Great rides, clear head
This past week I had some great rides on the new bike. Being my first bike and first riding experience, I've taken it slow so as not to take a fast track to laying down my new bike. But I've gotten out into traffic a few times now, and I'm feeling pretty comfortable with it. Went down to the State Park a few times and had a blast riding around the twisty roads.
I've had other riders wave at me as I'm riding - suddenly I'm popular. The other day I actually had a guy on a lawnmower wave at me. I thought that was strange. As I'm riding away I see that he's still looking at me so I start thinking, maybe something's wrong with my bike. So I went back and he's off his mower now. He said he liked my bike, that his wife just got one, and he wants to know where I got the windshield from. He was a Harley rider himself. Although at that particular moment I think he was riding a Craftsman.
The thing I like the most about it (besides that it's just awful fun!) is that it clears my head. You have to focus a bit more when riding a bike - I do at least - than when driving a car. So there's not a whole lot else going on upstairs besides how you're going to take that next turn or what that car in the intersection is about to do. So rarely do I get to actually clear all the concurrent subconscious activity that it's very refreshing to have a clear head for a little while.
In other news, I managed to get an A in my last class.
I've had other riders wave at me as I'm riding - suddenly I'm popular. The other day I actually had a guy on a lawnmower wave at me. I thought that was strange. As I'm riding away I see that he's still looking at me so I start thinking, maybe something's wrong with my bike. So I went back and he's off his mower now. He said he liked my bike, that his wife just got one, and he wants to know where I got the windshield from. He was a Harley rider himself. Although at that particular moment I think he was riding a Craftsman.
The thing I like the most about it (besides that it's just awful fun!) is that it clears my head. You have to focus a bit more when riding a bike - I do at least - than when driving a car. So there's not a whole lot else going on upstairs besides how you're going to take that next turn or what that car in the intersection is about to do. So rarely do I get to actually clear all the concurrent subconscious activity that it's very refreshing to have a clear head for a little while.
In other news, I managed to get an A in my last class.
I sense tattoos happening soon, they're coming like a runaway freight train. Perhaps a flaming skull on one arm with the line "Ride To Live, Live To Ride" just below it. Then maybe on the other arm your favorite quiche recipe.
Then to finish it all off, you'll get the letter "M" tattooed on each cheek of your ass, so that when you bend over it will spell "MOM"...and in those very special moments when you're upside-down with legs apart it will spell "WOW".
You're a bad motorcycle zoom-zoom-zoom.