Foody, I really thought you were serious
...........I was thinking of bulking up by at least 2 stone. I'm glad you've clarified this now, as I've been dieting down and doing high rep training in the gym to look good for the summer (I've lost well over a stone in a month). I'm really glad you were joking, as all this effort would have been in vain. I thought the bodyweight you meant had something to do with breaking distance or something!!! By the way, please name some bikers cafe's so I know to look out for them
@ naggedhusband, you obviously were a natural having only been 4 times on a bike, even if your instructor said you weren't (he might have wanted to get more money out of you by having more lessons). I've seen bikers on youtube that have had MANY more lessons and still failed. Maybe your determination to prove him wrong may have had something to do with it, but maybe your instinct's were already there.
When I was 12, my father built me an Italjet 80 scrambler out of some spare parts he had collected over the years. He was a mechanic and a pro sprayer of cars. He wrote my name on the freshly sprayed white tank with bright blue paint. He gave me the bike for my birthday
He took me to a gravel mountain road and showed me how to ride it in an afternoon. It was my first time on a motorbike, and I was like a duck to water, no fear, flat out into the bends. As I came around a corner, I literally blew my father away with dust and gravel!! I could hear him shout "that's my boy"!!!
Typical Welsh father!! I thought riding was in my blood, in my genes. After all, he was the Welsh trial's champion in the 70's. And when the trial's season was over, he did the scrambles!
Sorry for the drawn out story, but some people have got it, some people haven't. I think I've really lost it over the years as I think I'm crap on a road bike. (maybe I should go back to off road only?
All I meant is that some people are born with a gift.
