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Scared of gravel roads, mud, sand etc... what to do ?

Hello all,

Riding since 1998. Have two bikes: R 80 GS Basic (1996) and XT600E (2003).
Done a south Europe and Balkan trip in 2009 for one month and 9000 kms. Afterwards stopped riding as was working out of country for 7 years. Now back home and started riding. GS was staying at the garage of my friend in İstanbul. Brought it back to home by riding which was almost 1500 kms in 3 days.
During the ride, I faced heavy rain, wind, gravel roads with small and big stones.

May be because of not riding in the past 7 years I felt I was scared from all these kind of conditions. Was not a pro or well trained rider before. Always feeling scared when I face these kind of riding conditions. And also scared of curvy roads. I start to get scared and hold hard the handlebar. And this behaviour start to restrict the easy riding.

So my problem is the fear of riding in rain, gravel roads, roads with stones, mud, sand and curvy roads.

I had not much scare 7-8 years ago when I was riding my bike daily and was younger of course.

May be it is time for a training?

Please share your experiences, fear and advice to solve it !

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