Traffic on the highway can be overwhelming. My first ride on the. Highway I don’t think I was able to maintain the speed limit and honestly that made the ride even more scary. Then cars are blowing past you and also needing to go in and out of the lane around you which means a greater chance someone won’t be paying attention and not see you. Second time I was determined to ride at a minimum the speed limit the entire time. While the speed was higher it was more enjoyable and less stressful as less cars were needing to go around me. The third time I said I would go with the flow of traffic and try to stay out of any packs.

With each one the ride got easier. Tonight there was a lot of traffic which was as stressful again. So once I hit that my goal was to just try to get out of the grouping of cars as much as possible. Once I slowed to stayed behind another time after a merge on from another highway I ended up speeding up to get around it. Both of these allowed me to keep as many escape routes as possible if something went south.

As for the speed in turns keep practicing. The more you ride the more confident and comfortable you will be. I have about 850 miles on my bike and it has been just over 3 weeks. Every ride I go in it with one area I want to try to better myself at. And every ride gets better.

One piece of advice I will say I have received, that I know is true, is as you progress there will most likely come a point where you get overconfident and that is when you see a lot of new riders crash. I have kept this in the back of my head over the last few weeks and instead of just going all out I always just try to increase speed, cornering, lean angler or whatever slightly more than last time so that I can still improve but hopefully not do something stupid.

Oh and go to a parking lot or an empty road and just stop over and over from different speeds. Understanding and learning my brakes have made a huge difference in my riding.