The least enjoyable ride ever...

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... Has to be going out with your son / daughter (son in my case) for their first ever ride after passing their CBT.

Even though we both had the Cardo's on and he rode pretty well, if a little slow. I hated every single millimeter of that 20 or so miles that we covered!

Now I understand why my mother absolutely hated the idea of me getting a motorbike when I was younger.

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zzrman said:

I'd suggest that he does IAM or ROSPA now. Why wait until he gets a bigger bike?

The training school we used is excellent so before I am comfortable with him going out on his own I am going to get him some additional training there.

To be fair to my son, he is a really sensible lad and I have zero worries about him doing being an idiot on the bike, I just want to be satisfied that he is safe on his own without someone there to keep him right.

One encouraging thing that did happen though was he stalled the bike a couple of times at a set of temporary lights. He stayed calm though and realised traffic was behind him so he just rolled the bike forwards and to the side of the road in a safe position until he got himself set again and it was clear for him to go.

His actual riding was pretty decent to be fair, gear changes were nice and smooth, anticipation was reasonable and when he remembered to lift his head up his bike handling and cornering was nice and smooth. He just had the current playstation generation fixed stare 12 inches ahead of him that he needs knocking out of him. He must have been sick of hearing me say through the headsets 'head up, look ahead, keep your eyes up and looking for the exit of the bend at all times'