Date:         Sun, 24 Dec 2006 20:17:49 -0200
Reply-To:     Jeff Stewart <fonman4277@EARTHLINK.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jeff Stewart <fonman4277@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: learning to ride a motorcycle (was RE: Come out of the
              closet, all
Comments: To: Joy Hecht <jhecht@alum.mit.edu>
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Classes don't start till March, and registration doesn't start till
mid-January, and price has risen by 50% since Jeff had the price, but hey,
I'm on my way! At least if I don't chicken out by then...


Joy (and anyone else interested),
     You definitely want to take the class in cool weather. You  MUST wear
what they consider "proper" attire, which means long sleeve shirt or
jacket, gloves, heavy boots, etc. This past summer I passed by the NOVA
campus many days that it was 90 degrees out or above, and there was a class
in progress- the students must have been ready to pass out dressed like
that in that heat! Now I won't argue about riding with the proper gear, but
one of the instructors and I got into a debate about that. I maintain that
if it's 90 degrees out and I'm dressed so that I'm drowning in sweat, then
my concentration on my riding isn't 100%, and at greater risk of an
accident. I have a leather jacket that has the zippered vents for air flow,
but a leather jacket on a 90+ degree day is hot no matter how you look at
it.        Jeff