I am a brand new motorcycle rider and crashed my brand new bike just a few days of having her.
I admit I felt like I caught the hang of riding a motorcycle pretty fast and so I was pretty cocky of my skills. I was focused on the road in front of me not looking ahead, riding faster than i should have been, all of a sudden a pretty sharp left turn appeared in front of me. I tried to turn left into the turn but i felt as if the bike would not turn left no matter how hard i was turning but in reality i was probably scared of turning too hard, so I started looking at where I was going to crash if I didn't turn more. It all happened in slow motion. next thing I knew I accepted I could not turn more left and accepted i was going to go down and went off the road and crashed. luckily it was not a situation where i was gonna get hit by oncoming traffic or a stationary object, it was just gravel.
After the accident i did a lot of research on riding and also reading around here it looks like its called target fixation and the lesson learned is to:
-pay attention and look ahead
-as some other people mentioned, look where you want to go and not where you will crash to avoid target fixation
-i also started to look at some youtube videos on turning and found out about counter steering and started to practice that and that definitely seems like it allows for better turns
stay safe everyone
I admit I felt like I caught the hang of riding a motorcycle pretty fast and so I was pretty cocky of my skills. I was focused on the road in front of me not looking ahead, riding faster than i should have been, all of a sudden a pretty sharp left turn appeared in front of me. I tried to turn left into the turn but i felt as if the bike would not turn left no matter how hard i was turning but in reality i was probably scared of turning too hard, so I started looking at where I was going to crash if I didn't turn more. It all happened in slow motion. next thing I knew I accepted I could not turn more left and accepted i was going to go down and went off the road and crashed. luckily it was not a situation where i was gonna get hit by oncoming traffic or a stationary object, it was just gravel.
After the accident i did a lot of research on riding and also reading around here it looks like its called target fixation and the lesson learned is to:
-pay attention and look ahead
-as some other people mentioned, look where you want to go and not where you will crash to avoid target fixation
-i also started to look at some youtube videos on turning and found out about counter steering and started to practice that and that definitely seems like it allows for better turns
stay safe everyone
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