Well I finally go around to taking the Safety course. Started last night. It is was a semi boring 3 hours. Alot of the stuff we went over seemed to be common sense. The instructor is great. He more or less gave us all the questions for the test.
I go this Saturday, next Thursday, and the following Saturday and am done. The actual riding starts Saturday.

It was a really diverse class. couple 16 year olds who can't even ride for another year. Couple guys in the later 50's and i would say over half the class was female.

 

Cool. Most of my class were men; only four were female. In the end, only one female stuck around til the end (and passed). Some of the guys quit too.

 

puahahah my turn on wed and next sat and sun

 

yeah i had my classroom session yesterday and i ride next thurs. & fri. i got a 100% on the knowledge test. woohoo!!

 

Today was the first riding day. Lots of good info was given out.
I am freaking beat after 5 hours of riding. I was riding a suzuki GS250 all day. it was nice to throw around.
The coaches are cool as ****. The one wanted to show us crashes. But nobody wanted to see him take the bike down. I was all for it, he was willing to wipe out on the grass or black top.

I got yelled at once for a going a little to fast on the course. we were doing 15mph hard braking and i somehow was doing like 30.

Not that i have a ton of seat time, but it is nice to see the "rookies" learn to ride. You can see the progression all day long.


One thing i did learn today was how PA can give FREE clases. A small part of the permit and license fee goes to the class.

 

just passed my skills test yesterday and it was awesome!! i was the only one in the class to get a perfect score woohoo!!

 

Yeah I was surprised by the ages of people in my class. There were only a few younger people but most people in the class were middle aged.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Newkleus &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Yeah I was surprised by the ages of people in my class. There were only a few younger people but most people in the class were middle aged.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Most of the new bikers on the road today are middle-aged, believe it or not. So that makes sense.

 

since this was brought up.
I passed the class.

Today was the first licensed day i have ridden. so i went out for about 75 miles.