Parking Lot Practice Class ~ We did it!

[cheriann]

Yesterday was a busy day for me!!! LOL! Before learning to FINALLY take a passenger on my bike (see other thread), Chaz and I took a GoldWing sponsored class with friends called Parking Lot Practice, intended to get people back in the swing after a long winter. It was all slow riding stuff....the kind of riding that can give me a hard time!!!

I found out my biggest problem with the slower stuff is wanting to look down, or directly out in front of my tire. Exercises like swerving in and out of cones got me because I kept looking down. Then exercises like the figure 8 type stuff REALLY tripped me up for the same reasons.

So, these awesome guys gave me the best pointers! For the figure 8, one guy told me to not only look all the way over my shoulder, but to keep looking all the way over through the turn until I saw the final point I wanted to end at. That helped me SO much!!!!

Here's a video of Chaz on his pretty Nomad doing that bigger Figure 8 stuff with no problem!!! As you can see, they were very generous with the amount of space they gave to do this, and yet I still went too slow and wanted to put a foot down the first time, until I got the great tips and reminders