Pictures do say a 1,000 things......

This pretty much says it all!

I passed my motorcycle road test and am now a fully legal class 6 motorcyclist!  I am extremely happy and feel relieved that all of the testing is over.  It has been a very long 3 weeks and I really have to thank Motorcycle Man and Motorcycle Daughter.  You guys have been wonderful and I thank you for putting up with my test anxiety and celebrating the highs and encouraging me through the lows.  I seriously could not have done this without you both.  To all my friends who have been rooting for me - I humbly thank you for your faith in me!

I went for a celebratory ride after I dropped the course bike off and picked up Lucy.  We did one of my favorite scooter treks down West Saanich Road into the countryside.   Below are pictures from Observatory Hill.  The sun was gorgeous and You could see forever.  I was lucky it was clear enough to see majestic Mount Baker.  We zipped back over the highway  - BECAUSE I CAN NOW!!!!!!!!!

ROAD TEST

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I PASSED MY ROAD TEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited!!!! I am OFFICIALLY A BIKER CHIC!!!

My driving sheet was pretty 'clean', I did have a case of the nerves, but was so happy when I was done. The MST examiner had a pretty serious face when we finished so I thought Uh Oh. But I think he is a bit of a jokester. I passed.

I am going for a ride now to calm my frayed biker chic nerves.

I PASSED MY NOVICE CLASS!!!

This is my awesome motorcycle class partners and one of our instructors 

I PASSED MY NOVICE COURSE!!I Today I am one step closer to getting to getting my full class 6 motorcycle!! In fact my 9 other classmates are as well! We all passed!! Our instructors Gordon and Andrew were excellent teachers! What is so amazing to me is that they take people who have never sat on a bike before and teach them the right way to safely ride a motorcycle. They encouraged us and explained what we did wrong, but more importantly what we did right. It is always safety first.

This is the SINGLE BEST THING I have done since starting my moto journey. This has done more for my motorcycle skills and has given me confidence that I can be out on the road and know what I am doing. I would strongly suggest taking a motorcycle training course whether you want to ride one or a scooter.

I took my course through the Vancouver Island Safety Council.  I will always be a life long motorcycle learner and think you can always learn more and hone your skills. Read, study and take more training and practice ATGATT!

This is what the morning looked like at 7:20 am, it was foggy in places and chilly.

Our Awesome instructors Gordon (left) and Andrew (right)



One of my classmates getting ready to take her MSA.  There were 6 women in the class of ten.








We are receiving our graduation cards.









Jubilant class mates!  Ladies you rocked the class!


If you want more information on the Vancouver Island Safety Council Motorcycle
courses check out their web site for class information and availability. 
 Learn to ride safe and well.

http://www.visafetycouncil.com/



I rocked my motorcycle class - PICTURES!

Look at all the pretty Honda 150's all lined up waiting for eager students.

I rocked my motorcycle class! It was awesome!! I learned new skills and am stopping & landing on the correct foot. I am so blissfully happy and very tired right now.  My instructor told me I have good technique and riding posture and even relaxed. It was an awesome day!!! So looking forward to tomorrow morning. My classmates all did well and the instructors are great!

The little Honda's are a nice bike to learn on.  They sure do take punishment though, all of us newb's ripping around the parking lot in 1st gear.  Some of them had heinous battle scars too. There were 10 of us in my class and we were all very encouraging to each other in times of stress and utter newb awesomeness. (six of us were women)  I had to laugh when the instructor wanted us to do Rock'n'Roll the bike, rocking the bike back with our heels touching and then roll forward onto the foot.  I couldn't do this because I was too short - lol, so I engaged the clutch and moved it forward.  There is a great sense of accomplishment going through the course and making the 90 turns, u-turn and slaloming the bike without touching your foot down.  At first I had a little panic when going through the cone turn, but then I got a grip and thought "Well hell, I make turns like this every day, this is just through cones."  After that I was good.  I never realized that a traffic cone could hold power over a human, but apparently they do to a new motorcyclist.

I am still grinning from ear to ear!

Before you learn  how to ride, you have to learn to push your bike around.

We pushed each other around the lot twice, to get balancing down.

Shortly after this we were riding around cones.