NSW - Learner's Licence and Basic Training

Zeal4Life · Mar 28, 2014

I highly recommend these courses, compulsory or not.

A full 8 hours of safety and basic training that equates to not much more than $10 bucks an hour. And if adhered to, then at sometime is more than likely to save pains and hassles on thar long stretch.

I'll plug in a mob out at Clyde, the instructors I met had a good sense about them and the class, we were all smiles cause, we 'got it'.

Nothing to lose, and a lot to gain.

Koos Barnard · Apr 11, 2014

Hi there,

I do agree that it would be best to receive safety and basic training classes, especially here in South Africa, Johannesburg. I would appreciate any info regarding your 250 cc Zeal, as I just purchased the same bike and still have to assemble it. The good thing is I bought it at a giveaway but still need to do some work on it.

Nice to know there are people who care about the safety of others regarding the training. I will have to find a place in South Africa that would be able to assist me.

Enjoy and thanks for the info.

Zeal4Life · Apr 11, 2014

Always good to meet another Zeal owner and to the forum.

I've been compiling information from around the web, basically anything related to the mighty Zeal.
A lot of sources have been Japanese orientated so the correct translation is an issue, and some POs have left remnants floating about the net to make salvaging the info worthwhile, especially now that OEM parts are more scarce.

Previous Owners

Zealous
https://sites.google.com/site/yamahafzx250zeal/home

Urourouro
http://www5f.biglobe.ne.jp/~urourouro/2/tenpur.htm

http://webryalbum.biglobe.ne.jp/myalbum/10007760029b9ef3c09bb776442ffab118c63f430/321921412877105911

I'm certainly one for learning as much defensive riding as possible, and that's basically what it is when on a motorcycle -- here in Sydney at least.

There's something about expensive cars that I've noticed recently, the more expensive the vehicle the less you have to worry about those silly little rules and time wasting conduct.

With just over a month's riding experience I've had the back wheel lock up two times because of these poor judgement calls of our four-wheeled cousins, giving a total of three close calls to life and limb.
And the only mistakes I've made so far is hitting neutral without holding up traffic and forgetting the indicator for short periods.

... and any mistake you make on a bike you'd better ready yourself for a hail of verbal abuse and purposeful obstruction at over 60km/hr+