[LuckyArmpit]

Your doing what I did when I bought mine new....practice in parking lot.
I did that the 1st night I had the bike when bought new in 2006.
After that, I rode around the back country roads (live rural and have a farm) for
a couple of weeks before I ventured out into any resemblance of traffic.
Easy and real cheap mod....get the chrome trim they use for door edge guards
and run it along the lip of the gas tank. My bike is silver and it even helps it to bring out the tank.

Lucky...