I'm happy you found this channel. Ping me if you have questions.

Glad you found it!

Thanks for sharing! I'm happy this was helpful.

MG B How the Z650 fit short rider? if it's comfortable? thank you in advance.

I talk about stopping, including uphill, in this video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m9qhpN17lZy2aWQ.html. Unfortunately can't help you with pillion advice since I always ride alone. As for parking, I plan to discuss it in a future video, so please stay tuned!

Looking forward great job 😇👍🏼

I hope so too!

My pleasure!

In places where lane splitting is allowed, getting to the front of traffic is helpful. If you cannot lane split, like where I live, you should be watching your mirrors and have an escape route planned. I talk about this in the last part of this video where we get to the street. Thank you for watching and I'm happy it is helpful.

One caution when being the first in line is to be sure cross traffic is stopping. Too many people try to beat the yellow light...

Hi Cherine. Thank you for sharing your story. Don't worry, this is normal and this is a smart way for our body to tell us that something is potentially dangerous. Keep up with training and practicing. People forget how long it takes kids to start walking and talking. And we continue practicing these skills every day, right? Bikes are the same. To make it even more challenging, bike skills are highly perishable. This is why at the very beginning, it feels like starting from point 0 every time you get on a bike. But this will improve with time and consistent practicing. Just make sure to add one step at a time in terms of complexity and always practice in a safe environment.

@@LanaOnWheels Hi there, thanks for the message and words of encouragement. Yeah, every time it feels brand new. I’m ok with balancing and when moving but when coming to a stop, I have to do so much more to make sure I do it right with my height. Other thing that is freaking me out atm is the thought of hills (up and down) and stopping on them lol. Also, still getting to learn the bike and her revs so that I can gear change correctly etc. But at least its December now and I’m nearly on holiday, so will be able to practice much more and be ready by January to travel to work (holding thumbs)

yah, all right concerns. Hills add 3rd dimension, which requires a slightly different weight distribution. You will get there. As Saadi said: Have patience, all things are difficult before they become easy. If hills could be avoided, I recommend to practice more on flat surface before adding slopes. Only the elements that you feel really comfortable with, try them on slopes. Start with light slops. That will be enough to feel the difference.

Thanks so much for everything!! Will practice and update u once I’ve gotten the hang of it. Perhaps u can add to ur series with hills? Thanks again 😊

I hope this will be helpful: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m9qhpN17lZy2aWQ.htmlsi=n0MvzwVkMpd6HaKa

Fantastic! That does count as a technical win because the driver broke the rules. With more time and practice, you'll notice that you can hold the balance longer and longer. You will get to the point where delays from cars will mean less to you. Feels like you are totally in control.

Hi Paul, another great comment, thanks. You are right that “keeping something in a bank” helps to manage the bike. This is a separate skill on its own. Not every motorcyclist understands or uses this concept. I’ll make a separate video about it later. The “slow race” skill is easier to practice with even beginner skills of throttle control. Slow race is one of the low-hanging fruits for bikers that immediately improves balance and ability to stop in a more controlled way. And to choose which foot goes down.

The gloves are REV'IT! Sand 3.

Yes, my inseam should be close to yours. On my bike, I can reach - just barely - the kickstand with my left foot for both up and down when I'm standing on the right foot. However, my bike has the sport suspension and my seat is set to the high position. Each of those things adds 20mm to the total height. If you take a standard suspension GS (not GSA - the standard suspension on GSA is the same as the sport suspension on GS) and set the seat to the lower position, you get back 40mm compared to my setup and shouldn't have a problem with the kickstand.

Check out Moto iKandi or Jocelin Snow, they both cover that topic

I met people who teach totally different approaches for this. Some say hold to the bike with your thighs to have more control, other say stay disconnected from the bike because this helps you balance on it. With such opposite instructions, I prefer to focus on looking ahead, clutch control, and listening to my body/bike balance is and making minor corrections as needed.

On this channel, we value learning and improving our riding skills. We don’t listen to other people telling us what we can’t do because we’re too short or too young (thank you for that btw) or we’re women. We do what we want no matter what it takes. As for potential dangers, riding 100 miles per hour on a highway is much more dangerous than anything that might happen to a rider just because they can’t flat foot.

@@LanaOnWheels Ok Experience here is the Key , I have ridden motorcycles all my life and I am now 70 years old... and I know from experience not being able to touch the ground is a bigger threat to rider safety than your giving it credit ! Yes you can learn the skills we all know that... but it is Not better than being able to touch the ground and have those skills too... it's a very humbling experience to come up to a stop sign and fall over on your side because the bike is too tall , your skills too rusty and the bike is too heavy.... I know I've done that!... motorcycle riding is one of the things that takes constant refreshing of skills of learning weight management and all that BUT Nothing will replace simply being able to touch the ground.... it can be expensive to lower a motorcycle but it is far better Money spent than anything you will spend on the bike..... You will have to make a lower link section in some rare cases if you can't find them for sale but that is rare now days... Example : 2001 Honda XR650L 37" seat height ( My play bike) I bought a cheap $38.00 adjustable Lowering link for it on line it was supposed to lower it 2" it actually lowered it 3" I backed off the preload nuts to the top of the rear shock ,then I lowered the front by raising the forks in the triple trees (an easy job ) and can now flat foot the XR650L and I am short with a 30 " inseam.... just a little determination will make your too tall bike alot safer and easier to manage.... I can't help you with the weight because a heavy bike is a bad bike in my opinion if that weight is high your in real trouble ! it is not that hard to lower a bike ... you have to do it to understand the benefits believe me !

I am an MSF instructor for motorcycles. Doesn’t matter how many years you’ve been riding. Means nothing. You have been only riding in your comfort zone. The bike you ride the gear you wear none of that or it is important as the skills you have on the bike. 92% of motorcycle accidents in the United States are people who have been self taught or taught by family or friends. I agree with you that you should be flat footed on a motorcycle when someone is a new rider, but Lana trains and is very skilled. Watch more of her videos you might pick up a thing or two. I work at a dealership and I see people that come in that have been riding all their lives and they’re still duck walking into a parking lot. So if you think balancing the bike with your feet is what’s most important then maybe you need to come in and take a skilled class.

How about you ride your ride @bobkelly2447 and do not tell others how to train? Obviously you are not an instructor or you'd be bragging on that. Let the professionals do their training to help others and you keep on doing what you're doing, which appears to be condescension.

@@SaintsPurgatory How about You THINK for a second , lowering a bike is not that hard or unsafe to do, yet no MS instructor says to do that ! WHY IS THAT ? simply because MS instructors are almost always no better riders than the average person they just go by what they read... getting a piece of paper does not make you an expert ! LOWER your Motorcycle and see how much better life can be on a bike !