How do I put down my kickstand on my scooter it is too hard?
The reason you are having such a hard time, is because you're doing it wrong.If you are standing on the left side of the scooter, push the center stand down with your right foot until it touches the ground. Keep a good stance, left hand on the on the left grip, grab the body of the bike and pull the bike backwards, while pushing down with your right foot. It sounds like a lot, but the technique is actually very easy. By pulling the bike backwards, and pushing the center stand with your foot, all of the weight is transferred to the stand, and not your upper body. Heres a video on how, and what it looks like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwXZyJSPk...
What does being right handed and left footed mean?
It means you have mixed dominance, at least a little. And that's all it means.Righties tend to be exclusively right-dominant, which means they naturally prefer the right side for most manual tasks. However, it's not uncommon to have a task or two that feels more comfortable with the other hand. What's less common is to have dominance that varies more or less randomly from task to task. Lefties are far more likely to be mixed-dominance for multiple tasks. It's dabatable whether anyone is truly ambidextrous in general, but some may be for a given task.But what does it mean? Nothing. You are not cursed, posessed, or weird. Your brain just grew that way. No one really knows why.
What are some tips on shifting gears while riding a motorcycle? How do you shift from 1st to 2nd and to neutral?
I’m also a beginner like you, I can suggest you few tips with the knowledge I have. First of all, don’t learn to ride a bike, instead study the bike. The way how it responds to you. There is a language that your bike communicates with you. The more you understand your bike, the very skillful rider you become. Usually, bikes with 5+ gears have a pattern of 1-N-2–3–4–5–6. Clutch play in bikes varies from bikes to bikes and it also depends on the individuals how they maintain it(Half clutch, full clutch, etc) Coming to the point, 1st gear is usually used to move your bike from rest. Once it starts moving, you can shift it to second gear with a brisk movement of your foot (lift the gear lever to top with your foot). Remember, if you don’t apply enough pressure to shift, you will probably end up with NEUTRAL and not second gear. Never mind, you still have another chance of immediately shifting it to second gear provided you have not stopped or halted your bike. You can reach maximum RPMs with every gear. Probably you can shift it to next gear when your RPM hits 4–6k (depends). When you are slowing down remember to lower your gear or else your bike will give you few jerks and stops at the spot itself. Clutch is the trump card in this play, you have to know when to pull and release the clutch properly, which you will get used to it once you start riding few miles. Avoid unnecessary usage of clutch(For ex: unnecessarily holding clutch thinking that will save your fuel by running smooth.. WRONG!! You are damaging the engine and wasting a lot of fuel in actual!!), shift gears as soon as you pull the clutch lever, release slowly and gradually as you rev the throttle. While halting your bike, you have to apply brakes slowly and when the speed is reduced below 25kmph, hold the clutch and just stop it. You can down shift later. As days goes on, you will know how to stop it by down shifting(though it not advised to follow :P) Tap the gears slowly so that you get the neutral. If you miss, you will end up in first gear and then you can very slowly lift it to neutral.Happy riding!
Will the RE Classic 350 suit a short rider of height 5'3" especially for driving in traffic and bad roads (balancing)?
No particular criteria required to ride the bullet only required alert, confidence and passion rest are BLA BLA BLA.I Have uploaded the Detailed Review Video regarding below points:Check point no -5 it tells about your questionINDEX# Introduction : 52 sec# Engine/twin-spark : 9.25# Head light & visibility in night : 10.38# Kick :12:12# who can ride the bullet : 16.25 Min# parking/handling techniques :20.18# Suspension :22:08# Silencer : 25.23# Break : 28.34# Gunmetal color selection : 29:54# Gunmetal grey look : 32:23# Conclusion : 38:34GO and check the video :
Why do bikes have stands on the left side?
As Motor cycles were first invented by GermansThey used to follow left hand driving, so if a rider parks his motor cycle a side it would lean towards left side and will leave little extra room for road and can assure safety from vehicles passing by. Later countries like INDIA and china became game players in manufacturing motor cycles and followed left side stand for the same reason.In addition to that, there are mostly 85% people in world are right dominated. So, at the ages of kick-start mechanism to start motorcycle, where the design incorporates kick-rod to right side, and not to cause any interference between kick-rod and side stand the side stand is made to assemble left side.