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Fat chicks on bikes
took the MSF safety course last weekend! The instructor had a 1999 Goldwing with 80k miles!
10 people in the class
3 were under 30 (1 of these being 16)
6 were there because they bought/tried to ride something too big for them. (anything from a Shadow 750 to a Goldwing!)
3 accidents
1 fat chick knocked over the (only) cute chick, pinning her under the motorcycle and then ran over the bike. (This was panicing in a parking exercise, she should not have even been in first)
1 chick turned too slow and fell over.
1 older guy thought he put his kick stand down and the bike fell on him when he tried to dismount.
The bikes were:
4 Suzuki GS500F's (I rode one of these)
1 Eliminator 125
I Yamaha 125
1 Suzuki GZ 250
3 Honda Rebels
Some things I learned:
Sportbikes are built to corner and manuver in tight places. Thanks to the GS500, I was the only one to do the figure 8 in the box
Its a good course, if you have never ridden its PERFECT, the pace, everything.
Cruisers are not flattering to overweight people
Sportbikes however, are quite slimming.
It was strange to come from family telling me I will be dead on a motorcycle to seeing actual families riding together. There were several wives learning to ride with their husbands, 1 girl learning to ride, so she can ride with her parents, and one husband/wife team.
My only real complaint is in group exercises, everyone ends up stuck behind the slowest chick, errr person.
10 people in the class
3 were under 30 (1 of these being 16)
6 were there because they bought/tried to ride something too big for them. (anything from a Shadow 750 to a Goldwing!)
3 accidents
1 fat chick knocked over the (only) cute chick, pinning her under the motorcycle and then ran over the bike. (This was panicing in a parking exercise, she should not have even been in first)
1 chick turned too slow and fell over.
1 older guy thought he put his kick stand down and the bike fell on him when he tried to dismount.
The bikes were:
4 Suzuki GS500F's (I rode one of these)
1 Eliminator 125
I Yamaha 125
1 Suzuki GZ 250
3 Honda Rebels
Some things I learned:
Sportbikes are built to corner and manuver in tight places. Thanks to the GS500, I was the only one to do the figure 8 in the box
Its a good course, if you have never ridden its PERFECT, the pace, everything.
Cruisers are not flattering to overweight people
Sportbikes however, are quite slimming.
It was strange to come from family telling me I will be dead on a motorcycle to seeing actual families riding together. There were several wives learning to ride with their husbands, 1 girl learning to ride, so she can ride with her parents, and one husband/wife team.
My only real complaint is in group exercises, everyone ends up stuck behind the slowest chick, errr person.
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