Starting & Stopping a Motorcycle

Video Transcript

"Alright now that we've gotten comfortable with the paddle walking, we're going to go ahead and learn how to start and stop our bike. So now when we are doing our paddle walking it's basically the same thing. We're going to ease out on that clutch, and give it a little bit of gas to get it going, not a whole bunch, because you don't want to give it a whole bunch, that's going to take off from underneath you. So as we let it go, you feel it catch, you let that clutch out fully, you give it a little gas, put your feet up on top of the pegs. Now to stop, it's going to be three steps, it's going to be your clutch, pull on the clutch, right brake, back brake. So it's three steps, it's left, right , back. So it's clutch, brake, brake. Clutch, brake, brake. And that's going to be your three steps to slowing down. Alright so we are going to start off with feathering, we're just going to let up that clutch just a little bit. Start walking it along, let that clutch right out, pull our feet up on top. Now we are going to slow down, clutch left hand, brake right hand, back brake, put my feet down ok. Let out that clutch hand, give it a little bit of gas, feet up on top, pulling clutch left hand, right hand, back brake, feet down. Left foot and then right foot."