A picture a day...biker banter (Vol 5)

[Gavia]

You must be mad

[cmaguire]

To be fair though, it's their bike, they've got you riding it in that weather, if you throw it down the road it'll be at slow speed and they had it coming.
No lose gamble.

[Reg Local]

To give the full story, the snow started on our way down to the mod 1site, the roads were clear all the way there and the snow only really started sticking after we’d parked up.

We then had an hours warm-up in the test centre whilst the snow turned to rain and then spent the rest of the day riding round in torrential rain.

To be fair, I’m glad I had the opportunity to ride under instruction in bad weather - if the weather ever turns when I’m out for a ride, I won’t be too intimidated now.

[Tall_Paul]

Reg Local said:

Learn to ride a motorbike in January, they said. It’ll be fun, they said...

Yeah... no-one has ever said that. Apart from Australians.

Just riding a motorbike in January is bad enough, fk trying to learn to ride one when you don't know what you're doing, or where the limits of traction are, or dodging numtpy drivers with 90% of their windscreen misted up.

Learn to ride in May or June, that's more like it. High teens or low twenties degrees Celsius, dry roads, warm tyres, ahhh...

[CarsOrBikes]

Best way to learn if from scratch, as they guy says, won't feel intimidated when the weather turns, and he'll have felt the affects of poor weather on the bike potentially, which doesn't mean a trip down the road unless a ham fisted person. Obviously proper snow is daft.

[Djkirk3000]

Reg Local said:

To give the full story, the snow started on our way down to the mod 1site, the roads were clear all the way there and the snow only really started sticking after we’d parked up.

We then had an hours warm-up in the test centre whilst the snow turned to rain and then spent the rest of the day riding round in torrential rain.

To be fair, I’m glad I had the opportunity to ride under instruction in bad weather - if the weather ever turns when I’m out for a ride, I won’t be too intimidated now.

From those pics i can tell you must be local to me, Jon from Williams taught me as well just over 12 months ago. Great teacher.

Always good to get some instruction in the bad weather, it was freezing and wet when i was learning as well.

Good luck with the tests.

[Reg Local]

The wet weather practice was worth it!



Jon from Williams can take most of the credit - as you say, an excellent instructor & genuine enthusiast.

Just the mod 2 now...

[curlie467]

Top man, well done!

[Reg Local]

anonymous said:

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I’ll tell you when I’ve passed.

[Gavia]

Djkirk3000 said:

From those pics i can tell you must be local to me, Jon from Williams taught me as well just over 12 months ago. Great teacher.

Always good to get some instruction in the bad weather, it was freezing and wet when i was learning as well.

Good luck with the tests.

I can’t work it out, but Williams rings a bell. Is that the test centre in Atherton and Williams based at Bolton motorcycles?

[Reg Local]

Gavia said:

I can’t work it out, but Williams rings a bell. Is that the test centre in Atherton and Williams based at Bolton motorcycles?

Yes on both counts.

[Gavia]

Reg Local said:

Gavia said:

I can’t work it out, but Williams rings a bell. Is that the test centre in Atherton and Williams based at Bolton motorcycles?

Yes on both counts.

Then you’re fairly local to me too

[Reg Local]

Gavia said:

Then you’re fairly local to me too

Fairly local? I’m Reg Local.

[Biker's Nemesis]

Gavia said:

Then you’re fairly local to me too

Thats why he's called Reg Local ya silly sausage.

[Gavia]

I’m no good with names

[Biker's Nemesis]

Gavia said:

I’m no good with names

New riding buddy for the NE/NW rideout?

[Gavia]

Biker's Nemesis said:

Gavia said:

I’m no good with names

New riding buddy for the NE/NW rideout?

Could well be

[Jazoli]

Gavia said:

Biker's Nemesis said:

Gavia said:

I’m no good with names

New riding buddy for the NE/NW rideout?

Could well be

What f*cking rideouts? they are no more, think there was one* last year, bunch of tts

• unless you are still having them and not inviting me anymore

[Biker's Nemesis]

Jazoli said:

Gavia said:

Biker's Nemesis said:

Gavia said:

I’m no good with names

New riding buddy for the NE/NW rideout?

Could well be

What f*cking rideouts? they are no more, think there was one last year, bunch of tts

• unless you are still having them and not inviting me anymore

i was up there a couple of times last year, snot our fault you're an international jet setter.

[Jazoli]

Biker's Nemesis said:

i was up there a couple of times last year, snot our fault you're an international jet setter.

I went to Spain three times for a total of 18 days, hardly jet setting