Re: [ST] License tests

["STeve Duncan" <xhippy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ahhhh, memories.

July 11, 1969.  My 14th birthday.  A Honda CL-90, (on which I had been 
blasting around on dirt trails and cow pastures for the previous six months) 
was my ride.  After the written portion, the "street" test consisted of a 
DPS officer out in a parking lot directing me though various cone 
configurations.  There was no wheelie component to the test, and my Dad 
reminded me of that  :)  "Passed" with a sideward glance from the officer 
(he knew).  Just another long-haired hippy freak on a motorcycle.

I didn't disappoint my tester.  Over the next 2 years, 12 citations 
(speeding mostly), we didn't have a points system back then.  Funny to think 
that over those 2 years I rode over 20 thousand miles, and progressed from 
the CL-90 to a Bridgestone 100-TMX, to a Bridgestone 200-GT, and on my 16th 
birthday, rolled off on a "Cherry Bomb", 1970 Kawasaki 500 Mach III (H-1).  
And yes, I paid for it myself, 400 bucks of paper route money.  To this day, 
the best 400 dollars I've ever spent.


happy trails,

steve duncan
el donut
dallas, tejas


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>
>When I got my M/C license in Massachusetts back in '76, I was given this:
>
>"Get on your bike, do a figure 8 without putting your feet down, then head
>out of the parking lot, go around the block once and come back."
>
>Tough one, I barely passed! That's because I had no training whatsoever,
>completely self-taught on my first-ever motorcycle, a 1973 Triumph
>Bonneville 7fiddy.
>
>More stories?
>
>Ken Mitchell
>Spencer MA USA
>'00 RS
>
>
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