Motorcycles

Reading the Motorcycle Operator Manual (MSF Manual) was probably the 2nd most thrilling thing I've done today. Reading what it had to say about safety reaffirmed my decision that motorcycles handle different enough from cars that I can retain my "people are trying to kill me" mentality that I have with my regular bicycle and can get away from my super-aggressive driver mentality I have in a regular vehicle. Also, maintenance should also be different enough to let me train myself into actually doing it.

The 1st most thrilling was when a motorcycle friend and his dad, who apparently are both mechanically-minded and do this kind of thing for fun, came over to look at my bike and gave non-judgmental coaching and also tweaked the brakes to make them better and said that they can fix my throttle tomorrow morning.

this pic doesn't do it justice

PS - I think this bike is GORGEOUS. When I sat on it for the first time when checking it out, I fell in love with her immediately. It is a beautiful machine. I haven't gotten this excited about anything like this recently besides the Marching Band at the football game I went to on Saturday

EDIT: Just so's you know, this is a 1988 Honda 250VTR Interceptor. It is in amazing shape with almost no rust etc