The bike upgrade….

John and I had been riding around and visiting a few bike dealers over the last month odd as I’d started to get a little bored with the performance of the CB500.  I hadn’t really wanted to change my bike till much later in the year, or even early next year but then I saw this beautiful bike which caught my eye.  Once I test rode it, I just had to have it.  So, I’m now the proud owner of a Suzuki SV650S.  When I took it home it hadn’t even done 2k miles – its in excellent condition.  Called into the bike shop last Saturday for a tank pad for the new bike and low and behold, there was my old CB500 outside having just been purchased!  Felt a pang of guilt actually for only owning it for 6 months, but I’m enjoying the SV650S so the guilt trip didn’t last too long

 

CBT (but not the computer based training kind!)

My better half and I did our motorbike CBT course last Saturday. I’ll admit I wasn’t exactly looking forward to the event but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I feel now like I have a whole new world opening up before me. The staff at were extremely thorough with their training and although it was a long and hot day, I felt that they’d certainly earned their wages that day. Lots of credit to them, I felt reasonably relaxed throughout the day with the tasks at hand and it was all thanks to them.

So the next stage now is for John and myself to get some practice in with our newly acquired Yamaha YBR125, then to book ourselves some lessons to prepare for Direct Access.

So to finish off for now and as all sensible riders say “stay safe”!

An unsweet chariot?

England RU team suffered on Saturday again against South Africa. The first half definitely showed promise and we even managed to equalize at one point, then in the second half it seemed we just ran out of stamina and let the game slip. It was certainly good to have Jonny Wilkinson back as a stomach bug has plagued the side over the last couple of weeks, and his influence shone through.  For full details on the game see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/english/6716305.stm