Now that we had the bike it was time to learn how to ride it, Phil (owner/friend) of Ireland Motorcycles in Barnstaple put me intouch with a buddy of his from his race days.
Andrew and Jim brothers and owners of Wheeldon Farm Off Road School on the outskirts of Totnes.
Six one Saturday morning we were on the road for the drive down to Totnes, my stomach was ful of butterfly's not knowing quite what to expect. We arrived at Wheeldon Farm and some of my fears were put to rest firstly everybody at the center was frendily and welcoming.
Assembled in the dinning room were 15 people all having the same thoughts as me, after all the introductions and a cooked breakfast it was on with your gear and into the indoor track in the sheds.
Jim took us all back to basic's which was my start point anyway. to prove we could all ride he had us on 125's playing follow the leader round the track. How difficult can it be I thought..........
More instruction followed and then it was onto the new 350's that had just arrived, piece of cake what can go wrong, espically as I had learnt that a fourteen year old boy went round the track in about 40 seconds.
My worse fears came true, it must of looked like I had never ridden a bike in my like, it took me about 5 minutes to do one lap after stalling so many times I lost count and falling off twice.
By the middle of the morning I had it sorted, with Jim's voice going round in my mind, sit here, stand there, leg here I was going round no problems.
After lunch it was down to the out door track with Andrew and the KTM 250's and a whole new leraning experince and techniques began, and just when I thought I had it sorted...........wrong.
Andrew and Jim brothers and owners of Wheeldon Farm Off Road School on the outskirts of Totnes.
Six one Saturday morning we were on the road for the drive down to Totnes, my stomach was ful of butterfly's not knowing quite what to expect. We arrived at Wheeldon Farm and some of my fears were put to rest firstly everybody at the center was frendily and welcoming.
Assembled in the dinning room were 15 people all having the same thoughts as me, after all the introductions and a cooked breakfast it was on with your gear and into the indoor track in the sheds.
Jim took us all back to basic's which was my start point anyway. to prove we could all ride he had us on 125's playing follow the leader round the track. How difficult can it be I thought..........
More instruction followed and then it was onto the new 350's that had just arrived, piece of cake what can go wrong, espically as I had learnt that a fourteen year old boy went round the track in about 40 seconds.
My worse fears came true, it must of looked like I had never ridden a bike in my like, it took me about 5 minutes to do one lap after stalling so many times I lost count and falling off twice.
By the middle of the morning I had it sorted, with Jim's voice going round in my mind, sit here, stand there, leg here I was going round no problems.
After lunch it was down to the out door track with Andrew and the KTM 250's and a whole new leraning experince and techniques began, and just when I thought I had it sorted...........wrong.
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