# I am learning to ride!

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**Category:** Shift518 Automotive\
**Created:** [January 29, 2012, 1:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-am-learning-to-ride/262498 "2012-01-29T13:31:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gundamzeppelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Gundamzeppelin](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gundamzeppelin)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-am-learning-to-ride/262498/17 "2012-01-30T00:24:52Z")

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> [@By far the coolest thing I've hauled around so far](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/by-far-the-coolest-thing-ive-hauled-around-so-far/48091/71):
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> Welcome to the wonderful sport of two wheels.
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> Dirtbikes are quite fun and are better than no other training, they will teach you the same basic principles you would learn on the first day of a street bike, brake modulation, clutch, gearing, throttle, basic balance issues etc.
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> Ride it, practice, take the MSF course as soon as you can and then move on to a street bike which would make you happy. Bigger is not always better, some of the best times on the motorcycle I’ve ever had are on my 38hp Motard and some of the purest riding feel was on my Ninja 250.
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> Gundam, we should go 250 riding if you ever find one for yourself :lol

The 250 would be for my GF, but odds are she would ether wreck it or stop riding it so it would become mine to tinker with:rofl

I will also agree with Vlad on this statement “_some of the purest riding feel was on my Ninja 250._”

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