![]() ![]() ![]() I rode the exact same road the day after the class and my average heart rate was lower by 30BPM.I couldn't believe it. The day before I took his first cornering class I rode my favorite canyon road that I ride frequently and took note of my average heart rate as well as how I was feeling during the ride. I take his classes to get better, not to have someone tell me that I am fast when I am actually slow. He is straight up with his advice which is awesome! I don't want anything sugar coated. He is a great observer and will tell you exactly what you are doing incorrectly and how to fix it. ![]() Believe me it was not easy for him, because I am a bad listener and I am just glad that I haven’t had make any push-ups yet :)Īfter a couple of days of training with him, he installed a vox radio in my Arai helmet and says “ Let’s hit the freeway hon”, and off we went…Ĭoach Can was exactly what I was looking for in a motorcycle (or any motorsport) coach. I learned shifting up without using the clutch, which is not easy in the beginning, but like he says:” what you don’t have to do- you can’t mess up” –and he is right. He showed me how to turn my head into the right direction instead of looking right in front of me. We started first with some easy lessons, how to shift, to break, to steer, and the right body position. ‘Coach husband’ started giving me riding lessons. Now, the fun staff started –riding a motorcycle. I was convinced he’ll be more sensitive with his wife- was I wrong! J I have no clue how to get through it, but I have the best riding Coach I possibly can think of- who will get me through this successfully. I am just glad that I past and now I can focus on the “little circle” through which I have to go to pass the driving test. The good part is that you can retake the test three times before they send you home and you have to pay again. I had to go back in line, pull a new number and wait for probably 15 more minutes before I could take it again, but this time I’ve passed the test! I passed my written test for the car right away, but had to retake the written motorcycle test. Some of the questions were common sense, while other just confused me. On the other hand it makes you more nervous after a mistake. The nice part by taking it online is that it shows right away if your answer is correct and it is much faster. Then they send me to the testing room, loaded with about 20 computers. I paid $ 29 before I got to window A, where they took my picture. This information took me by surprise because I wasn’t prepared for the test. It took about 15-20 minutes until a DMV worker told me that I have to renew my car driver license when adding a motorcycle license. I had to fill out some paperwork about name, address, SSN, information about already existing driver license – the usual stuff, than I got a number and I went back to wait until they called my name. When I arrived, I still had to wait in line, but it was much shorter than what I saw on the other lines. ![]() I also scheduled an appointment not to waste my time by waiting for hours in line, which is easy to do online: ) After studying it for a couple of days, I took some free available test online just to make sure not to see where I’m at. From here, I want to pass this three part article on to her to tell the story of how it’s like- and what to do in order to get a motorcycle drivers license: Here is how to make your M1 drivers license, Part 1 of 3, by Marion Akkayaįirst, I went to the DMV to get the booklet ( ) to prepare for the written test. Can Akkaya, Racing Memories in Picturesīelieve it or not- I’ve been together with my wife Marion since my second year of racing, and we’ve ridden tons of bikes in all those years- she was always a passenger… even on Germany’s famous 13 miles Nuerburgring Nordschleife to smoke guys on big bikes- but she NEVER rode a motorcycle her selves!!!īut since we have that sweet Superbike-Coach rental bike, a Ninja 250- Marion sat on it… declared it as ‘cute’- looked at me and said “…teach me to ride.Can Akkaya’s old newspaper articles and race results. ![]()
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