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Thats why I made the video and posted it. I wont get any advice to become a better rider if I cant hear what I am doing wrong.

Always Remember!!!! The moment you think you have learned and seen everything you can and asshat in a cage will prove you wrong.

Dude - as a newbie rider you have to understand you must develop skills. And for the moment you have zero. Practice, practice, practice. - Lose the damn cell phone, put it in your pocket. You need all your attention on your surroundings. The moment you look at your cell phone could be the moment you need ALL your focus to save your ass. - Look where you want to go! I notice several times in the video you fixated on something. Well guess what? The object your fixate on is the object you wlll hit.- Look thru a line in the corners. Imagine it and point the bike exactly on that line. - Look where you want to go! - Lastly I saw you purchased a womens jacket. I hope you are not planning to ride your GF on you bike yet. You are way far from being skill enuff to be safe two up. Best wishes, you have a long ways to go.

This week is going to be great! If things are looking good on Wednesday I'll be leaving right after work (4:05) from Columbus and making a quick loop through Hocking. Back home by 8 at the latest. This will be my first time really out with the new bike so I'll be running a solid Medium pace if anybody else wants to join in. I anticipate taking 33 out of town, I'll be at the Circle K at 70 and 33 by 4:30. I'll top off at the gas station across from 374 also, probably be there by 5:15 depending on traffic.

This is exactly the mentality that keeps many blue collar workers, especially those who depend on union contracts to protect their mediocre performance, from being valued more by their employer. It's no different than "the typical millennial" who maligns management when they're not put in charge of the midwest sales district two days out of high school. It's jealousy and self-entitlement. Let's pretend I worked for you, and I saw another coworker busting his ass to help you make your quota and improve your profitability while I grumbled to myself about how much of an ass-kisser he's being. Would you call his productivity "sucking the dick of the person above them to make an extra buck," or just increasing their perceived value to create more opportunity for themselves?

Lucky mother f-er. That WILL be my retirement state. I am a fan of isle of palms/ mt pleasant area. The weather is great, people are nice, food is good, and then there's the beach. It is a great place for history if your into that. I would transfer there in a heartbeat if I didn't have my companies here. Maybe one day. Unless you let me live vicariously through you??

Picked up some factory rims for my project truck today.

I'm teasing of course... I eat a lot of the same stuff too for the same reason. like I said before, whatever works for each person is the right thing.

I know what you mean, and I've seen first hand how energetic, creative, productive and reliable factory workers suffer from derision, sabotage and exile heaped on by other (usually union) members threatened by a newbie's higher standards. Nonetheless, it doesn't ultimately matter what the differences are; the "physics" of supply and demand economics apply equally. If a person provides a high level of perceived value where it is both scarce and in high demand, then a higher price for one's products and services wins the day. If there is low demand, high supply or a perception of mediocre-at-best quality, then a lower price wins the day. So, unless one advocates mass murder of fellow candidates, the best, most reliable way to make a higher hourly wage is to increase the market's perception of your value, and let the whiners demonstrate how scarce it can be.

Hey Travis, glad you're letting us help you out bro. I wanted to relate a story from this weekend that may not make a lot of sense right now, but with a baby coming, it might someday. Yesterday I spent most of the day with my own daughter, picking up a pallet and turning it into a garden planter. We worked on how to use a socket set, electric drill and think on your feet when throwing a woodworking project together. We ran errands together, had dinner at a restaurant and did some light shopping. That might seem like no big deal for some people, but for me, it's priceless, as I may have mentioned that just under 4 months ago I was in Germany on an operating table for 5 hours and kept anesthetized for 18 hours to replace four badly damaged cervical vertebra. Before then, it would have been a rare day for me to be able to spend so much of it vertical, let alone actively passing on skills and creating memories with my daughter. It's exactly why I put myself through that reparative surgery and why I've been going through the pain of slowly, slowly, slowly working my way back to general fitness. It's not coming back as quickly as I'd like, but it is coming together, and I hope you see that happing little by little as you work your way back as well. Hope to see you at a future get-together, but like snot says, hearing that you're investing in your recovery is plenty good enough for me!

You doing better Is thanks enough.

+1 for delkevic. I put their full system on my old xj600. Quality was very good, nice looking stainless pipes. Sounded great and had removable baffles. Even with them out it wasn't crazy loud, just a nice deep tone. Only thing with delkevic is they don't make a system for a lot of bikes.

Reading some of the responses sure seems like the typical millennial, I deserve the world mentality. If you're unhappy with your job, start looking for a new one. If you're being under paid prove you're worth more. when I hire in March, I tell people I'm going to pay you $XX.XXper hour.. If you stick it out through mid June and prove you're reliable and can follow simple instruction I'm going to pay you a $1 per hour bonus of every hour you work from March 15 to June 15, and if you're unhappy and want to move on, no hard feelings I'll still pay you the bonus, but if you want to stay and keep working the hard I'll straight up pay you the extra $1 per hour, all for unskilled manual labor.

Sure, it's broken. No one wants to give up their free shit. Then work more than 40 hours per week. I've worked any where from 60-90 hours every single week since I've been 18 years old. every year I manage to work more and more yet my take home pay doesn't go up proportionally with the cost of groceries, heating fuel electricity, and you know what buttercup I fucking go bust by ass harder and harder to take care of my family. And it makes me fucking sick when people like you think the poor are not responsible for their decisions.... Sure there are plenty of people with disabilities that truly cannot be integrated into society but if you're able bodied person you should be busting ass to get somewhere. Go on indeed.com and search for jobs in your city. Theres fuck ton of them. get one that pays $12 an hour, yes there's plenty, get the pell grant, go on food stamps bust ass at work, go to school then get yourself out of poverty... It's not that fucking hard.

Looks like in a few turns you were trying to force it with a lean. Start with a good counter steer and the bike will fall into the lean on its own. I've never taken the MSF BRC, but I'm sure they cover counter steering in detail so you'll learn about it then. It all comes with practice. As said before, head on a swivel. Defensive driving on a motorcycle will save your skin/life. Almost every-time I'm out, I prevent an accident by seeing it before it happens. Mostly at intersections or stops.

Already signed up for the course April 14th-17th. Surprisingly have used my mirrors more than I thought I would.

Companies do pay the market wage. If their market value was higher, they would have an incentive to move to the higher paying job.

Try to relax. I found myself doing dumb shit because I was over thinking every little movement and getting amped up over mistakes. The class will help. I signed up for the ARC in April to continue the learning process. I still have a shit ton to learn after one season. Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk

Signed up for the MFS course in April. You are correct, I did coast. I wont do that anymore. The shuttering of the bike because of the degree of engine braking is what makes me do that.

If you are looking for criticism, you came to the right place. Get your hand off the clutch unless you are shifting. Down shift as you come to a light or turn, don't pull in the clutch and coast/brake. You need to be engaged so you can throttle brake or accelerate quickly to avoid an asshat. Jesus, give it some gas as you take off. It's a sportbike it can take HUGE rpm's. Stop doing wheelies. Start doing your corners correctly. Outside to inside to outside. I know they are not big corners and you are not flying but you need to develop the habit so it just happens. Not full outside to inside on the street...more like the middle half of the lane. So on a right hander get in the left tire track as you approach...then slide to the right tire track as you go through the curve and then slight back to the left one as you exit. And the big one, you need to look around more. I saw several lights where you took off on green, you gotta look both ways for red light runners or you will die some day. That would make me sad. Your head needs to be on a swivel the whole time you are riding...look look look. Then if you need to escape you already know where everything is and can react more quickly.

IP doesn't buy cheap pot.

I hereby dub this thread, the Ben and Jim technology humpfest.

Currently building a Look carbon fiber bike, with Campagnolo bits. Also have a Fat Chance Yo Eddy from my last year of racing- 1998, complete with XT thumbshifters.

Better than Uber is a hooker, some coke and a hotel room. Wake up in the morning and hop in the car.

Okay, but that's not what "zero tolerance" means. Blowing .020 is not, on its own, enough evidence to sustain a conviction for OVI - there must also be a showing of actual impairment, either in the person's driving, or based on their performance of field sobriety tests. The same is NOT true at .080 or greater - that is where the legislature draws the line and says "you're automatically impaired at .080"

Exactly my thoughts!!

This makes me emotional folks. I don't know what to say or do other than thank you thank you thank you

A new flat tax on revenues for corporations (no deductions) and a flat tax on individuals would make thinks way more simple and fair.