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Originally Posted by ZeroGravity360
Sooooo! I was all confident to ride to and from work today. I told my mom i was going to do it, because why not? But the things my mom said to me really scared me and made me feel like I wasn't ready, even though I felt like i was..........I feel as though my mom is so angry with me even getting a bike, she says anything to stop me from riding.....
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You are wrong, your mother is right.
You are extremely vulnerable at this point; only that you don't know all the things that can hurt you, really quick and really bad.
Please, please, read each of these links:
https://www.ninjette.org/forums/showthread.php?t=121405
https://www.ninjette.org/forums/showthread.php?t=205589
https://www.ninjette.org/forums/showthread.php?t=158739
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...he_Hurt_Report
Now, you are your biggest danger because you are over-confident.
Only education, time and persistent practice will make you more conscious of the actual dangers and a safer rider.
Enthusiastic commuting and group rides seldom achieve that, the common bad result is learning bad habits that will need to be unlearned later on.
During the first months of riding, the newbie is the greatest danger to himself.
She/he is developing skills that are non-natural, and that takes time, more for some, less for others.
After the rider learns the basic skills, immediately becomes overconfident, speeds up and lowers the guard.
It always takes a dangerous or complicated situation to trigger one or more survival reactions and to make that rider wake up to the realm that her/his basic skills are less than enough to survive in traffic, and that the need for education continues.
It is safer if that unavoidable complicated situation happens to that newbie in the
best possible environment.
There is a time for everything in life, and learning to ride motorcycles in adverse conditions (heavy traffic, night, rain, fog) is no exception; only that the time for that is not while the rider is learning to become one with her/his machine.
"The rider is the wild card, the unpredictable and variable component in the package. And his problem is with the SRs that are triggered, nothing else." - Keith Code
(SRs: Survival reactions that are natural but are contrary to the basic principles of riding a motorcycle well.)
