SuzukiSavage.com - Print Page

SuzukiSavage.com
/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl
General Category >> Rubber Side Down! >> one year!
/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1271081783

Message started by Rocco on 04/12/10 at 07:16:23

Title: one year!
Post by Rocco on 04/12/10 at 07:16:23

i've had my savage for exactly one year!! and i've been a member on here for like a week less then a year!

my friend took me on his kawi 1000(enough room to where i didn't have to hold on to him lol) and he took a sharp turn and hit 80 like it was nothing, i had to have a bike, bought my savage the next day lol

glad i did ! ! !

Title: Re: one year!
Post by matt on 04/12/10 at 10:27:36

wooo!!!

mar 26 was 1 year for me! (couldnt ride for whole month until i got the endorsement)

my buds got a yamaha r1 and i can barley touch the ground lol!. i think i would get into trouble with something like that. dangerous!

i wont ever think twice about getting the savage!

Title: Re: one year!
Post by babyhog on 04/12/10 at 11:40:25

Wow, I bought my bike on March 30th last year. Got my learners before I got the bike, so I was able to ride right away, but took the MSP on Easter weekend (lucked into cancellations). So I've been riding a year now too! Congratulations to us all!

Title: Re: one year!
Post by Rocco on 04/12/10 at 13:53:30

sweeeet!! i've only laid her down once thank God! but i've learned alot in the one year!

i got my bike about 3 weeks before i got my license, so i was confined to parking lots for a little while lol

Title: Re: one year!
Post by LostArtist on 04/12/10 at 14:23:10

about the same for me, had a learner's permit but had no motorcycle licensed riders to follow me so I learned in a parking lot. I've learned a lot. so happy to have this site and my motorcycle :D

Title: Re: one year!
Post by babyhog on 04/12/10 at 15:58:29

In Texas, you have to have a licensed rider with you while you have your learner's permit?? WV doesn't have that rule. Anybody else have that?

Title: Re: one year!
Post by RadRacer on 04/12/10 at 16:19:25

neg in California you can't ride at night, no passenger and no freeway on a permit

Title: Re: one year!
Post by Tanker2Biker on 04/12/10 at 17:16:11

Took the MSF course the week before Thanksgiving last year, got my license Thanksgiving week, and bought my 97 Savage Monday of the week after Thanksgiving. Just under 2000 miles since then. Love it!!

Title: Re: one year!
Post by LostArtist on 04/12/10 at 17:30:37

4447464B49532A0 wrote:

In Texas, you have to have a licensed rider with you while you have your learner's permit?? WV doesn't have that rule. Anybody else have that?

they have to be within visible range of you, ie: behind you in a car, or I guess on the street watching you ride by?? mmm, yeah, I'm the only rider in my group of friends that I woulda felt comfortable enough asking to ride behind me, now I have a friend at work I could probably ask

Title: Re: one year!
Post by kimchris1 on 04/12/10 at 19:06:39

Have been riding 3 years this Mothers Day weekend. Got my first bike 50 cc scooter. Got my permit and then did the MSF course and got endorsement. Then got my Rebel and rode and learned on that for almost 2 years before getting my S-40 last July...

I will ride again and in the mean time I am enjoying reading all of your posts.. Keep riding and enjoying the wind in your face..

Here in Wa State on permit, no night riding, no passenger. Permit good for 90 days and renewable once..

Title: Re: one year!
Post by kimchris1 on 04/12/10 at 19:07:30

Congratulations to all and thanks for sharing all your knowledge..

Title: Re: one year!
Post by Rocco on 04/12/10 at 20:33:41

i think gettin a bike was one of the best choices i ever made!!

Title: Re: one year!
Post by jabman on 04/13/10 at 02:23:36

162B27272B440 wrote:

i think gettin a bike was one of the best choices i ever made!!

yep i was just thinkin that 8-)

Title: Re: one year!
Post by Routy on 04/13/10 at 06:50:09

I like to think that, but every time I have a close call w/ a dear (4 legged) I have to wonder. They are thick on the back hill roads I like to ride here. But I also like riding 40-50 mph, so that helps.

Here in Or, I think it has to be a motorcycle w/ licensed rider w/ you on a permit, which is what I had in Sept when I got my riders license. I never took a course (expensive) just went straight to DMV, and they set a course just for me, including 2 fire extinguishers ! When I questioned that, he said they have had to use them several times over the years,......crashes right out on the parking lot !

Title: Re: one year!
Post by LostArtist on 04/13/10 at 07:00:05

I took the course almost a year before I got my bike, I failed, wrecked on the test,(front brake and swerving equals OUCH) I had done that right everytime until the test, I hated the class, so I just left. the class is very very very useful and everyone should take it, so after 7 or 8 months of thinking about motorcycling again and again and letting my hand heal a bit, my finger was bent back a good bit and not strong enough to open a soda bottle. I got a motorcycle and went to DMV/DPS (in texas its the dept of public safety that gives you a licenses) to get permint for a license, rode in a parking lot until I felt better on it. went to DMV/DPS go license, for the license you just need someone with a car to drive the DMV /DPS person around. I'm glad I took the class cause the dps/dmv test was way way too easy

Title: Re: one year!
Post by Rocco on 04/13/10 at 07:40:55

haha i hear ya! @ the the course i took, they made u do figure 8's in a small box, well i did great until the last practice run before the test! the bike stalled and i dropped it lol

didn't do that on the test though luckily !

Title: Re: one year!
Post by John_D FSO on 04/14/10 at 01:53:22

We had the figure 8's and all too, on the WA one. Although, I think I remember 'em saying if we dropped the bike, even in practice, we were out, and had to sign up again? Can't remember. :-/ Maybe that was for the test. :-?

Title: Re: one year!
Post by LANCER on 04/14/10 at 03:33:28

0C313D3D315E0 wrote:

sweeeet!! i've only laid her down once thank God! but i've learned alot in the one year!

i got my bike about 3 weeks before i got my license, so i was confined to parking lots for a little while lol

hey rocco, I trust home life is treating you well ? and you have a great home life partner to go home to. ;)

spending time in parking lots is a really great way to start out when you get a bike for the first tim. Little to no traffic; lots of time/space to start/stop, accelerate/brake; turns of all sorts; no traffic to run you over when you fall over, and other such good things.

it is the perfect traing ground that is easily accessable

Title: Re: one year!
Post by Rocco on 04/14/10 at 07:26:04

what's up my brotha! yes sir! everything is goin pretty good! we're lookin @ this 3 bedroom house from a friend, that will rent it to us as @ a steal of a price! she's very excited about that ! i'm takin her to an art show on sunday(girls love the stuff we think is corny right?) lol BUT we may hit the gun show first lol so i'll have a little fun !

and i agree! there's a target near my house, i used to go there after the night stock people left(around 12ish) and tear it up lol i remember tryin to challenge myself a little more each time!

the cops showed once, he flicked his lights on because i assume he was there for a little while before i noticed him...BUT luckily i don't have a sportbike(wasn't practicing tricks lol) and when he saw me make a u-turn, stop, take off, stop, take off, lol i guess he knew what i was doing!!!!! ;D

Title: Re: one year!
Post by Routy on 04/14/10 at 07:40:29

The DMV riding test wasn't too hard except for only 1 part consisting of:
accelerating to a minimum 30mph in a measured short distance, then coming to full stop (req'd both brakes!) in a measured distance, which was all in the same box. I got 100% on test, but had to redo that part 3 times (which was legal) It was extremely hard to watch the speedo and the lines on the pavement at the same time.
Anyone else had to do that ?

Title: Re: one year!
Post by babyhog on 04/14/10 at 08:08:12

636C766D717764666E6077050 wrote:

That was included in my MSP class! I think we had to do it straight, and also with a swerve involved before the stop. They stood in front of you and after you passed the first line, they held out one arm or the other, pointing left or right. We had to swerve the correct direction, going fast enough, then come to a stop (yes, both brakes req'd!)

I've actually been contacted to become an instructor..... but I told them to give me a year or three... ;)

Title: Re: one year!
Post by Routy on 04/14/10 at 09:10:37

Babyhog quote:
They stood in front of you
-----------------------------------
Theres a really good reason to not be an instructor ! ;D

Title: Re: one year!
Post by Yonuh Adisi on 04/14/10 at 09:21:58

Ya'll think ya'll's tests were easy? Check this out.

My test consisted of pretending there were cones set up for a slolem, once around the DMV parking lot, and what they called a quick stop. As long as you had stopped with both feet on the ground and in first gear you passed. The lady conducting the test said it was the slowest quick stop she had ever seen. Oh yeah, and one figure eight around the imaginary cones.

Before my test I had already been riding bikes for over twenty years without a license and decided it was time to get one.

Title: Re: one year!
Post by kimchris1 on 04/14/10 at 19:19:50

When I first started riding on my scooter, hubby and I would ride the bikes up to the school after 4 pm. School parking lots are great as you can use the lines to practice your figure 8's in as well as the huge turn around if your has one to practice getting your speed up and having to stop instantly.

In my MSF course if you dropped your bike while taking the test you had to retake the entire course. No one did during the actual test however, one guy dropped his during practice.

Title: Re: one year!
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 04/15/10 at 04:57:34

My test was pretty easy. I went & took the written. They told me Id have to trailer the bike up or have a licensed rider take it & let me ride the test course. My license came in the mail before I even made an appointment to go take the riding test...I was happy.. ;D

Title: Re: one year!
Post by Rocco on 04/15/10 at 07:06:03

one guy in my class had never been on a bike, which i think is a little unfair because they don't give u all the time u need to learn how to take off without stalling....but anyways!

i was doing the haul butt then stop in a box, i was first in line(everyone behind me) and i see this guy coming towards me....i remember thinking "uuuuhh what's he doing?"

then the bike seemed to slip under him, and he went down chin first!! he had a skid lid so he ate it man, it looked like he "threw" the bike and switched places with the front tire! lol he wasn't hurt too bad and able to continue....but they were right when they said most impacts happen on the chin lol

Title: Re: one year!
Post by jef.savage on 04/16/10 at 09:29:18

I got my license two years ago. I made an appointment at the DMV for a road test first thing in the morning. I got there early and sat out in front til a guy came out and took my paperwork and sent me to a church parking lot across the street to wait for him. After about half an hour I went back to see if he forgot about me. He said they couldn't use that lot because there was a service going on. As he was talking to me another guy came along. The first guy explained the situation to him and he said he'd take care of me. He walked me around the corner to a National Guard parking lot and spoke briefly to someone there. Then he checked all my lights and horn. Then he pointed at the lot and told me to go ride a circle. Before I even finished a complete circle he waved me back, told me I was all set and signed my paperwork.