Motorcyclin'
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First ride of the year...feeling blessed
Access to the outside world for us since December has been either via a steep, algae-clad road with water running down it or a pot-holed ford with water 60cm deep - neither remotely safe on 2 wheels.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Motorcyclin':
First ride of the year...feeling blessed
Access to the outside world for us since December has been either via a steep, algae-clad road with water running down it or a pot-holed ford with water 60cm deep - neither remotely safe on 2 wheels.
Living in Qld I almost have the opposite problem. The winter is the best time for riding. Normally cloudless settled weather with a slight chill. Perfect for riding. The summer can be too hot to ride for whimpy old me.
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@Crazy-Horse said in Motorcyclin':
Living in Qld I almost have the opposite problem. The winter is the best time for riding. Normally cloudless settled weather with a slight chill. Perfect for riding. The summer can be too hot to ride for whimpy old me.
We've had 700mm of rain so far this year.... Spring and Autumn are my favourite riding times. Like you, a slight chill makes for the perfect ride.
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Occasionally get this sort of shit in the holiday period. Once had a fluffybunny in a car slowly move forward, pushing me into the hedge and running over my foot.
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@Victor-Meldrew were his panniers really that wide?
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@Bones said in Motorcyclin':
@Victor-Meldrew were his panniers really that wide?
Cornish hedgerows are actually stone walls and these seem to have been recently trimmed so that's the actual width.
You can sometimes push into the vegetation but not always.
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Yeah - I can appreciate that they are great engineers. But nothing at all "sexy" about a single one of their bikes, in my opinion. At least they're not Yamaha - what's that god-awful Yamaha cruiser? Virago? Ugh.
Maybe I'm just racist. Although my first bike was a Kawasaki. Bought solely because of how ugly it was, to be fair. -
@Kruse said in Motorcyclin':
Yeah - I can appreciate that they are great engineers. But nothing at all "sexy" about a single one of their bikes, in my opinion
Nah. (Cruisers, yeah. )
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US of fucking A....
I'm a 40-something year old man, with drivers licence (including motorcycle) from both NZ and UK - having ridden in over 20 different countries - wanting to ride a motorcycle here, and I need to...- Do a theory test
- Do a practical test driving a car
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- Now have my equivalent of a Learner's Licence
- Do another theory test
- Do another practical test driving a car
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- Now have my Driver's Licence
- Do another theory test for motorcycle
- Do a practical test on motorcyle
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- Now have my equivalent of a UK CBT
- Do another theory test for motorcycle
- Do another practical test on motorcycle
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- Finally - proper motorcycle 'endorsement', buy a bike, figure out insurance and shit
OR - go up to Canada for a week or so - convince them I'm a resident (not sure what I'd need for that), and swap my NZ or UK licence for a Canadian one... come back to US, and swap Canadian licence for Washington-State one.
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I had exactly the same problem in the UK decades ago.
- Ride my BMW R100S legally until the International licence runs out.
- Find out I couldn't swap my licence as I'd been in the country over a year
- Take and pass theory test
- Buy a 100cc Suzuki to take my Learner Test
- Pass Learner Test
- Then find the fuckers change the rules so I could have swapped my licence
All the while, I was able to get on a racetrack as I had an FIM Racing licence....*
'*Not as sexy as it sounds. Pretty easy in those days
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@Victor-Meldrew
Shit - I got it lucky with the UK/NZ...- Drivers licence from NZ - moved to UK, got a UK drivers licence based on that - no problem
- Did UK CBT / motorcycle licence tests
- Next trip back to NZ - got motorcycle added to NZ licence based on UK licence - no problem
That's probably why I'm so frustrated with the US. I'm really tempted to go the via-Canada route - but don't know if I get there whether they'd want proof-of-residence or not.
Finally got around to registering with local driver's school the other night... to do a 1-hour initial "driving lesson" - and based on that, will decide on which option is worth pursuing. (Did kinda want to do some training anyway - as just walking around in my first week - saw some intersections/signs - and thought "I've got no fucking idea what those signs mean, or what's supposed to happen there")
Other problem is - the closest place to do motorcycle training/testing - is fucking 2.5 hours away by public transport.
