OhJay

Behind Blue Eyes - The Who

With right handers suddenly your throttle is a lot closer to you and your clutch is a lot further away so you feel you can't get the same fine control on either of them that you can going left. I find it harder with left turns for some reason. If you'd asked me a couple of months back I'd have said I'm scared of right handers 'coz I'm more nervous about leaning that way because that was the side I fell off. Doing the figure 8 stuff now I can get the right handers no problem at all, I keep putting a foot down on the lefts though

It's to do with the difference in speed between the engine and the wheel. If you dump the clutch then suddenly the two have to be rotating at the same speed and they're both going to have to give something to get there so at that moment the wheel will be moving at a different speed to the road going under it, if that makes sense? As it sorts itself out the road and the wheel will pull the engine up so they're all happy again. If you use the throttle to get the engine up to the right revs before letting the clutch out then the difference will be that much smaller and it will be much smoother. Or you can let the clutch out gently to get the engine revs picking up before there's enough drag to affect the wheel. Look up heel-and-toe to see the same principle in a car but they have throttle and brake on the same foot so have to start tap dancing in order to blip the throttle to get the same effect.

I think turning them away's a bit harsh, as long as you're inside the law you should be OK, but I would agree with turning up fully kitted out. It'll give a better impression to the examiner. If you turn up kitted up, considerate, looking sensible they they're not going to be looking as closely or as hard for anything to mark you down on. If you turn up in shorts and flipflops then they'll be looking closer and not going to give you the benefit of the doubt for anything.

I was just thinking "OK, he's rather good" and then I got to 2:21. he waves with his left hand. That's ALL throttle!

Can't add much more. When I phoned my local school they did an assessment ride out with me (on new year's day!!!) and said they didn't think I was suitable for an intense course and they reckoned about 12 weeks of lessons to get me ready. He said I'd picked up a few bad habits which I could get away with on a light 125 but would lose against a bigger, heavier bike.

18 and Life - Skid Row

Used to be a huge racing game fan when I was younger (right back to Revs on the BBC... or am I just showing my age?), then went through an MMO phase with WoW, EVE, Rift, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress... just think the human interaction element adds so much and makes the competition that much more intense, it's not carefully balanced so you just win all the time. And have now found an MMO racing game: iRacing Other old favourites include: Deus Ex (1 > 2) System Shock (2 > 1) Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy Mass Effect

Sounds bloody good to me My local is £35 an hour for lessons. Bike hire is £5 on top of that (going to have to do that once, they've managed to schedule me and the Mrs in for lessons at the same time) and fees will be whatever they are, as it were.

No, mine's not too chronic either. My ex would go to the gym 4 times a week and dragged me down at least twice and my breathing was much better than it is now. Too much hibernating and eating curry over winters recently I've given up my online gaming this year so I'll be out and about more over summer, see if I can get rid of the cushion stuffed up my shirt

I was given interval training like that at my gym. I'm asthmatic so I just can't run that far before my breathing stops, my body can go further than my breathing, but I was given the same "run for a minute, walk for a minute" routine to let my breath catch up. It's better but I still hate running I admit I'm crap over winters though. I play baseball which is a summer sport (first game of the season yesterday ), I quite enjoy cycling but work's too far to cycle so it's purely recreational and when it's dark before I even leave work in winter the recreation part of it sort of fails.

o/ gratsie

It was. Essentially we did about the first ½ of the off road section of CBT and we never left the car park. You don't need a licence for it and in some ways I approve of that, means you can have a go completely out the blue and then the instructor you do it with can talk you through the next steps to take, but the school I'm at now said that's why they didn't sign up. This was new year's day I was talking to them about it so don't remember the exact answer, can prod for more info if you care?

What do people reckon to the GetOn campaign? geton.co.uk I first saw their stand at a show in Dunsfold last year and signed up with them. Did their taster session and ended up doing my CBT through the same place as a result. On a personal level, neither me or the missus would have looked twice at biking without them and I think it's a great idea. However, the school I'm going to now say they liked the idea in principal but refused to sign up with GetOn since they didn't require you to show your licence or even have the provisional entitlement on it. Been lurking on here for a while and seen quite a few people talking about new bikers and potentially interested new bikers and no one's mentioned them. Are they shunned in polite society? Having admitted I used them should I now surrender membership?

It was 2001, daz If you're 21 then you will have passed your test after the 2001 change over so you have nothing on your licence at the moment. I think you should already automatically have provisional bike entitlement on your licence (check the paper bit for provisional category A) but you must complete a CBT before you're allowed to ride anything. After that you have full moped entitlement (keep your certificate!) and 125 learner entitlement for 2 years. You will have to do another theory test for full motorbike licence but you don't have to have theory in order to do CBT.