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Ever get scared teaching someone to ride?
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<blockquote data-quote="Scab" data-source="post: 510790" data-attributes="member: 1708"><p>I know what you mean about teaching someone else to ride. Try doing that with your wife! Geez, it makes me a nervous wreck!</p><p></p><p>Teaching, as everyone who has done it knows, is not an easy task. I requires a break-down of information about things we didn't even realize we knew. And, in my experiences, things that were learned easily myself, or things that came sorta naturally, are the absoulute hardest things to teach someone else. A lot of motorcycle riding is "feel" based informational processing. Now, the sensory input of how something shoud "feel" is a hard thing to explain or teach.</p><p></p><p>The bike does sound like a poor choice for her. My wife chose a Vulcan 500 that is very low, reasonably balanced, and only weighs 400-450 lbs. (Guessing). This bike has proved to have been a reasonably poor choice. She still wrestles the size and weight. When the physics of the size/weight have beaten her, it has been very discouraging to her. She has seriously considered quiting riding more than once.</p><p></p><p>The smaller CC bikes are easier simply because of size. I can find forgiveness in mistakes simply because MY size/weight can dominate the size/weight of the bike. Once a threshold is crossed where the new rider cannot dominate the size/weight of the bike, then an intimidating relationship is the result. If you are the intimidated side of the relationship, you cannot be the master.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scab, post: 510790, member: 1708"] I know what you mean about teaching someone else to ride. Try doing that with your wife! Geez, it makes me a nervous wreck! Teaching, as everyone who has done it knows, is not an easy task. I requires a break-down of information about things we didn't even realize we knew. And, in my experiences, things that were learned easily myself, or things that came sorta naturally, are the absoulute hardest things to teach someone else. A lot of motorcycle riding is "feel" based informational processing. Now, the sensory input of how something shoud "feel" is a hard thing to explain or teach. The bike does sound like a poor choice for her. My wife chose a Vulcan 500 that is very low, reasonably balanced, and only weighs 400-450 lbs. (Guessing). This bike has proved to have been a reasonably poor choice. She still wrestles the size and weight. When the physics of the size/weight have beaten her, it has been very discouraging to her. She has seriously considered quiting riding more than once. The smaller CC bikes are easier simply because of size. I can find forgiveness in mistakes simply because MY size/weight can dominate the size/weight of the bike. Once a threshold is crossed where the new rider cannot dominate the size/weight of the bike, then an intimidating relationship is the result. If you are the intimidated side of the relationship, you cannot be the master. [/QUOTE]
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