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Slow riding practice tips?

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MikeyRocks said:
Why even bother anymore? There's no getting through to this guy. Anyone that has to post a section of the TOS in their signature is clearly asking for trouble. I'm starting to wonder why he keeps coming back to this forum when it's pretty clear he's not wanted here. It's like the nerdy kid in school that keeps trying to hang w/ the cool kids.
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Because he is a TROLL.:twofinger

I do enjoy reading the smack down Enchanter hands out.

Hay Beginner...you should totally get a steering stabilizer

Crank that baby all the way up, will for sure add a level of difficulty to those figure 8's:ride:laughing
 
why don't you practice on a street bike with streetbike tires?
 
beginner said:
Pretty much true. I was inimidated by the bike in the beginning so I decided to spend half my moving time in a parking lot until I understood the risks better. The practice turns out to be fun and almost as addictive as riding around. Last year (year 3) PLP time was probably closer to 30% of moving time.

If suddenly every rider in North America spent 50% of their moving time in a parking lot the fatality and serious injury rate would fall by almost 50%. I can't prove that the practice time would reduce crashes on the road but I think it would. I've said before riding a bike seems about the same risk as recreational downhill skiing assuming unchallenging terrain, no traffic and PLP speeds. The risk escalates from there by where and how fast people choose to ride. Bikes aren't so risky, speed and traffic are risky.
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Is this like saying if motorcycles spent 50% more time in the garage motorcycles accidents would go down by 50%.:wtf

But then again I read a statistic that 90% of all statistics are made up....
 
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orbframe said:
why don't you practice on a street bike with streetbike tires?
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The purpose of riding the klx in the parking lot is to get better on the klx. A second bike would be a smaller dirt bike maybe with dual sport tires instead of knobbies. Even that sounds like more trouble than it's worth. The only downside of riding the knobbies in the parking lot is the front is destroyed so every Spring it gets replaced..
 
Marine_R6 said:
Is this like saying if motorcycles spent 50% more time in the garage motorcycles accidents would go down by 50%.:wtf

But then again I read a statistic that 90% of all statistics are made up....
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Well it depends, some garages are large enough to ride in at slow speeds. Someone could pull in and hit you...
 
beginner said:
The purpose of riding the klx in the parking lot is to get better on the klx. A second bike would be a smaller dirt bike maybe with dual sport tires instead of knobbies. Even that sounds like more trouble than it's worth. The only downside of riding the knobbies in the parking lot is the front is destroyed so every Spring it gets replaced..
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are you not comfortable riding on the street/freeway yet?
 
Marine_R6 said:
Is this like saying if motorcycles spent 50% more time in the garage motorcycles accidents would go down by 50%.:wtf
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Bikes already spend 95% of their time garaged and they still have a high crash rate.
orbframe said:
are you not comfortable riding on the street/freeway yet?
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Every ride gets me on a quiet county or township road but it's incidental. I don't mind but don't seek it out. The nearest town with anything resembling traffic is 30 miles away. When I need to go there I take the car. The bike is for getting around the farm.
 
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beginner said:
Bikes already spend 95% of their time garaged and they still have a high crash rate.
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stop pulling numbers out of your ass
 
and I don't think any crashes are caused by

"lack of mastery of the one handed, no clutch, no brake, "hover" figure 8"
 
beginner said:
The difference in risk of PLP compared to highway speeds and traffic could be inutitively obvious but maybe there is enough detailed information to figure out the percent of ambulance runs from parking lots.
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You seem to forget who you are communicating with. I've spent a better part of 22 years trying to get riders to ride more safely and crash less. A good part of that is practicing useful techniques in a parking lot.

The problem that I have is your idiotic claim that if riders spend 50% of their time in a parking lot, crashes and serious injuries would drop by 50%. I thought that would be intuitively obvious to you.
 
beginner said:
The only downside of riding the knobbies in the parking lot is the front is destroyed so every Spring it gets replaced..
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Other downsides are that many of the conclusions that you come to regarding traction, speed, and other motorcycles are incorrect.
 
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