I know you've probably heard this loadsa times HG but the more you relax the easier the ride will be (no smutty comments lads lol) well done for going on rides out on your own and good luck with the rest of it.                                                                                                                                                                               

Brilliant Stella, go at your pace and bugger everyone else. I used to pootle round the country lanes (and I still do) 125's are hard bikes to control with any grace at the best of times being so light and on more often than not horrible tyres with sod all grip!   Ya doing very well chuck!                                                                                                                                                                             

Jim - don't scare me!!!                                                                                                                                                                               

Well done I bet you feel so pleased with yourself now ...just that extra push from yourself is all it takes...I am pushing myself to get my test book tomorrow.What a lovely part the country you live roads and views made specially for bikers !!!! Lin                                                                                                                                                                              

Woohoo Stella!! Dead chuffed to read this and well done on your attitude.   You know I've dropped mine a good few times now and I think it helps to *embrace* this fact and not let it get the better of you. Now if only I could put that into practice myself for u-turns!   You are doing great!                                                                                                                                                                              

Well done again stella, picking yourself and bike up after an embaressing drop and getting on with it was brill. So many would ahve just put bike back in house and then it would ahve become a psycological problem.                                                                                                                                                                               

Stella, So pleased you've got out again! Don't worry about the occasional slow speed tumble, it's all part of the learning process.  I'm not ashamed to recall the day I fell over with my 125 stationary, as it was "so heavy"!!!! And that drive of yours is excuse enough for any minor topple. Very well done. Keep it up... Ian p.s. I feel I can say this, as my folks are Geordies, but PLEASE can we have "Day Eight" as a topic, so we can all do our best Big Brother Marcus Bently impressions????                                                                                                                                                                              

  .. PLEASE can we have "Day Eight" as a topic, so we can all do our best Big Brother Marcus Bently impressions????   oh please NO!!!! he knackers the Geordie accent                                                                                                                                                                              

Stella   don't worry.   I fell off mine once and i wasn't evn moving.   Forgot to put the side stand down.