Well, sounds like your getting all the foolishness out of the way. Now you know to look at the surface of where you are going, not just to make sure there is no car, but that the sand isn't there, the leaves aren't, oil isn't.etc. Now, when you ponder dropping the bike at 50, just take everyones word that it hurts....you really don't have to experiment.

Back in the day, (the 60's) most dealers made you ride up and down in front of their shop once..then patted you on the back and ran back inside. I jammed my Honda 305 superhawk and stalled in second, took ten minutes to finally get it into neutral so I could start it. This of course was in kenmore Square in Boston at 5 pm.