Now it’s happily back in the much-roomier garage. the rest of the stuff in the garage will be going soon.

Today I mainly focused on practicing slow speed, parking lot-type maneuvers. That went pretty well. I only ended up going 9.8 miles. bike is up to 175 miles now. Then later I stashed the bike in my house since a crew was coming to empty out the garage.

Today I rode around a neighborhood, practicing turning from a stop sign and things like that. just trying to get more traffic/road experience. Then at the end I jumped on US60 and cruised with the traffic for about 5 miles. Rode 16.7 miles today, and the bike is up to 165 miles now.

I was out on the bike by 5:45 am. I rode up to the overlook over canyon lake this morning. on the way up, I was taking those turns at about 25–30 and that of course was utterly easy, even at my 2 degree lean angles. On the way back down I increased a bit to 30–35mph, and one time I even leaned it over too far. I was taking a right hand turn and I think I was making the turn about half the radius it should have been, so that was fun.

rode 19.3 miles today (bike is at 121). down 88 to needle vista and back again.

Short ride today, only 18.6 miles (bike is up to 101). I rode down 88 all the way to needle vista, got up to 70mph. Then rode back and went down broadway to the vet’s office on apache trail and back. Installed the license plate today too, and put the official registration under the seat.

got back on highway 88 and was relaxed this time. got up to 60mph. rode as far as Lost Dutchman state park, took some pictures, and then rode back and rode around in AJ a bit. 23 miles today! the odometer has 83 miles on it now. too bad the camera decided to focus on the parking lot instead of on me

oops. got gas at 43 miles, set my helmet on the bike seat while fueling. so of course I managed to knock the helmet off, onto the ground. as soon as it fell off, I remembered reading that if you set the helmet on the ground while refueling you can’t knock it off. I finished fueling (it took 1.755 gallons) and got back on the road. Today I rode up 88 highway as far as hackamore road.

up to 41.9; got in 7 miles in only about 20 minutes. went out onto Southern, Apache trail, and got to lean the bike for real on phelps (in front of fry’s)

the odometer is up to 34.9 miles now. This morning I went for a 8.4 mile ride. I started venturing out onto other side streets, onto san marcos a lot more, and even onto 16th avenue. got into 5th gear and hit 45 mph!!