While the other volunteers picked up skills quickly and were
able to practice, my progress was frustrated as I battled with the Yamaha 125
standard VSO moto. After two days and
three tumbles (no injuries bar bruises) I realised this machine was too big and
too heavy for me. By good fortune, enquiries revealed that VSO had a smaller
scooter in store, which was recovered, hastily serviced and by Friday I was
much happier, sitting astride a Yamaha Economy Crypton, able to plant both feet
on the ground, move the steering with ease and actually manoeuvre the bike back
and forth when in neutral.
I had by then evolved my preferred practice routine, with a
trainer “picked” as my pillion passenger, coaching and immediately available
when I felt I had “had enough.” Our routes, along the main roads of Tamale, the
rough dirt roads of the estates and out through the rural tracks leading to
remote villages, were demanding of skills and concentration, exhausting, but
exactly what was needed.
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