Well, that was fun. Wouldn't describe it as an world-changing experience, but fun and I feel a lot more comfortable riding already. The riding portion of class is held on an active air force base, so there's all kinds of fighter planes around, there's a firing range right by where class was (some guy was shooting some rifle - I don't know what the hell it was, but it was huge and it was loud). We're actually at the end of the tarmac on one of the runways (no planes landing directly overhead - that would have been great for learning concentration).
Class was good. I swear my wife's uncle, the guy who found the dead squid on his doorstep, has a doppleganger who was teaching the class. Weather was good (it started pouring as soon as I came in the driveway). Bikes were mostly Nighthawks, looked to be older vintage (looked a lot like the '92 I was looking at). A couple Suzukis, TINY bikes. One girl dropped her Suzie (or maybe just ran into the field, I didn't see), she was already really nervous so she dropped out. There were a couple of other people JUST starting out, a couple of people who had been riding for a while, some little Squid Kid who just totalled his brand-new bike last weekend. I had to give him a ride; he was showing me the roads where he claimed to have hit 150 (not sure if I believe him).
Hardest thing is remembering to keep my eyes up; I'll be going into a turn, I'll be looking my way through properly, then I'll make a minor error (not hitting the throttle smoothly enough) and I'll stop looking my way through. I'm working on it.
Class was good. I swear my wife's uncle, the guy who found the dead squid on his doorstep, has a doppleganger who was teaching the class. Weather was good (it started pouring as soon as I came in the driveway). Bikes were mostly Nighthawks, looked to be older vintage (looked a lot like the '92 I was looking at). A couple Suzukis, TINY bikes. One girl dropped her Suzie (or maybe just ran into the field, I didn't see), she was already really nervous so she dropped out. There were a couple of other people JUST starting out, a couple of people who had been riding for a while, some little Squid Kid who just totalled his brand-new bike last weekend. I had to give him a ride; he was showing me the roads where he claimed to have hit 150 (not sure if I believe him).
Hardest thing is remembering to keep my eyes up; I'll be going into a turn, I'll be looking my way through properly, then I'll make a minor error (not hitting the throttle smoothly enough) and I'll stop looking my way through. I'm working on it.