Advice from ladies for ladies

[Megan]

\r\n \r\n Something small but with a clutch... I got mangled far to many times on a 929, F4i and a F4. Start small work your way up! Good luck!\r\n

[febbylucia]

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\r\n \r\n \r\n Originally Posted by Megan\r\n \r\n \r\n Something small but with a clutch... I got mangled far to many times on a 929, F4i and a F4. Start small work your way up! Good luck! \r\n \r\n

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my bike already clutched
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[$miley]

\r\n \r\n Update: borrowed a friends 50, got it popped up and rode on one wheel for over 20 feet. Not much but I got excited\r\n

[old man roger]

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\r\n \r\n \r\n Originally Posted by $miley\r\n \r\n \r\n Update: borrowed a friends 50, got it popped up and rode on one wheel for over 20 feet. Not much but I got excited \r\n \r\n

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practice as much as you can and you will see improvement pretty quick\r\n

[Lindsey]

\r\n \r\n I\'ve got some newbie beginner questions too! "raises hand". I have a very good group of people to ride with who don\'t push & or pressure me at all. I have very little to no experience with bikes. I had a super pocket bike & rode it maybe 15 times. Then rode & wrecked a 50, then bought my own, pimped it out perfectly to stunt. I got scared watching other people. Every time I\'d be ready to try a trick something would happen to them & they\'d end up mangled by their 50\'s so I\'d back off & just put around. I wanted to try a big bike so I started looking around. The 636 was easier to reach the bars, but the f4i was slightly easier to almost reach the ground with. I sat on the 250 but there was no way I could pay that price for a decent one. I found the steal of the century after patiently waiting for months. I picked up an 06" 636 clean tx title for $700. It was wrecked & in need of some repair & love. It runs just fine, starts right up, bought a nice Impacktech double slider cage, and dropped it 2" thats all we could do safety.
\r\n Here is where my biggest problem comes in. Not the fact that I have never driven anything with a clutch (having the hand brake on the 50 which I primarily used really helped with the clutch control on the 636\') its my height and arm reach. I\'m only 4\'11, kid arms, tiny feet, and 26" inseam! we\'re shaving the seat down to hopefully get me closer to tippy toeing. I feel drained from straining to lean over and hold the bike up after 10 minutes.
\r\n I can\'t lower the bike any more than 2" because were already cutting it close to catching the cage and exhaust pipes on the pavement. But only if your turn tight, which I\'m not doing. I\'m just working on the very literal beginner basics (starting it up, letting out the clutch, giving it gas, and NOT stabbing the brake, I have not stalled it yet. I\'m terrified of stalling it. lol)\r\n

[big ben]

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[$miley]

So I rode with someone while they stunted and have been riding for a while (not wheelies), but no stunting on my own. Leah told me to come here for advice minus penis input. Someone told me to get a crf50 to start. What did everyone do? What's the best way to get started?

Thanks!

[Megan]

Ummm I would slam the bike till you kill it just cruising around on the streets. That way you can train your body to move with the bike then try the stunt thing later. I slammed my first bike till I was comfortable. 4' 11" is pretty small I'm 5'5" and I thought I had height and reach issues. Good luck!

[Megan]

Oh and the cage thing I used a 905 and it never caught I can post pics if ya want.

[Lindsey]

Opps, I was doing too many things at once when I wrote that last entry. Gawd, I sound crazy, haha. I'm in no way trying to stunt the 636 yet. I just go out with my b/f to the lot when he stunts. He had actually bought a DRZ & Pitster for me to ride (on separate occasions) I was still too short for the DRZ & the Pitster was so loud it was a spot killer so they got sold. I'm just working on the very beginner basics of ridding a big bike with a clutch in the lot. Just trying to get the feel, get comfortable with the bike, turning, braking, shifting ect...then I'll venture onto the streets and so on. I do want to stunt but I know I am no where near ready.

Actually yeah if you don't mind I'd like to see pics of your cage. I bought my cage and put it on even though I'm not stunting because I figured in the learning process it will get dropped and I'd rather have it hit the cage than break something important. We've also flipped the clip ons and lowered the front. We tried it at 4" and the subcage was smashing the back tire! I know there's some new clip ons out there that are supposed to bring the tubes back a bit further, I might try those. Yeah, being short sucks! Although until this bike thing it has never bothered me much.