Well this afternoon turned into blue skys so we suited up and out we went, Teela was pretty nervous as she has not ridden the purple beast at all, so we did a few laps up and down the street, just getting used to gears and getting some confidence...
after about 4 or 5 laps away we went, advancing to doing a couple of blocks, avoiding roundabouts for the moment as teela is just not confident with them, we took alot of the outer roads around toowoomba being 70-80km zones, we only had one indecent where teela stopped at a T intersection and tapped the front brake a touch to hard and we had our first drop! and well i am now investigating oggy nobs for the bike....
but Teela handled it perfectly, she didn't try and save it she just slowed it down to minimize any marks and scratches (only a couple, will buff out no worries), massive thumbs up to the young bloke in the car behind us who pulled up and was out of the car to help faster than i could get off the bike, all his mates sat in the car and looked at him....
To her credit she hopped straight back on and kept going, she was more worried about the marks on the bike and her instructor saying "i told you so on using the front brake"
We toured around for about 30-40 mins, and than it was off to maccas for a well earned coffee!
and guess what, we are getting up tomorrow morning and heading out again!
to sum up, she is handing the bike really well, we are ironing out a few gear changes, and turning circles, but she has great awareness in traffic, and was chipping me for reminding her to turn her indicator off!
