M1, baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's done.
(It'll also be complete once my DMV Form DL389 shows up in the mail.)
But I have passed my motorcycle riding test and as of this morning my written test. Renewed my Class C while I was at it.
Go me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
knaveofhearts started it by mentioning that he waanted to get his M1 along with his license renewal. I thought to myself that my renewal was also due in a few months, and I've always wanted to do it, but thingz (poverty, pregnancy, kids, time, poverty) got in the way. Well, I still have kids and, sadly, poverty is back, but I am not pregnant and I do have more time than I did in those terrific .com days. On balance, excuse time was over.
Jim upped the ante BIG time by bringing riding back into his life after a hiatus of a few years.
wendelina2 announced her intentions, lrc spoke of riding in his LJ, ca_snowflake made appropriate noises of interest, and some of my other friends mocked me. My family was horrified.
The stage was set.
To do the riding portion of the test I took the Motorcycle Safety Foundation's Basic Rider Course. Upon successful completion of the course, they administer the DMV's test. If you pass that, you get a waiver from taking the test at the DMV. That sounded like a good idea, being as how I'd never been on a bike before, and being as how I was told that taking the test on a small bike was a Really Good Idea.
I highly recommend the course, and not just as a way to ace the riding test. First off, there's no ace about it. Twelve of us started out on the range; seven of us earned our waivers. No, you get much more out of it. It's kind of like basic operations/drivers ed combined with a baby performance school. You learn how to handle potentially hazardous situations because they create those situations for you on a closed range and you get to do them on _their_ bikes, after their instruction, and with them there to pick up the pieces as necessary. There was more than one dropped bike, but there were no injuries.
http://www.ca-msp.org/faq.asp
Next goal, a working motorcycle.
See you out there :)
(It'll also be complete once my DMV Form DL389 shows up in the mail.)
But I have passed my motorcycle riding test and as of this morning my written test. Renewed my Class C while I was at it.
Go me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
knaveofhearts started it by mentioning that he waanted to get his M1 along with his license renewal. I thought to myself that my renewal was also due in a few months, and I've always wanted to do it, but thingz (poverty, pregnancy, kids, time, poverty) got in the way. Well, I still have kids and, sadly, poverty is back, but I am not pregnant and I do have more time than I did in those terrific .com days. On balance, excuse time was over.
Jim upped the ante BIG time by bringing riding back into his life after a hiatus of a few years.
wendelina2 announced her intentions, lrc spoke of riding in his LJ, ca_snowflake made appropriate noises of interest, and some of my other friends mocked me. My family was horrified.
The stage was set.
To do the riding portion of the test I took the Motorcycle Safety Foundation's Basic Rider Course. Upon successful completion of the course, they administer the DMV's test. If you pass that, you get a waiver from taking the test at the DMV. That sounded like a good idea, being as how I'd never been on a bike before, and being as how I was told that taking the test on a small bike was a Really Good Idea.
I highly recommend the course, and not just as a way to ace the riding test. First off, there's no ace about it. Twelve of us started out on the range; seven of us earned our waivers. No, you get much more out of it. It's kind of like basic operations/drivers ed combined with a baby performance school. You learn how to handle potentially hazardous situations because they create those situations for you on a closed range and you get to do them on _their_ bikes, after their instruction, and with them there to pick up the pieces as necessary. There was more than one dropped bike, but there were no injuries.
http://www.ca-msp.org/faq.asp
Next goal, a working motorcycle.
See you out there :)