Okay so i know I said id post yesterday but poop on you im posting now. And yous better like it cause im bloody tired!
So Basically we were taught *basic* riding skills that will help us save our necks when, and i say when with confidence cause its going to happen, an emergency happens. Like, how to brake with out getting thrown ass over tea kettle off your bike, how to swerve correctly in .25 of a second to dodge a kid or a deer on the highway and other neat stuff like that. They also taught us the principles for high speed maneuvers, but not as many as i would have liked. I think i was the only one with actual riding experience there and most people had never even been on a bike before so it was a lot of slow speed maneuvers, but holy shit those can be a real bitch and, (heh im laughing at my self right now) actually going slow is apparently a problem for me * shrug* those who know me personally will laugh, because I am like the most turtle person out there, except when i have control of an engine i guess
"Tangent, slow down.Tangent, get out of third gear, your supposed to be in first. Tangent, not so fast!"
Yeah that's my ego waving its big flag saying "look at me i like speed!"
But then...
There is this one woman, she was a Harley girl, dressed in leather covered in the logo, so for this we'll call her Harley. Harley has zero bike experience, Harley was a Bigger Older lady, Harley was also giving it her very best out there. She was also in front of me in the line. We were doing evasive maundering, like if a car pulls out, how to safely dodge it rather then t-boning it. and she was a bit slow on her turn, but the instructor wanted to let her know how she could make it better. So she stopped and talked to him, but forgot to pull out of my lane. I did my evasive maneuver. I then had to evasive maneuver again or plow into the back of Harley's bike, so i maneuvered. Unfortunately i mauverd into the fence but managed to dodge that by INCHES and I over braked my back tire and spun out on the ice and slush.
Yes folks I crashed.
But it was fucking awesome! Yeah my ego totally died on me right then and there but when i got up i was laughing. Not that i bailed but that me, egomaniac me, crashed i front of my other 10 class mates. Oddly enough it was kinda fun, in that lil kid crash and go boom way. But let me make my self clear, i don't ever want a repeat performance. And thank bloody Christ that wasn't my bike, cause i tell you what! I would not think it was so fucking fun then! And I have 2 HUGE friggin welts on my thighs from where this bike landed on me. >:(
So any ways we tool around do the course exam, blahdy blahdy blah.
Registries shows up and we Begin testing for our class 6 *cue ominous music here*
So registries show up and they got there sorry faces on. Apparently they double booked a lot of people for their test today. *dun dun dun* and of 9 of us meant to be testing there will only in fact be 6 testing. *cue rider anger*
In my mind, im riding my test today no matter what.
So i go to get my papers and get my stuff ready cause my mind is made up. Turns out that if you didn't pass the course then you couldn't ride the schools bikes *no real surprise there but it would have been nice to know before hand* and one girl, the BMW girl, she was so freaked out that she didn't want to do her course today either.
Fate, thy name is awesome.
Anyways, while I'm digging around in my car for my paper work the guy registries tester, whom BTW is kinda sexy *wink* says "No ones man enough to go first to im taking you" I grin, about to explode with cheeky comments but i say "sucks for them, here's my papers!" we do the road test and I rock socks at it. Funny thing, my main demerit points was for going to slow. Bah-bum-cha! Me, now going to slow.
Fate, thy name is *facepalm*
Any ways i got my class 6, I am legally a biker bitch and now i can get cheaper insurance cause i took a class. I got to crash some one elses bike and i got to ride ALL weekend. Pretty freaking awesome, don't cha think?
Oh and the "*blank* thy name is *blank*" is Che's not mine, thanks Hun!
-Tangent & Tiffany (My bike, ex250r)
Oh, side note: sexy registries guy and i are going to go riding *grin*