{"id":12957,"date":"2025-10-06T11:47:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T17:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=12957"},"modified":"2025-10-05T12:47:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T18:47:45","slug":"how-do-you-learn-sometimes-the-hard-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/how-do-you-learn-sometimes-the-hard-way\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Learn? Sometimes The Hard Way"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some of these have got to hurt . . . and they all must be a hurt to the wallet.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

We’ve all seen these guys who do amazing things on their motorcycles–trials riding, street stunting, whatever–but I bet you have wondered, as I have, how they learn to do these things. The answer, of course, is practice.<\/p>\n

But when practice means falling down repeatedly on a motorcycle that can get to be painful and expensive. But how else are you going to learn?<\/p>\n

Well, Jerry is the king of sending motorcycle videos and here is one he sent me recently, titled “50 Motorcycle Crashes in 2 Minutes.” Some of these folks were indeed practicing, but most were out riding and showing off. Which means their embarrassment was especially public.<\/p>\n

Prepare to grimace.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/news\/50-motorcycle-crashes-in-2-minutes\/vi-AA1JOAcn?ocid=socialshare<\/a><\/p>\n

Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n

“There’s a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking like an idiot.” — Steven Wright<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve all seen these guys who do amazing things on their motorcycles–trials riding, street stunting, whatever–but I bet you have wondered, as I have, how they learn to do these things. The answer, of course, is practice. But when practice means falling down repeatedly on a motorcycle that can get to be painful and expensive. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[882,25,184],"tags":[1533,795],"class_list":["post-12957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle-humor","category-safety","category-motorcycle-video","tag-motorcycle-crash-video","tag-motorcycle-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12960,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957\/revisions\/12960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}