Getting your license

[Queen]

Getting my motorcycle license consisted of turning 16 (1976), ridng to the DMV with my dad (me on my bike and him on his, on my 16th birthday), taking a ten question test, going outside with the official and beeping my horn/turning on the headlight/turning on both turn signals, and them him telling me to run it around the block. He watched me pull out and then he went back inside to his coffee. I went around the block, walked back in, and walked back out with my shiny new motorcycle license. Then I took off for school and dad took off in the opposite direction for work.

What was it like for you???

[Luna Tique]

My quick story (http://www.twowheelfemales.com/forum/showthread.php?t=665) :lol:

[ridingAK]

I got my license through the msf class. I had ridden my dirt bike on the road as a kid all the time without a license but never got caught. :D: Oh the joys of living in the country and knowing every path and dirt road that turned off the main roads so I could disappear quickly... :lol:

My car license on the other hand... my 16th birthday was on Sunday. On Monday my mom had to go out of town with my older brother. Since I couldn't bear waiting another day I took her car and drove to the nearest DMV office, about 30 miles from home. I went in and said I was there to get my license. I had a permit so they just had me fill out the application. I gave it back, and they said I needed a parent's signature. I lied and said my mom was in the accountant's office around the corner and asked if I could run it over there to have her sign it. I walked into the parking lot, sat in the car, and forged my mom's signature. They accepted my application and gave me the driving test. I passed and all was well with the world until mom found out I had driven to Stayton without a license, and had forged her name. I was grounded from the car for a month. :wtf: but at least I had my license! :D:

[Queen]

I got my license through the msf class. I had ridden my dirt bike on the road as a kid all the time without a license but never got caught. :D: Oh the joys of living in the country and knowing every path and dirt road that turned off the main roads so I could disappear quickly... :lol:

My car license on the other hand... my 16th birthday was on Sunday. On Monday my mom had to go out of town with my older brother. Since I couldn't bear waiting another day I took her car and drove to the nearest DMV office, about 30 miles from home. I went in and said I was there to get my license. I had a permit so they just had me fill out the application. I gave it back, and they said I needed a parent's signature. I lied and said my mom was in the accountant's office around the corner and asked if I could run it over there to have her sign it. I walked into the parking lot, sat in the car, and forged my mom's signature. They accepted my application and gave me the driving test. I passed and all was well with the world until mom found out I had driven to Stayton without a license, and had forged her name. I was grounded from the car for a month. :wtf: but at least I had my license! :D:
:roflmao::roflmao:

That is excellent!!

[Queen]

My quick story (http://www.twowheelfemales.com/forum/showthread.php?t=665) :lol:
Gotta love capricious little bureaucrats. :rolleyes:

[Astir]

I got my licence through MSF. Nearly 20 years after my first street bike. :angel:

You see, my first bike was $80 new and I was a poor college student. So after my learners permit expired, and expired again I simply gave up getting them. You had to pass a vehicle inspection to take the test and I knew my bike wouldn't pass and I didn't have the money to fix it so... it turns out riding without a licence and getting a ticket for it (20 years ago) is cheaper than repairing my bike. Of the three times I was ever stopped, only one officer noticed I didn't have the endorsement. I always carried insurance and had the bike registered and such. I also didn't ride for 10 of those years.

[KansasKawboy]

When I turned 16 in 1971 Kansas didn't have a motorcycle endorsment. When I renewed in 1975 they told me that to ride a motorcycle you had to have the endorsment, but because I had a drivers license I was grandfathered and only had to pay the couple of dollars for it. I wasn't riding at the time but payed the extra over the years. When I did start riding 5 years ago I took the MSF basic rider course. When I registered the class it was in MO but I lived in KS they told me it wouldn't help me get my endorsment, I told them I already had it and was taking the class for me. They were glad to have me.

[ImaSoftT]

We had just bought a small Class C RV and after a weekend or two decided we needed something to take along to get around in after we set up camp. We looked at all kinds of small 'toad' cars and couldn't find one we wanted. Then my husband came home one day and said he had talked to a couple that had a bike rack on their RV and carried a small motorcycle with them. So we took the MSF class and both got our license and then bought a little 100cc Kawasaki and off we went to explore. When we went to Palo Dura Canyon in the west Texas panhandle and camped in the basin, we had to ride 2 up on the little bike to get out of the campgrounds and the little bike just chug chug chugged its way up the canyon wall. That trip made us realize we needed a bigger bike. We still rode 2 up for a couple of years until I finally got my own bike and since then, the poor RV, which started this whole thing in the first place hasn't been out of the back yard. When given the option of a weekend with the RV or a weekend on the bikes, the bikes always win.

[Queen]

We had just bought a small Class C RV and after a weekend or two decided we needed something to take along to get around in after we set up camp. We looked at all kinds of small 'toad' cars and couldn't find one we wanted. Then my husband came home one day and said he had talked to a couple that had a bike rack on their RV and carried a small motorcycle with them. So we took the MSF class and both got our license and then bought a little 100cc Kawasaki and off we went to explore. When we went to Palo Dura Canyon in the west Texas panhandle and camped in the basin, we had to ride 2 up on the little bike to get out of the campgrounds and the little bike just chug chug chugged its way up the canyon wall. That trip made us realize we needed a bigger bike. We still rode 2 up for a couple of years until I finally got my own bike and since then, the poor RV, which started this whole thing in the first place hasn't been out of the back yard. When given the option of a weekend with the RV or a weekend on the bikes, the bikes always win.
This is good to know, we're contemplating an RV but I just don't think it will get used enough.

[ImaSoftT]

This is good to know, we're contemplating an RV but I just don't think it will get used enough.
We have thought about getting a toy hauler so we could put both bikes in the rv, but then you have to have a heavy duty truck to pull it with so that adds to the expense. I guess we will just keep riding the bikes and either staying in motels or camping, which we really enjoy anyway.

[bmwgrrl]

mmmmm...Airstream Flying Cloud...with 2 bikes stuffed in it...:drool: ...yep...sold my house 5 years ago, and that's what we're working towards...:cloud9: ...

ok hijack over, resume normal programming now...

[ridingAK]

:lol:

[Queen]

Lots of new gals signing up, thought it'd be interesting to hear their tales??

[ridingAK]

:iagree:

[theWolfTamer]

Probably but saying "At the msf class" is awfully boring! Nothing interesting happened during the class...wait one of the instructors high sided during lunch on the first riding day. We didn't see it, only that he was gone and later he came back with his arm in a sling. That and the first time I tried to take the msf class, I drove all the way to Valdosta from Atlanta only to learn the class was cancelled. Upside? I got my first set of golf clubs on closeout from a Kmart that was closing. Downside? Golfing weather and motorcycle weather is the same. Any nice day I'd rather ride than play golf.

Even worse, theWolf stole my career and the reason I bought the clubs to begin with. When I was working, I missed out on all the bonus enhancing golf course deals that happened while I was back at the office toiling away on some report for somebody that didn't know what the heck they wanted. At least i had a view of the pond and could watch the ducks (or were they geese?) come and go.

[Queen]

Probably but saying "At the msf class" is awfully boring! Nothing interesting happened during the class...wait one of the instructors high sided during lunch on the first riding day. We didn't see it, only that he was gone and later he came back with his arm in a sling. That and the first time I tried to take the msf class, I drove all the way to Valdosta from Atlanta only to learn the class was cancelled. Upside? I got my first set of golf clubs on closeout from a Kmart that was closing. Downside? Golfing weather and motorcycle weather is the same. Any nice day I'd rather ride than play golf.

Even worse, theWolf stole my career and the reason I bought the clubs to begin with. When I was working, I missed out on all the bonus enhancing golf course deals that happened while I was back at the office toiling away on some report for somebody that didn't know what the heck they wanted. At least i had a view of the pond and could watch the ducks (or were they geese?) come and go.

Interesting on the high side, that takes some stellar riding to accomplish on a 125. :lol:

And I hear you about golf, I got really into it at one point... but one time I was standing on the 15th tee waiting to tee off and a group of rider went by, I stood there and stared and said "what am I doing HERE!". :mgbanghead:

I would have loved to have kept golf as a back up sport but I bunged up my hip and now can't golf at all... but hey, I can still ride so it's all good. :thumbsup:

[ridingAK]

About golfing...I watched golf on tv once or twice as a kid. That was my ONLY exposure to golf. During college a guy took me mini-golfing at a course set up in the basement of an industrial type building in Fairbanks, AK. Being a gentleman he let me go first. I placed my ball on the little mark then took the full swing just like I'd seen them do on tv. The clatter was deafening as the ball ricocheted off the exposed ventilation piping, and bounced off the walls. The guy who worked there yelled "duck" in a voice that could have belonged to a three year old girl. After the ball stopped moving, I was not so gently asked to remove myself from the premises.

I tried golfing one more time. Guy in law school tried to teach me. Someone told his girlfriend who accused me of trying to steal her man. She hated me for the next two years. We had the same group of friends, all of whom thought her jealousy was hysterical since they knew she was seriously out to lunch, but her death looks made social gatherings awkward to say the least.

So, I made the decision after causing unbridled panic on my first attempt at golf and being labelled a man-stealing home wrecker on my second attempt, that golf may not be the sport for me. :shrug: :D:

[ImaSoftT]

:rofl:

[Tractor]

I was licensed in 1974, my experience similar to Queen other than, that in Chilliwack BC you had to ride with a learners permit for a minimum of 2 weeks before you could take the drivers test. I took the multiple choice test for my learners on my 16th birthday, booked my drivers test for 2 weeks later that same day. Drivers test consisted of a couple of figure 8's, and an emergency stop.

[Astir]

The guy who worked there yelled "duck" in a voice that could have belonged to a three year old girl. After the ball stopped moving, I was not so gently asked to remove myself from the premises.



:rofl:

[Sooki]

OK typical here. MSF course. Nothing crazy we did have a young man in our class who aced the final riding exam. ( have you he was one of those that had his permit like 5 times before he decided to get the licence) He was real smooth on the little bikes.
I do have to say it was a fun class. I came home and practiced on my GZ 250 in the street for a few hours. I just couldnot get that figue 8 thing down. But I can do it now ;)

[theWolfTamer]

Interesting on the high side, that takes some stellar riding to accomplish on a 125. :lol:
He was on his personal bike, a Honda ST something or other I think, going to get lunch when it happened. The class had 250 night hawks.