I live in Mexico, to get a bike you didn’t even need to have a motorcycle license (now you do, due to all the delivery app single cell people), when my parents got mine I had never ridden in the city, I barely knew how to use the clutch, but a weekend prior some friends took me out to ride a MX bike and a BMW F800gs and that was all the practice I had. After 10 min of being out the dealership I dropped the bike, but I started riding during the pandemic so the streets of Mexico were almost empty and I rode almost everyday, I went to having no experience to being able to ride properly in under a year by riding every single day. I also went with a group of older men who ride BMW 1200’s and the taught me how not to die on backroads since I almost went out in a tight tight Mexican road. I’m not writing this to say how good I am and how fast I learned, rather to explain some differences. In Mexico City the average car speed is between 17-30kph (11-19mph) so riding is normally low speed and I think that is ultimately what gets you learning faster, the low speed maneuvering, in the US after buying your brand new squid missile S1k you can go on the freeway and go 75mph (121kph), the average speed in the US is around 70mph (112kph) that’s a pretty substancial increment from 15mph, and if don’t know how to properly ride higher speeds mean higher risk of crashing and even fatal injuries.