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Went for a 700km motorcycle ride with my brother in law last Wednesday and it was the best ride of my life to date!! !

Did a similar, opposite direction, loop a couple September 1st's ago and was very inexperienced, nervous, slow etc.

This time I stayed right on my riding partner like Rooster on Maverick.

Last time I did recommended 40kmh speed zone curves at 35-45kmh and was nervous.. this time I cruised around them at 70-80kmh.

It was the only nice-ish day for a couple weeks - all rain now - so we took advantage of it and just weeeent for it! So many cool/eventful things. Debris in the road, made it through one section and stopped for lunch to find out that those 'avalanche area no stopping' signs are legit.. an avalanche closed the road behind us minutes after we'd gone through! Saw deer several times and some crossed the road in front of a truck so we had to slow down quick, waited for a pilot truck to take us over a temporary bridge in place while highway damage from the floods is repaired, rode through the burned out village of Lytton which looked like a burnt movie set, after the tunnels near Hell's Gate we stopped in Yale to stretch and check out some stone storage buildings that Chinese miners used in the 1860's, only encountered a little bit of spitting rain here and there - didn't get soaked!! Managed to ride the whole way wearing a t-shirt and summer motorcycle jacket no problem.

I'd gone on a group ride the previous Sunday for an hour or so and kept up with the front pack just fine, but then Wednesday's ride was next level fluid and smooth for me - best of my life. My riding buddy figured he might lose me but naaaah my skills are way up now and I kept up perfectly fiiiine. It was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOoo good! Highly recommend if it's a thing you can safely do on any 2 wheeler. Views/sights, sounds, smells, sensations - the whole trip is just an amazing experience - completely incomparable to driving around in a car - especially the sense of accomplishment considering the complexity of operating a motorcycle.. at speed, on varied terrain through the mountains above the snowline at times etc. Just The Best.

Definitely made Thursday's workout/training session more difficult - but the physical training, in general, is making my motorcycling better. It's VERY interesting working with a personal trainer that's getting my to get all kinds of muscle chains firing that I've never really used before - truly/honestly.. he's correcting some of the 'autistic' movements my body is so used to making.. locked up muscles that've never really fired, resulting in some of my awkward movements/dyspraxia symptoms. Now those things are beginning to change and iron out.. only time will tell how fluidly I may be able to move in a variety of ways with further training and practice. Very sure it'll also continue to improve my motorcycling - and guaranteed if I get back out kiteboarding again I'll have better control of my body/kite/board, too.

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