# First Bike suggestions **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Automotive\ **Created:** [March 25, 2008, 11:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/first-bike-suggestions/196336 "2008-03-25T11:37:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 55
**Author:** ![xlogic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/59ef9b/32.png) [@xlogic](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/xlogic)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/first-bike-suggestions/196336/55 "2008-04-01T20:02:18Z")
> [@no start, no turn over.](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/no-start-no-turn-over/35748/21): > > Your inexperience speaks volumes in the above statement. This is not advice you should be giving to a future rider. Your goal as a rider should be to ride defensively & safely, but have the confidence to tell yourself that you will not crash. With your above statement, you expect to crash/fall. Everyone falls…this has been something that the most experienced riders have ALWAYS told beginners…and it even happens to the best…if there is a possibility that something can happen…it will happen. I know i’m inexperienced and i have a left mirror to prove such…telling yourself you won’t fall is denying the inevitable…and on a side note…before i actually did drop the bike…your damn right i expected to drop it…it happens to everyone --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/first-bike-suggestions/196336)._