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I recently bought my first motorcycle!
I love riding it, but it's taking a LOT of getting used to. Whereas in a car, I completely just blended in with the crowd, now I'm a focus of virtually everyone's attention. It's easy to get lost in riding/thought when I'm moving, but stopped at stoplights.. in traffic? That's nerve-racking! I get uncomfortable and hot and have to flip up my visor to keep from sweating and fogging it up.
I feel like I look ridiculous and like everyone is thinking "What a nerd/loser.." It doesn't help that I'm tall and skinny and my jeans don't cover my ankles when I'm sitting on my bike. Starting from a stop in traffic terrifies me! If I mess up, I get sooo embarrassed. I'm just lucky I've got a helmet on so people can't see..
Also, I don't like the way my bike looks, so I assume everyone else thinks it looks dorky, too (It wasn't my first choice, or even on my list, but the price was right -- that, and my grandpa bought it for me without asking.......). It's an '05 Buell Blast, whereas I wanted an '08 Ninja 250.. Oh, yeah.. and the exhaust has broke on it THREE times now. So I've had to ride it home three times sounding like a broken lawnmower.. How embarrassing..
Music helps me relax, but I'm too distracted to even get into the music.. I need to be just a tiny bit more relaxed, enough to feel the music, before I can relax completely.
What I hope to accomplish is just having fun on it and not caring what anyone else thinks. I'm on a bike and they're not, so they can think whatever the [email protected]#$ they want. Now, when other bikers ride by.. Well, I actually worry less about them. The ones stopped at stoplights with me trigger anxiety, though.. I was always intimidated by them, though, even in my car.
Anyway, I just thought I'd share.
I feel like I look ridiculous and like everyone is thinking "What a nerd/loser.." It doesn't help that I'm tall and skinny and my jeans don't cover my ankles when I'm sitting on my bike. Starting from a stop in traffic terrifies me! If I mess up, I get sooo embarrassed. I'm just lucky I've got a helmet on so people can't see..
Also, I don't like the way my bike looks, so I assume everyone else thinks it looks dorky, too (It wasn't my first choice, or even on my list, but the price was right -- that, and my grandpa bought it for me without asking.......). It's an '05 Buell Blast, whereas I wanted an '08 Ninja 250.. Oh, yeah.. and the exhaust has broke on it THREE times now. So I've had to ride it home three times sounding like a broken lawnmower.. How embarrassing..
Music helps me relax, but I'm too distracted to even get into the music.. I need to be just a tiny bit more relaxed, enough to feel the music, before I can relax completely.
What I hope to accomplish is just having fun on it and not caring what anyone else thinks. I'm on a bike and they're not, so they can think whatever the [email protected]#$ they want. Now, when other bikers ride by.. Well, I actually worry less about them. The ones stopped at stoplights with me trigger anxiety, though.. I was always intimidated by them, though, even in my car.
Anyway, I just thought I'd share.