I like you stay left or right, I prefer Left so you are in Drivers line of sight and watch your mirrors to make sure cage behind you is stopping. Always have an OUT. The best advice I can give any rider, " Ride like you are invisible " pretend no one can see you to protect yourself. One more: If you can on two left turn lanes use the left side. Cages like drift to the right on left turns. 👍👍👍
It looks like when you shift gears you blip your clutch (pulling in and letting the clutch snap back out) instead of smoothly releasing the clutch. At the same time you also blip your throttle instead of being consistent with gradually rolling back and forth with throttle. A few times it seemed that your clutch hand and throttle hand weren’t exactly in sync with one another when shifting gears because your gear shifting technique is very quick and snappy. I ride a Honda 300r. The one thing that I quickly learned while riding on my bike is to be smooth with clutch, throttle, and front brake. Any kind of jerky or abrupt operation with this bike would cause to bike to ride rough and erratic. I’m thinking your stalling is caused by your clutch technique and how you use the throttle. I got it figured out by practicing the Slow Maneuverability Drills from Motojitsu last summer. The drills taught me Clutch Control, good Head Turns and Eye focus (ala Ride Like a Pro), Brake Control, and tight U-Turns. Maybe doing the Clutch Drills in the parking lot would help with you not stalling the bike. Hope this helps.
Yesss, girl!! First of all, I love that you have your "safety area" at the church, a place for your to get re-familiar with your bike and cool off. Second, I LOVEEE that you went BACK to where you made a mistake for a do-over! That's awesome! Proud of you for staying calm and working through both stalls. Personally, when I'm coming to a stop I just have my clutch pulled in and just downshift all the way into first. I'm too much of a beginner to worry about engine braking and perfect downshifts, I know that'll come with time. Since my clutch is already pulled in, I can easily either come to a stop, or let it back out to re-engage the back tire and give me power if needed. This is just what I do, not saying it's good advice or not :) Assuming a car is going to be going just because the light is green can be dangerous. If you have a larger parking lot or quiet street to practice, you can start to get familiar with engine braking as well as rev matching, which is done more easily at higher speeds. Then once you're familiar and comfortable with that you can try it on the main road! Keep it up and I can't wait to see more!
Don't worry about the stalling, it happens to everyone especially when learning and it can teach you something you can change later or it might just be a simple mistake like thinking you're in a lower gear than you are, either way it will happen less and less and it all helps us learn in the end. Keep up the practice and ride safe ))
I started following you about a month ago after I bought my grom. I haven’t hit main roads yet still parking lot practicing. I enjoy your videos and watching you learn.
When I was learning I went with somebody who’s a better rider once I had my own bike and practiced some of the stuff from the MSF course in a parking lot. Oh and I would stall all the time. Took practice to get used to a different bike. They do have the advanced course you could go back with your own bike and get lessons.
Try not swerving and focus on the clutch/throttle smoothness. My first vid, do not know your seat time. No biggie it just will premature chain stretch. In 1976 on my 10th birthday I got my first bike a Honda Super Cub stripped down with knobbies . Crashed it right into the swing set. Now a retired MSF instructor.🛵🛵🛵 Who knew⁉
Just subscribed to your channel - love seeing your journey. Can you do a video on how to carry a passenger? I'd love to take my BF for a ride this summer!
Just thought of another… Get those stickers off the tank! Eventually they will start removing themselves and will leave a weird set of squares where they were.
@@Briannah73 Yep, it's automatic, but I still had to take the msf course to get my endorsement. I actually learned how to ride on a Grom, but had already bought the Navi. Shifting scared me, but I got more comfortable with it during the course.
You KNOW I came here to pick on you!!! But first imma give ya props! We talked about using 2nd gear in smaller parking lots instead of first last time and I see you did that this round!!! Seen it was way less jerky on you!! Second… Go ahead and shift up in gears!! Staying in the higher rpm’s will not only wear down that engine quicker but will also keep you switch smoother throttle response till you get more used to riding. 3rd.. Look up rev matching on TH-cam for when you are dropping gears. Let’s say you are coming up to a stop light and already in 5th or 4th. Instead of pulling in the clutch and hitting the breaks and trying to multi downshift, let the engine do it for you! Your doing great, just a few things I noticed. Keep it up and rubber side down girlie!! Now for the picking part! 🤪 QUIT POPPING THAT 11:02 CLUTCH!!!! I know it doesn’t matter much with the Grom power but if you ever decide to upgrade, that habit will bite you!
I like you stay left or right, I prefer Left so you are in Drivers line of sight and watch your mirrors to make sure cage behind you is stopping. Always have an OUT. The best advice I can give any rider, " Ride like you are invisible " pretend no one can see you to protect yourself. One more: If you can on two left turn lanes use the left side. Cages like drift to the right on left turns. 👍👍👍
It looks like when you shift gears you blip your clutch (pulling in and letting the clutch snap back out) instead of smoothly releasing the clutch. At the same time you also blip your throttle instead of being consistent with gradually rolling back and forth with throttle. A few times it seemed that your clutch hand and throttle hand weren’t exactly in sync with one another when shifting gears because your gear shifting technique is very quick and snappy.
I ride a Honda 300r. The one thing that I quickly learned while riding on my bike is to be smooth with clutch, throttle, and front brake. Any kind of jerky or abrupt operation with this bike would cause to bike to ride rough and erratic. I’m thinking your stalling is caused by your clutch technique and how you use the throttle. I got it figured out by practicing the Slow Maneuverability Drills from Motojitsu last summer. The drills taught me Clutch Control, good Head Turns and Eye focus (ala Ride Like a Pro), Brake Control, and tight U-Turns. Maybe doing the Clutch Drills in the parking lot would help with you not stalling the bike. Hope this helps.
Yesss, girl!! First of all, I love that you have your "safety area" at the church, a place for your to get re-familiar with your bike and cool off. Second, I LOVEEE that you went BACK to where you made a mistake for a do-over! That's awesome! Proud of you for staying calm and working through both stalls.
Personally, when I'm coming to a stop I just have my clutch pulled in and just downshift all the way into first. I'm too much of a beginner to worry about engine braking and perfect downshifts, I know that'll come with time. Since my clutch is already pulled in, I can easily either come to a stop, or let it back out to re-engage the back tire and give me power if needed. This is just what I do, not saying it's good advice or not :) Assuming a car is going to be going just because the light is green can be dangerous.
If you have a larger parking lot or quiet street to practice, you can start to get familiar with engine braking as well as rev matching, which is done more easily at higher speeds. Then once you're familiar and comfortable with that you can try it on the main road!
Keep it up and I can't wait to see more!
Don't worry about the stalling, it happens to everyone especially when learning and it can teach you something you can change later or it might just be a simple mistake like thinking you're in a lower gear than you are, either way it will happen less and less and it all helps us learn in the end. Keep up the practice and ride safe ))
You're good. You just need more seat time. Be safe out there.
I started following you about a month ago after I bought my grom. I haven’t hit main roads yet still parking lot practicing. I enjoy your videos and watching you learn.
When I was learning I went with somebody who’s a better rider once I had my own bike and practiced some of the stuff from the MSF course in a parking lot. Oh and I would stall all the time. Took practice to get used to a different bike. They do have the advanced course you could go back with your own bike and get lessons.
Yesssss I started watching ur vids when I first started riding my grom!!! Love u showing ur journey!!
Try not swerving and focus on the clutch/throttle smoothness. My first vid, do not know your seat time. No biggie it just will premature chain stretch. In 1976 on my 10th birthday I got my first bike a Honda Super Cub stripped down with knobbies . Crashed it right into the swing set. Now a retired MSF instructor.🛵🛵🛵 Who knew⁉
Im proud of you sis!
Keep practicing! Stay safe out there!
Just subscribed to your channel - love seeing your journey. Can you do a video on how to carry a passenger? I'd love to take my BF for a ride this summer!
Lessons learned. You already analyzed things. Just get better every time.
Just thought of another… Get those stickers off the tank! Eventually they will start removing themselves and will leave a weird set of squares where they were.
It's been nice watching your journey. I have a Honda Navi, but i want to upgrade to a Grom soon.
Ooh, the navi is like a scooter. Have you learned to ride a clutch already? Or is that something you gotta learn?
@@Briannah73 Yep, it's automatic, but I still had to take the msf course to get my endorsement. I actually learned how to ride on a Grom, but had already bought the Navi. Shifting scared me, but I got more comfortable with it during the course.
I got my endorsement for the Navi. Ride it for a year and now just bought a Grom. I’m loving my Grom 😊
You KNOW I came here to pick on you!!! But first imma give ya props! We talked about using 2nd gear in smaller parking lots instead of first last time and I see you did that this round!!! Seen it was way less jerky on you!!
Second… Go ahead and shift up in gears!!
Staying in the higher rpm’s will not only wear down that engine quicker but will also keep you switch smoother throttle response till you get more used to riding.
3rd.. Look up rev matching on TH-cam for when you are dropping gears.
Let’s say you are coming up to a stop light and already in 5th or 4th. Instead of pulling in the clutch and hitting the breaks and trying to multi downshift, let the engine do it for you!
Your doing great, just a few things I noticed. Keep it up and rubber side down girlie!!
Now for the picking part! 🤪
QUIT POPPING THAT 11:02 CLUTCH!!!!
I know it doesn’t matter much with the Grom power but if you ever decide to upgrade, that habit will bite you!
Sorry, that was all over the place but I already sent it. Guess some got mixed up.
Can’t wait for the next vid!!