P's course tomorrow

After about 5 months on my first bike (a '98 XR400) the time has come
for me to attempt a letter upgrade.

It's the 8am-4pm one day deal, with a crew called Wheel Skills from
memory. The base is in Adamstown for those Novacastrians familiar
with the area.

The informational pack was fairly detailed, giving diagrams indicating
the patterns we will be required to navigate, as well as information
on the road ride and so forth. Naturally I haven't got around to
practising the patterns, apart from weaving between the broken lines
on the road, and trying tighter and tighter u-turns in my street.

Any handy tips from the been theres and the done thats? I've decided
to keep the largish indicators on the bike for the course, rather
than fit my new small profile joeys. I bought them because the large
ones kept getting kicked and broken and in the road when offroad.
Despite the sales dudes assurances, the "for offroad use only"
lettering on the back of them has me a little cautious.

I also thought it is a good opportunity to pick up a couple of L
plates to see if I can fasten them somehow. And unfortunately, my
rego label fell out of the tool bag behind the seat some time ago,
so I'll be bringing my proof of registration, change of ownership,
thingy from the RTA along.

Heath

 

Passed with a clean sheet and am pleased. Course was actually run by
"Ride it Right" or similar, who had taken over Wheel Skills.
Plenty of boring bits, and lots of poor contrived q/a sessions. But
overall a worthwhile course. I'm a better rider because of it.

Having no magic button made all the stops and starts a little tedious
but surprisingly the trail bike provided an advantage over the longer
or sportier bikes with poor turning circles.

No major incidents on the day, but sure enough that evening I had
very good reason to apply some of the major braking we had been
practising during the day when a lady chose my lane as the place
to pull out into. Certainly gives the plain, forced classroom
role playing some meat to chew on when you get to experience it.

Heath

 

Congrats and well done

JL

 

To an XS?

-----sharks

 

Brilliant! Congratulations Heath - I'm very envious. Well done!

Ride safe,
betty
(unco chicken who's failed twice so far)