hard, so don't beat up on yourself, you'll do great.

Yeah dont beat yourself up ...you will get there and laugh at your early days just like the rest of us.

I keep dropping my bike at the top of my driveway - cant imagine why. Worse thing for me is I can only just lift it up so need to go ask the neighbour to help me...