Finally got her on it and she did  great, only one little, gently, lay down not even a scuff

I don't care how much a bike weighs, when you are on your tiptoes holding it up when it starts to fall there's no stopping it!

Get her something with a lower seat, my $0.02.  Also looks like she needs more gear 

the gear is on order along with a lowering link, she actually surprised me by getting on it and saying I want to ride now, we jus put the dirt bikes away a few minutes before she hoped on the bike, cant really tell in the pic but its all dirt around us minus the pavement from the road coming down there. I let her do a few turns and a couple small laps and told her she needs the right gear for anymore practice so she went and ordered a few things

You are not doing yourself or HER any favors by LETTING her ride without proper gear and a bike that fits her.

Man.....get her on a bike with a lower seat and if you love her get some safety gear on her.

Calm down guys, i know it wasn't smart to let her try when i did,  but she isn't riding amymore till her gear comes in. As far as a seat im just going to get a lowering link that'll lower it about 2 inches,   hus thegear and link on order statment above. She has experience on a 100cc dirtbike this is her first time on a street bike. Anywho away from any arguements or bantering when all the gear comes in I'll be adjustimg the bike to fit her so she can flat foot it, any recommendations? I have the bike set for me and its fairly stiff, should i go back to factory settings or leave it alone?

I came in here muttering 'where pics ' and,....oh,...applause 

I think it's great she wants to ride.  I vote see how she feels about the settings and figure it out from there.  Glad you didn't post a pic of her riding on the freeway or OMG with traffic close by. 


the horror,...

Quote from: cbrfxr67 on July 01, 2014, 07:13:25 AM
I came in here muttering 'where pics ' and,....oh,...applause 

I think it's great she wants to ride.  I vote see how she feels about the settings and figure it out from there.  Glad you didn't post a pic of her riding on the freeway or OMG with traffic close by. 

no freeway till she goes through town and no town till she can maneuver the little course that I setup.
The area where I do my "training" is a dead end road with a small island to loop around and has 2 stop signs, I'll take a couple snapshots later so you can see, I set up a few cones and that's where we do our training.

As much as I don't condone no gear, I have to say you are doing it right.

Hell, my first experience on a motorcycle as a teenager was gym shoes, jeans, a T-shirt, no gloves, sunglasses, and a backwards ballcap.  It was a Honda CB500, it was in my uncles sizeable back yard under direct supervision, and I wasn't allowed past second gear.  I wouldn't have done that again being who I am now, but we all start somewhere and slow, on grass, and in a controlled environment is a lot better than most peoples experiences.

If you don't have gear I'd suggest waiting, but if you aren't waiting do it slow and somewhere safe.  She has boots, pants, and a helmet, for jogging pace riding I'd say that's more than enough.  See if you have like a BDU jacket and some utility gloves just for protection from abrasions and elements in a fall.

Hell, the MSF class didn't need full gear, they just said boots, pants, long sleeves, gloves, and they supply a helmet.
I wore jeans, my Bates work boots, a BDU jacket, and some mountain biking gloves.  And that was around 20mph in a parking lot.

I didn't even think of the bdu gear. I'm in the army reserves so i have some gear she could've used, but it was a spur of the moment ordeal. I was out riding my rm125 and she showed up to watch. I ride my gs there while my cousin drove his truck with the bikes so didn't have that gear there. Normally i won't let someone ride without the right gear if they want me to teach, but my wife was very persuasive, I'm ashamed the other me took over, and she did a few laps. Now she REALLY wants to get into riding so she is getting a jacket, gloves and some riding shoes, or should i say I'm getting it for her lol, and we'll start the actual training. I let he ride that day cause she has ridden a100cc dirt bike but now that she really wants to ride it's all or none. Sucks though cause now she wants me to change my military theme i was planning on

There is no excuse for what I'm about to do

I rode for 15 years with short pants and a tee shirt in hot weather and wore jeans and a leather jacket with slip on boots in cooler weather and a lot more underneath on cold winter days.  Wore an open face helmet summers and a full face winters for the cold.

Got a bit more safety conscience the last 15 years and wore a full face or flip face helmet year around and armored riding jackets, mesh ones in the summer and heavier ones in the winter and jeans year around.  I did go back to an open face helmet with build in shield a couple years ago.  My head will only turn half as far as it once did and I still have excellent perriferal (sp?) vision so an open face gives me a better view to the side than a full face does now.

So ride Mrs kensully ride, I wouldn't think of telling you what to wear, I didn't wait for anything once I started. 

Yeah, I'll admit that I don't do it as good as I could.


Despite being riding jacket, riding gloves, and full face helmet 100% of the time, I have never actually used motorcycle specific boots or pants.
I usually just wear my work boots (Bates GX-8 with a safety toe) and my jeans, and if I'm doing expressway I double it up with some paintball pants.  They aren't armored, but they have padded knees and are made out of stuff that is really abrasion resistant since they are made for sliding and diving while playing paintball.  I want a pair of overpants, but A) don't have the cash right now and B) have extra paintball pants laying around.
Add armor and they are essentially riding pants, so I figured it's close enough to make me feel a little better about taking a fall in the mean time.  If I'm feeling a little more unsafe I actually have soft-shell kneepads I can wear under the pants.  Again, these are designed for paintball and thus made for sliding...

As the guy who came down overly harshly I am sorry.  It sounded worse in print than if you just "say it"

I buy and sell motorcycles.  I sell a lot of the 50 and 80cc bikes for kids to start out on.  At least once each month some dad will come in and want to sell a bike he just bought.  Junior fell off/hit a tree/curb or whatever and won't go near the motorcycle now.  Or Mom has said that it has to go.  Most of the time the problem is that Junior did not have 'proper training', was not supervised, bike was to big for him, or was not wearing any kind of safety gear.

If all those items are covered I really do think that you will have a better experience with motorcycles forever.

Guess I just see the problems to often.

To true on words in print compared to verbal, but you do have a valid point on the protection though. I was trying to pull up some pix of my kids their first time riding a50cc quad, they had everything but the bubble wrap lol. I adjusted the throttle with a makeshift governor so they may have topped out@10 mph. Now they jump on my cuz 70cc bike and tear it up, the trails not the bike, man they are growing do fast lol

There is no excuse for what I'm about to do

this- 'Junior fell off/hit a tree/curb or whatever'

My pops had a honda 70cc and he was teaching me to ride.  Went down the street: 'hell yea! look at me i'm awes-,....' dumped it in the culdesac,......knee looked like a big bloody sponge of pebbles & dirt. 

But back then we just picked it up and kept riding, with the blood drying into a badge of crusty black honor.  haha  I still have the scar on my knee 30 something years later,...

those aint scars them be life marks lol, what my dad always said

Quote from: kensully on July 03, 2014, 08:19:07 AM
those aint scars them be life marks lol, what my dad always said

and since it relates to the topic,...this broad's got some life marks,..and,...yea

She looks like a crack whore recovering from a bad night.  That's the best photo you could find?

Two items. . .

1.) Thank god my wife doesn't ride.  (she does enough damage in a 6900 pound SUV)

2.) cbrfxr67; the gif master. 

Wjen shes ready ken, teach her how to pick the bike up. If ne weighing 150lbs can upright a goldwing, as small as she is she could upright a gs easily

Think that bike needs to come down more than 2" for her.. seriously. get the seat shaved a little. and get her geared up.. I've seen the results of even a low speed crash without proper gear. it shocks me how little training you guys get in the US for a bike, here in the UK the test is a lot more stricter you can't ride a full power bike until your over 24yo.. well unless you done your test before jan 2013.. the law changed drastically then. and the test consists of road and yard work.. when i done my full test, there was a kid there, he was Scottish like me, but lived in Houston for a good chunk of his life as his old man was in oil. he had a SV650 at the age of 15-16 over there but when he came back here at 18 he learnt the law here wouldn't let him ride his SV here, i asked him what the US test consisted off and i was stunned and shocked at the lack of training given before he was unleashed on the road with the SV as a kid, suffice to say he failed his test miserably a couple of times, yet he was deemed fine to ride over in Texas... scary!

My attitude to wearing the proper gear is that it should be enshrined in law, and Insurance companies should refuse cover, and refuse to pay out if there is an accident and the rider is not in the correct gear.