Said I would update and so here goes.
Turned up for the basic skills test with John Wright on Sat Morning, it was nice an foggy, there were three of us, one guy who had already purchased his bike, but hadn't been riding since he was a teenager and a lady whose husband suprised her with the course - he told her they were going shopping and turned up to do the course instead!!! She had riden scooters when she was younger.
Things went really well, John Wright is definitely excentric - but he knows his stuff. I got the Red CBR250 and basically I took to the whole thing rather naturally. At the end he made special mention that I had natural ability and was brilliant with my cornering.... although I had a huge amount of difficulty selecting neutral on the frickin thing....must have been damaged by all the previous newbies (that's my excuse anyway!!)
So Sunday morning comes and I was just itching to have a go on the VTR1000.....I mean it's just sitting in the garage taunting me "come on, you know you want to ride me......"
So I asked stifarms really nicely whether we could go down the road and find a nice spot and he kindly agreed. I really wanted to know if I liked the sports bike positioning more and I do, the sit up position is all disconnected really....having riden thoroughbred horses for alot of my life the positioning on the VTR is very natural to me....So maybe stifarms will have to get a new bike and I can have the Firestorm....hehehehe
So I will go in and carry out the scratch and win to get my Learners, and this week I will start researching which bikes I want to test ride....
should be fun - CAN'T WAIT!!!!
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