My first ride took place in the South East of France, in the Grenoble area, right in the middle of the mountains. After having practiced hours on a Yamaha Diversion 600 I finaly got my driving licence and acquired my very first bike: a second hand Aprilia Tuareg Wind 600 (if you've neve seen one check the pic)! Nice civilised version of the Paris-Dakkar bikes, which is ok for a tall guy like me.


Very proud of me on my nice ride, convinced that I own the world, I started from the shop to take the Tuareg up in the mountains!

Twisty roads + high bike + tall driver + unexperienced driver = SURPRISE!

This little equation just to let you know that as soon as I took the first serious left handed curve I ended up with the wheels on one side of the road and the head above the other lane!!! Luckyly there wasn't a car or I could have lost my head ;) It was a huge surprise to find my self thinking I would get the same visual reference as on the low Diversion! Good lesson though!