So instead of learning to drive in my uncles Chrysler New Yorker or my drivers training Dodge Dart I suppose I should have started in a VW bug or a Mini Cooper?

 

I started my 10 yr old daughter on our Honda CT 90 yesterday, I rode on the b!tch rack. I'm going with smaller bike for her. Today she's after me to let her ride. I tell her no, it's cold and rainy. She says; I don't care, I want to ride. I tell her, your a biker honey.

 

My brother had a unique way of learning to ride; he "borrowed" my Honda S90 when I wasn't looking. He was 11. No helmet, no instruction, fortunately no cops; did fine, just got on and rode around the neighborhood, first time shifting gears and clutching anything. Some folks can just do it. I was both pissed at and proud of the little guy.

 

Ya but everyone is overlooking that shes a national motorcross rider... Most beginners arent

 

She is wearing an off road helmet. What do you bet she has had a lot of experience on dirt bikes. Why is she riding a street motorcycle at age 15. Don't you have to be 16 to be legally licensed?

 

wow, MAJOR props to this girl. She really does show that your size doesn't matter when it comes to riding a bike.

 

Well Motorman does know his stuff, seen him do lots of demos. She does have some good natural skills no matter how long she has been riding. That looks like the SM parking lot in NPR FL. Yuup it is.

 

Cool thread
btw, if girls turn their brains off, like us, they make better bike racers.
(Throttle on, Brain off)

 

Been riding bikes sincie i was 7 am 54 now and have 28,000+ miles on a 2011 flhtk, had never rode a sportster untill wive got one because "smaller bikes are easier" she didnt like it so it sat in garage one day i gfot it out and rode it, wow my ultra and my old heritage were much easier to ride and handle. Also with my ultra limited that has anti-lock brakes i can stop much quicker and safer than a much smaller bike. A friend has a 2008 C-50 Suzuki and it has a drum brake on back and i can stop much faster than he can. Wife says a big bike is so much easier to ride and people see you better on a big bike. just my two cents

 

sorry i did not mean i thought the video was fake. by bogus i meant that it was meant to appear that she was a beginner. which she definitely is not. i respect jerry skills and methods.
perhaps jerry could check in here and give us his thoughts on starting small for a first time beginner.