Warming the Bed
Hey,
Does anyone one know of a place in the vaal or joburg area where you can go for motorcycle lessons
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I just got on mine and started riding.
A 750 Suzuki fire engine red. I could NOT touch my feet to the ground and had to have the suspension lowered.
That bike was so heavy I could never pick it up once it has fallen on it`s side. I could never put it on it`s stand just it`s side stand.
The first time I got on, I felt like a queen, but I could not turn the bike,it felt if the road was just not wide enough and our home gates not wide enough to allow me to enter or exit.
But riding changed all that...I zipped around corners and enjoyed the time I did ride!!!!
Getting a license was something else as the men testing my driving was kinda funny towards me,I think they were jealous,but that is my personal feeling of course, I had to go back a second time to get my license. That was in Nelspruit.(in those years a *gatlikke* little town)
I gotten my learners in Randfontein.
Now days I have no idea how the people do get their license.I know for motorcars it is way better to go through a driving school, but a bike school ? Have NO idea.
Enjoy riding!!!
Motorcycle wisdom of the road
• Midnight bugs taste best.
• Saddlebags can never hold everything you want, but they CAN hold everything you need.
• Home is where your bike sits still long enough to leave a few drops of oil on the ground.
• The only good view of a thunderstorm is in your rear-view mirror.
• Bikes don't leak oil, they mark their territory.
• Never mistake horsepower for staying power.
• If you don't ride in the rain - you don't ride.
• A bike on the road is worth two in the shed.
• Young riders pick a destination and go. . . Old riders pick a direction and go.
• A good mechanic will let you watch without charging you for it.
• Sometimes the fastest way to get there is to stop for the night.
• Winter is Nature's way of telling you to polish your bike.
• Well-trained reflexes are quicker than luck.
• The best alarm clock is sunshine on chrome.
• A friend is someone who'll get out of bed at 2 am to drive his pickup to the middle of nowhere.
• There's something ugly about a NEW bike on a trailer.
• Practice wrenching on your own bike.
• Never be ashamed to unlearn an old habit.
• Maintenance is as much art as it is science.
• If you ride like there's no tomorrow - there won't be.
• Gray-haired riders don't get that way from pure luck.
• There are drunk riders. There are old riders. There are NO old, drunk riders.
• No matter what marquee you ride, it's all the same wind.
• Only a Biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.
I used to own a driving school. Sold it a few years back. Bike lessons were high in demand but most wasted their money paying me for lessons which were actually practice. If you know the observations used in the K53 car licence test, you can pass your bike test with ease. Only tricky part of the test is emergency stop/swerve. Utilises a light system triggered by a speed sensor contraption (like a speed trap). You have to head toward this trap at a minimum of 40km/ h to trigger the lights. 3 lights, 1 left, 1 right and 1 center. You will not know which light is triggered. As it triggers, you must perform the correct action. Right light - swerve slightly right and come to a stop, left light - as per right but to the left. Center light, emergency stop within a given target with measurements. 2 attempts, then fail. The rest of the test is a breeze... Turning on a long gradual arc, hand signals, incline start, pre-trip inspection, etc. All done on the testing ground, no road test.
Learn your moving off observation, blind spot observation, turn observation, and your pre-trip inspection, book test, follow testing officers instructions and passing is easy. You can find the layout of the test ground on the net with a simple google search. Don't pay for lessons, you will waste your money. Use as small a bike as you can find for the test to make manoeuvring around the yard easy (250cc)...
Hope it helps.
Quote by Pussinboots1
Motorcycle wisdom of the road
• Midnight bugs taste best.
• Saddlebags can never hold everything you want, but they CAN hold everything you need.
• Home is where your bike sits still long enough to leave a few drops of oil on the ground.
• The only good view of a thunderstorm is in your rear-view mirror.
• Bikes don't leak oil, they mark their territory.
• Never mistake horsepower for staying power.
• If you don't ride in the rain - you don't ride.
• A bike on the road is worth two in the shed.
• Young riders pick a destination and go. . . Old riders pick a direction and go.
• A good mechanic will let you watch without charging you for it.
• Sometimes the fastest way to get there is to stop for the night.
• Winter is Nature's way of telling you to polish your bike.
• Well-trained reflexes are quicker than luck.
• The best alarm clock is sunshine on chrome.
• A friend is someone who'll get out of bed at 2 am to drive his pickup to the middle of nowhere.
• There's something ugly about a NEW bike on a trailer.
• Practice wrenching on your own bike.
• Never be ashamed to unlearn an old habit.
• Maintenance is as much art as it is science.
• If you ride like there's no tomorrow - there won't be.
• Gray-haired riders don't get that way from pure luck.
• There are drunk riders. There are old riders. There are NO old, drunk riders.
• No matter what marquee you ride, it's all the same wind.
• Only a Biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.
Brilliant , one thing tho my bike doesn't leak oil
