Daring Hill Adventures
After puttering around the driveway and the street outside I was ready to take the bike down the hill and toward a real road.
Background:
I live on Daring Hill Ln. It’s called Daring Hill rightly so. It’s a significantly steep dirt/gravel hill up to the road that levels out and then round the corner to my house. So going down and then back up the hill was giving me a little concern.
The experience going down the hill was perfect yesterday. I turned the bike around and plowed back up the hill with no problems at all. It was a very happy moment that I didn’t have any problems going down or up the hill. I feel somewhat silly for being concerned but for not being on a street bike in almost 14 years it can pass it off for that. If it was a dirt bike I probably wouldn’t have thought twice about it.
Anyways today I got home from work changed pants and grabbed my gear and pulled the bike out of the garage to go for a ride. This was my first on street adventure with the new bike. So I went down the hill and down the road to a real paved road. By the way, we live a little over a mile off of a paved real road.
When I got to the end of dirt and to the beginning of pavement another biker was coming from my left. I was waiting and as normal I got the friendly wave. I waved back as he passed and started out onto the paved road. As I did so I stalled the bike! Yes I stalled it on my first outing to the pavement. I’m still getting used to the clutch and the “friction zone” so in time and practice I won’t do that. I can drive a stick-shift car/truck second nature now but I remember back when I first started and how many times I did the herky-jerky and stalled it out.
I take the Motorcycle Safety Foundation Beginner Riders Course on Wed/Thur/Sat/Sun and hopefully I’ll do well with that and get my full motorcycle endorsement. Right now I’m riding on a permit which allows sunrise to sunset which is actually really cool.
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (0)Happy birthday to me!
Well June 16th was my 29th birthday. Yes still young but I still feel very old.
I got a lot of great presents from the kids and Erin gave me the best of all. In fact I have a picture of it….. No, not that. We talked and agreed that I could get a motorcycle. It’s been years… over 10 to be exact since I’ve ridden a street motorcycle. I’ve been on dirt bikes since but not a street bike. So before and during and after my birthday I was shopping and looking and sitting and thinking and looking and sitting and thinking… You get the point.
Well, I decided on a Yamaha V-Star 650 Custom. I was thinking of getting the 1100 but I thought twice about it since it’s been a long time since I’ve been on a bike I didn’t want to be stupid and start off to big again and the 650 gets better gas mileage and that’s one of the big points. Park my big truck and start riding a motorcycle to work.
So, here’s some pictures of the birthday and some of the motorcycle.
Here is the picture of the half-eaten cake on my birthday. Notice there are candles in it but it’s already eaten??? Hahahaha well father’s day and my birthday are generally back to back. We didn’t have enough candles so there’s 20 candles and a big 9 from Conner’s birthday. There’s Rowan giggling in the picture
And here’s a picture of the bike with the kids posing… notice Conner’s “I’m cool” look and stance…. Yeah he’ll be a biker 
The Great Society: Introduction
I’m going to begin a series outlining how great this society is and what we have become. However as I don’t have the time at the moment to write up a complete part 1 to the series I will post this brief introduction with the link of the day.
Technology has in many ways improved our lives and in many ways made our lives worse. It has made people more inteligent with free access to information, and it has made people stupid with the inability to operate basic machinery. So here is the link to the woman that couldn’t unlock her car door… FROM THE INSIDE OF THE CAR……
http://www.kutv.com/content/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=89d59491-3910-45c2-9643-3a2fd9347606
And we actually let these types of people DRIVE CARS…. I’m amazed really. She can operate a cell phone but not use a manual lever to unlock her car door. Simply amazing.
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