A couple of hints. Bring the revs up to 1500 to 1800 while slipping the clutch in the friction zone. It sounds like you are at idle. Use a little pressure on the rear brake until you get more familiar with the friction zone. (AKA dragging the rear brake) Once you get better with the friction zone, keeping power to the rear wheel, you can eliminate the rear brake. With the fear of dropping the bike now gone, it will get easy to nail the figure 8 every time. Good job.
A visit from the master himself. Awesome! Thank you, will do. BTW, I purchased your Ride Like a Pro video a while ago but because I didn't want to damage my bike, I went through it once (not very well I might add). Now with no fear, nothing is going to stop me. Peace.
@@BernardoLora1 If you follow the exercises I show in the video in the order shown, by the time you get to the figure 8 it will be easy. Plus it will save you a lot of picking up the bike back aches. Remember, it's 90% mental and 10% physical. You have the will, and I show you the way. P.S. Jay is a good friend of mine. He sent me a link to this video.
Back up a step - first factor in 8s and U turns is you MUST twist your head and shoulders around and look BEHIND you were you are going to end up in the turn watch the video, rider is hardly turning his head at all. The first rule of riding is ALWAYS LOOK where you want the motorcycle to go! That means for a U turn you must twist your head and shoulders around and look behind you to the left where you will end up at the end of the turn. If you take the MSF beginners course you will learn how to do 8s and U turns on the first day - even if you never rode a motorcycle in your life FUNDIMENTALS! you need to take the course and UN learn all your bad (self taught) righting habits Crash bars are still great - sometimes you drop the bike for no fault of your own - nothing wrong with a little insurance to protect the engine and your ankles.
Lmao. I was going to add to this comment until I seen who it's from. Nope Jerry hit everything on the head. I too started dragging my rear brake ( after watching a video from ride like a pro)till I got a little more comfortable with it. Now I just use the friction zone of the clutch with throttle around 1800-2000rpm. Practice makes perfect. And the best advice I can give is if you don't make the choice the choice makes you. Be safe.
Pretty impressive ! The guards are great for protecting your motorcycle but it's hard to put a price tag on the extra confidence you have gained. Thanks for passing this on 👍
This is excellent! I'm most impressed with your willingness to fall even WITH the drop guards. My issue is that I have the drop guards but I'm still too afraid to fall and to trust them. I have also fallen a couple of times and wrenched my ankle. What I've noticed is that you have disciplined yourself to STAY ON THE BIKE when you fall. You don't put your foot down. If I can get to that, then the real learning begins. Thanks for the inspiration.
Hey....it's so cool of you to share this. I was doing the same thing 1 week ago with my motorcycle le drop guards. Going pretty well, then oops....dropped my Indian Roadmaster. No damage, but I was actually irritated that I scratched up my drop guards. I haven't gotten to the 18 foot U turn......probably like 22' now. I have to say that even with the drop guards, I didn't go at it as hard as you did. Great job!
Omg thank you for this - I’m a newbie in riding and when I couldn’t do the close u turn and drop my bike 3 times (without protection) my confidence went backwards, couldn’t even ride like I was doing - now I have clarity thanks to you. Just order the protection and handlebars etc it was all in my mind about getting my bike hurt!!! Also that it’s normal to drop ur bike at the beginning
I feel ya. I knew it would help, but I didn't know how much of a difference it would make. I'm dying to put out some more videos but man, this weather has been horrible.
That was excellent! I always start out with the slow race on my bike. I definitely want to get some motorcycle drop guards. That is a good investment. Beautiful bike you have! Always listen to Jerry! He knows! 😊😎
I'm a small guy too. I have a 07 SG and I've dropped it doing that and even though I got minimal damage I'm gonna get a set of those. I thought you did a great video. Sounded heart felt and the reason it motivated me to get a set. Thanks for the heads up. Good advice on this thread.
Great job my guy. Just got my bike. It's much smaller than yours, but I am very much considering adding some crash bars to learn and practice slow speed moves.
I don't even own a bike, but got my license earlier this week. I've been doing a lot of TH-cam "studying" and you're looking real good just after 15 minutes. The confidence in the crash guards seems to make a big difference. So long as the bike is protected I don't think I'd worry much about dropping the bike. I'd just worry about someone watching me drop, embarrassing.😬👍🏽✌🏽
@@BernardoLora1 for sure. And the fact that with those crash bars, your bike can't get hurt tames a lot of that fear down. For me I believe the fear is damaging the bike, and second the fear of looking like a total "doofus" as Jerry Palladino would say lol.
All I can say is those are very interesting. As far as your slow speed skills they are now improving. Great job 👏 still some improvement needed however you came a long way in a short time. 😀 you have encouraged me to do these slow speed menuvers and record it myself. I need the practice like you. 👍 be safe.
Yeah, I still need a ton of practice but these guards have made all the difference in the world in terms of my progress. The weather should be good this Saturday. I'll probably make another video.
Looks like those crash bars might have shortened your clearence. Don't get too comfortable scrapping... do it faster in a turn and it'll lift your back wheel off the ground and low-side you.
I would like to know is that fall guard will be damage too when its drop and scatching the ground? I haveing the same issue and worry about falling and damage the bike but if install this fall guard and it will prevent damage the bike if dropping.
So the drop guards gets pretty scratched up depending on how much you fall during practice. But they don't get damaged. The good thing is that you can take them off and your bike is good. I plan to do that when I go to Americade this year. Check out my follow up video where I talk about how it protects the primary. Ride safe, ride strong.
Wonder How Many Women/Men Would Be Riding Without Electric Start ? Or Big Engines There Would Be ? ... Very Few /;-)) Peace/;-)) 1957 Hard Tail Pan /;-))
I think people should master leaning on a bicycle first, then master it on an electric bike, then on the motorcycle. I'm still struggling with figure eights myself.
A couple of hints. Bring the revs up to 1500 to 1800 while slipping the clutch in the friction zone. It sounds like you are at idle. Use a little pressure on the rear brake until you get more familiar with the friction zone. (AKA dragging the rear brake) Once you get better with the friction zone, keeping power to the rear wheel, you can eliminate the rear brake. With the fear of dropping the bike now gone, it will get easy to nail the figure 8 every time. Good job.
A visit from the master himself. Awesome! Thank you, will do. BTW, I purchased your Ride Like a Pro video a while ago but because I didn't want to damage my bike, I went through it once (not very well I might add). Now with no fear, nothing is going to stop me. Peace.
@@BernardoLora1 If you follow the exercises I show in the video in the order shown, by the time you get to the figure 8 it will be easy. Plus it will save you a lot of picking up the bike back aches. Remember, it's 90% mental and 10% physical. You have the will, and I show you the way.
P.S. Jay is a good friend of mine. He sent me a link to this video.
Awesome 👍 👌
Back up a step - first factor in 8s and U turns is you MUST twist your head and shoulders around and look BEHIND you were you are going to end up in the turn
watch the video, rider is hardly turning his head at all.
The first rule of riding is ALWAYS LOOK where you want the motorcycle to go!
That means for a U turn you must twist your head and shoulders around and look behind you to the left where you will end up at the end of the turn.
If you take the MSF beginners course you will learn how to do 8s and U turns on the first day - even if you never rode a motorcycle in your life
FUNDIMENTALS!
you need to take the course and UN learn all your bad (self taught) righting habits
Crash bars are still great - sometimes you drop the bike for no fault of your own - nothing wrong with a little insurance to protect the engine and your ankles.
Lmao. I was going to add to this comment until I seen who it's from. Nope Jerry hit everything on the head. I too started dragging my rear brake ( after watching a video from ride like a pro)till I got a little more comfortable with it. Now I just use the friction zone of the clutch with throttle around 1800-2000rpm. Practice makes perfect. And the best advice I can give is if you don't make the choice the choice makes you. Be safe.
its nice to see a guy not have an ego and admit hes afraid, then work through it to better his skills.
Pretty impressive ! The guards are great for protecting your motorcycle but it's hard to put a price tag on the extra confidence you have gained. Thanks for passing this on 👍
You are 100% right. The confidence made all the difference.
Congrats Bernardo for not giving up! Good job!
Love this! There is nothing like getting the confidence that comes with learning how to operate the motorcycle at slow speeds like this!!
The difference has been unbelievable.
This is excellent! I'm most impressed with your willingness to fall even WITH the drop guards. My issue is that I have the drop guards but I'm still too afraid to fall and to trust them. I have also fallen a couple of times and wrenched my ankle. What I've noticed is that you have disciplined yourself to STAY ON THE BIKE when you fall. You don't put your foot down. If I can get to that, then the real learning begins. Thanks for the inspiration.
Hey....it's so cool of you to share this. I was doing the same thing 1 week ago with my motorcycle le drop guards. Going pretty well, then oops....dropped my Indian Roadmaster. No damage, but I was actually irritated that I scratched up my drop guards. I haven't gotten to the 18 foot U turn......probably like 22' now. I have to say that even with the drop guards, I didn't go at it as hard as you did. Great job!
This is awesome! You doing so well, it is something I need to go practice now, you have helped!!!
Thank you. All the best to you.
Thanks for the Video! My wife and I have the drop guards on our Harley's and we feel ALOT more confident practicing. Keep it up your doing great!
Thank you I really appreciate it. Stay safe, have fun.
Well done, I’m certainly heading to a parking lot this weekend to practice my figure 8’s. Thanks for the tips and confidence.
Maaaan!! you made me jealous (in a good way). I like that man, well done, you seem like a real down to earth dude. Bless.
Going to see if I can put up some more stuff but the weather has been crappy up here. Thanks.
Omg thank you for this - I’m a newbie in riding and when I couldn’t do the close u turn and drop my bike 3 times (without protection) my confidence went backwards, couldn’t even ride like I was doing - now I have clarity thanks to you. Just order the protection and handlebars etc it was all in my mind about getting my bike hurt!!! Also that it’s normal to drop ur bike at the beginning
I feel ya. I knew it would help, but I didn't know how much of a difference it would make. I'm dying to put out some more videos but man, this weather has been horrible.
That was excellent! I always start out with the slow race on my bike. I definitely want to get some motorcycle drop guards. That is a good investment. Beautiful bike you have! Always listen to Jerry! He knows! 😊😎
I'm a small guy too. I have a 07 SG and I've dropped it doing that and even though I got minimal damage I'm gonna get a set of those. I thought you did a great video. Sounded heart felt and the reason it motivated me to get a set. Thanks for the heads up. Good advice on this thread.
Funny you should say that. I just finished filming a video yesterday on slow maneuvering for short guys. I will probably upload it today or tomorrow
Great video! Congrats 🎉
Kudos for your determination to nail this. You already got so much better at it over the course of this video.
I was surprised myself.
Great job my guy. Just got my bike. It's much smaller than yours, but I am very much considering adding some crash bars to learn and practice slow speed moves.
I don't even own a bike, but got my license earlier this week.
I've been doing a lot of TH-cam "studying" and you're looking real good just after 15 minutes.
The confidence in the crash guards seems to make a big difference.
So long as the bike is protected I don't think I'd worry much about dropping the bike. I'd just worry about someone watching me drop, embarrassing.😬👍🏽✌🏽
Thanks for sharing mate
Excellent work sir! I need to get some of those to give me more confidence . Thanks for posting this 👍
What a GREAT job and video on the review of motorcycle drop guards.
Thanks. I appreciate it.
That's amazing you over came the fear of dropping ya ride but keep practicing and touch that rear brake a little prolly help ya turns out
It's amazing how much you can do when fear is not a factor.
This is a great video! If you don't drop your bike, you're not trying hard enough!
As a result, my riding had gotten better.
Your bike sounds really good
holy shit Bernardo, after 5 minutes you got a thousand percent better!!
Yessir, I was amazed myself. It's amazing what can you accomplish when you eliminate fear out of the equation
@@BernardoLora1 for sure. And the fact that with those crash bars, your bike can't get hurt tames a lot of that fear down. For me I believe the fear is damaging the bike, and second the fear of looking like a total "doofus" as Jerry Palladino would say lol.
Love your video!
Nice job!
I give this video a BIG thumbs up.
You did great dude, thank you
All I can say is those are very interesting. As far as your slow speed skills they are now improving. Great job 👏 still some improvement needed however you came a long way in a short time. 😀 you have encouraged me to do these slow speed menuvers and record it myself. I need the practice like you. 👍 be safe.
Yeah, I still need a ton of practice but these guards have made all the difference in the world in terms of my progress. The weather should be good this Saturday. I'll probably make another video.
I need crash bars for my crash bars! I know your pain. My V Strom 650 drops from a higher altitude.
Gracias amigo! Mui Bueno!
Preload...keep it loaded, cover the rear break, find the sweet spot on the clutch lever. and go...remember to KEEP IT LOADED....
Good job. It's tough on your own
Where there's a will....there are Motorcycle Drop Guards 😉
Nicely done.
thx for the vid bud..well done
Can we get an update?
Weather has been crap but today is pretty decent. I'll see if I can record a video today. Thanks for the request.
@@BernardoLora1 I forget that the weather isn't so nice up north right now... sorry about that.
@@damerkman No worries. Uploading video now.
Man you trying alot Better then some of my friends
Lean the bike, turn your head, keep your speed up. Drag rear brake and stay in friction zone. The bike will do it. So can you.
Very nice.
Thank You awesome
Brother that is awesome. I can do a figure 8 in 4 parking LOTS lol. I will look into them 👍👍
Looks like those crash bars might have shortened your clearence. Don't get too comfortable scrapping... do it faster in a turn and it'll lift your back wheel off the ground and low-side you.
Made me a believer Got to get them.a
They've made all the difference in the world for me. Going out again this Saturday. Might do another video.
DON'T YOU GET YOUR LEFT HAND SORE BECAUSE OF ALL THE CLUTCH SHIFTING?
Sometimes. Depends on what I'm doing and for how long.
I’ll never lose my confidence… instead I quickly rush to my bike and pick it up and take off hoping to god no one saw anything.
I would like to know is that fall guard will be damage too when its drop and scatching the ground? I haveing the same issue and worry about falling and damage the bike but if install this fall guard and it will prevent damage the bike if dropping.
So the drop guards gets pretty scratched up depending on how much you fall during practice. But they don't get damaged. The good thing is that you can take them off and your bike is good. I plan to do that when I go to Americade this year. Check out my follow up video where I talk about how it protects the primary. Ride safe, ride strong.
@@BernardoLora1 May I know where to order and install? Is it fit different bike tgan yours?
@@bleung2 check them out at motorcycledropguards.com/
@@BernardoLora1 thanks
💛this!!!
Very Nice
Got more coming this week. Thanks.
I dropped my 900 pound Yamaha Venture in a storage garage while parking. I have been discouraged from ever doing that again :)
It hurts your feelings more than the bike doesn't it? I feel you man.
More throttle or Blip it it'll be easier :)
Wonder How Many Women/Men Would Be Riding Without Electric Start ?
Or Big Engines There Would Be ? ... Very Few /;-)) Peace/;-))
1957 Hard Tail Pan /;-))
I think people should master leaning on a bicycle first, then master it on an electric bike, then on the motorcycle. I'm still struggling with figure eights myself.
It's doable but you got a lot going on; throttle, friction zone, and a little rear brake. Making it all work in unison takes a whole lot of practice.
take the MSF beginners course - Geeze bicycle LOL!
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