Nov 21/22 -- what the heck am I doing ?

... with my time that is ?? No, there is not that much drywall work to do ...

Well, I've been riding yesterday and today, with my legs spread wider than a bicycle seat. I took the motorcycle training course, which is mandatory to get the M on your drivers license ...

... and on Friday ... I bought a Harley.

We are now the owners of a new, 2009 Harley Davidson Sportster 883 Low. After some significant negotiation with the dealer, during which I got the price to within a few hundred dollars of a 2008 with a hundred miles on it, the deal was done.

Now Sandy has to shop for one of those pink leather halter tops ... and get some tatoos ...

Seriously though, I'll do some solo riding before carrying a passenger. That much I did learn from the course. I want to be comfortable enough with my own riding in traffic before I change the handling characteristics to carry a passenger.

The course was very good. The classroom part was fairly easy, as you might expect, and that started Thursday night and ended yesterday afternoon. The riding part comprised 10 hours on the "range" which was a well marked large parking lot. Exercise after exercise they moved the orange and green cones and had us practice over and over until we were ready to move on.

The course results will be transmitted to the DMV tomorrow morning and we are able to go into same to changeover our licenses Tuesday (although I was told that they'd probably be in their system by 2pm on Monday). There is no more testing. So ... either Monday afternoon or Tuesday I'll do the DMV thing and then trade a check for the bike. They won't let you take it off the lot without the endorsement. They will DELIVER it to you ... but not let you drive it away. I'll bet anything that is an insurance issue ...

So perhaps I should now change the title of my blog, from this point onwards, to "Life and Biking" ??? ... or is Cycling good enough ?

Onward ...