hurtank

Gratz.

YAY im still worrying more about it. 1kmph under? thats friggen ridiculous. i think there should be atleast a 2kmph margin becuase speedo's are never 100% also bottling a u-turn must suck. what happened then? if you throttled out did you catch a cone or something?

my CBT i did a while back in april. I rode a piaggio zip (bag of shit. never EVER get one) it started off a very early (5 am) morning. chilled out on the comp for abit. opened a beer (straight away though otherwise and got milk) and waited for 7am which is when i needed to leave becuase i was going to jog to the CBT center as i read it helps get the mind going when i got to the CBT center me and some kid called jeremy were the first there. later some army people turned up they were home for 15 months from iraq and wanted to tour on bikes. obv needing there CBT First off we had a coffee and discussed basic saftey gear E.G helmet,gloves,jacket ETC. Then we took a look at the... well i wont call them bikes. they were so small i coulda sworn 4 year olds were more likely to use them. we went through the basics on the bike. throttle brakes ignition. starting it, killswitch. petrol cap oil cap. brake fluid checker majig. it was somewhat boring becuase really it was common sense for most of this. exept oil and brake fluid. oh and killswitch. then we took the bikes out into the carpark and did simple things like, putting them on the stand and pushing them in a figure off 8 just to get used to the bikes weight. we then after laughing at lawrence who couldn't put his own bike on the stand and then dropped it did the eye sight test. at first i went wrong but then i noticed my stupid contact fell out. so i put in a spare pair. (yes i carry round a spare set ive lost so many contacts mountain biking that you just get ued to changing them) We stopped for lunch where me and the army brats went to Burger king in there 2007 BMW m3 when we got back from lunch we went back into the breifing room to do some work on the white board. simpl things like what does this sign shape mean. blah blah. its quite helpfull lawrence was brilliant here becuase i wasnt 100% i asked him to slow down a few times for my to understand something properly and he never had a problem after this part i knew those stupid army brats were talking about me but in my opinion better safe than sorry. We went into the carpark to do a small driving session with some cones. this was probably the biggest waste of time ever becuase the mopeds were twist and go and the scenarios were really once again common sense. like turning right off a road with noone comming infront but with cars behind you (for those who havent dont there CBT a life saver if used which is chin to right shoulder. never further as you can lose balance) this was really dull but for the sake of the army brats using geared bikes neccessary after about 2 hours of riding on the carpark and being told off for going more than half a mile an hour over the gravel (in all fairness it was quite stupid now i think about it) we finally left to go on the road THE ROAD WAS GREAT! we had one way headphones and lawrence would give me and jeremy instructions (army brats were waiting becuase he wasnt allowed to take more than 2 people out at once.) we were driving down some public roads not too busy thanks to it being easter sunday we neede to stop at a petrol station as jeremy s hair dryer (ever tried a piaggiozip? then do) was running low on petrol. after being instructed to take the turning into the ptrol station he skidded and fell off whilst trying to slow down. however in my opinion if he had ABS he'd have been fine but then the insurance... and i have a feeling bikes cant get ABS. we got petrol by which point lawrence was almost shouting at jeremy as if he had judged the stop properly he would have been fine. we then got back on the road with jeremy still leading as he still needed to learn a few last things. we got about 1/2 a mile from the petrol station when we came to a give-way and jeremy pulled straight out and into the front of the new BMW police cars. lawrence lost it. and we pulldover. i sat laughing for a good 20 mins during his er... pep talk about how hes glad hes not that stupid (if you would have seen it. i dont blame lawrence for saying it. at this point jeremy thought it neccessary to own up for being at a party the night before and having just over an hours sleep) at this point lawrence called our road driving. we pulled up back at the CBT center and he came up to me and asked me "dan, you think that was fair yes?" i replied" well. yeh i mean just imagine if that was some chav doing 40 MPH in his car not a copper patrolling. hed have been stuffed." lawrence then went on to say he was happy with my riding and that i could have the certificate saying i'd passed my CBT i was chuffed Probably the best day of the year so far Now i dont even ride a twist and go. i moved onto a geared bike which i reccomend to anyone planning to move onto a bigger bike.

He is telling the truth. i would deffo reccomend a jacket with a spine protecter if your not getting leathers. EDIT* oh and get something that goes with the bike you dont wanna look like a patchwerk monster heading through a busy town you will be a laughing stock

cheltenham hear about the crash at prinkash abbey last week? i saw it. the guy died I dnno a few good places to shop for kit not online is bransons in gloucester. there really good. abit pricey but theres no price on being safe in my opinion. ifnot roadrunners in stroud offer good kit like helmets jacket and gloves. i dnno about anywhere online though. im not too good shopping online