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Blogging Through Flight School

What made you click on this thread?

  • Interested in going to flight school?

    Votes: 16 12.0%

  • About to go to flight school?

    Votes: 14 10.5%

  • Chinese Spy?

    Votes: 27 20.3%

  • It was this or whack off to internet porn. With my slow connection this was easier.

    Votes: 22 16.5%

  • I enjoy watching a good train wreck in progress as much as the next guy

    Votes: 54 40.6%
  • Total voters
    133
People interested in learning to ride should consider getting some experience on a dirt bike before moving on to a street bike. It's a great way to learn on a lighter bike that can take a whole lot more abuse. It's also a lot easier to learn how to take a spill riding around on sandy trails and how to recover when the bike gets squirrelly.
 
Recovering LSO said:
//THREADJACK//

When JOs (yes, officers who presumably SHOULD know better) stop f'ing themselves up on motorcycles they have no idea how to operate....
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You mean JOs...and JEs...and POs...and SNCOs...and CPOs...and 0-4s/5s/6s, etc, etc, etc.

...then, maybe, we around here can throw those spears
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We can also lighten up and perhaps see a little levity in a comment made in jest to a former JO who no longer has to comply with DoN motorcycle operation regulations.
 
A few more good deals and a little less time around the spaces never hurt anyone's motivation.
 
Brett327 said:
People interested in learning to ride should consider getting some experience on a dirt bike before moving on to a street bike. It's a great way to learn on a lighter bike that can take a whole lot more abuse. It's also a lot easier to learn how to take a spill riding around on sandy trails and how to recover when the bike gets squirrelly.
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I took this course after riding a CBR600RR (first bike) for about 2 years. It was a great class and I recommend it to anybody that can get to the Charlotte, NC area for a long weekend. As a then still novice (for all practical purposes) rider I took away much more than I could have ever hoped to. This came in handy the next summer.

I was making a left turn through an intersection and went right through some sort of fluid on the pavement. I was travelling maybe 15MPH with just slight throttle on to maintain constant speed through the turn (Just enough to keep the top of the chain tight). The light was already green when I approached and it was a wide intersection that could have been taken much faster, so I was not going too fast for it. The rear tire spun like hell but I was able to adjust my peg weighting and use the slightest opposite steering on the bars and somehow gathered it up while managing not to piss myself. I attribute not dumping the bike that day to the training I received at Cornerspin.

//End shameless plug for a business which I have no vested interest in.
 
Brett327 said:
People interested in learning to ride need to get some experience on a dirt bike before moving on to a street bike. It's a great way to learn on a lighter bike that can take a whole lot more abuse. It's also a lot easier to learn how to take a spill riding around on sandy trails and how to recover when the bike gets squirrelly.
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Fixed it for you. I learned to ride on my uncle's dirt bikes. You really LEARN how to ride, rather than how to just make the bike move...
 
webmaster said:
The poll on this thread is pure brilliance... if only I could get scoolbubba to perform to that level, even if only on an infrequent basis... sigh.
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Only the first 2 options were the OP's original poll. The other 2 were added as the thread evolved.
 
Texting while riding? That's impressive. I'd be more worried about losing my phone than control. Weird.
 
+1 on the dirtbike. I'd owned a cruiser for a couple years and own an SV-650S now (GREAT bike, btw) and my bro in law took me riding on a 4-stroke 450 in a socal canyon and it was an EYE-OPENING experience. I'd like to get one.
 
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