I do a lot of my blogging, if not all, over on MySpace these days, so I don't get here much.
Well, I'm legal now: I got my motorcycle license on Friday afternoon (Oct. 12). I kicked myself to get over there, and the place was fairly empty when I got there. However, my temporary insurance card had expired, and I had to wait about an hour, but when it came time to test, things could not have gone better. I sailed through each of the four steps. There's a box painted in the parking lot out back of the DMV. First step is to ride down one side of the box, make a left turn inside some lines, make another left turn at the next corner, and then come to a stop with the front tire inside a box. I did that fine, even did a nice little track stand for a second before putting my feet down. Second task was to ride through some pylons, then do two right turns (reverse of the box) and then do a 180 inside prescribed bounds. I'd had trouble with that one (hey, I had trouble with durn near everything in my other test), but this time, I turned the 650 inside the line required for 400s and smaller. Third step was accelaration and stop. I had to stop in either ten or thirteen feet; I stopped it in seven. The fourth and last was an avoidance test, accelerate to a little intersection, then swerve left and stop. No problem.
Yesterday, my gf and I went out to ride. It ended up raining, first time for me. I've ridden my bicycle in the rain, so it wasn't that new, but the speed was. Everything went fine, except for the final intersection. I was slowed almost to a stop, and my rear wheel just decided to kick out, and there I was, on my side. I trashed two more of my signals and bent my rear brake pedal a bit. Sooo, I'm shopping for signals on eBay and elsewhere on the web.
It's raining today; I won't be going out. I was going to ride the mtb with friends, but that's not going to happen. I also need to do homework for the class I'm taking.
I'm feeling a bit out of sorts, but I'll come out of it. As I said, if you want more story, go over to MySpace.
