Originally Posted by Terinox
Okay, so I'm sort of into motorcycles now. I got my M2, and I took one of those training courses they offer over the weekend, and so it was really fun.
Now, the messed up part was that we pretty much covered EVERYTHING, and I mean so much info and practice. Everything from slowing down and stoping in a curve, acceleration in a curve, swerving in case of emergency, etc...It was basically very fun and very informative, great instructors.
However, being in a very large parking lot, we only hit 3rd gear, and because it was a closed area, we did not get much chance to practice downshifting. Now this post is turning out longer than it really should be :P
How do you really downshift? I mean, not the actual act of it, it's easy, but I mean, if you're driving, and the light turns red, you gotta be damn far away to actually be able to downshift properly right? If you do it while driving too quickly, the bike is gonna jump like crazy, and I dunno if it's good for the motor. I mean, how bad is it really to just always slow down/stop using only the brakes. Now OBVIOUSLY sometimes, like highway riding or something, you can downshift, but I just can't picture constantly down shifting EVERY time you're approaching a red light or something.
Am I missing something here?
Thanks,
T.