{"id":337,"date":"2015-04-11T00:36:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T00:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2015\/04\/11\/maybe-i-should-take-it-back\/"},"modified":"2015-04-11T00:36:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T00:36:00","slug":"maybe-i-should-take-it-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2015\/04\/11\/maybe-i-should-take-it-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe I should take it back&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m kind of regretting that blog about <a href=\"http:\/\/jayneblawg.blogspot.com\/2015\/04\/will-i-ever-not-be-novice-motorcycle.html\">Will I ever not be a novice motorcycle rider?<\/a>. I posted a link to it on a discussion group for women adventure riders. Some of the advice I got in replies was quite good. But a lot wasn&#8217;t at all.<\/p>\n<p>I got chastised for how I ride from people who have never seen me ride. I got advice that showed people hadn&#8217;t actually read the blog (like regarding where I might find a dirt and gravel expert to mentor me for a day). I got a long essay about &#8220;covering your clutch&#8221; and&#8221;clutch feathering&#8221; and &#8220;dry clutch&#8221; &#8211; I don&#8217;t know what ANY of that means&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I also got a couple of statements about how I needed to get another bike. That makes me crazy. I love my motorcycle. Stefan has done so much to it to make it fit for me to ride, and I&#8217;m just not willing to downgrade yet. It also was frustrating &#8211; I wondered if men got this same advice if they ever admitted to what I admitted to. Of course, male motorcycle riders NEVER admit to any weakness, so&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Motorcycle riding keeps me humble, that&#8217;s for sure. I&#8217;m an expert in a lot of things, but I&#8217;ll never be an expert at that.<\/p>\n<p>One person said I was going to have to accept that I was going to drop my bike more than once. Goodness knows I dropped my Nighthawk more than once&#8230; always when I was trying to park. But I&#8217;ve done so well at keeping this KLR 650 looking so <i>beautiful<\/i> &#8211; I want it to always be beautiful&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;ve decided I need, instead of the advice I was offered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To start doing arm and hand exercises three times a week<\/li>\n<li>To make and follow a plan to lose 20 pounds (weight loss helped me SO much on my first bike &#8211; less between my thighs means better foot placement)<\/li>\n<li>To take Stefan at his word that he&#8217;s not going to get mad when I drop the bike. Especially if I dent his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyotetrips.de\/shop-new\/index.html\">fabulous panniers<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>To do my best at the Team Oregon class I&#8217;m going to take next month &#8211; and maybe even schlep up to Vancouver, Washington and take the Motorcycle Safety Foundation bike bonding class as well<\/li>\n<li>To keep riding<\/li>\n<li>To not share so much online about my motorcycle riding abilities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m kind of regretting that blog about Will I ever not be a novice motorcycle rider?. I posted a link to it on a discussion group for women adventure riders. Some of the advice I got in replies was quite good. But a lot wasn&#8217;t at all. I got chastised for how I ride from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}