Balance
Took the Wee Yin out today for more bike riding practice. She did s-o-o-o much better than yesterday, telling me to let her go since she wants to do it herself. And she did do it herself - one end of the park to the other on her little two wheels.
You can't teach somebody to ride a bike, they can only learn. The toughest part is to get them over the confidence hurdle - the faster you go, the harder it is to fall over. Once they get over that, they realise for themselves that they can make small adjustments in their weight to steer the bike.
Next thing to work on, and we do this tomorrow, is stopping. Using the brakes. None of this put-your-feet-on-the-floor-and-squeal-whilst-you-smash-into-a-fence stopping technique which we've been using so far. I mean it works, in a fashion, but its not the most effective stopping technique in the world.
The AJP UK event calendar has been published. There's a cluster of track days planed around February, March and April - a chance to fly round a closed track (no licence needed) and try out the bikes. Speaking of which, I managed to get hold of a picture of a sleek and sexy PR3:
Taken in Portugal, hence the sunshine. You have to wonder if somebody rode it up on to that wall, or if it was lifted up there.
No word from my ITM and how he got on at Tinehealy today. Which either means he id very well and he's still celebrating, or he did very badly and is commiserating. Or he did somewhere inbetween and is still washing his bike down.
He had a bike nicked earlier in the year too - an Aprilia Capanord 998cc - stolen back in August. The Garda found it just after christmas in an underground car park. Ignition damage, and needs a couple of new indicators, but otherwise intact. That will nicely offset the cost of the KTM 525 EXC he's just bought from Phil Noone for doing Heroes Legend on.
I'm at a bit of a loss today, just where I am in the cycle I suppose. You've got to have night in order for there to be day - neither can exist without the other. It's just a bit shit when it happens is all.
You can't teach somebody to ride a bike, they can only learn. The toughest part is to get them over the confidence hurdle - the faster you go, the harder it is to fall over. Once they get over that, they realise for themselves that they can make small adjustments in their weight to steer the bike.
Next thing to work on, and we do this tomorrow, is stopping. Using the brakes. None of this put-your-feet-on-the-floor-and-squeal-whilst-you-smash-into-a-fence stopping technique which we've been using so far. I mean it works, in a fashion, but its not the most effective stopping technique in the world.
The AJP UK event calendar has been published. There's a cluster of track days planed around February, March and April - a chance to fly round a closed track (no licence needed) and try out the bikes. Speaking of which, I managed to get hold of a picture of a sleek and sexy PR3:
Taken in Portugal, hence the sunshine. You have to wonder if somebody rode it up on to that wall, or if it was lifted up there.
No word from my ITM and how he got on at Tinehealy today. Which either means he id very well and he's still celebrating, or he did very badly and is commiserating. Or he did somewhere inbetween and is still washing his bike down.
He had a bike nicked earlier in the year too - an Aprilia Capanord 998cc - stolen back in August. The Garda found it just after christmas in an underground car park. Ignition damage, and needs a couple of new indicators, but otherwise intact. That will nicely offset the cost of the KTM 525 EXC he's just bought from Phil Noone for doing Heroes Legend on.
I'm at a bit of a loss today, just where I am in the cycle I suppose. You've got to have night in order for there to be day - neither can exist without the other. It's just a bit shit when it happens is all.
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Sunday, December 30, 2007
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