DAS Passed
Yesterday I had my last lesson on the CB500 with Ian over at Excel Rider Training.
It started at 9:30 in the morning with my test booked for 13:30 that afternoon. To be honest it was a long day and as it went on my nerves were getting worse, have not felt like this for a quite a while; well since my driving test.
I knew my Achilles heal would be the U-Turn having slam dunked the bike twice on the last session. Sure enough on the practice rounds I was all over the place and riding like I suffered from DT’s. Even the weather looked against me as it had been raining for the last day and the back roads had rivers of gravel and debris running down the middle of the lanes.
Half one soon arrived and there was no more hiding, it was time to ride like never before. I was introduced to Terry the examiner and we set about getting the test underway.
Luckily the rain had cleared and the sun was out drying the roads. Looking back the test was a bit of a blur but something must have been right as after 35 minutes I was back at the test centre with my pass certificate!
Problem is now I have to decide on which bike to invest in…
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Learner no more
Congratulations to Lucy! This morning she passed her driving test. It was her second attempt and only scored a total of 4 minor faults was a very good pass. Her first attempt last month probably should have been a pass as she was only failed due to a 'judgement' error, not leaving ...
All bugged out
What have I gone and done?
I’ve made the sacrifice to end all sacrifices, I’ve agreed with Lucy to sell my Audi so that we can get a car she can learn to drive in!
Don’t get me wrong my Audi is nothing special, by modern standards anyway, but to me it is a lovely V6 engine that just purrs along. The problem is that I do not do enough miles to really justify having a car let alone that car but it was my little piece of motorhead.
So when Lucy said she wanted to learn to drive we thought about it and the insurance company were not too happy about insuring her so it had to be a smaller car. Which unfortunately meant that something had to give, after a few days sitting there I decided it was me that had to give. I’ve let Lucy do all the looking and choosing and this evening we put the deposit down on a VW Beetle.
Have to admit that on the looks alone Lucy has made a good choice, not sure about anything else, I’m not really mechcanically minded but I checked and it had 4 wheels, one steering wheel and some seats. Good enough for me.
Of course I will miss the luxury and power of my Audi and yes it was not the best to look at but it will be nice to be driven around for once!
