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Well, cats out of the bag, parents now know I have a motorcycle after the expressly forbid me to have one while living under their roof. They took it better than I thought. And low and behold, as they figured it out yesterday (title came in the mail, they got curious and opened it up) I also go my A* GP-Plus gloves as well, awesome!
So today I threw on all my new leather and squeeked, creaked and waddled my way onto the bike. (A* tz-1 jacket, A* twin leather pants, and the afore mentioned gloves). Took a few minutes to get used to, stalled the bike a bunch of times today because of the new feeling of the gloves as opposed to what I was using previously, and quickly realized that leather pants stick to leather seats.
After getting myself up and going, I.........here we go, made a local loop, starting in Greenfield, MA up 2 west to rt. 112 to Colrain, from Colrain through Leyden on W. Leyden Rd. and from Leyden back down to Greenfield. I stayed in Greenfield a short bit before I turned north on Rt. 5/10 through my hometown of Bernardston, went up into Guilford, VT and took Taylor Hill Rd (pretty fun) to the center of Vernon, VT. Down rt. 142 into Northfield, MA where I turned south onto rt. 63 and proceeded to ride through Northfield, Gill, Erving, Millers Falls center continued down 63 through Sunderland and Leverett and turned it around a few minutes into Amherst.
I then shot back up 63, turned onto rt. 47 and headed down to Sunderland, took 116 through Deerfield and headed up into Conway, through Conway, into Ashfield, and then back towards Shelburne Falls on rt. 112. Hit rt. 2 again and headed back towards Greenfield before going back up 112 and over W. Leyden Rd. again, down through Leyden, back through Greenfield and back home.
All told, ride started at 10:15, arrived back home just a short bit ago. at 3:30 and coursed over 160 miles.
I felt great all day other than the newness of riding in gear, but realized I was pushing it when I jumped on 112 to head through Leyden the second time. My brain definitely wasnt 100% and my muscles were most certainly not either.
I did myself a favor though and was stopping every 30-45 minutes and getting a small snack and a drink and giving myself a rest, I think thats what allowed me to make the trek I did. So starting off new before the MSF I went out 5 times and put maybe 90-100 miles on the bike. And today I outrode that by nearly double.
Sorry for the long post, I just had such an awesome time, and even though I know I'll be paying for it in the morning, I'm so happy I did it.
**Other notes
I'll definitely be looking into another pair of gloves with some actual perforation, the A* gloves I got have 0. My hands werent all that sweaty, but it could have been alot better. Pants were awesome, and jacket was perfect, I didnt do hardly any sweating today, and I didnt even bother taking the frickin lining out of it!