Everyone should buy a bike right before winter.
I have always wanted a bike however the stars had not aligned until recently. 12 years ago I took the motorcycle training course and passed. Back then the test was taken the same day as the course and took place entirely inside the parking lot. The test consisted of a few slow speed and high speed maneuvers where you were required to avoid and stop before a few obstacles. I passed that part of the test however I failed to hill start after stalling out the little 125CC bike as it tried to move my heavy ass up the hill. That was an automatic fail. Not sure why but I never went back to try again.
Fast forward 13 years and the process of obtaining your motorcycle license is now completely different. A 2 day course must now be completed and passed, followed by a separately booked test. The test no longer consists of skilled maneuvers but now takes place entirely on the road by driving around in traffic for a period of 45 minutes. Today i finished the course portion, tomorrow morning I book my driving test for later in the week. I am more then a little worried about the road test, I don't know many people that could pass a road test in a car again let alone while trying to control a motorcycle they are not familiar with.
I have already obtained the bike, it's a VTR 1000 that i bought a few weeks back from my coworker Hal. The bike is 13 years old but has fairly low Km and doesn't have a scratch on it. The VTR has a V-Twin engine that makes an AMAZING sound. It is a liter bike however it produces a little over half of the power of a modern day liter bike.
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