Driving Lesson

Driving Site

A newly constructed diversion road is my driving lesson site. It is located just across the entrance to our place. Few vehicles drive through it yet. Smooth pavement and clear area. An oval to practice my navigation, turning left and right and doing a U-turn, using signals, brakes and shifting gears.

Part I: Driving Lesson
Straight from Legazpi, raining non-stop 'til afternoon, I got home and was a bit disappointed that I might not be able to have my first lesson.

When it finally started to stop and the sun shyly shone from behind the clouds, my dad decided it's time for my lesson (before it starts raining again) and so we drove to the newly paved diversion road.

Nervous, anxious, excited, eager... mixed emotions. I had no prior knowledge on driving a motorbike. But I know how to drive a bike. That helped, especially with the initial balancing. :-)

We started out with the basics - familiarization of all the functions/parts of the motorbike.


Of course before going into action, we must first turn the ignition switch on. Blowing up No. 6 on our locator chart: The ignition switch has three positions:
1.) "OFF" position = All electrical circuits are cut off.
2.) "ON" position = All electrical circuits are available.
3.) "Lock" position = To lock the steering.


Ok. Now how do we lock our motorbike:


How to lock:
- Turn the handlebar all the way to the left.
- Push down and turn the key to the "LOCK" position and remove the key.

How to unlock:
- Hold the handle
- Turn the key to the "OFF" position


Initial lecture finished, I'm ready to try driving. The first few times, I had to work out with the throttle grip. Make it start but not too much. That done, I had to balance when it starts moving. After a couple of tries, I was driving for the first time!

Wow! what a feeling! Slicing through the air and riding with the wind. After 2 rounds around the oval, my dad then asked me to speed up the gear shift, which I did. It was awkward and a little unsteady/bumpy at first.

We prepared to go home just when clouds are heavily setting and is threathening another rainfall.

That's it for my first driving lesson, which I aced, I think. :-)