First spin

Definitely get from a dealer, there's a lot of sh*te on donedeal and you won't pay much more for a decent bike from a dealer so I wouldn't bother buying private. I bought cheap on done deal, not worth it.

there's hidden gems on donedeal done deal too. Cant dismiss it when looking at a bike.

What's the craic lad, how's the biking going for you ?

I have to say the tmax has given me a lot of practice and compared to day 1 I have improved considerably, I was out on the instructors CF Moto 700 CLX this afternoon for a 2 hr lesson and I could manage it fine even though I'm used to an automatic. He had a CBF600 before and I liked that a lot more to be honest.

I have to improve my shoulder look before signalling and moving, missed this a few times today. U-turn was fine.

I always had heard that the scooter doesn't give you as much control for the slow stuff without a clutch, U-Turns etc, that's nonsense, I find with both bikes that the rear brake is the thing that gives you the most control. The U-Turn on the tmax was hard in the beginning, it is a big tank of a yoke to be honest, never imagines scooters could be so big but it's a maxi so now I know, anyway, I went out a few times to the U-Turn location where the tester is going to take me and doing it on the tmax is no problem and I did it this afternoon on the CF moto too.

When doing slow turns the rear brake helps do it more smoothly, turning right at junctions I find using some rear brake helps a lot.

I've been doing a lot of 60+ Km runs and the longest was a long Wicklow tour around 160 Kms a few weeks ago. It Was great. The Tmax is very comfortable on long runs where as after 2 hrs on the CF moto today I wanted to get off and take a rest.

My test is next Friday !!!! 😯