[megaspaz]

ahhhh… i thought you were doing 2 8 hour classroom days, which made me think, WTF????

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[megaspaz]

At the MSF, the cone slalom is meant to be done at 15+mph and is there for you to get a feel of countersteering. I was doing them at 25-30 mph and the instructers were happier than pigs in mud. The experienced rider course is where you try to do it really slow.

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[megaspaz]

Take the MSF and see if you can even handle a 250cc standard/cruiser bike.

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[megaspaz]

We should get something straight here. Just because you pass the MSF course, doesn’t make you an above average rider or even an average or capable, street safe rider. The MSF just gives you a feel for the basics in a controlled environment. Riding on the street is nothing like riding in an empty parking lot. The parking lots are good for practicing technique and nothing more. Technique is only part of the battle. The rest is mental… and you hone that with experience from saddle time. Nothing about passing the MSF guarantees that you can handle a bigger bike as your first bike, especially with only the MSF as your only source of any recent significant saddle time. Passing the MSF doesn’t even guarantee that you can put to use the street survival techniques and theories out on the real world slab.

Me personally, I think you’re a bit to dreamy eyed. But I was the same way and picked up the sv650s after being talked out of a yami yzf-r1 for a first bike. It can be done, but you really have to work at it. You’re gonna do what you’re gonna do, but IMO, you should probably think about doing a ninja 250 for a season before going up to a ninja 650r or sv650 or even a 500cc bike (based off my assessment of you being a bit dreamy eyed). If I had to do it all over, that’s what I would’ve done. I, myself, could not in good conscience, tell your parents that you’d be ready to take on a 650r or sv650.

*shrugs*

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[megaspaz]

https://www.bestbeginnermotorcycles.com/forum/forum-topic/1023/re-countersteer#comment-5319

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[megaspaz]

https://www.bestbeginnermotorcycles.com/forum/forum-topic/833/how-counter-steer

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[megaspaz]

Rode a rebel at the MSF. Not a fan… thought the rebel was a POS.

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[megaspaz]

mmkay… Hi?

J/K. Welcome to the forums…

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[megaspaz]

Yeowza! sounds like you had some times on 2 wheels…. Glad to see you’re still riding and welcome! (-:

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[megaspaz]

Same dealio as shannon… I’ve just been “upgrading” my current bike. I mean really… how much more than 650cc/135mph top speed do I need? The only thing I might be planning in the future is to get another sv, sv650sf, and use that soley for track.

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[megaspaz]

I started on an SV650S. The 650r would be a comparable bike. You’ve got something that I didn’t have when i started… previous riding experience. Even though, for noobs, the best bet’s still the smaller bike (250cc – 500cc range). But the twin engine 650cc bikes (sv650, 650r) do make decent beginner bikes as well where the person asking about them has some kind of riding experience.

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[megaspaz]

technically, no one’s too young to be darwin award contestants… why back in my day, i woulda got a whoopin’ from the rider and then a whoopin’ from my mum after the rider told my mum, and then a whoopin’ from my dad after my mum told my dad what happened. Nowadays, there’s no more whoopin’s… everything’s a frickin’ timeout… *shrugs*

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[megaspaz]

Well, it isn’t exactly something that anyone thinks of at first. Firefox has some pretty persistent browser cache. I see this issue all the time with web admins testing something with apache on IRC. You have to explicitely force a reload or explicitely clear the cache through the menus. IE has issues of its own… as in no one should ever use IE.

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[megaspaz]

I agree. The only wrong reason to pick up a bike is if you want to use it to put other people at risk. Wanting to learn to wheelie isn’t a wrong reason. Wanting to learn to wheelie so you can do one on a public, congested road, would be. Wanting a bike because you may think it looks cool and you think it makes you look cool isn’t a wrong reason either. I only draw the line at fucking up someone else’s day. Personally, I find the “you’re riding for the wrong reason” thing to be complete self-righteous and pompous bs. People like the same things for different reasons. What draws one person to riding, isn’t the thing that drew someone else to ride. Having said this, I do believe that a rider should possess the basic skills to not make someone else’s day a bad one. If you don’t have this, you just shouldn’t be riding in public, although this isn’t to say that your reason for wanting to ride is wrong.

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[megaspaz]

most likely browser cache. I had issues in opera, but mostly because most things are written so poorly for opera since opera’s been the best at following the html/whatever specs. If you did this in firefox or ie, I’d say it’s browser cache. You might have to log in and out again and clear your browser cache. It could be that it takes a while as well, eventually it’ll change…. at least it should.

Disclaimer: I do not admin/run this site. The person who does will most likely reply in due time.

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