Orange cones and sunburn!

[Daza]

Well i managed to pass my basic handling bike course today. I came away with a smile on my face and sunburn!
Kudos to the Passrite people in Hamilton, my instructor was easy going and laid back which helps i think, i recommend them.
I rode on a GN250. It was just me and the instructor which worked well for me as im hard of hearing.

At first i was struggling with the mind wanting to do one thing and the body the other, until i got the hang of it. It definately was alittle harder for a newbie than it looked/thought it would be to start with.

In the course of the two hours I murdered some oranges cones, stalled a few times more than i would of liked to (it doesn't help i drive an automatic car/cage- haven't driven manual for a while- ok...thats my excuse.) So in the end i managed to do a good enough job to pass. I will sit my stratch and win next week which shouldn't be a problem. Then i will sell my arm or leg on Trademe to be able to buy my own 2fiddy! wait i will need those, what about a kidney?

So yeah the last half of the course was fun and I look forward to getting 2wheels hopefully before the end of the month or next and continue learning to ride!!

[John Banks]

Congratulations. Good luck with the learner test, and don't rush into buying a bike! If you can, drag a KBer around the bike shops with you. The KBers down in Hamilton are a good bunch.

[hitch]

Congratulations, I will be going throught the same thing in couple of weeks. Do you get your certificate straight away or do they send it in the mail?

[Drum]

Congrats Daza. That's the first step in a whole new way of life. Riding changes the way you look at the world!

[Drum]

.........Do you get your certificate straight away or do they send it in the mail?

You get it straight away and then take it in to do your 'scratchie' test. Best of luck.

[hitch]

True! Cheers for that. I can't wait to get out on the road. Im use to being confined to the farm on a quad. So i'm REALLY excited.

[klingon]

You get it straight away and then take it in to do your 'scratchie' test. Best of luck.

This might be a two-step process... I had to take my cert and ID etc to the LTNZ office just to BOOK my scratchie test, then come back another day to do it. They were a very unhelpful lot and didn't explain the process over the phone . Was frustrating to have to take two mornings off work to do it (grumble grumble grumble). Hopefully it works differently in your part of the world.

anyway congrats! I mangled a few cones during my first lesson too. Trainer said "don't think of them as cones, think of them as small animals." It didn't help - now I have the SPCA after me.

[Lteejay]

congrats mate - the more two wheels on the roads the merrier.

[j_redley]

Congratulations... Im a dirty bastard, been riding after just the basic handling. Im too lazy to go and book my scratch and win.

[Drum]

[QUOTE=klingon;941474]This might be a two-step process... /QUOTE]

Must depend in how busy they are. I went in to book the test, and they said 'you can do it now if you want'.

[McDuck]

if you drive a car the scratchy is pice of piss. i did it in less time than the eye test took (needed to have a second go at a few of the rows). Now i am saving for a bike... i am tempted to get an old crapper for the beach then saving for a good road bike....

[Roj]

Well i managed to pass my basic handling bike course today.

Congrats on that

Congratulations. Good luck with the learner test, and don't rush into buying a bike! If you can, drag a KBer around the bike shops with you. The KBers down in Hamilton are a good bunch.

I will second that, as I know some of em and I live just out of hamilton