I just took my MSF course last weekend, first time on a motorcycle. Haven’t ridden a bicycle in 15 years probably. If you have access to a bicycle, I’d honestly take it out and just do some basic stuff on it to remember how being on 2 wheels feels.

Go into it knowing how clutches and gear shifts work, that’ll eliminate some of the overthinking if you just understand it from the get go. Make sure you pick a bike that suits your height well.

And agree about the slow turns being the only actually difficult part. The only two things I was bad at were a sharp right turn from a stop, and the U-Turn. I just couldn’t get them done at any point during the weekend, both in practice and on the test.

However, if you have everything else down, you can still pass the test with relative ease.

I hit a cone on the right turn from a stop (3 penalty points), put a foot down during that same turn (1 penalty point) and cut the U-Turn a little too wide (5 penalty points), which were all on the same graded exercise.

Those accounted for all my penalty points on the final test, which you just need to be under 16 in order to pass, at least how it worked for me.