Dave78
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We seem to have hit a mental block with MrsDave getting back onto two wheels, she can ride - I've watched her and where she learnt says she's a good little rider (no laughing at the back), but she seems to have hit a mental block with it all.
The background to MrsDave's riding is as follows.
Completed her CBT over a number of days, as would get very tired very quickly. So better to make slow and stready progress than to rush it. But once this was passed we used to go out for little runs just gaining experience for her, and me there to keep an eye out and act as her wingman. So far so good.
Just after passing her CBT we were coming back from a little ride and a bird flew out the hedge and knocked her off balance going into a corner, such that she came off and went for a slide down the road at 50mph. Without all the kit on, I dread to think how much worse the outcome would have been. One trip in a ambulance later, and 8 months of recovery she was determed to get back on. Which she did, although it was lots of little and often. Including a weekend trip to see her parents (250 mile round trip over a weekend - on a 125)
She passed her Mod 1 and 2 just before her 2 years of CBT were up. To celebrate we went went away for the weekend (again her on the 125), on the way home at a break she just had come to her limit of what she could ride for the day. I blame finding an attempted theft of our bikes just prior to us setting off on the return trip freaking us both out a bit, and a few close calls with car drivers being idiots. No huge problem as I came home, only about an hour or so from home, took the car and we got her bike back.
She got a F650GS as her first big bike, and almost as soon as she got that, her knee started to give her grief - the knee that took the impact when she came off on her 125. Fast forward a few months and it was being operated on, then 12-18 months of recovery time and it's almost as good as new.
Now we are trying to get back onto the bike, but she seems to have hit this mental block. We know she can ride, around the local trading estate on a sunday morning, she can ride around and around the block without any issues. Same when she's at the training school grounds. Around the block to home she can ride. I've taken her pillion on her bike, so she can get used to been on two wheels again, and get used to two wheels at speed (well more than 30mph). She's enjoying being pillion, apart from on a very wet and windy motorway the other day (but then who enjoys wet and windy motorways anyway) But any suggestion of going further afield, even just a few miles down the road she goes into like a panic mode, says she can't ride, she's no good at it etc, but she wants to do it. She know's it's not logical, which in itself is annoying her. And she says that she wants to do more than just ride round the block, but can't work out how to stop the panic to actually ride, if that makes sense.
Anyone got any ideas how to get her over this block?
The background to MrsDave's riding is as follows.
Completed her CBT over a number of days, as would get very tired very quickly. So better to make slow and stready progress than to rush it. But once this was passed we used to go out for little runs just gaining experience for her, and me there to keep an eye out and act as her wingman. So far so good.
Just after passing her CBT we were coming back from a little ride and a bird flew out the hedge and knocked her off balance going into a corner, such that she came off and went for a slide down the road at 50mph. Without all the kit on, I dread to think how much worse the outcome would have been. One trip in a ambulance later, and 8 months of recovery she was determed to get back on. Which she did, although it was lots of little and often. Including a weekend trip to see her parents (250 mile round trip over a weekend - on a 125)
She passed her Mod 1 and 2 just before her 2 years of CBT were up. To celebrate we went went away for the weekend (again her on the 125), on the way home at a break she just had come to her limit of what she could ride for the day. I blame finding an attempted theft of our bikes just prior to us setting off on the return trip freaking us both out a bit, and a few close calls with car drivers being idiots. No huge problem as I came home, only about an hour or so from home, took the car and we got her bike back.
She got a F650GS as her first big bike, and almost as soon as she got that, her knee started to give her grief - the knee that took the impact when she came off on her 125. Fast forward a few months and it was being operated on, then 12-18 months of recovery time and it's almost as good as new.
Now we are trying to get back onto the bike, but she seems to have hit this mental block. We know she can ride, around the local trading estate on a sunday morning, she can ride around and around the block without any issues. Same when she's at the training school grounds. Around the block to home she can ride. I've taken her pillion on her bike, so she can get used to been on two wheels again, and get used to two wheels at speed (well more than 30mph). She's enjoying being pillion, apart from on a very wet and windy motorway the other day (but then who enjoys wet and windy motorways anyway) But any suggestion of going further afield, even just a few miles down the road she goes into like a panic mode, says she can't ride, she's no good at it etc, but she wants to do it. She know's it's not logical, which in itself is annoying her. And she says that she wants to do more than just ride round the block, but can't work out how to stop the panic to actually ride, if that makes sense.
Anyone got any ideas how to get her over this block?
D) but would it help if Mrs Dave went out with somebody completely independent of you? So there's no 'family' there's no hubby or relative or whatever, and it's just her, and a professional.
