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Just a follow-up to the whole "need a quick balance business": Got a new front tire fitted Thursday in anticipation of taking my Motorcycle Safety Course on Saturday. Finally got around to a short test ride earlier this evening (Friday). Rode out about 5 miles, various speeds up and down the range with no apparent ill effects on the front. As I was turning around to head back home I suddenly felt the dreaded squirmy wobble that only comes with a low rear! Nine o'clock, no phone and I'm five miles out on a two lane road connecting No-Where and Just This Side of Nowhere! But luck runs both ways. Within a few minutes I catch a ride home, come back and get the bike safely under shelter just before an Oklahoma frog strangler hits. So much for the Safety Course.

moonbeamerll wrote:Just a follow-up to the whole "need a quick balance business": Got a new front tire fitted Thursday in anticipation of taking my Motorcycle Safety Course on Saturday. Finally got around to a short test ride earlier this evening (Friday). Rode out about 5 miles, various speeds up and down the range with no apparent ill effects on the front. As I was turning around to head back home I suddenly felt the dreaded squirmy wobble that only comes with a low rear! Nine o'clock, no phone and I'm five miles out on a two lane road connecting No-Where and Just This Side of Nowhere! But luck runs both ways. Within a few minutes I catch a ride home, come back and get the bike safely under shelter just before an Oklahoma frog strangler hits. So much for the Safety Course.

Shit happens....sometimes it happens to you.

"Ancora imparo" I guess I'll have to wait another month or so to take the Safety Course. My earliest recollection of two-wheel powered travel goes back to 1953 on a washing machine powered "doodle bug". I'll not recount every bike I owned or ridden but I will say that I anticipated some new tip or safety tidbit that I might take away from the session. (That and a break on my insurance) Oh well, for another day.