Biker life is funny. I ran into a girl-rider at the mechanic this Monday. She was pulling up as I was leaving. I screamed "a girl!" and she came over and we totally fan-girled over each other. LOL She told me she didn't know anyone else who rides. We immediately exchanged numbers and spent like 2 hours texting later that night and have been texting every day since. The first night texting, I ended up saying something like "now that we're rider-besties...." and laughed. She was like, "it's so funny that you said that because when I got home I told my husband that I made a best-friend today at the mechanic" LOL Unfortunately, she found out yesterday her bike is shot and it's not worth repairing. :( So I offered to go mc shopping with her since her hubby doesn't ride and she doesn't know anyone else who rides. That's what besties do. LOL I literally know her less than a week but we connected immediately. Biker-life is like being a kid but as adults. We met and connected over riding a bike (and the color pink) LOL

Finally I got myself a medical kit! There’s a small team of riders that got inspired from Traumoto, but because of the high prices of overseas delivery + taxes + duties, decided to make up their own kit, Moto Aid Greece! And now I can help if needed (hopefully not) on my group rides! This kit contains: 1 sterile gauge 20*10cm, scissors, thermal blanket, medical tape, 2 adhesives patches 8*5cm, 5 small adhesive patches, 17 adhesive tapes, 10 adhesives sutures, 5 non sterile gauges, spray bottle 30ml, 1 pair of nitrile gloves, 1 tourniquet. My questions are: is there anything that I could add? With what to fill the bottle? (Betadine, hydrogen peroxide, alcohol or anything else) Also I know the scissors might need an upgrade for better ones.

This might sound weird, but sim racing actually made me a better motorcyclist. One habit it taught me was to look far ahead, not just at the vehicle in front of me. The more you scan the road, the more time you have to react—and the smoother your ride becomes. Turns out, the same skill that helps you avoid crashing into a virtual racing car also helps you avoid real-world hazards. Turns out, good habits don't care where you learn them

Went to local College where they hold MSF (it's called MSS in NYC area for some reason), and so glad I did. I really enjoyed it. Definitely worth it. It ended up being just two of us in the class (was supposed to be 6) so we got a LOT of ride time in. My bike was hard to do some of those drills with though being it's a big ass cruiser lol. He even said I should use one of his bikes instead, but I told him the whole purpose of me taking this course is to get confident with MY bike, so I stuck with mine. I was doing good until I dropped my bike on one of the exercises lol (on the right side). Got the first drop on the new bike out of the way at least. Glad I had crash bars installed (which I don't like the look of). BUT it saved damage to the body, engine, lever, mirror, pedal, and made it easier to lift! OH! I picked up the bike all by myself too!! Now I know I can! lol I used the handlebar method and it lifted so much easier than I expected! Not that it was "light" but I did it with not as much effort as I expected! I DID forget to put the kickstand out before lifting it (eek)... luckily the instructor got there just as I got it upright and he did it for me. But I highly recommend it. Especially if you have a new (or new-to-you) bike, or if it's been a while since you rode. The Advanced course recommends you should have at least 1000 miles under your belt before taking it but the guy in the class with me had like no miles since taking his waiver course in March of this year and he did great. I made sure to tell him about DDTF too of course. lol My next thing is to attend a Lock and Lean course (or similar). I think they have one "kinda" near me in NJ but I just missed last months class when I checked which is why I signed up for MSS/F. :(

We rode around our county, beautiful day but humid AF. You could feel whenever you rode over an area that was a bit wet from recent rain, you could chew that air lol. @Arlene Baratta i got the Cardo and camera connected but it was bad. Only my voice, no motorcycle sounds or our conversation just my voice, yuck! So the video is not worth using. Operator error meant my camera shut down 15 min into the ride, I failed to recharge before leaving and my sub port is too weak to maintain either camera or phone much less both. I ordered a 6.4 because apparently husband ordered a 2.1 for two devices 🫠. This is why I’m the one who deals with all electronics here 😂 It’s a shame because we had a deer encounter. I actually said “oh deer” at the same time little Dan on my shoulder said it. Two ran to the right, one to the left so I warned my husband to watch for that one because she’ll want to join the other two and sure enough she jumped back in front of him, no issues because we had slowed down so she went along and so did we. Thanks @Daniel Tolomei for sitting on my shoulder through our rides 😂 Anyway this is the second time I try to post this, let’s see if it actually posts or not.