[somebadlemonade]

Yea the Bay Area, is a pretty dangerous place to ride, or drive for that matter, with all the crazy truck drivers, and the people that shouldn’t even have a license.
I have lived here my whole life and I am not looking forward to my first time on the freeway, let alone something like what highway 4 used to be, 1 lane in each direction and no divider.
But I bet I will end up getting comfortable on the bike at freeway speeds in the middle of the night with hardly anyone on the freeway, of course after I get my M1. I don’t want to have a bike token away, even if it’s a cheap as hell bike.
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[somebadlemonade]

I would love to start out on a 2009 SV650SF, I am pretty sure I could control it, but 2 things come up, dropping the bike and goosing the throttle coming out of a starting to drift. With something under powered, it would be rather hard to do that, and if I do drop it’s cheap to fix, so I am starting out on a used 250. And like that I can afford the bike and the protective gear.
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[somebadlemonade]

Doesn’t that kind of defeat the purpose of having a bike if you can only control it in a straight line.

Yet again i don’t get the excitement of drag racing other than the pro level stuff. It’s just a car going in a straight line.
Where is the fun? Then again I am not the one behind the wheel of said cars, or behind the bars of said bikes.
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[somebadlemonade]

Yea I know nothing about motorcycles but I know how to sew. . .

I guess that’s why I am here.
Oh yeah if you think it needs a little more padding there you might try a thicker piece of fabric, but I wouldn’t go to thick since it might make it bind around the joints, and you would have to sew it in so it doesn’t fray on you.
Hence why you can glue spun cotton, and not woven fabric since you’d have to glue the whole outer edge of it.
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[somebadlemonade]

if it’s a stiff string used to hold the layers together i wouldn’t snip it since they usually tie it off and you can unravel it like that, get a thin piece of fabric like that thin tissue cloth that they have in cd holders, and super glue it over the poking part of the glove, but make sure you glue in dots and not a constant line since the glue will harden and crack and make more things to poke you
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Just call me SBL.

[somebadlemonade]

Relax and why don’t you practice shifting with the bike off to get the motion down then turn on the bike and see if that helps if it doesn’t and if you do get a good shift, try to remember what you did, and practice doing that once you can do it smoothly, now practice down shifting. . .

mellow out and just stop thinking about everything, keep it slow and you should get it. . .
i know that sounds really generic, and cliche, but why change what works, it works for most people

wait why am i giving advice when i have never been on a motorcycle
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