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cherokeepati,

is that a JRT?

very cool pic either way.

i wanna get a pet and have custom made tracksuit leathers and full face helmet for them.

yes, it will be my sidekick.

Ezbass, I had no idea it took such a long time to get your licence there! Wow! Even tho my husband passed the MSF course he felt it was safer to
get a kit for his motorcycle as he has problems with his hips from time to time. This way he can ride without having to hold a heavy bike up! Sometimes I am envious, as I dropped my HondaVLX in the parking lot at work one morning. Lesson learned.. never stop while the handlebars are turned Sooner or later everyone does it I understand.
Our trusty guard dog is my 11 year old Jack Russell. She loves to ride too!!
Keep us posted on how things are going....I wish I could take the course again!

Crimson Rider, yes she is a JRT. I raised them a long time ago and she is the last of my pups. I'm afraid I'll have to get another Jack if anything ever happened to her. They are a handful tho as they are really a hunting dog and have a natural tendancy to do what they were bred to do if given the chance!

cherokeepati wrote:Crimson Rider, yes she is a JRT. I raised them a long time ago and she is the last of my pups. I'm afraid I'll have to get another Jack if anything ever happened to her. They are a handful tho as they are really a hunting dog and have a natural tendancy to do what they were bred to do if given the chance!

yes, i know them very well. i work at a vet clinicl/hospital.

not all of them are very rowdy though. i have seen some docile JRT even if they're weren't sick.

but yeah, majority of them are too hyper.

Keep on that way Ezybass ¡ and good luck for the next session....

Tuesday:

We spent the morning prepping for the Motorcycle Safety Test (MST) and I really had a hard time practicing on the Virago 250, especially doing really tight turns at slow speeds. Our instructor mentioned that the heavy front end and the handlebars made this bike a difficult one for beginners. I switched to another style of bike and it was like night and day for me. I should have been using that bike from the start.

Only two of us from the safety course took the MST today, a woman and me. She has a dirt bike at home and did exceptionally well during the course, making the rest of us look extremely awkward on our bikes. I was first to take the test and was nervous to say the least. On my first run, I put my foot down once but the second time through the pylons was ok as were my emergency stops, first using rear brake, then front brake.
To my surprise, I passed. The girl was not so lucky. She rode her bike through the pylons with ease but on her first try at emergency braking, she lost control and skidded which was an automatic failure. She took it very well and I'm sure will try again. I had really rooted for her and my passing the course was a bitter sweet event for me.

We are supposed to meet with our instructor once more this Saturday for a ride on the streets of Nanaimo where we will be shown important things to help us when we take the road test which will give us our motorcycle licence without the daytime only riding and no passenger restrictions. I have until next July to practice and prepare for the road test. So, to do that I will have to buy a bike and so the search begins.

Final day of the Motorcycle Rider Safety Course. Up to now, I hadn't taken the bike out of 1st gear so now we rode in traffic on the streets of Nanaimo. I hadn't shifted gears on a bike for 40+ years so it took me a little while to feel confortable at it. In the afternoon, I got to experience riding in the rain, heavy at times and wished I has wipers on my eye glasses. I didn't have a windshield or shield on my helmet and my eyes were watering something fierce whenever we picked up speed. All in all, it was a fun day and the course was a great learning experience and my fellow riders were wonderful people.