I got to tell ya, I haven't had that much fun in a long time. I finished second in my class and the trainers said that after a year of practice, they want me to put my application in for trainer because they can tell already that I should have been on a bike a long time ago. That makes ya feel pretty darn good coming from someone that trains close to 800 people in a year. It was a pretty wild trip but Chris and I enjoyed every minute of it.
Friday night, we headed down to Warrensburg for our motorcycle training. When we got there we stopped off at a motel we booked earlier in the week. It was called the "Belmont". As we opened the door to our room, we first noticed the stale smell that permeated the entire room. It was in pretty bad shape. Our beds looked as though they had just been slept in and the only light in the room came from two light bulbs dangling from the middle of the room one of which was burnt out. The bathroom was horrendous! It had crap stains on the underseat of the toilet lid and the shower looked as though it was last used by an oily muddy and moldy hairy sumo wrestler. Needless to say we had our concerns. We both decided to stay the night cuz the room was so darn cheap...less than half of the next step up. As we got back from our first night of training at about 10:30 pm, we arrived just in time to see that the room next to us was rented out to two dirty bottom dwellers one with his shirt off smoking outside his non smoking room with the door open and the other leaning up against his trashy truck drunk off his butt. We both decided to skip a shower due to the fact that I couldn't remember how long it had been since my last tetanus shot and we put our coats over top our beds to lay on as getting into the covers was not an option. The neighbors started yelling, punching walls, fighting, crying, telling each other they loved each other, more fighting and yelling around 11:00 pm. It almost reminded me of my current neighbors at my real home. At around 2:30 AM a gunshot was heard that sounded as though it was shot in our own room. Chris and I bounced up and realized that the noise came from the room next door. Honestly, I was hoping that one or the other ended it for themselves due to the fact that I needed my sleep badly. About 10 minutes later I heard "PUT YOUR HANDS UP!" coming from outside my door. Realizing that the cops were there I turned on my lights as to not make them any more suspicious then they already were. They knocked on my door and asked if we were ok..with hand gun and M16 drawn. We opened the door and advised them of what we heard and wrote a statement for the local PD. Come to find out, the neighbors fired 2 shots that night...one about 10 feet from where I was sleeping on the other side of my wall into the ceiling. Long story short...the next morning we got our money back...booked a new room in the Holiday Inn (which was awesome!) and got the hell out of there. As for the motorcycle training coarse...it was a blast. Even though we got about 45 minutes of sleep the night before I have not had that much fun in a long time. My next goal...to get me a bike. I already have one in mind. Its a Honda Shadow Aero.
Beautiful bike eh? Nice starter bike. Its a 750 and has that cool throwback look. I will probably get it in black and white but red is kinda working for me too. I learned on a 08 Honda Nighthawk like the one below. It was a 250 and they advised that I get a 750 or an 1100 at least due to the fact that they think I would regret such a small engine on the Nighthawk.
Don't know, but I wont wait long. It will be nice to get from home to work on this thing when the weather is nice. If I get one before I move to Colorado...Ill have to drive it out there...cuz...well just cuz! Time to stock up on skull caps and chaps...and oh yes...my goatee will be back sooner rather than later! I have come up with a biker gang name....the Belmont Brawlers! To get in you must weather one night in the Belmont motel. Trust me..if you can do that..even the Hells Angels will show you respect..lol!
-Thanks for the comment Mike...here is the Yamaha V-Star Classic you were talking about...it is now officially on my (wish) list. Any other advise is always welcome!
