My driveway is about 800 feet long of gravel. When I first started, I mostly drove on the grass next to the gravel. I only came onto the gravel for the garage and entrance to the yard. The gravel feels harder to drive on. However, each day I have to go across part of it. In the start, I minimized that.
As I've been going out, I've been trying to drive on the gravel more and more. The other day I came back home and was like I'm going to try to drive on the gravel. I went fifty or so more feet before the steering took me to the grass on the other side. It is a bit more tricky.
The next time though I took it all the way out to the road from the garage and back again when I came in. Since then I've been getting better and better. Today, I don't need to take the grass. I don't need to hold the clutch, the brake, or put my feet out. I use the throttle and the steering and can go up and down that drive way. And every time I do it I get a bit better.
Today I was out, practicing roundabouts. Whoever thought up round about? Curves and corners are confusing enough without having to face a circle in the road. But more on that in another post. The key a round about is difficult. It is a giant sharp curve.
I was in the round about, leaned in, taking the curve around the side. What suddenly do I see in front of me? Gravel and sand, all over the road. It is like a dump truck took a dump on the road. Not really what you want to see when your taking a curve, or round about for that matter.
But I was cool. I thought this is my drive way. I'm home in the Brair Patch. I sailed right through okay. Key lesson - practice on non-paved roads for when the pavement ends. Lucky for me, I do a little bit every ride just to get out there.
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