Quote from: GS500Ghost on April 30, 2006, 07:47:22 AM
Thats kind of scary that you can miss 10 questions!  lol

It's a 50 question multiple choice test.  You pass with an 80%. 

I'm reading through the online booklet no that someone offered the link . Its the code stuff that I have problems remembering and I assume those get questioned on the test like  T-CLOCS    Remembering the order and all that jazz will kill me. Isnt that what boyfriends are for? To make sure his girl is safe to go?  just joking     

Quote from: GS500Ghost on April 29, 2006, 06:17:12 PM
Where Upstate are you from? I got a place in Hopewell Junction.   

Hamilton, bout an hour south of Syracuse.

I apologize for the grammar lesson by the way. On this side of the pond they've got this cider which is 5.2% and tastes great. A 2L bottle of that along with a few bottles of similarly strong beer make for a fun, though occasionally disrespectful, evening.

Ewe I cant do cider!   but enjoy! I'm an amber drinker!

The MSF course is super easy.  If you can read you should be able to pass it.  The instructors pretty much told us what questions would be on the written test and during the riding portion they let us practice every manuever that would be on the skills test over and over and over again.

I found the Figure Eight in the Box to be the toughest part of the whole weekend.  Going slow on a bike without dropping a foot is still something I should practice.

The Arizona DOT has a neat Motorcycle Skill Test Practice Guide.  It's not the MSF exercises, but if you can do them with your bike, you're well on your way to doing the MSF practical exercizes.

in your opinion for the slower 8's do you think it is easier on a cruiser or rocket?  eventhough the test requires a cruiset style.   I dunno.. I'm skurred!

THey give you tiny tiny bikes that are very easy to manuever.  It depends on how well you counter steer and how long the bike is.

Im in cali, had my second class yesterday, first class on bikes. The test really is easy, i didnt take any notes (although i never do in college either  ) and got 50/50.

The riding was real fun, I got each exercise after only a few tries at most, especially liked the weaving. I was on a nighthawk, they had 3 of those, 3 eliminators, 2 gz250s, 2 rebels, a tw225 and an MZ 125 german thing that didnt have even a spedometer or lights 

I then went home and rode my bike around a local parking lot for a bit trying similar things which was a bit harder seeing as the gs500e is a bit bigger than a nighthawk. Im still having problems with my idle though (to put it simply, it doesnt, it drops if i dont throttle it) and that kinda prevents me from riding properly so i need to get that fixed. carbs, here i come!

edit: they told me female friend who is also taking the class to come back in 2 weeks when they are having the first class again, sucks but at least they didnt kick her out. She didnt do anything dangerous, she just dropped it once going too slow and again somehow when she was getting in line to do manuevers. She does only weigh 100 lbs so that might have something to do with it =X

Your friend just needs more practice..... Onlypastrana199 only weighs about 100 and she doesnt have any problems.

yea I'm only 100lbs also but cant reach for the life of me! I'm extra small!  thats why im happy I found a fellow tiny person starting out also!  whats the smalles you think that can handle a gs500f?   
and do they have permits for morocycles? 

Yes they have permits but each state has different rules regarding them.  And I dont know how small too small is.  It is prob a combo of height and strength.

I'm lucky i got one inch on this chick tmb  I'm 4' 11

But i still dangle off the bike!i dont know if this gs500f is gonna work for me!  I tried to get my friend to sit onthe back of the bike so i can feel hat it would be like lowered and he was bein an ass and bouncin around and i couldnt really get a feel but it wasnt too much better! i didnt have the boots on or the seat shaved so  maybe i need a heavier person to sit on it!   any big boys wanna come sit on it for me?  lol  jk

Shave the seat, get tall boots, and lower the durn thing and you should be fine.

Isn't the EX500 a better fit for small people? I remember reading that the EX250 fits big people better, and smaller people fit on the EX500 better because of the way the tank's shaped.

May wanna look into that one.

Dave 

yea I have to do a little work before i can ride it!    my friend keeps trying to  talk me out of it but im like no way!  he keeps tryin to get me on a ninja 250  but i dont like them at all! its too dirt bike looking to me! see us chicks care about what we look like but i dont want to get something  where my friend has to stop next to me at red lights to hold it up for me lol

Ok you just need riding experience.  Back when I started riding I thought that the gs was super heavy but the more and more I rode the more "riding" muscles I developed.  It is a process that takes time.

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now... how do they look alike again?

that pic is taken for my point exactly the rest of the ninja looks like crap!   Im just not feelin it!