Mind over matter

[fyrgem]

The mind is a very powerful thing. :eek5:

It can convince you something will be harder than it actually is.

I learn this everytime I go for a ride, always learning something new, and building my confidence.


Rode over the Harbour Bridge for the FIRST time this morning! :2thumbsup
For some reason a steep driveway, traffic, motorway riding and that bridge had delayed my first ride to work for 2 weeks.
Turns out I have the skills to overcome all of that, room for improvement of course BUT I actually had fun!


So if you are nervous about your first ride/open road/motorway/traffic you will discover that with practice you'll be surprised what you can achieve :calm:
Even if you ask some of the old boys and girls, they'll tell you they are still learning something new everyride, no matter how small.

Problem is... now I don't want to be at work but riding!!! :facepalm: :nya:

[Banditbandit]

Bwhahahaha .. every day I ride to work I don't want to stop at the gate ...

Good on you for giving it a go ...

[fyrgem]

might have to take the long way home :shifty:

[iYRe]

I quite often have to take the long way to work.. well.. "have to" is relative.. I choose to, or I'd never stop once I got to the office.

[Tigadee]

Heh! Heh! I remember my very first time on the motorway - 80kph seemed scary then! Then 2nd time 80kph was OK and 100kph seemed scary. :laugh:

Hard to believe that was a year and a half ago. We live and we learn... :yes: Or should that be "We learn and we'll live"..?


might have to take the long way home

"That's a bad idea," said NO ONE ever...

[Maha]

Been there in heavy traffic/raining/wind gusts and 2up...60 seconds of intense concerntration :sweatdrop

[fyrgem]

Heh! Heh! I remember my very first time on the motorway - 80kph seemed scary then! Then 2nd time 80kph was OK and 100kph seemed scary. :laugh:


When I got my learner licence :whistle: 3 years ago you weren't allowed over 70kph, so now I have a bike and I'm riding again, motorways and higher speeds are new to me. exciting and scary all at the same time. I'm not too bad at 80kph, visited 100kph a few times downhill on the mway and that was a little butt-clencher moment :nya:

[Tigadee]

I'm not too bad at 80kph, visited 100kph a few times downhill on the mway and that was a little butt-clencher moment

Good times... :2thumbsup

[Grashopper]

Took me ages to make it to a petrol station on my bike. Was to worried I would slip, drop the bike and totally embarrass myself... :D

[Glowerss]

Been there in heavy traffic/raining/wind gusts and 2up...60 seconds of intense concerntration :sweatdrop

To be honest, even on really windy days I never find the harbour bridge to ever be too big a drama.

Now, the causeway along the northwestern between rosebank and great north road. Anytime it's windy is downright fucking ridiculous. Particularly coming down the offramp, you just get hit with a wall of air.

Last time I went across that when it was windy, it was simultaneously blowing me straight into the concrete barrier, and against me to such a degree i had to drop down to fourth from 6th just to hold steady at 80kph. Couldn't go any faster till I cleared it.:facepalm:

[strandedinnz]

When I got my learner licence :whistle: 3 years ago you weren't allowed over 70kph, so now I have a bike and I'm riding again, motorways and higher speeds are new to me. exciting and scary all at the same time. I'm not too bad at 80kph, visited 100kph a few times downhill on the mway and that was a little butt-clencher moment :nya:

Give it a week and you'll be lane splitting and shouting abuse at all and sundry for daring to get in your way! ;-) hehehe

Just wait till you get a bike that can do silly speeds ... my first 250kph run was an eye opener, and I look forward to trying out a bike that can go past 300 .. just to see what it's like :-)

[fyrgem]

Took me ages to make it to a petrol station on my bike. Was to worried I would slip, drop the bike and totally embarrass myself... :D
I know the feeling :nya: I was afraid I was going to overfill the dam tank and spray gas everywhere. then I had trouble putting the lid back on so to avoid holding up traffic I rolled to the side to sort myself out :sweatdrop


Now, the causeway along the northwestern between rosebank and great north road. Anytime it's windy is downright fucking ridiculous. Particularly coming down the offramp, you just get hit with a wall of air.
I know the bit your talking about! if it doesn't flood the wind will wash you away :blink:

[fyrgem]

Give it a week and you'll be lane splitting and shouting abuse at all and sundry for daring to get in your way! ;-) hehehe


I'm hoping to leave my road rage in my cage, :angry2: even my partner says I'm bad haha but I do feel more and more apart of that bike everytime I ride it. eventually it'll be second nature. at the moment all I want to do is ride :yes:

[iYRe]

The worst bit, imho, is the south western going north.. the wind whistles up the harbour and is funneled into a narrow bit there. I've been through there when it was blowing so hard that I could literally not lean the bike to corner. All the highsided vans/trucks were crawling at 10-20kmh.. most terrifying situation I have been in. Around the same time, I was stopped at some lights, 2 feet down... van beside me moved away and I got hit by the wind (I was on the "lee" side). If it wasnt for some good luck I'd have been flat down

[fyrgem]

The worst bit, imho, is the south western going north.. the wind whistles up the harbour and is funneled into a narrow bit there. I've been through there when it was blowing so hard that I could literally not lean the bike to corner. All the highsided vans/trucks were crawling at 10-20kmh.. most terrifying situation I have been in. Around the same time, I was stopped at some lights, 2 feet down... van beside me moved away and I got hit by the wind (I was on the "lee" side). If it wasnt for some good luck I'd have been flat down

I drive a work van on the weekend, hate it. It's like a driving a gaint sail :facepalm: :nya:

[iYRe]

I drive a work van on the weekend, hate it. It's like a driving a gaint sail :facepalm: :nya:

imagine that in a 120kmh wind tunnel, side on :P

[fyrgem]

imagine that in a 120kmh wind tunnel, side on :P

haha, after that I'd feel much more comfortable riding with a little cross-wind :nya:

[iYRe]

no doubt :P