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I've been keeping it a secret for a while now that I was taking my Direct Access (DAS) motorbike test because I didn't want everyone knowing about it (and it was going to be a surprise for some people), but now I've passed I can tell you about it.
I took three days of training with a company called Riding in Action back in December, but my test got cancelled due to bad weather. I re-booked it for January but it got cancelled again (weather again) so I had to book it again.
I had an hour practice before the test which didn't go so well. I couldn't pull off a turn in the road to save my life, and I locked up the front tire on the emergency stop (god knows how I managed to stay on the bike). Neither myself or the instructor was expecting me to pass (if we're both honest) but somehow I did, so yay!
Now I'm waiting for my bike to come back so I can take the L-plates off of it, and then look at buying a bigger bike!
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30/12/2006 @ 16:07 (GMT)
Christmas has been and gone and now we're onto the New Year! Christmas has gone ok this year, and I've got more presents than even I think!

The list includes a Robosapian (RS Media), Spud Trooper (two of them!), about a thousand cans of Lynx (are people trying to tell me something?), a cool fantasy board game, and loads more stuff. By the end of it, I was sick of opening presents, and you know it's been a good year when you feel like that!

Bike-wise, the lawyers are shut for Christmas so I'm waiting for Jan to come around to start that back up again, and my Shuttle review is finally done so I can cross that off my list, expect to see it at PlanetX64 soon.

So everyone that reads this, have a great new year!
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10/12/2006 @ 13:26 (GMT)
Apparently it happens to the best of us - last Sunday I had a motorbike crash.

It happened just five minutes down the road from my house. I was coming around a traffic calming measure when I saw a car parked on my side of the road. No problem I thought, I'll just go around it. Unfortunately the driver apparently didn't see me and moved out - to pull a 'U' turn in the road and I had no-where to go.

Damage to the bike includes everything down the left hand side, including my lovely decals. Luckily the Police were on hand to sort everything out - as it was the Police that pulled the 'U' turn. Damage to me includes a lot of bruising and a punctured leg that stopped me walking for a few days, and will take a good month or two to heal.

So I have no transport. Unfortunately I'm only third party covered on my insurance - so I have to wait for the insurance companies to battle it out before I get anything, including getting the bike fixed - lovely.
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27/11/2006 @ 18:16 (GMT)
Ok - sometimes people don't shock you. My old friend has decided she doesn't want to really get in touch even after two messages, although I know she's read at least one of them. You would have thought that if she wanted to get in touch so badly then I would have been contacted by now.

People suck.
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