Winter blues

Hello all.

So the weather in Arizona has been miserable this winter.  Far colder than I ever recall it being and far more rain than usual.  We even had a very light snow here in February!!  That is very rare.

So the riding has been pretty limited.  Mostly around town for lunch/dinner/small errands.

I have gone over to dinner and to visit friends to the nearby cities and also rode it to work a few weeks ago just to see how I liked riding in the normal weekday traffic.  Overall was not too bad an experience.

I have managed to shed most of my concerns with the bike, feel pretty confident on it during normal conditions now.  While still making fine adjustments to how I accelerate and shift to find that perfect balance, and getting better and taking corners faster and leaning the bike quite a bit now, most riding has become kind of automatic to me.

High winds are still annoying to deal with, and only 1 very short rain ride since the last experience in wet weather, but those skills can come later.

I am hoping to get into the next rider course here soon.  Is a confidence course to review skills learned in the basic course, but will use my own bike this time. 

Not bought any gear yet as I have been working on other projects and funds only go so far, but the gear I have at least allows me to ride, but do need to get on that soon here.

Hoping weather will stay warmer now and I can start riding it more and planning to take it out of town probably by end of April or early May to visit family in nearby town.  Should be some new experience on the much heavier used Interstate and dealing with the higher elevations as well.

So till the next update!