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Saturday night I went to bed relatively early and managed something like 7 hours of sleep so I felt a lot better at 5 am the next morning. We had to be there even earlier Sunday because we'd lost precious time in the range due to the rain Saturday. Luckily one of the guys in my class lived on the Upper West Side and had rented a car and offered to give me a lift. (This guy, Richard, cracks me up. Somewhat unobtrusively gay, hairdresser at Aveda, and yet he has a Harley and was all decked out in his CK Harley gear. I love it when people explode stereotypes.) We got there at 7:00 am and settled down for a looooong day of riding in the sun.
We took a lot of breaks but kept plowing through. They taught us a lot of different skills like how to go over an obstacle in the road (roll on the throttle and stand up in the seat to lighten the bike) and the science and technique of low- and high-speed turns. With low-speed turn you lean away from the bike; with high-speed turns you lean with the bike and steer away from the turn. It sounds completely counterintuitive--I was joking about how Orwellian it was--but it works. I really enjoyed the high-speed turns and I feel much safer on them--the faster the bike goes, the more it stabilizes. Speed is FUN! Danger is EXCITING! I wanna go fast!
They started administering the test around 4:30 and I was very stressed. I was nervous about the low-speed turns because I hadn't mastered those. One by one we all took the test and as it turns out, we all passed. The two teachers told us that was atypical--usually in a class of 12, 2 or 3 will fail (and of course have to retake the test). We were all thrilled and high-fiving each other. I was literally dancing around I was so happy.
Afterward Tim picked me up and we found our way to Hoboken to see Duncan in Company. We weren't exactly sure how to get there from Yonkers so after we crossed over the GW Bridge we hugged the shoreline and eventually pulled into Hoboken. Duncan's mother came up to me in the lobby and I couldn't place her. Very embarrassing. I had a tough time watching the show because I was beyond exhausted at this point. When Tim dropped me off my mind was wandering, I was so tired.
Hey--I can ride a motorcycle. My ovaries are THIS big.
We took a lot of breaks but kept plowing through. They taught us a lot of different skills like how to go over an obstacle in the road (roll on the throttle and stand up in the seat to lighten the bike) and the science and technique of low- and high-speed turns. With low-speed turn you lean away from the bike; with high-speed turns you lean with the bike and steer away from the turn. It sounds completely counterintuitive--I was joking about how Orwellian it was--but it works. I really enjoyed the high-speed turns and I feel much safer on them--the faster the bike goes, the more it stabilizes. Speed is FUN! Danger is EXCITING! I wanna go fast!
They started administering the test around 4:30 and I was very stressed. I was nervous about the low-speed turns because I hadn't mastered those. One by one we all took the test and as it turns out, we all passed. The two teachers told us that was atypical--usually in a class of 12, 2 or 3 will fail (and of course have to retake the test). We were all thrilled and high-fiving each other. I was literally dancing around I was so happy.
Afterward Tim picked me up and we found our way to Hoboken to see Duncan in Company. We weren't exactly sure how to get there from Yonkers so after we crossed over the GW Bridge we hugged the shoreline and eventually pulled into Hoboken. Duncan's mother came up to me in the lobby and I couldn't place her. Very embarrassing. I had a tough time watching the show because I was beyond exhausted at this point. When Tim dropped me off my mind was wandering, I was so tired.
Hey--I can ride a motorcycle. My ovaries are THIS big.
