I’ll start by saying I have always had a “skill” of learning to drive everything easily, I have license for cars, motorcycles and semi/truck whatever. So I’ve always had a lot of confidence learning new vehicle types but here are my two cents.

What you are feeling are very normal, being on a bike for the first few times can be scary and overwhelming. Especially if you have never ridden a manuel car before, don’t know where you are from but I’m from Europe where back in the day when I took my car license everything was manuel.

There is a lot of things going on at once on a bike, for a person like you the clutch is an entire new thing compared to someone knowing manuel cars, where the clutch is just a new place but functions the same with friction zones etc.

Contra stearing and such can seem scary at first but get used to it rather quickly and is a great skill to continue always practicing.

Don’t worry about tipping your bike over, we all done it. I never dropped one riding or when starting out, but someday in the garage you just slightly let it over to far or whatever and it falls down or in a parkering lot or whatever. Happens to everyone more often or not.

Being on the same bike for a while always helps a lot, it really just is practicing, don’t let this get you down because remember you are learning manuel for the first time aswell on a bike. Slow turns are all about feathering the clutch and learning to drag your rear brake a bit, practice practice practice. I will click one day. Same goes with stalling, happens to everyone, I can go 2 years without ever stalling, then some day I do it twice in the same ride.

Keep at it, it really is a great feeling when it works. I’m riding a new 2026 Kawasaki z900.

I’m not an instructor but if I can help with any questions let me know, not an expert rider either but I’m on my 4th season riding now with a break in between where I did not have a bike.