09-15-2009, 04:10 PM
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I started today on the Kawasaki.
Bearing in mind I've haven't had much sleep lately I thought about postponing it, but my instructor said, just give it your best and if I'm too tired we will just keep having breaks.
My first hazard was just getting the bugger on the full stand, but after the second attempt it was ok, possibly even easier than my little Honda.
Oh, the bloody slow figure of 8's and through the cones started badly and I just kept think 'crap-crap-crap!'
Then I got it and Bill said I was actually the first pupil in ages to get everything together in the first hour (it felt like all morning). Then the hazard....right so moving on, the high speed emergency stop. Bill said if I didn't stop trying to anticipate him he would push a CBT trainee in my path
So I got better and we set off onto the road which started off as a nice jolly trip out into the country.
The instructor uses a intercom for instruction, but you can't talk back, only do as you're told or nod/shake your head.
Coming back into town we were going to pass the woodland were we have a tree dedicated to our daughter, so I decided to take that route and all Bill said was 'And were was your Stay Alive Glance at the junction?' OOPs! So he came with me to see the tree and realised his partners mother was at the same place, somewhere.
Got through some horrible junctions, studied a weird system of roads where nearly ALL the traffic got into the wrong lane for the old town and we actually saw several near misses cars trying to change lane at the last minute.
Then we went onto a part of the old part of town built on a hill, and no joke it was horrible slow riding around hair-pin bends and hill starts and turning left, right following loops and junctions the width of TK's truck! Then turning left as a Volvo was coming out of the junction I thought that's it!
I'm going to side swipe it!
'Don't look at the car!' I kept thinking and on I went tight into the bend.
When we stopped, Bill was laughing!
He said I couldn't have got closer if I'd kissed the driver through the window. Oh crap-crap-crap
So after a cuppa tea at the office Paul offered me to move my test up to next thursday. Hmmmm. Maybe I wasn't so bad.
The 3 lads and 1 adult failed their CBT. The adult and one lad got stopped half way around the course!
When I finally got back to the training school and was getting my own bike the other instructor came in and just shook his head. These kids wouldn't listen to instruction, so they have to go back again at the weekend.
It was great
Bearing in mind I've haven't had much sleep lately I thought about postponing it, but my instructor said, just give it your best and if I'm too tired we will just keep having breaks.
My first hazard was just getting the bugger on the full stand, but after the second attempt it was ok, possibly even easier than my little Honda.
Oh, the bloody slow figure of 8's and through the cones started badly and I just kept think 'crap-crap-crap!'
Then I got it and Bill said I was actually the first pupil in ages to get everything together in the first hour (it felt like all morning). Then the hazard....right so moving on, the high speed emergency stop. Bill said if I didn't stop trying to anticipate him he would push a CBT trainee in my path
So I got better and we set off onto the road which started off as a nice jolly trip out into the country.The instructor uses a intercom for instruction, but you can't talk back, only do as you're told or nod/shake your head.
Coming back into town we were going to pass the woodland were we have a tree dedicated to our daughter, so I decided to take that route and all Bill said was 'And were was your Stay Alive Glance at the junction?' OOPs! So he came with me to see the tree and realised his partners mother was at the same place, somewhere.
Got through some horrible junctions, studied a weird system of roads where nearly ALL the traffic got into the wrong lane for the old town and we actually saw several near misses cars trying to change lane at the last minute.
Then we went onto a part of the old part of town built on a hill, and no joke it was horrible slow riding around hair-pin bends and hill starts and turning left, right following loops and junctions the width of TK's truck! Then turning left as a Volvo was coming out of the junction I thought that's it!
I'm going to side swipe it!'Don't look at the car!' I kept thinking and on I went tight into the bend.
When we stopped, Bill was laughing!
He said I couldn't have got closer if I'd kissed the driver through the window. Oh crap-crap-crap
So after a cuppa tea at the office Paul offered me to move my test up to next thursday. Hmmmm. Maybe I wasn't so bad.
The 3 lads and 1 adult failed their CBT. The adult and one lad got stopped half way around the course!
When I finally got back to the training school and was getting my own bike the other instructor came in and just shook his head. These kids wouldn't listen to instruction, so they have to go back again at the weekend.
It was great
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