First timer

This must be easier than riding a horse, right?

It's difficult to remember how hard skills are to obtain and learn until you see someone start right at the beginning - then you realise how much you know and how much you have taken on board through learning and through experience.

Slow and steady - a good way to learn how to ride a bike. But man, those 125s are lethal - absolutely gutless, and completely unable to blow you out of a dangerous situation. The less time on them, the better.

The best way to drive a bike is to go out on the road imagining that every other vehicle driver is out to kill you. That way, you should be able to predict and avoid all the stupid things they will attempt in their mission to remove you from the planet.

That's the theory anyway.