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[QUOTE="wayneg, post: 847271, member: 24675"] Michelle - I can see that I'm going to have to come up there again and give you someone to laugh at!! :joke: My efforts at co-ordination are pretty much legendary in my club after endoing going UPHILL last weekend. :yikes: (which I thought was impossible, but I managed to do anyway). It sounds as if you've made a bit of a breakthrough with your attitude to your riding - similar reasons to why I ride trials. I'm a slow rider - always have been always will be. But I enjoy riding, so I'm not going to let my lack of speed stop me. You just need to go out there and enjoy the scenery and have some fun thats all, and if you can pick up a bit of speed ocassionally (relative to your own definition of what is fast or not) and get a bit of a buzz then even better. Speed is relative - what scares the cr*p out of some people seems slow to others. Skill is relative too - riding trials you see some people with so much control and ability that its depressing, and they make the hardest stuff look so easy thats depressing too (bugger I'm depressed now!). But then I know that I am better with bike control in some situations than some other riders (I won't say any names as then they would be depressed too!). Its my own accomplishment meter and my own skill level that I'm trying to improve, and if I can enjoy myself then its all good. As you say its really the icing on the cake to get someone to ride with thats about the same speed. I'm lucky as my little brother is now riding trials, and we're genetically related, so both at about the same skill level (even though the little sh*te only started riding last year, he's caught up with me already!). I hope to come up again before Xmas, so will give you a call if it all fits together and I can bring my shiny new scooter, and see what you are up to. I seem to be coming up to Auckland every week at the moment, but with little ability to plan very much, or to get much time to myself. I'm really enjoying riding the new one as its a little bit faster and lighter with much better suspension and brakes. I even managed to do a small wheelie the other day which was kind of nice...... surprising too as I hadn't really planned on doing a wheelie just then, but thats what a larger engine displacement gets you, and of course some more minor bruising...... [/QUOTE]
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