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Originally Posted by Tomcat
I am hoping I will get my confidence back soon as I am feeling more of a liability now then when I first passed my test..... 8 year ago!  |
From experience (2 weeks/600 miles) I can say this.
Use this as a wake-up call to look at your riding.
Identify what you don't like or fear and go find somewhere quiet to practise.
For me it was Left turns and U-turns, did the U-Turns in a car park I happened to find myself in while looking at a house, the left turns was also to do with an uncertainty on how far I can lean on the SV - was trying to keep her too upright, forcing me wide (tho I did take the 1st major left turn from the pub on the way home from the SELKENT meet on Wednesday night like a TOTAL TW@ - thought I was going to hit the OPPOSITE kerb (I know why I did it tho - I have a nasty habit (that I thought I had broke) of absent-mindedly changing up gears - so I tried to do it in 6th
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Analysing both of my offs of the week, my observation rather than riding was at fault, so I am confident in my riding, and have stepped up my paranoia.
Might be worth doing a refresher day's training - some training places do a "back to biking" course which might be of use to you as a "I want to break bad habits" refresher even tho its really aimed at people who "used to ride, then had kids and stopped riding, but now that the kids ave left home and they are divorced they want to live through their mid-life crisis on a bike and pull young ladies again" (erm that went on a bit didn't it - brings to mind that old saying, why use 2 words when you can use 36 - the 2 words being Henry and Peter - tho not necessarily in that order :P )
Or there is IAM and/or Bikesafe
David