After doing my M1 exit at the RTI downtown, I had to wait over 2months to get my first bike. In that gap of not riding, I certainly didn't forget how to ride, but I was very unsure about riding a motorcycle in traffic when I hit the ignition on my first bike ever. I was on Bathurst, near Lawrence, on rush hour.
I never got to experience the traffic, and never cruised over 30km/hr at RTI. You can figure all the bad thoughts crossing my mind after I joined the traffic, riding in 6th gear at around 60km/hr.
It was so fast, I was flying. I was certainly not happy. I was scared and feeling not safe. With all the pedestrians and cagers starring at me (later I figured, they are just starring at the bike lol), I was thinking there has to be something wrong.
........until another rider spotted me from the oncoming traffic. As I was looking at him (never seen a wave before lolz) dude waved and gave me a smile !!!!!!! Man, wasn't that a sign like from jesus christ ! At that point, I interpreted the wave as he was telling me 'right on, you're doing ok'. And all the bad thoughts vanished then =) It was quite a moment there for me, and that wave meant tons. Perhaps saved me from an accident, because, thinking about it now, I don't know how much further I could go in that state of mind before the wave.
I am riding since June now, and I wave to everybody. Maybe it is the other rider's first ride, in need of a little support.
