I bought a motorbike#

Wed May 8 12:46:56 2024

I bought a motorbike. This was a slightly more drawn-out process than I expected it to be, but the upshot was that I bought a motorbike with a working speed sensor, which might not have been the case if they hadn't serviced it before letting me collect it.

Anyway. Collected it on Saturday. Sat on bike, started it. stalled it, started it again, rode three times round the block by the dealership hitting the horn button every time I went for the turn signals, and then forgetting to cancel the turn signals afterwards, then took off towards the A40 and the A406. Mostly 40/50 limits, lots of stop and go, but more stop than go. I mostly chose to use that as an opportunity to get a feel for the clutch rather than filtering: will upgrade to filtering when I've had a bit more time on the bike. Haven't been past 5000 revs yet.

Very grateful for the Mod 1 manual handling training but I do wish it had included how to go up kerbs, because getting the bike from the street into the back garden was hard work. The turning circle when pushing is ... not great.

I have the CoC from Honda but it looks like I'll have to wait for the V5 to be sent to me (I only have the new keeper slip) before I can do ULEZ registration.