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1. I am a girl. Thanks.

2. I only ride about 3 miles to school every day, and sometimes I get the treat of a nice long cruise. In the past 9 months I have only ridden like...2200 miles total. That's only an average of 244 miles per month. That's not a lot of practice. Plus - have you been to Florida?! Try to find curves here worthy of mastering! Everything is long, flat stretches, with maybe a hill or two thrown in. I've managed to master skills like maintaining speed, riding around with one hand, stretching my legs out without swerving, and other fun things to do while you're basically going in a straight line. Plus, I'm a girl! It wasn't my first instinct to take the bike out and see if it really will do 90mph. Even on my friend's Ninja I only hit 80 on the highway I think. I don't want to die, I just want to have fun. I'm not a risk-taker and that's probably why I've never been in any type of accident, car or otherwise.

Almost all of my motorcycling takes place in town, with traffic and 50 million stop lights, stupid college kids that cross the street without looking, drunk people in the street (at night), football game tailgaters, etc. I've just developed a city skill set: watch for idiots. I'm glad you get to ride around like a macho man taking curves at ridiculous speeds. I wish I could do that (sometimes) but here in Florida it's just not possible. I'm taking my bike up to South Carolina soon so we'll see what happens up there in the mountains.

3. My first time riding a motorcycle was in the MSF course. So I had 0 experience. No dirt bikes or 4-wheelers, and I can only BARELY drive a car with a stick shift (no one in my family owned one - i learned from friends). I just was never around that stuff. I can drive a boat though, haha! I'm pretty good at shifting gears, and almost all of the time I know what gear I'm in based on the sound of the bike and the speed I'm going, which I'm pretty sure everyone on the GZ is capable of.

I don't feel 'weird' all of the time, it's only on 'weird days' like the others here are describing. Most of the time I get to school and back just fine with 0 'oh shit' moments. I just realized how many times I said 'weird' in my last post. Omg I am so lame! =P

Anyway danny, I think your response was really rude. Luckily I don't care much for the opinion of the internet. My real-life riding buddies say I'm doing 'better than they did as a newbie'. Get the whole story before you tell people to stop doing something they enjoy because of one little message board post. From my other posts here, you could have determined that I'm doing pretty well that this two-wheeling thing. This is a post about people that get a strange feeling on a bike sometimes, which apparently happens to everyone here.

Here's an analogy: we are all at work, sitting in the break room bitching about our jobs. You walk in and tell us all that if we hate it so much, we should just quit! Everyone at some point bitches about their job, (including posts i've read by you) but that doesn't mean we want to quit. It's just something people do so they don't go crazy.

/end rant


IN OTHER NEWS: It's sunny and beautiful here in Florida!!! I went on a 120 mile adventure through Ocala National Forest with my mom's boyfriend. I managed to keep up with his Harley the whole time, with 20mph wind! And, after reading that countersteering post, I was playing around with that on the moderate road curves that happen to be in the forest. Pretty nifty!