Jan 27, 2008

Yesterday was the first day of my CBT course which basically involved being shown the basics of a bike and running through the basics of riding a bike. Fortunatly for me the all of the other people on the course where about 10 years younger than me and where all leaning to ride scooters rather than a geared bike meaning that it was only me doing the training...

Jan 20, 2008

This afternoon Shane bravely agreed to let me have a practice ride on his bike around an area of private land. After a run through of the basics and what buttons and levers did what I took my first tentative steps on a motorbike…..at least I would have done if I had not stalled it the first few times . After a few laps of the area I had a much better...

I finally made some progress on Friday with the CBT preperations on Friday. I now have my provisional licence applied for and have the all important orange slip before my revised licence is sent out to me. It took a little longer than the 10 minutes that Shane spent down there thats for sure but at least it is sorted now. I also took a trip down to a local...

I have just had a call back from the CBT centre and I have booked the CBT course for the weekend of the 26th January. That gives me roughly a week and a half to hire a bike, get it insured, get my provisional class A licence applied for, buy/scrounge a helmet and get gloves and suitable waterproofs sorted out not to mention anything else I have forgotten-...

Well after a few beers and an Indian takeway with the ride around crowd this evening ended up with a phone being thrown at me with some random bloke speaking to me. The phone in question was the number for the compulsory basic training (CBT) course to book the CBT training to allow me to take the first steps in riding a bike. With a bit of advice from a few of...