MotoSloth: Range days... BORN READY...sorta

The second day of motorcycle class was in the classroom and it was hours of informative, snore-worthy, instruction.  Very important stuff.
BUT THE THIRD AND FOURTH DAY WAS ON THE RANGE AND ON THE BIKE!

Here are some picts from both days.

Some of our intrepid, Born Ready classmates.

This is me transforming into a Bad Ass... right before your eyes.  I'm wearing my Sparx helmet which my brother gave me.  Everyone thought I was an official spokesperson for the helmet company cause I was raving about it.  They thought I was working undercover as a novice rider, trying to sell the helmet to noobie riders.

Here's a great little shot of our Sparx helmets.  What great graphics!  And it's the only helmet company with a helmet replacement program where in the event you get into an accident and the helmet takes an impact, you can send in the police report along with the damaged helmet and they'll replace it free of charge!  WOW! And they're extremely affordable helmets! Another WOW!  What great helmets!!  heh... this is why they thought I was working for the company.  Which I do not.

But that doesn't mean I'm not going to shamelessly plug the helmets.  Look at Wiseman slowly transforming into a Bad Ass as well.  That's his Sparx Bruce Lee "The Master" helmet in front of my Sparx Stryder retro helmet.  How could you not love these things?

This was the first day... I took a lot of pictures of us LOOKING cool in our helmets cause we, of course, looked like clueless idiots on the bike at this point.

You can tell that I am totally clueless even with my helmet on.

I was letting out a fart.

Wiseman was very focused on looking like a Bad Ass... in this picture he was thinking, "It is very likely that I was born to do this.  Extremely likely indeed."

"Marlon Brando, eat your heart out."

He figured it out eventually.

The Buell Blast.  A Blast indeed.

Ready?

BORN READY!

Except on the second day of range practice:

• I was doing really well, and the class as a whole was doing great since nobody dropped their bike on the first day.
• Until I came to a stop after one of the exercises and accidentally released my clutch which caused the bike to jerk violently...
• Thus throwing me off
• and causing me to then drop my bike.

I was told that the other girl dropped her bike the first day, but nobody saw it.  I dropped my bike in front of everyone.  And I broke a headlight.

                    And

I bent the shift lever.

It seems that my bike dropping event opened up the flood gates...

As Wiseman was executing his tight U-turns, he squeezed down on his brakes in the middle of his turn, exactly the way we were told NOT to do,  which resulted in the spectacular spill to the ground followed immediately by the bike falling on top of him.
Drop #2

These episodes were quickly followed by other members of our class doing similar things and dropping their bikes as well. In total, bikes were dropped 6 times.  Not so bad for a bunch of noobs.

At least I wasn't leaving parts of my bike behind me all day like Wiseman.  During our riding test, Wiseman's headlight fell completely off.

But I'm happy to announce that both Wiseman and I passed the riding test with flying colors.  Although Wiseman stalled out and PUT HIS FOOT DOWN in the middle of the tight U-turn section of the test, and I went outside the boundaries of the tight U-turn box.  3 points off for Wiseman and 5 points off for me.  Although, I think stalling should be more points off.

The last night was in the classroom where we took the written test.  50 questions in all.
SCORE:

• Wiseman 49
• MotoSloth 50

Boo ya.

Next:

• Dirt Bike lessons
• DMV written test for M1 class license
• purchase motorbike
• go on motorbike road trip with Ewan McGregor
• take up smoking cigarettes

thus

• Completing my transformation into Ultimate Badassery