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I managed the slow control once. Once i had managed it once, it was onto all the next stuff. But i don't think I've ever been the sort of person that's like... "Oh there it is. Cool I'm set" I need to keep working at things. I've found another school and explained what happened and they said they're happy to help me out but I still feel that until I learn to control the miniscule changes in the throttle, I'll keep running into problems like i did today. That would be fine on my own bike but I don't want to keep risking bailing and damaging the bikes I'm being provided with until I work it out. As sg pointed out, I feel the best way would be stress free learning time which is what i was saying earlier about walking the bike to a nearby car park. I know i cant do this, but I'm struggling to think of other ideas. I'll try this other school out and see how the 2 hour intro course thing they provide goes. That definitely is 1to1 and if it takes me the 2 hours to get a grasp of riding consistently in a straight line at 2mph then so be it and I'll book another one.

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Its was a 125cc geared. Yamaha. The damage was something like i broke the bulkhead thing that held the the display and it needed replacing. I probably didn't break anything and they just saw an opportunity to charge me. I didn't read the terms and conditions like anyone but I thought that damage would have been done under the cost of the CBT and/or their insurance. Part of the reason why I didn't put up a fuss when they said stop was if I'd get an £80 charge every time the bike was on the floor. But they said that I'd have to redo it within the next 3 weeks to avoid paying full price, but didn't mention whether it was discounted or free or anything. I assume they mean 1 to 1 lessons. I may take 1 just to try and get a feel for the sensitivity of the throttle before trying to do anything like turning because i wasn't getting it. The other 2 guys were and the instructor I think just wanted to move on. I'd prefer though to do this is my own time. It feels like I'd rather just buy a cheap second hand bike and practice all this stuff in the nearly always empty car park right across the street until I can go to a CBT in some from of confidence.

This is probably very rare from all my research on CBTs. But I was actually removed from my CBT after 20 minutes because I was too much of a risk to myself and the other riders and I guess I want to discuss my options. I just couldn't get it. I found the throttle to be incredibly sensitive. I knew exactly what was happening. Because I found the throttle so sensitive, I'd begin by revving too much to begin with so that when I released the clutch I would just go. And I know 125s aren't powerful to you lot but I'm new to this. The shock of that jerk forward would make me pull down harder on the throttle and then I'd be going too fast for my liking at 15 minutes into the CBT and want to slow down. My muscle memory from 10s of thousands of miles of push bike riding would just make me want to slam down on the brakes and since this was the 2nd part, the turning full circle bit of the cbt I'd just lock the whole thing up and come off. It happened 3 times in 5 minutes. They charged me £80 for bike damage and told me I was not allowed to continue at the risk to myself and everyone else in the group. They recommended that I do the learner course which is what i sort of thought the CBT was. The 'new rider course' is a 1 hour lesson but i don't really see how that would help. Essentially, I'm going to keep coming off and causing bike damage until i get a feel for the throttle.