Selling up after 1 month of ownership

Do not give up!

I have to commute too, even worse I go south 70 miles to a mates and 40 miles are on the A34 which is dull and boring but then I sometimes go the long route which it about 100 miles of twisties and fun times.

Local to me I go out after 4pm on a sunday and the roads are near enough empty, even saturdays can be good.

Oh and get out in the wet, take it easy and it will teach you a lot and get your confidance up but with enough reserve to stay safe enough.

I have been riding 1 year and 3 months and I have only recently got the good addiction of biking which for me came with more confidence.
 
I've been having thoughts similar but more along the lines of whats the point in this bike, after doing a couple of track days I've realized how much of it's potential is going unused. Perhaps I should just sell it and buy a cheap run about to commute on.

Problem for me is having a track bike isn't worth it due to where I live since by the time I've paid to get to the track and back and sleep the night before it has cost me quite a lot of money already!

Don't get me wrong I love riding, I haven't even taken a car lesson as the only way I commute is on 2 wheels I just can't ride the R6 on the road close to the how I would like due to surface, traffic, blind corners and all the other usual hazards!
 
My 650 Supermoto would get hammered top end wise by even a 250 sports bike but I can work it hard without ending up at silly speeds. So rather than just humming along I'm twisting the throttle like a chickens neck, going up and down gears, knee out, foot out and all the other fun stuff..

As VoG said, another style machine might flick your switch??
 
This is why I just did my cbt and got a 125 first just in case I hated it.

Luckily I love it, it's purely a commuter tool though but still really enjoy every trip. :)
 
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I felt the same after my first few rides out. On one I was trying to keep up with a bunch of guys from work who'd all been riding years, and was introduced to high speed tankslappers from pushing too hard when I couldn't handle the bike properly. After that i felt like chucking in the towel but nursed it to whitby (from Leeds) thanks to a mate stopping to wait for me.

Took me going out with lads on a forum to fully appreciate what a bike can do, and I got into the mindset of "Well if he can do it, so can I" and picked a reasonable pace rider to follow. After that my confidence came on in leaps and bounds - a motorbike will generally be far more capable than you need for public roads, but you have to overcome any obstacles gradually. Took me a year (about 10k miles in first year) from first getting on a motorbike to what I call 'getting up to speed' and after that I was the one waiting for the guys at work, but I will always remember that ride with the forum lads. After chatting with them, and following them, doing what they did, watching them, seeing what the bike could do (we were all on Thunderace or Exup 1000s) I relaxed and started to enjoy it more.

I'd definitely suggest getting out for rides with groups. Make sure they aren't all head cases with death wish and watch the more experienced riders - what they do, how they do it and treat it as a gentle learning curve.

7 years on only time (lack of) stops me from getting out more. Last ride out (a couple of weeks ago) was first for ages, and I nearly highsided with ham fisted full throttle coming out of a corner. When I was starting out, I would've gone over the bars - no doubt. Now, I just put my ass back in the seat and nail the throttle again, no sign of the 'new rider' fear and rigid limb lockup such scares used to induce in me, and I had some scary ones not connected to going fast or riding silly (riding in wet, hit patch of diesel and ended up sat on the tank looking down at headlight for example) which would ruin my ride and have me turning round and going home.

In other words it just takes time, and an understanding bunch of riders to get out with doesn't hurt either.

Another +1 for riding in Yorks moors. Hardly any straight riding at all.
 
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