Someone asked me if it was easy to learn how to ride today. I started to say no, then I thought about how hard it was to learn to ride. It took me about a year, actually more that a year to learn to ride well. Riding is easy for me now, but it wasn't at the start.  I remember I had to overcome being scared and I dropped the motorcycle a lot. I remember getting up at  4:00 a clock so I could practice. I didn't take my skill test for a year, just kept renewing my permit, because I didn't feel I could pass. I had to answer, that it was hard to learn, but worth it.

Was it easy for you to learn?

I'd ridden little automatic shift 50's and was a comptetive Bmxer .But the First shift bike was a Kawasaki 90 in a field, once I shifted i was kool. My main beggining was on the side of grass hills and gravel roads, which later transpired into competition offroad. but once I hit the street prepuberity it was pretty easy in comparison.  its just I had no licence.

 

 

 

 

I probably would have had softer landings if I had done dirt.. I started on a scooter. It was 125 ccs so at least I didn't start on a high powered bike. I did have to learn to shift on the next bike.

Learning the basics was easy--the way the BRC is structured makes it easy--but skill development beyond the basics is what takes effort and patience. I'm nowhere near the rider I'd like to be, but confident enough to get by...

The most difficult riding I've done, is enduros. Because they are many miles and you never learn the layout well, and you encounter alot of unknown obsticals and trails will change and can become impassable on the main paths, having to switch to alternative route ON THE FLY.

Mx track is different, you learn the obsticals and then you practise increasing speed. Maybe change a line up, but it less than 1.5 mile on the largest track normally.

They are quite different, I use to run the enduros for endurance. They are vfery hard on the bike, cause of all the bushes ,branches and trees and stumps. Crossing creek beds and slidng down vertical ravines, or trying to go between a vertical mud slope between two trees that are only 2 feet apart, where you have to kock the bars to go through.

Just scratch the crap out of the plastic