
Well, when I started riding a motorcycle, I started off with a 14-year-old Hero Honda Splendor, for a few days, it looked insulting because I was a youngster and I wanted to ride something fashionable like everyone else on the roads, until this incident. One of my friends got a new motorcycle, the Bajaj Pulsar NS200, it looked awesome sounded great since it was something new at that point of time for me. I asked him if I could ride the motorcycle, and yes he did offer me a ride. I was an immature rider at that time, I knew how to change gears go fast, and brake the improper way without control, which I never knew.
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I was 17 years at that time, you know well that the mind of a youngster never remains constant, it just wants to try something new and adventurous without knowing the consequences. And so yeah, I started riding the motorcycle on a street it was just then they had laid a new road. The road looked clear and black, I went really fast around 90kmph, that was when a person with a motorcycle was crossing the road, I didn't know what to do and how to control the motorcycle, neither did I know how to brake at that instant with the brakes or reducing the gears. So I stamped the rear brakes really hard, and boom, the rear tire pulled away to a side and my face faced the ground.
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I was lucky enough that nothing happened to anyone. The motorcycle was safe too because it had a crash bumper. Just a small part of the mirror broke. But I was hurt badly. Nothing happened to my head. My hands and legs were badly injured. I never knew I was hurt badly, I rode back home and told him I fell down, he was shocked and didn't even find a scratch on the mirror, until he saw me under the light, the wound on my right leg was bad, it never stopped bleeding and I was taken to the hospital.
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It was the time when I had my college admissions, I was limping around with pain to every college. After which I understood the value of riding a small bike properly, then I slowly started riding the Splendor properly, learning to brake properly, controlling the bike and so on. After I gained confidence, I moved on a to a 200cc then 300cc and so on.

So I have a kind request to the readers, start with a 100-150cc motorcycle, then move on to a 300cc and then a 600cc and so on. We get to live only once, live it happily and carefully.
Cheers, ride hard and ride safe.
Picture Credits: Simon Rajan
By: Rishath Suresh