jared p
Wizard
BTW, will someone please tell me what all these "BAD HABITS" are that everyone but Keith Code and T84A seem to have. Please be specific. I'm curious to know how against all odds so many of us have survived with these bad habits.
dude the list is longer than all of this posts in this trashy thread. if you can't even think up of some examples of bad riding habits, you sir are beyond help. gas/brakes/maintenance/body position/cornering i mean shit the list is huge. you apparently think you know better than keith code, ok, so where's your book that's been used for years as the standard for learning how to properly ride a bike? lets put this as plainly as i can possibly think
everyone has a bank account of talent. you add to that balance through seat time and coaching/instruction/reading. you take away from that balance through issues with the bike, it takes more talent to compensate for knowing how to ride a bike with bad tires, suspension, chassis set up, engine out of tune etc.
so if you start out with 5 bucks, and ride poorly but ride a lot, you're adding another 5 bucks. but with lets say an hour of instruction from someone who knows the theories and how to practically apply them, you add 50 bucks. some people naturally have a lot of talent, but thats the minority, most people need every bit of help they get. if you ride with bad habits all the time, it doesnt make you a safer rider, it makes you a lucky one.
i started riding 6 years ago on cruisers, and put tens of thousands of miles behind me. 2 years ago i switched to sport bikes and hit the track, i learned more during my first track day than the 4 years riding prior because someone sat down with me and went over the theories behind why a motorcycle does what it does and briefly went over the same stuff in a keith code book.
the fact that you're ignorantly stating what you're stating means that this thread has no hope and that if i told you 2+2=4 you'd argue it wasn't, until i went and got 2 apples and 2 oranges, then i'd have 4 fruit and showed you to your face.