Ive been racing for about a year and a half now but have been riding since I was 6, I'm a girl and races flat track I haven't had any major accidents yet but have had a few little slide out with skin off and only high slided it once, I never was scared about hurt myself and I still feel like Im not scared, but I am scared in a way of falling off even a slide out, I really want to over come this, can someone give me some advertise, I love racing and would like to go more into my racing like travel and getting into titles, I feel like I've slowed down on the bike because of this little fear, and I hate it help please

Actaully... having some fear is healthy... the racer that has no fear is more likely to do something dumb that might get them killed or seriously injured.

Meaning the few people I know that race... none are fearless.

Yeah true but it feels like I'm not improving because of fear

Well, key there is how consuming is the fear? I've had situations that resulted in the rear wheel locking up instantly at 60 mph on the highway, more than once... no crash barriers... or shoulder to slide on... that will make your butt pucker... when there is a line of trees on one side.. or guard rails or oncoming traffic.

But I don't let it consume me and I still ride. And I have had a few ugly accidents over the years on a motorcycle, for ICE, oil slicked wet road... hit by driver on wrong side of road, mechanical failure...

Yeah its not stopping me I'm just not going at hard, I'm back to just riding around the corners not sliding around them :/ thanks for help

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Yeah its not stopping me im just not going at hard, im back to just riding around the corners not sliding around them :/ thanks for help

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Then perhaps... there is a component of confidence more so than actual fear.

Is there a place you can practice powersliding around turns that is in an open flat area.. where there isn't anything to run into if you go too wide or go down. Practice doing it faster and harder until you are confident doing it... BEFORE trying it on a closed course that has barriers.

No not really I only can ride at home which has bared wire fences or at the track with like celment wall

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No not really I only can ride at home which has bared wire fences or at the track with like celment wall

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Ouch... that barbed wire is actually more dangerous than the cement wall, fear there is well founded.

Yeah but it the celement is wear I'm not going hard and the wall doesn't bother me

Having ridden dirt bikes myself in my youth for a lot of years, (but never raced one), open fields, hill-climbs on slate dumps (a REALLY big one that covered over 20 acres and a few hundred feet high), trails, basically a variety of conditions, you really need to find a place you can practice. You really need to be comfortable with that bike in a power slide. You need to have that feel, know exactly how it responds at different speeds and throttle settings...

What I see is the problem is you lack that confidence of controlling the bike in that situation.

The more comfortable you are doing it, and the more confident you are in your ability to do it, the less your fear will be of that wall.

Basically your fear of hitting that wall is greater than your confidence that you can keep it away from the wall. Its all in finding a way to shift that balance in your favor.

Yeah thanks mate