Quote: "Nice, Sepp! I would love to have/ride a Harley Davidson, or a Ducati, but...I don't have my driver's license, and I think that a Ducati would be too powerfull to begin with, lol."
Thanks. I am thinking of a cruiser to upgrade to, but not a Harley, I think I mentioned the Honda Rebel 500 in a previous post, looks like a likely chance, but as the people I did my CBT with do the test on a Honda Hornet, I could decide whether I'd want to continue with a street bike and upgrade to the newer version of the Hornet (I was riding on the bake of one on Thursday, and it felt so smooth) or go for a cruiser, like my brother rides. But Harleys are pretty expensive and from what I hear, not as reliable though it is hearsay, so I don't know how reliable they actually are.
But I think I will like my Honda and tomorrow I'll be riding out on it because I finished my CBT today (woot) and the instructor was happy to sign me off. I would say, start less powerful, because less risk of going too fast or over throttling it. In the UK learners are restricted to a 125cc and riding today and Thursday, especially out on the road today, I can see why that is. Though, I can also see why people don't stick on them for too long either; because at 5th gear, I could see the bike I was on needing a bit more effort to get past 50mph, that said, I was still a fair way from the red line.
Also, with the CBT, the instructor encouraged me to ride a different bike to the one I rode on Thursday, as it'd get me in the mindset of riding a different bike and getting used to finding everything on the bike and it worked out quite nice too. Because he got me on a Lexmoto, which I liked a lot more than the Suzuki, which is surprising because the Suzuki is a Japanese bike, whereas the Lexmoto is Chinese, and people generally recommend Japanese bikes and tell you to keep away from Chinese ones. However, the instructor was explaining, whilst it is the case that Chinese bikes are generally cheap as well as unreliable, Lexmoto saw the gap in the market for good Chinese bikes and decided to go for something more reliable, but still keep a low enough cost and that the one they've got was surprisingly good, but still argued that the Suzuki is a better bike. I just felt better on the Lexmoto. I didn't catch the model name, but I believe it was one of
these. Which is about half the price of my Honda.
Quote: "Yeah, all that comes with practise."
Oh aye, I was much better at it today, but still need to work on my braking finesse, I stop at the right time, I just need to practice smoothing it out. But clutch to start and maintaining clutch control has come along much better, I still need some work on it to handle turning from when stationary, but am doing it safely enough, just making it more fluent.
Quote: "More metal related stuff...it seems that the one and only Metal God Rob Halford and his crew are working on a new album! Oooooh yeah! Really looking forward to that! \m/"
I didn't know, but sweet! But Judas Priest are very much "we're gonna keep doing this until we're dead". They love it too much.
Quote: "Rob's voice has matured over the years, and I really like it. He still sings better than 80% of some of the newer bands today, lol!"
And I like that he's worked with it, rather than against it. Sadly, not all vocalists manage it, I'll be honest, I was disappointed by The Scorpians because I don't think he quite got it with how his voice had changed and against with Axel Rose when I saw Guns and Roses. But Priest, Saxon, Maiden, Deep Purple, Dio and others have nailed it. And on the note of Deep Purple, Ian Gillan's voice has changed a lot, but he's rolled with it too. To compare his vocals in
Smoke on The Water and to a
modern version and a
more recent(ish) track he did. I may have picked that track, being a huge Final Fantasy nerd, and it was a collaboration of Ian Gillan and Nobuo Uematsu.
And some of the stuff Nobuo has done works quite well as metal, hence the band The Black Mages, who Nobuo plays keyboard for, like
Grand Cross.
