So, how was your day?

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I dropped my dad's bike while within the learning center :dunce:

Lesson of the day: Always keep the sidestand down during kick starts, just in case you don't want to lose your footing when 143kg topples over the tipping point :ouch:

Well, I placed the bike down as slowly as I could, dad just looked on without even saying anything, and surprisingly was not angry about it either. Just gave me a nice reminder to put the stand down next time.

Anyways, as some consolation, I managed to pick it back up myself. But the embarassment lives on, I'm glad there weren't too many people there :O

It should be sweaty for you a novice at riding on a bike properly without a flaw, all the more the bike weighs as much as more than 140 kilograms that is heavier than your weight... perhaps your dad would have known that his son couldn't manage his motorcycle without making scrapes all along I think huh? :p
 
Where do you live with those consequences?

Great Britain! Minor speeding offence = 3 points, 12 points = Driving ban, but the points only last for a few years before they're taken off your license.

We also get offered "Speed awareness courses" where, instead of taking points, you attend a class, where somebody patronises you for a couple of hours, then shows you some car crash photos and videos, then makes you promise to never do it again. Personally I can't be doing with that. So I'm just going to take the points instead.
 
At least you have an option instead of taking points. Are these courses available only for those having their first ticket?

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Ehhh/urg... Poor bike.

What kind of bike is it? Might as well just bump start it. :lol:

It is a Bajaj Pulsar 150 DTS-i, the bike is okay :D It has an electric starter, I just wanted to practice kickstarting it.

It should be sweaty for you a novice at riding on a bike properly without a flaw, all the more the bike weighs as much as more than 140 kilograms that is heavier than your weight... perhaps your dad would have known that his son couldn't manage his motorcycle without making scrapes all along I think huh? :p

The only serious damage was to my ego, the bike only has the right footpeg slightly bent (it's gone through much worse than that :ouch:). This is the 3rd type of bike I've tried - all former ones were 100-125cc underbones with semi-auto gearboxes, and I'm lucky that I've never dropped any one of the bikes while actually riding...yet :scared:

On a positive note, I'll be taking my dad on a round around the city tomorrow morning (L-boards and all added).
 
Great Britain! Minor speeding offence = 3 points, 12 points = Driving ban, but the points only last for a few years before they're taken off your license.

We also get offered "Speed awareness courses" where, instead of taking points, you attend a class, where somebody patronises you for a couple of hours, then shows you some car crash photos and videos, then makes you promise to never do it again. Personally I can't be doing with that. So I'm just going to take the points instead.

Wow, we only get pulled over here for at least 10, usually 15 over the speed limit. Weather depends, too.

Well, I'm feeling great for some reason. I don't care why, though. If I'm happy I'll take it! I think I'm going to have a fire with some friends, so that's good. It's pretty cold out.
 
It is a Bajaj Pulsar 150 DTS-i, the bike is okay :D It has an electric starter, I just wanted to practice kickstarting it.



The only serious damage was to my ego, the bike only has the right footpeg slightly bent (it's gone through much worse than that :ouch:). This is the 3rd type of bike I've tried - all former ones were 100-125cc underbones with semi-auto gearboxes, and I'm lucky that I've never dropped any one of the bikes while actually riding...yet :scared:

On a positive note, I'll be taking my dad on a round around the city tomorrow morning (L-boards and all added).

My advice to you is the same that I give to everyone I talk to about learning to ride. Dirtbike.

With a dirtbike it's a lot lighter, and you can actually push yourself unlike on the road. And even if you drop it or crash, you won't get hurt too bad and the bike should be fine. (Depends, dropping it is nothing, running into a tree is different.)

But just playing around on a dirtbike in an open field for an afternoon will give you so much more experience and confidence like you wouldn't believe.
 
Today was awesome. Pride day so all our classes were an hour long, the pride assembly was fun, screamed my lungs out. Then in the parking lot I yelled WOLOLOLOL BIT**. Now I'm on GT5. Family is coming over for dinner in a bit

P.s oppa gangnam style played during the assembly. Level of win= 100
 
Well I didn't go to tech this morning, just took a day off from it. But went back to school for half the day which we did NOTHING. Hardly anybody was in my geometry class and then we had a pep rally. Then I went to work which wasn't bad. Also I've been invite to study in Japan, like an exchange student type thing. Which would be cool I'm sure but I'm not gonna do it, I'd be so out of place there it wouldn't even be funny...

So decent day I guess.
 
Great. O had a nice big fire like I wanted, I ate lots of food, hung out with friends, and listened to awesome music. I learned of Blood Ceremony today, and I love them.
 
For those who don't like football can call it a boring day, from 8 in the morning, until almost 8 at night, I have been watching World Cup Qualifying games. I have not posted in any forums at all.

This post will be similar on Tuesday, except that I have a doctor's appointment that morning.
 
Crappy. I hate my class I'm currently in for tech, teacher is an asshole and I really have no interest in welding. Then during the only good part of the day, which is biology, there was a lockdown which was actually pretty fun since I was just talking with my friend. Then we had to wait after school for an extra 20 minutes because of it which was not fun... So I got home and took a nap. Now I'm on GTP. This week needs to end already.

Believe me, you may not want to know how to weld, but you really should know how too, so then one day if you have a break some form of metal, or want to build something, you can weld things together. At first I didn't want to weld, but when I started it was actually really enjoyable. If you use a MIG with a really good setup it's the smoothest thing to use and it's really easy. Just learn it, you won't regret it, any skill you are able to pick up, I recommend picking it up, except for murder, or Gangnam style dancing.

Wait until Christmas time and it will be Last Christmas by Wham that will be stuck in your head.

:scared: Memories come back... Horrors Galore! It wasn't even getting whammed that scared me, because I never got whammed... It was living in fear of being Whammed. :p

Anyway, I spent yesterday working on my Go Kart again, and I did all I needed to do over the weekend in one day. So now I'm doing my graphics work over the last of today and tomorrow, and I'm not going to do the English assignment because I really don't know exactly what they are asking me to do. Today was sort of annoying because I was stuck at my friend's house (that's where we are working on the Go Karts) and unable to do anything. So we just jammed, he was playing guitar and I was playing a chair drum kit.

Beating about having fun while drumming on a chair (it's so much more fun with sticks), the only thing that really was a little annoying was the feeling that I drumming to well. Because my friend has been drumming for about two years, and he isn't exactly anything all that special if I'm honest, and for me to within just two weeks of making the decision to drum have better timing than him (musical timing it simply natural for me, usually I don't even count or beat it in my head when there's a rest for every instrument, I can almost always get timings right based off feeling. I only have to count when we get changing time sigs, like going from 11/16 to 10/16 or something like that), I think it's quite disheartening for him, if anything was to push me away from drumming it would be that. He is my best friend, and I don't want to beat him at the instrument he's practiced so much with. He has steady feet and can do more bass drum high hat things, but in a few weeks of actually practicing I will probably be better at drumming.
 
^ I know welding is something that I should learn to do. I considered switching it but probably won't since for the job that I'd like to get into (auto mechanic) it would probably be useful to learn. I'll just deal with it, at least I only have it for two weeks.
 
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^ I know welding is something that I should learn to do. I considered switching it but probably won't since for the job that I'd like to get into (auto mechanic) it would probably be useful to learn. I'll just deal with it, at least I only have it for two weeks.

Welding is really fun. Definitely learn.
 
Yesterday: Really good, I have been away at uni for 3 weeks and I decided to come home for the weekend on Thursday evening. I woke up yesterday and went for a drive, apart from being cut up by a few people it was really nice.
Then I saw my girlfriend and spent the rest of the say with her.

Today: I woke up, went out to my car to find someone has smashed the crap out of it. They had climbed on the bonnet, stomped on the windscreen, smashing it. Ripped off pieces of trim. Kicked the door, scratching it, scratches on the bonnet. All in all a few hundred pounds worth of damage. Bearing in mind it was parked in a police station carpark, where me and my family have been parking for 22 years. And the one time some presumably drunken yobs decide to smash a car it's mine, when I'm a student and can barely afford food to put in the fridge, and when I'm home having made loads of plans with my girlfriend that I have now had to cancel.
Luckily I have windscreen cover so it's only going to cost £75 to repair that but the scratches won't come out.
So so so so annoyed and pissed off.
 
Crap. Saw a cross country meet endure a three hour delay because of rain, so I spent half the day in freezing rain. When I got home, I found out my West Virginia Mountaineers were getting blown out.
 
Yesterday was fun but pretty unfortunate. My friend lost her purse at a concert and yeah, the purse meant a lot to her. Went to the Lost & Found counter and no they found nothing. Poor friend :(
 
The only serious damage was to my ego, the bike only has the right footpeg slightly bent (it's gone through much worse than that :ouch:). This is the 3rd type of bike I've tried - all former ones were 100-125cc underbones with semi-auto gearboxes, and I'm lucky that I've never dropped any one of the bikes while actually riding...yet :scared:

On a positive note, I'll be taking my dad on a round around the city tomorrow morning (L-boards and all added).

Lucky you, stumbling over something on the road whilst running on a bike can clothe you to have fractures and drag you into more serious accidents if you do that in the highways and a place where you see the cars following behind you, as well as compelling with blasted sum of outgo for your wrecked bikes per a traffic incident...

I advise you have to train yourself more at a broader place under rudimentary instructions of your dad if he is going to take you on a round in a nearby suburb, in case where it gets out of leash of you to drop again, carving a damage to your ego deeper. :sly:
 
Currently at the airport. Going on a cruise!

Plane is leaving in a little over an hour.
 

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