Look out parking lots of Austin!

We both passed our driving evaluations for our course completion certificates this morning. We're fully qualified to toodle around roped-off parking lots on non-street legal machines while we practice our maneuvers.

The 4 things we had to do were:

• A figure-8 demonstrating 2 u-turns, one right, one left
• A 'swerve' at speed
• A 'quick stop', and finally
• A leaning curve at speed

I aced the curve & the swerve; tilting the bike is fun and feels right with the center of gravity. I think Chaz aced both of those as well.

On the U-turn I lost 3 points when I crossed one border on the right-hand turn, and I lost 7 points on the quickstop. It took me 20 feet to stop when it should have been in 13 feet based on my speed. I'd had problems with the quick stop in practice, mostly with kind of activating all the stopping controls and the throttle at one time in a mad rush. When I get a bike, I'll have to spend some time on an empty lot practicing that.

But first things first.. I need to do some shoppping.