Bent brake lever and an early lesson

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The CB1100 is not an appropriate motorcycle as a first bike.

I'd recommend taking some courses, MSF, AMA, whatever is available. Some track days have a really, really good new rider school.

Many will give you pat on the back, happy to have yet another CB1100 rider in the club, and tell you you'll be fine, it's a nice mellow ride, just take it easy. No.

You're lucky your first incident was very, very minor.
Forgot to ask, you have a non-ABS bike? Or did it not work as expected?

I started on a Kawasaki GPZ 750 super bike. The CB is a very easy and controllable bike to ride and handle as a first bike but it's up to the rider to use common sense and self control no matter what amount of time they have been riding or how much experience. The OPs incident would have happened no matter what bike he was riding. Exercise common sense and self control at all times no matter what bike your on. My Kawasaki was an animal but I knew to use control. Some are naturals and others may take more time.

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