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Boggert:
After doing my CBT i purchased a Hardford HD 125 (It won what bike 125 in 2005) and have been using it since daily.

When I started riding it was all a bit alien, I have been locked in my nice comfortable car for 20 years so getting out on 2 wheels was very strange, however the first thing I noticed it came with a Grin factor 10!  :lol:

Ok I'm out on the open road (Done my CBT in town), firstly after getting over the paranoia of "Its going to bloody Fall over" I crank it up to a respectable 45mph... ok ok it is a 125 with a top speed of 62mph. Any way my first corner at speed, break don't panic lean... lean...lean for gods sake lean or you are going to die!!
Now it took a while to get to grips with that but eventually I figured out Centrifugal force is my friend and not to be feared and with in a few days I got the hang of corners and the rest started to come with ease...

Once I mastered the basics of the open road the nervous... ok pure terror of the bike subsided and I started to enjoy it more. I found my self looking for excuses to "Nip to Town" or "Got to go and see the bank" my wife has started making comments like "This bike thing is getting out of hand" well it beats the "This 4x4 thing is getting out of hand"

So Its a lovely day and I look in my bag of excuses and fine another dying relative to go and see and gear up. After fighting with my biker trousers which are XXL I get the zip done... still cannot figure it out I'm only a 36 waist but can barely squeeze into a set of XXL biker trousers! perhaps they are telling me something I don't know.

Right geared up I crank up my bike and zip into town. Its lovely the rolling country side, the smell of grass, fresh air and the B-17 bomber coming into land.... It happened in all of .5 of a second... I see what looks like a B-17... then I refocus and see its a large bumble bee... crikey it has the mass of a cricket ball :shock: I manage to flick the visor down and then impact! Now a little disturbed at what is running up my visor. I'm not sure if it bee guts or bee poop either one is bad, but the noise was one hell of a click! Glad I got the visor down in time, I’m sure it would have tasted bad or worse passed thought the back of my head in to the helmet! So that was my first big bug impact!

Something else I have learned is... and I won't go into too much detail... is if you need a number 2 :oops:  go as soon as possible, the pain of riding in the "Curled up biker position" when you need to go is as uncomfortable as being sat on by the local farmers prize winning heifer! (long story) Oh and the mad dash through the house while shedding the jacket, rucksack and lid reduced the family to laughter... :oops:

Back to the open road. I have also figured out animals are not the bikers friend. Bugs are attracted to you like lemmings to a cliff. Rabbits and other small mammals seem to want to floor with one punch like the mad March Hares. Birds well they are the worst, not only do they flutter up and scare the stuffing out of you but they tend to also evacuate their bowels as they fly off, this has resulted in several good white splats on my jacket. I'm contemplating the "Mad Max" shotgun mount to the bike to deal with them but I suspect it will just knock me off when I pull the trigger.  :lol:

Well all in all I love the bike now I have got use to it and as a mate said I ride it come rain or shine. Saturday when I came back from my local town I zipped through the country lanes and curling roads, the sun shining and the autumn leaves falling… I wonder why it has taken me so long to do this!

L90OOK:
Welcome to the club...here's my other toy...the kids have one too  8)

Keep the visor down...funniest thing I ever saw was my mate getting a wasp in his helmet whilst riding...I couldn't help him for laughing  :lol:

 :shock: You can see my old 90Td5 in the background too  8)

Boggert:
Yep, that is what I want.... sooooo bad but Have to run it past swmbo first! :cry:

strapping young lad:
how does getting a bike licence work

is the cbt the be all and end all or is there more

and i heard ages ago your licence is restricted to the engine size, does that mean that for a bigger bike you have to take another test?

cardiff_gareth:
CBT I think allows you to ride a 125cc

then there is another test you can take that'll allow you to ride a 600cc and then another test for bikes up to 1200cc.

I could be wrong as I don't do bikes for the same reason I don't do cars anymore - I crash them  :oops:  :oops:

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