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Hey guys. Ive been on the hooflungdung for a couple of months now but still finding it hard to trust it in the twisty bits. Excluding going to track days or hart how and/or when did you get your confidence?
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practice, just know your limits, i find just going through the same section of road over and over again gets you going up, work on your road craft, it becomes an automated system for cornering.
plenty of videos on you tube about it, brush up on your knowledge on how to do things, but start off slow, technique, smoothness and skill are what your after, speed is just a by product. |
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Learning to ride on a new bike is like a relationship. These things take time and you need to get the feel of the bike. Just keep ridng the same roads as Nath said, and eventually you will learn to trust the bike. Just respect it and it will all come together
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![]() Nat this is what I intend to do... but at least I'll have Oldwolf with me alot of the time if I want him to come with me.
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Yep, it's all bum-in-seat learning Ad...you will get more confident and competent the more you ride
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I would say you are finding a major difference from the old Led Sled Zed . Tha 'WFD' will be much lighter and about the same horses power as the Zed I had issues + with some of my riding in Tassie ( crap lines to say the least) but then when I was given a couple of tips by others in the gruop it all fell into place again. Stop trying , relax, stay smooth rather than quick and it all falls into place again Ad. An instructional track day will help heaps , how about Broady this month. I did two with Smart some years ago and need to update me thinks. But dunno if Pixie will let me take her half of the FJR on the track tho ![]() Playing harder with Doit and Tones type folk helps to . I dont mean newbs trying riding at a GP pace but you get my drift. |
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Yeppers just like Lianne's avatar depicts, practice, practice, practice ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() :kil t![]() ![]()
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Why are you excluding training courses?
....otherwise, I agree what what else has been said.
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Prolly cos we all know they will improve skills which will improve confidence |
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...unfortunately I had to take the broken bones with me
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