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CBT Pass
Yesterday was the first part of my motorcycling adventure; the CBT. CBT (Compulsary Basic Training) is a standard you must achieve before you can ride a motorbike on the road in the UK. Thanks to Ian and Ivan at Excel Rider Training who made the day; despite the weather! The next step to ...
Back to the L Plates
Last week Lucy passed her driving test and it looked like the end of the L plates.
A lass this was not the case because I have been bitten by the two wheel bug: and bitten quite hard.
It all started a couple of years ago with the purchase of a road bicycle. This started an obsession with thin slick tyres and balancing round corners at higher than average speeds. The knock on effect of this was my little journey from one end of the country to the next.
Since then I have always had a sneaky eye open to other two wheeled vehicles; motorbikes. Yet I have never found the motivation to take this further.
Now that Lucy has her licence and the Beetle is officially hers it seemed about the right time to think about a second vehicle. The obvious one is a second car, but with the price of road tax and service bills it just does not seem practical; £170 per year just to put a car on the road!
So the bike idea grew a bit further. The seed was now in full flow and looked more like a possibility.
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