Last night I had to ride to Motodisiac’s house. We were going to install frame sliders for unfortunate cases of me going down (hopefully never) and replace rear brake pads on my bike. I had to ride approximately 10 miles on a relatively windy and pretty sloppy road. Being warned that turns could be really dangerous for a beginner rider like myself I set off on my journey. My first excursion to the zipcode other than mine.

First couple of turns made me really nervous. I began gripping hard on the bike handles. The road was making me increasingly conscious of how fragile my life was. Then suddenly 5 minutes into the ride I realized that it is scarier than my wild imagination had built it up to be. From that moment on my confidence level was steadily growing.

My ride home felt much better though I realized I were and am far from being a good rider. Obviously again the night brought out the worst in drivers. Pimped up Nissans and Hondas were flying by. Again some drivers wanted to beat me off the stop light. I had no inclinations to disappoint them in their endeavors.

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