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Incline riding tips/techniques

For starting while on an incline.
hand on front brake. Slowly release clutch until you feel the rear start to buck and the revs drop. Add gas and ease up on the brake.

Practice on flatland first.
 
I practiced various methods on hills in SF. The easiest is using the rear brake and then let the clutch in with some throttle while letting off the rear brake. Next is using the front brake and releasing the front brake while letting in the clutch with a bit of throttle. To give myself a bit more time to do this at the beginning, I used to slide back on the seat and plant my legs to the rear so that as the bike slid back a bit, it would bring me into the normal riding position when the clutch engaged and I started moving forward.

The hardest one to learn, was not using the brakes at all. I heard about this from a motorcycle officer. Start on small hills and learn just to hold the bike on the hill with throttle and clutch. It is the smoothest transition to moving up a hill from a stop. Almost like an automatic transmission. I used to practice this on the hill going up to the Golden Gate from the Crissy Field warming hut in the evenings. Sometime after dark, cars have no access to it but I could ride in though the space in the barriers.

Learning this did more for my clutch control in one lesson than a multitude of other lessons.
 
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