Well, I grew up and got over it, or so I thought. But the past couple years, I've been thinking a lot about it again. I use the excuse that the great gas milage would be nice, etc, etc, trying to rationalize my silly urges. My better half has been adament in discouraging me from this foolish behaviour, since he knows all too well about the "Evil Kenevil" streak I have in my nature allready. He was quite certain I would kill my foolish self. So I am not sure exactly why he finally relented, but several weeks ago we found a Yamaha scooter at the swap meet for a decent price and so he bought it for me. Yippee! My first motorcycle! Ok, so it's not really a motorcycle. But close enough. Has a lot of good points, as it is under 49cc's it can be ridden on the highway, but you don't need to have a motorcycle licence or any of that jazz. And it gets 85 MPG!!!! Since it will only do about 30 mph hopefully I won't hurt myself too bad!
I finally got to ride it for the first time yesterday. We couldn't haul it home in our little car the day we bought it, had to wait a week, then when we got it home we sent it to a friend to do some minor work on it, so it was almost a month, but now it's all ready to go.
Riding however, is proving to be a new challenge. Who was that silly person that says "it's just like riding a bike, once you learn you never foret." Whoever he was, he must not of lived long enough to get old and fat and uncordinated! I rode bikes a lot as a kid, but boy, my balance and cordination for that ability has most certainly gone bye bye! I can almost balance when going in a straight line, but as yet have not figured out the turning corners thing. It is going to take a lot of practice to get the hang of this, I am certain.
So, wish me luck and pray I don't do any major damage to my poor old body!
