6R: Note to self

**CookMySock** · 18th December 2009, 06:03

Originally Posted by danielle

Always, ALWAYS check your WOF before you sit your restricted practical.

Yes, well that is the ethic of the biker - yes, thats you!

Bikers answer to no person but themselves, know their own limits, choose their own path, own their own feelings, and go where they choose when they choose.

Unfortunately, you have to think or live the consequences now - all part of the package.

Steve

**Genie** · 18th December 2009, 06:10

Originally Posted by DangerousBastard

Yes, well that is the ethic of the biker - yes, thats you!

Bikers answer to no person but themselves, know their own limits, choose their own path, own their own feelings, and go where they choose when they choose.

Unfortunately, you have to think or live the consequences now - all part of the package.

Steve

Well spoken.....personal responsibility and thinking before hand would make this world a much better place

**danielle** · 22nd December 2009, 18:57

Second time luckey, i passed!!! 100%

Not before i rode 20 minutes down the road until i realised my helmet wasnt buckled up. The nerves really get ya, but i pulled over and buckled it up. Im not usually as blonde as i have made myself out to be in this thread!

**GOONR** · 22nd December 2009, 19:02

Congrat's on passing!!

**Number One** · 22nd December 2009, 19:06

Well done now just count the days till your do 6F and you can go and test ride bigger bikes

Speaking of which there is a monster in town that interests me greatly

**Mom** · 22nd December 2009, 19:12

Originally Posted by danielle

Second time luckey, i passed!!! 100%

Not before i rode 20 minutes down the road until i realised my helmet wasnt buckled up. The nerves really get ya, but i pulled over and buckled it up. Im not usually as blonde as i have made myself out to be in this thread!

Nerves have no place in riding a bike love. I have only once ridden off with my helmet unbuckled, I was distracted by lovely little children saying good- bye to me, they were leaving NZ and I may not see them for xxx years. I failed to follow my "normal" routine. Absolutely horrified when I realised.

So please take this bit of advice from someone that has reasonably recently ridden off unbuckled.

Get a routine. This applies to getting on the bike as well as getting off. Same steps every time. Work them out for yourself. End result, you want to be geared up, and bike prepared before you swing your leg over, every single time.

Well done passing your test too!

**Genie** · 23rd December 2009, 07:42

Originally Posted by danielle

Second time luckey, i passed!!! 100%

Not before i rode 20 minutes down the road until i realised my helmet wasnt buckled up. The nerves really get ya, but i pulled over and buckled it up. Im not usually as blonde as i have made myself out to be in this thread!

Congrats on passing....bloody nerves, I find breathing helps.

Nothing wrong with being blonde....in fact the opposite. It's means your real!

**danielle** · 30th December 2009, 21:29

Originally Posted by Mom

Nerves have no place in riding a bike love. I have only once ridden off with my helmet unbuckled, I was distracted by lovely little children saying good- bye to me, they were leaving NZ and I may not see them for xxx years. I failed to follow my "normal" routine. Absolutely horrified when I realised.

So please take this bit of advice from someone that has reasonably recently ridden off unbuckled.

Get a routine. This applies to getting on the bike as well as getting off. Same steps every time. Work them out for yourself. End result, you want to be geared up, and bike prepared before you swing your leg over, every single time.

Well done passing your test too!

i normally have a routine, i think putting the air piece in and concentrating on whether not i could hear him and it was sitting right broke the routine, but your right, ill never make that mistake again

**gatch** · 30th December 2009, 21:35

Originally Posted by danielle

Im not usually as blonde as i have made myself out to be in this thread!

yeeesssss

**CookMySock** · 30th December 2009, 22:00

Originally Posted by danielle

i normally have a routine, i think putting the air piece in and concentrating on whether not i could hear him and it was sitting right broke the routine, but your right, ill never make that mistake again

hrm we all say that, and then we all do it again, unfortunately.

There's always going to be a distraction.

It used to happen to me a lot until I went to a ratchet clip on my helmet, and then end of problem. Dunno why.. maybe its a head thing.

Steve

**scumdog** · 31st December 2009, 08:54

Originally Posted by danielle

Most proberly. But i am a big girl now and completly understand it was my fault and i neeeeed to grw up

Good on you for not doing as so many do - "It's not MY fault" for everything that IS their fault!

**scumdog** · 31st December 2009, 08:57

Originally Posted by danielle

i normally have a routine, i think putting the air piece in and concentrating on whether not i could hear him and it was sitting right broke the routine, but your right, ill never make that mistake again

"Air piece"?
You inflated yourself?
This I must see!

(Was it to a double 'D'?)