Scort

The components certainly drew me to it, though the Öhlins rear needs some tweaking, as it keeps kicking me out of the seat! You quickly learn to respect a bike, a mate of mine was always mad in cars when we were younger - had a couple of Cavalier SRIs that he drove like they were stolen, along with a few other high performance cars - we always said that he'd be dead if he passed his bike test; but he's (thankfully) still with us and completely unscathed. I think you just tune into the whole 'my body is my crumple zone' mentality, along with the fact that even a lowly 500cc bike will beat pretty much everything at the TLGP - that acceleration with almost zero protection, makes to sit up and pay attention.

Yikes! Sounds like a rough introduction to riding, and something that will certainly knock your confidence. My wife has done the CBT twice now, first time she (and the other learner) were deemed unsafe to ride on he road; so spent the whole time in the training area. Second time, she was better and out on the road - but managed to crash into a rock on a u-turn; lucky I had put better armour in her riding jeans the day before - as her knee hit this huge rock, and she took a chunk of it out! Ended up with a huge bruise for about a month - but she wanted to get back on a bike. If you can, I'd say get a few sessions on a big bike - if you have your CBT and theory, I think most schools will allow this. A big bike makes the word of difference, it blew me away when I did my direct access back in 2007, having never ridden before, I wondered why we even bothered with the horrid 125 bikes 🙂 As the bigger bikes did everything better, and were much easier to ride. Don't give up on the dream though.

It's all part of the fun - my family weren't too happy, as I was laying in A&E being cut out of my kit, whilst planning my next bike purchase 😄 Think my Dad was even less happy, when I jumped onto a superbike three months of healing later!

As you asked, I have now put some non gaming info on 🙂

Thought I'd sign up, after seeing this place as a suggestion on OcUK's forums. I play PS4, not been online for a while though, as the weather has been too good to game! MP games owned that might be relevant: GTAV, Division, CoD WW2, R6 Siege - probably more, not really played much of GTAV online, a few heists when they came out, but that's it. Division, done a bit on that, but not much in the DZ, a few of the big raids with randoms mainly. CoD WW2 I played a lot of when it was out, but then prestige'd and lost my guns And R6 - unlocked most of the original operators, but too lazy to work for 250k points to get the new ones. Anyway, I'm TheScort on PSN. Off of the PS4, it's mainly riding bikes for me - not pedal power, engine power 😄 That's when the Wife isn't giving me things to do around the house or garden - and at this time of year, I try to duck out of as much of these jobs as possible; certainly with my new bike - Triumph Street Triple RS if anyone is interested. Work in IT, and have done for the last 17 years, though still not specialised in anything, happy to be a jack of all trades. Have two dogs (border terriers), own home (thanks to the bank of Mum and Dad!), and have had three motorcycle accidents - one pretty serious back in 2008; car hitting me and busting me up, leading to 10 days in hospital (4 in intensive care), and 13 weeks off of work - 8 of which were non-weight-bearing.