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Grimes posted:Oh my god I'm terrible I loved the MSF course and passed with flying colors. A few weeks later I bought an SV650 and discovered while making laps around my apartment complex that I could barely control the thing. I nearly sideswiped a retaining wall while trying to avoid an oncoming car and generally felt like I had no idea what I was doing (I think because the SV was so much bigger and heavier than the MSF bikes). That night, I reviewed the MSF book and, over and over, visualized countersteering in my head until my brain turned it into a reflex. Got back on the bike the next day and I was fine. I spent the next few riding sessions practicing on some hilly sidestreets down the road from me. So don't get spooked. Re-read the materials, visualize the actual physical motion of controlling a bike until it becomes muscle memory. You just have to get past the fact that a large part of riding is either new, alien or outright counter-intuitive. Eventually, you'll get it.
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I am terrible at motorcycling even by the standards of someone who is having trouble. I'm seriously shocked at how much trouble I had with virtually everything. I kept accidentally giving the bike gas on the throttle when doing the slalom or even turning and I loving ran my bike into some shrubs. I was fine and so was the bike, but it almost seemed like an exclamation point on the day of "Oh my god, I'm bad at this and I don't know if I'm ever going to be good at it." 
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Halo_4am posted:Has anybody taken/taught the experienced course? I just got myself a whole lot of bike and was thinking of re-taking the MSF just to force myself to refresh and practice. I drill myself on the stuff from MSF/BRC1 at the start of every season anyway though so it will probably be more beneficial to take the advanced instead. My actual MSF cert is 6 years old now so it might not hurt my insurance to take and pass the advanced safety course either. I took the ERC a few years ago. I can't say I learned anything I didn't already know, but it was free, fun and I got a chance to practice some things I otherwise wouldn't have.
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