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Ryan
05-20-2009, 10:29 AM
Taking it this weekend at Awesomecycles in Houston. Taking the course and then getting the M on my license next week.
jbby4prez
05-20-2009, 10:38 AM
wooot, me and matticus will hopefully be getting ours this summer somewhere in the golden triangle.
Ryan
05-20-2009, 07:20 PM
My buddy called me this morning and wanted to go riding. He has an 09 R6. Anyways, we rode 250 miles in a five hour period. It was great! Mostly back roads, we finished near Galveston, then headed up 646 to Hwy 6 then back 288 N. I'm hooked. :D
sim012
05-21-2009, 04:32 AM
took the coarse a few weeks ago, learned many skills.
jbby4prez
05-21-2009, 09:15 AM
took the coarse a few weeks ago, learned many skills.

where did you take it at?
Tony
05-21-2009, 03:13 PM
im taking mine sometime soon also and damn man youre riding a lot more than i did when i got my bike haha
vr6dub
05-21-2009, 04:02 PM
i wanna take mine to. whenever yall go we should all meet up if we can get 8 people or more we can have our own class. same goes for chl lol
Ryan
05-24-2009, 04:36 PM
Just completed today. There were definitely some good tactics learned, and about 75% of them were low speed (under 20 mph) maneuvers. The rest were emergency braking situations (both straightline and cornering) and evasive. I definitely have a better stategy to enter into corners (blind and sweeping), and my emergency braking is alot smoother. The most difficult for me was learning how to pull tight u-turns w/out touching the ground and going out of their boundries. Some of the people had never ridden a bike or driven any type of manual transmission vehicle, so we spent LOTS of time working the friction zone of a motorcycles clutch. Anyways, nothing amazing, but it was still a good course for me to take and a great one for a completely novice rider thinking about buying a bike. A few people did drop their bikes, but nothing while moving faster than 5mph or so. They just lost balance during ight low speed cornering and the bike fell.
Matticus
05-25-2009, 10:33 PM
wooot, me and matticus will hopefully be getting ours this summer somewhere in the golden triangle.
w3rd, talk your Dad into giving each of us one of his Ducati's, I call the black one :D