Thank God for duct tape!

So come 4pm we thought that it would be cool enough to get some practise in. So off we go to the carpark. Some others have the same idea but they're smarter than us because they're in air conditioned cars!

So off I go, power walking my way around the carpark. Looking like some kind of disturbed turtle. After doing that for a little while it's time to take a deep breath and try feet off the ground. So after doing this for around 30 minutes in first gear I'm not doing too bad.

The mantra going through my head is left hand clutch, right hand brake, right foot brake, left foot down. By this time I'm sweating like a pig and thinking that motorcycling in full safety gear may be safe but boy it's goddamn hot! I now have a headache and really have had quite enough.

But after grabbing a drink I go back at it, and while still feeling completely out of my depth I decide I'm ready to at least go up to second gear, after all I was doing that in the MSF course.

Note to self, 800cc motorcycle behaves a little different to a 125cc motorcycle. As I start going around the corner I realise too late I'm going to slow and yep there she goes. I knew there was a reason why I bought a $4000 bike over a $10000 Harley.

So to the duct tape, well unlike dropping a dual sport, there are things on a cruiser that stick out, and when you drop it things break. But luckily the rear indicator still works even though it was hanging by the wires. So before I spend money replacing it , we duct tape it in place, just in case I drop it again, not that I plan to!!

So after my short, sweaty lesson how do I feel? Well let's see; I continued to feel nauseous everytime on Monday I thought about riding, and I calculated how much I needed to sell it for to at least be better off than if we had sold the F650GS, sad really isn't it?

Let's hope that it's at least a little cooler next weekend, and that I'm over my really bad cold.