Learning to ride a bike (skipping steps 1 to 10)

[danrok]

Video:
First Motorcycle Ride Goes Poorly*Video

[cloasters]

He's a natural born Hell's Angel. Glad it wasn't my bike, what an idiot.

[captaincurran]

as i seen him moving jerkily, i kept hoping to myself that he'd release too fast and zoom off out of control. it made me laugh very very hard

[MUff1N]

This reminds me of my friends father getting a Yamaha 360 dirt bike.
He never rode a bike before and had No Idea of how powerful this bike was!
So this is how his first ride went...
He got on the bike, started it up, revved it up and popped the clutch!
This made the bikes front end go straight up & the bike flipped over on top of him!
This was the first and last bike ride he ever took...

At least all that happened to this guy is he dumped it and got some scrapes & probably about $800 of damage or more to the bike.
My friends father on the other hand hurt his back really bad.
He did this on pavement too.

But starting out on a powerful superbike isn't exactly the best choice for learning. He should have started on a 125 dirt bike to get a feel for the clutch and the shifting.
That's where I started, then worked my way up to bigger more powerful bikes ending with a Harley Sporty.
I quit riding after I hit a light pole at 40 while VERY DRUNK and crushed in the left side of my face, dislocated my left shoulder and broke my collar bone.
After that I fixed the bike back up and sold it...

[cloasters]

Crushing and human bodies are a terrible mix, I'm glad you're alive to tell the rest of us to stop getting stupid! Gotta admit that I really like Sportsters, but riding a bike simply requires too much energy--to watch everything around you at all times. You must do the same while driving, but it's less draining.