... Yep. I'd like to reassure you all that I do have both a strong sense of self-preservation and an acute awarenes of just how different this bike is from what I am used to.
I'll be taking the coming weeks, many of them, with the most leisurely of approaches. Niether my Wife or Daughter would thank me for wrapping myself around something hard and immovable, plus I dont want to scratch my new bike!
I've no desire to add to the statistics. I think it speaks volumes of this forum that your first responses to a newly qualified rider are to 'take it easy'. I've read the 'Fallen Friends' bit with deep sympathy and I've no intention of contributing.
Cheers y'all.