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Caper#5 wrote: So tell us how you really feel??

that's really how i feel, but in person, i don't show that much emotion. it's all inside most of the time.

Ok all kidding aside, congratulations on passing your course. Betcha you can't wait to hit the open road with no restrictions.

Caper#5 wrote:Ok all kidding aside, congratulations on passing your course. Betcha you can't wait to hit the open road with no restrictions.

i'll defintely take advantage of being able to ride freeways as well as night riding.

but taking a passenger? nope, im still not confident enough w/ my bike on slow speed turns, so i shudder when i imagine carrying a passenger. also, at stops, i'll be balancing a lot more weight. maybe way later when i get really good enough.

VermilionX wrote:

Caper#5 wrote:Ok all kidding aside, congratulations on passing your course. Betcha you can't wait to hit the open road with no restrictions.

i'll defintely take advantage of being able to ride freeways as well as night riding.

but taking a passenger? nope, im still not confident enough w/ my bike on slow speed turns, so i shudder when i imagine carrying a passenger. also, at stops, i'll be balancing a lot more weight. maybe way later when i get really good enough.

Definatly a good call! And congrats! What was your score? Passing the MSF was awsome back when i took in (in the middle of summer; we too had 7 am classes, and i lived an hour away). The best thing you can do for yourself at this point is to just ride! Practice in a parking lot too. Do yourself a favor though, start the boxes for figure 8's and the sort bigger than the MSF and slowly move them in.

Hey Congrats V. Well done on passing the course. You are showing far more constraint than any person I have ever met with a SBK.

Good job man! You've been thinking about this for a long time, and we are all witnesses to your desire to learn.

thanks guys!

GeoffXR200R wrote:Definatly a good call! And congrats! What was your score? Passing the MSF was awsome back when i took in (in the middle of summer; we too had 7 am classes, and i lived an hour away). The best thing you can do for yourself at this point is to just ride! Practice in a parking lot too. Do yourself a favor though, start the boxes for figure 8's and the sort bigger than the MSF and slowly move them in.

and my score was 6... i dunno how they score exactly but the mistakes that i made that i know of during the test was on the figure 8, i put a foot down and went over the line. which was bad since i didn't make this mistake during the practice test.

other than that, i think i did a good job on the rest of the test.

VermilionX wrote:and my score was 6... i dunno how they score exactly but the mistakes that i made that i know of during the test was on the figure 8, i put a foot down and went over the line. which was bad since i didn't make this mistake during the practice test.

It's scored on a points-deducted system, you start with 100 and they take away points for mistakes. I think your score means they took away 6 points for the figure 8, so you finished with 94.

Congratulations, by the way. You've taken a lot of kidding (hopefully all good-natured) on this forum, and persisted in reaching your goal. Kudos are in order! But please don't forget, you're riding a bike with as much horsepower as my car, but 1/10 the weight. Shiny side up.

Jonathan

Congrats on passing the MSF.

Definately keep practicing the low speed stuff. If you can do the figure 8 on a sportbike you can do it on anything.

congrat man. now let go wild. I may see you at the next skillz day.