I took my Wee out for it's first proper ride - down to Cookstown MOT station. The weather was awful. Proper driving rain, 5C, bit windy too. Bike did great, my coat, new trousers all were fine. Only had my leather summer gloves and they got wet and then very cold, but I was OK to get the 20 miles to Cookstown.
The test was simple enough enough. The tester offered to do the roller test for me - I accepted. Rest of the test very straightforward, he had a good look round it check everything, no surprises, handed my my pass certificate. Went out and it had stopped raining. I headed home on a wet road, but thankfully no rain meant dryer hands & better vision.
Bike is very impressive, easy to manoeuvre, not much wind buffeting that I noticed and pulls well from about 3k revs. I only had it up to 65 or so, I didn't go down the motorway - all back roads. I barely had to use the brake, the engine braking is very strong on her, just roll off the throttle and the engine pulls the speed back very well, feels very direct. Pleased to get it back home and into the garage. She'll need a good clean now!
I was too late to tax it today - the post office is closed - and the MOT hasn't came through on the system yet, but since it's so wet here I'm not missing out on much, to be honest. Kind of relieved all the testing and exams and all that is basically over. I look forward to getting out on a dry day and going somewhere random for the fun of it. I'll definitely pop out and do some touring this week if I can get away!
Nice that my new waterproof winter gloves were waiting for me when I got home.. they'd arrived when I was out doing the MOT...! Typical ????
