It sounds like your street is a dead-end?
If not, does it connect to other residential/low traffic local streets where you can practice ?
Keep practicing on your street, until you are comfortable with the friction zone, shifting up / down into 2nd.
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Originally Posted by Koala
To even get off my road I have to go up a kind of steep hill and stop at the crest of it and make a left onto a busy road with a blind hill on the right. People come FLYING over that hill.
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Make a RIGHT turn at the top of the hill ?
Ride along, then make a u-turn at first flat / safe spot ?
If you haven't already found it here is probably the *second* best motorcycle site (after Ninjettes of course !) :
Motorcycle Safety / riding tips
https://www.msgroup.org/articles.aspx
https://www.msgroup.org/forums/mtt/default.asp
You might try posting a hello-anybody-near-me? message there.
Looking through the members list, there seems to be quite a few Ohio'ans.