First ride after my flying lesson in 2007 when I was nurfed off my 'bird at a roundabout by a following car fracturing a vertebra.
Have now served the ensuing ban (from the wife, not the law)
Have been given permission to get another bike or renovate Puke the Deauville and/ or (probably or - she's a bit vague) the Coguar
Phoned a local bike training school and booked a three hour refresher course
Rode a Suksuzi SV650 to Glasson Dock and back via the twisties
Remembering the advice you lot gave my at the time of my accident - "you should ride faster" I gave it some welly
Got up to an indicated 65mph approx
All the old skills came back within a mile or so
The thing I can't believe is that my bike kit all still fitted including my lid
Need a new one but it proves my head is no larger than previously
Kept forgetting that one notch up from first gear is neutral , but it had a gear indicator so quite easy to spot
Did the roads again yesterday but ended up in Pilling (wrong turn in Cockerham)
This evening took wife to Glasson Dock and there was a P reg 'Bird there which sounded beautiful