Your first mint solo ride

[discotex]

So its ok to do 100km on motorway with L-Plate. Don't want to get a ticket.. Managed 80km on the scorpio so far. Hope its not too windy at 100km.

Travelling at the same speed as everyone else is generally safer, since you don't have cars and trucks trying to overtake you all the time (people don't overtake motorbikes very often, thus tend to not be very good at it). And given the choice, I'd rather take the small chance of having a chat with the than becoming roadkill.

It's a personal call Kazza but I took the same approach as Rosie. If my experience commuting on the Auckland motorways every day is anything to go by the po-po don't care. Your milage may vary depending on how quota hungry the policia are in your area.

As long as you're not being a dick and are less than 5-10km over the speed limit you should be ok tho.

[kazza_nz_05]

Thanks for that guys. I went for my first huge ride on Sunday - was a beaut day in the Hutt. Went to the BP first to fill up, stoked it only cost me $12 - cheaper than the car. LOL. After I paid and went to get back on my bike another biker pulled in behind me to fill up. He was quite polite and asked how I was...Which was nice. I then headed onto the motorway and headed towards Haywards. Got to the lights just before Haywards and some stupid person in a stationwagon tried to squeeze past me at the give way sign - freaked me out a bit, so toook a bit longer to take off. Serves him right, they can bloody wait. Anyways off over Haywards. Was a nice ride up the hiill. Then round whitby way, a lot of bikers coming the other way. A few of them waved too. Was around 4ish. Gave the head nod. So friendly. Would of been better to go a bit earlier though as Sun strike was quite bad at that time. Then through Porirua and onto Tawa. Then back down Ngaranga gorge way and then back to the Hutt. Was pretty good for my first time on the motorway.

[marioc]

good stuff

[scracha]

As a stupid 16 year old going to uni in Edinburgh I rode a knackered 17 year old Suzuki GP100. Drum front brake that sometimes worked, screwdriver ignition and a front headlight that sometimes had to be battered mid-corner to ge the wiring in the correct place to come back on. I thought I was Mick Doohan. Unfortunately black ice (hey, it was Scotland in November) made me realise otherwise and I crashed into a (luckily) very muddy field at 72mph on a left hander (again, lucky nothing coming the other way).

Fu@#$kin thihg siezed two days later. Nobody told me that I should have cleaned all the mud off the cooling fins . I was hooked. Fixed it up but it was replaced a few weeks later by bored out and tuned to buggery X5. Thank gawd petrol was cheap back then as it got about 25mpg.

Needless to say I've never owned another Suzuki.