Maybe you learn to coutersteer from bicycles, I don't know about the balancing thing.
I want to know if a person who didn't ride a bicycle as a child learned to ride a motorcycle.
Did you smash into alot of things? Or did you catch on to counter-steering easily?
C'mon if you did'nt have a bike, what did you ride, a pony?
2007-12-03 04:53:14 · 11 answers · asked by Bob 5 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Motorcycles
I know how to ride so you don't have to teach me. Thanks for the effort though!!
2007-12-03 05:20:04 · update #1
I have no gripe what so ever, your gripe is with my question, I guess.
2007-12-03 05:48:12 · update #2
Nope, they are different.
I find that the control of a 2 wheeled vehicle changes at the point that the vehicle outweighs you.
A 150 pound moped feels a lot like a bike, but not exactly the same. When you get to a mid-sized scooter, it is getting close to a motorcycle, where conscious counter steering becomes beneficial. Anything 250cc and up likes counter steering, and the really big bikes need it to keep them from running off the road. Many people counter steer unknowingly, so there will be different opinions on this point.
I rode bicycles all my childhood, but have taught people to ride than never rode a bicycle (yes, there really are people like that)! They seem to pick it up OK on a small bike, like a moped, and seem to have a similar learning curve to a bicycle. You should know how to balance before getting on a 400 pound bike, that is for sure!
So here is the straight answer No. A bicycle does not prepare you for a 400 pound MC, and: Yes. You do learn to counter steer from a bicycle.
2007-12-03 06:13:09 · answer #1 · answered by Jim! 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Does being to balance/ride/steer a bicycle mean you'll be able to handle a motorcycle? Of course not - although I was able to go from one to the other without a problem. But flip the question - do you think you'll be able to balance/ride/steer a motorcycle if you can't ride a bicycle? No way!
The concepts are the same, just the weight is different. Get good on a bicycle (or moped maybe) first. Better to hit something or fall off a bike at 15 mph than to do the same on a motorcycle at 50.
2007-12-03 05:08:32 · answer #2 · answered by PMack 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Short answer: Yes.
Essay answer: Regardless of weight (inertial mass, to be precise), balancing is balancing. Assuming a bike is relatively symmetrical, It sounds like the REAL question you're asking is whether riding skills learned on a pedal bike are applicable to any significant degree to motorcycles. Again, the answer is yes.
On countersteering: one learns basic rudiments of it on a pedal bike. If motorcycle countersteering was poetry (and done right, it is) then bicycle steering is "I'm a poet and didn't know it." It's a skill that develops quickly once you know about it, but you're unlikely to encounter it in the formative stages of your motorcycling days outside of a rider's instructional course, and by the time you do, you've probably got a fair amount of UNlearning to do if you are to really incorporate it into your riding style/habits.
2007-12-03 05:31:49 · answer #3 · answered by avengingeagle7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Balancing doesn't have a hell of a lot to do with either one truth be known. You only balance a bicycle or motorcycle at very, very slow speed. The centrifugal force of the wheels in motion takes over once you are moving. What exactly is your gripe? Was it hard for you to learn how to ride a motorcycle? I have taught several adults and kids to ride and it's just not that hard so why make it out to be?
2007-12-03 05:34:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You won't get much cross over experience and your best best would be to ride a scooter, small dirt bike, etc for a while to get the basics down and I always recommend taking a local motorcycle riding saftey course first before you go buy a motorcycle. I have seen several people go buy a large street bike and then go take the course and did not like the experience and then they had to sell their motorcycle.
2007-12-03 05:06:57 · answer #5 · answered by JT T 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Anyone that has ridden a motorcycle for more than 50 miles, doesn't even think about "counter steering".
It's a natural instinct, sub conscious thinking type of thing.
Ask any kid that rides a 2 wheeled bicycle, if he even knows what "counter steering" means.
2007-12-03 08:00:23 · answer #6 · answered by guardrailjim 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Assuming you recognize a thank you to holiday a bicycle, balancing a bike at speeds of 10mph or larger is plenty greater handy than a bicycle. Pedaling a bicycle motives the bicycle to shift backward and forward, jointly as a cruising bike is regularly quite stable. At low speeds of 5 mph or slower, a bicycle is plenty greater handy to stability as a results of its weight and manuverability.
2016-10-10 03:53:09 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Balancing heavier two wheeler is much simpler.
You can learn to ride a bicycle at any age, its not that kids only learn. think the person who invented it rode it and not his kid!
2007-12-03 05:03:23 · answer #8 · answered by keralatravelport.com 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't seriously think that I 'balance' my 700 lb. motorcycle. There's other physical laws at work, gyroscopic precession, the law of inertia, etc..
2007-12-03 10:10:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I never had a bicycle, I rode a yak.
2007-12-03 10:54:29 · answer #10 · answered by bill b 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋