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Ever get scared teaching someone to ride?
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<blockquote data-quote="MotorToad" data-source="post: 510804" data-attributes="member: 14083"><p>I'll help you vocalize what she needs to learn. "Gee ess fi hunned!" I'm sure the FLJHGHJwhatever is a perfectly easy bike to ride, and I know that the big Hardleys have excellent low-speed handling characteristics, but it ain't the bike for her. Not to learn on and maybe not at all. She's fundamentally doing it wrong; she's obviously intimidated by either the bike, the cost of the bike, the operation of the bike, and/or the fact that she's not already a bad-ass harley-ridin' maniac. I've dealt with a learner girl who passed the MSF and still couldn't get her GS-500 around the parking lot at her apartment complex. She wasn't even a waif-like toy as your future accident victim, she was 5'4" or so and on the swim team in high school. But when her helmet went on and the clutch lever pulled her mind was blank. Even after passing the MSF when left to her own devices she couldn't start the bike, she couldn't stop the bike, she couldn't turn the bike. Like teaching a fish to hit a baseball. "Stop flopping and swing the damn bat!" Anyway, if you've made it this far what I mean is that she might not have the aptitude to ride, and she sure as hell doesn't need to be sacrificing a $20k wad of chrome finding that out.</p><p></p><p>As for the Rider's Edge course using the B Last, if there's a reason it's harder to learn on than a Rebel 250 or whatever old rat bike the MSF happens to have, it's not because of the raging power of that half-liter air heater.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MotorToad, post: 510804, member: 14083"] I'll help you vocalize what she needs to learn. "Gee ess fi hunned!" I'm sure the FLJHGHJwhatever is a perfectly easy bike to ride, and I know that the big Hardleys have excellent low-speed handling characteristics, but it ain't the bike for her. Not to learn on and maybe not at all. She's fundamentally doing it wrong; she's obviously intimidated by either the bike, the cost of the bike, the operation of the bike, and/or the fact that she's not already a bad-ass harley-ridin' maniac. I've dealt with a learner girl who passed the MSF and still couldn't get her GS-500 around the parking lot at her apartment complex. She wasn't even a waif-like toy as your future accident victim, she was 5'4" or so and on the swim team in high school. But when her helmet went on and the clutch lever pulled her mind was blank. Even after passing the MSF when left to her own devices she couldn't start the bike, she couldn't stop the bike, she couldn't turn the bike. Like teaching a fish to hit a baseball. "Stop flopping and swing the damn bat!" Anyway, if you've made it this far what I mean is that she might not have the aptitude to ride, and she sure as hell doesn't need to be sacrificing a $20k wad of chrome finding that out. As for the Rider's Edge course using the B Last, if there's a reason it's harder to learn on than a Rebel 250 or whatever old rat bike the MSF happens to have, it's not because of the raging power of that half-liter air heater. [/QUOTE]
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