...so at one point in yesterday's class we were discussing cornering. The instructor asked the group "How do you judge proper corner entry speed?" and one of the Harley riders piped right up with "Proper entry speed is usually posted." As the lone semi-sportbiker there, I felt obliged to jump in with "HALF of the entry speed is usually posted." Always worth a good laugh, I find.

I did need to get some jabs in at them in exchange for all the crotchrocket jokes - the best of all was Giant Scary Harley Dude casting aspersions on us "Jap bike riders" for drinking too much when we ride and getting into wrecks.

Pot, it's for you. It's the kettle calling.

In other news, there are a couple of ride groups from Sport-Touring.net going out today. I was hoping to go along on one of 'em, but the site is down and I can't get to my messages to find the meet-up locations. I swear, that is the absolute best riding community around, but that site's uptime is abysmal. Steps are in progress to get it migrated to a new, more reliable host, and I'll certainly be kicking a contribution to the admin when that happens. It would be a damn shame if that site lost its users for such a simple reason as unreliability.