Gman71
2nd December 2007, 19:02
Wow.
I'm in love with riding a motorbike. :2thumbsup After lots of research, and very useful advice here, I'd like to share with you my first month on 2 wheeels.:rockon: After a few initial posts, I thought an update was overdue after all your helpful advice.
Am now fully decked out in QuasiMoto leathers, (great quality, great price, lots of help from the Akld agent and Paula at QM) Nolan N84 helmet and Diadora boots, thanks to Motomail, (bought good gear and haven't regretted a cent!) love it all and see the benefits of good gear ( also look "real cool" and "tough" according to my 5 yr old daughter/ 16 yr old daughter. :niceone: which you can't put a price on)
..have been riding cautiously, but more & more confidently around the Nth Shore, generally starting at 7am on a Sunday morning, (bugger-all cars) have now I've found my favourite road- East Coast Bays road from Milford to Long Bay and all the way back. Leaning right into corners much sooner than I thought I would be.....
Yesterday, did the old East Coast highway up to Silverdale, across the motorway intersection (just as a HUGE rally of harleys/cruisers etc etc went in the opposite direction, no nods :( ) and back down the old SH 1 into Albany. GREAT RIDE, even managed to get up to 100km p/hr (sorry officer, didn't want to hold up traffic) on clear roads 'cos I felt I could!. A bit scary I must be honest, and on a 250cc feel like I am wringing the poor bikes' neck, an had to tell myself to relax.
After and hour or riding tho' did notice I was a bit fatigued and starting to stuff up my starts at lights etc when I got back inot the 'burbs :(
lots of nodding at me from other 2 wheelers which is great, soon I'll be the first to nod! :msn-wink:
Realise I'm at that dangerous place now, -feeling confident and zipping up and down through the gears, leaning into corners etc etc, so a session with Riderskills is on the cards, to make sure I am doing stuff right.
Keen to now catch up with those kind KB'ers who offered me a companion on a ride, as I'm not such a liability, and I hope to get a bit of a reality check on what I'm doing. (I'll be in touch soon, you know who you are), and soon I'll be be at one of those wed night rides.
You'll be able to recognise me easily, just look for the blue bike with an 'L' plate and a guy with a HUGE smile. :niceone:
ps. Scares me the number of guys I've seen riding around in shorts and sandshoes!! asuume they are just people who own a motorbike, not real kb'ers.
Take care, hope to see you out there. :banana:
I'm in love with riding a motorbike. :2thumbsup After lots of research, and very useful advice here, I'd like to share with you my first month on 2 wheeels.:rockon: After a few initial posts, I thought an update was overdue after all your helpful advice.
Am now fully decked out in QuasiMoto leathers, (great quality, great price, lots of help from the Akld agent and Paula at QM) Nolan N84 helmet and Diadora boots, thanks to Motomail, (bought good gear and haven't regretted a cent!) love it all and see the benefits of good gear ( also look "real cool" and "tough" according to my 5 yr old daughter/ 16 yr old daughter. :niceone: which you can't put a price on)
..have been riding cautiously, but more & more confidently around the Nth Shore, generally starting at 7am on a Sunday morning, (bugger-all cars) have now I've found my favourite road- East Coast Bays road from Milford to Long Bay and all the way back. Leaning right into corners much sooner than I thought I would be.....
Yesterday, did the old East Coast highway up to Silverdale, across the motorway intersection (just as a HUGE rally of harleys/cruisers etc etc went in the opposite direction, no nods :( ) and back down the old SH 1 into Albany. GREAT RIDE, even managed to get up to 100km p/hr (sorry officer, didn't want to hold up traffic) on clear roads 'cos I felt I could!. A bit scary I must be honest, and on a 250cc feel like I am wringing the poor bikes' neck, an had to tell myself to relax.
After and hour or riding tho' did notice I was a bit fatigued and starting to stuff up my starts at lights etc when I got back inot the 'burbs :(
lots of nodding at me from other 2 wheelers which is great, soon I'll be the first to nod! :msn-wink:
Realise I'm at that dangerous place now, -feeling confident and zipping up and down through the gears, leaning into corners etc etc, so a session with Riderskills is on the cards, to make sure I am doing stuff right.
Keen to now catch up with those kind KB'ers who offered me a companion on a ride, as I'm not such a liability, and I hope to get a bit of a reality check on what I'm doing. (I'll be in touch soon, you know who you are), and soon I'll be be at one of those wed night rides.
You'll be able to recognise me easily, just look for the blue bike with an 'L' plate and a guy with a HUGE smile. :niceone:
ps. Scares me the number of guys I've seen riding around in shorts and sandshoes!! asuume they are just people who own a motorbike, not real kb'ers.
Take care, hope to see you out there. :banana: