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This is like two months old now, I posted it on KP, but I figured it could be put to use here too. TAKE YOUR MSF COURSE!!!!! :twisted: :twisted:
This is what I learned on my second day of riding, which was over a month ago. First off I'll say that I was about 400 miles in by my second day, I was also half way through my MSF course.
I was making a right hand turn onto a residential street off a 50mph main street. I would have noticed the gravel if the entire street hadn't been completely covered in loose pea sized gravel, needless to say my bike just kinda went to the left of me while I went to the right and I got to eat some lovely gravel. I was wearing my helmet, but being a dumbass squid I wasn't wearing a jacket or gloves. I did have boots and jeans on, the jeans saved my legs from looking like my hands.
I wish our local government would put tar down when they put the gravel down on the roads. That was a paved road too, it just had a nice top layer, 1/2 inch or more deep, of pea sized gravel (I really hate that stuff now.).
Lesson learned: ALWAYS wear your gear, I mean always. I learned it the hard way, you know, 3 weeks of healing times for the skin to grow back on my hands, and now the scars to remind me to wear my extra layers of skin.
This is what I learned on my second day of riding, which was over a month ago. First off I'll say that I was about 400 miles in by my second day, I was also half way through my MSF course.
I was making a right hand turn onto a residential street off a 50mph main street. I would have noticed the gravel if the entire street hadn't been completely covered in loose pea sized gravel, needless to say my bike just kinda went to the left of me while I went to the right and I got to eat some lovely gravel. I was wearing my helmet, but being a dumbass squid I wasn't wearing a jacket or gloves. I did have boots and jeans on, the jeans saved my legs from looking like my hands.
I wish our local government would put tar down when they put the gravel down on the roads. That was a paved road too, it just had a nice top layer, 1/2 inch or more deep, of pea sized gravel (I really hate that stuff now.).
Lesson learned: ALWAYS wear your gear, I mean always. I learned it the hard way, you know, 3 weeks of healing times for the skin to grow back on my hands, and now the scars to remind me to wear my extra layers of skin.