This isn't my first post here, but it is my first post under my own membership. My husband is plskthompson1. Aside from riding behind him on our Gold Wing, I am new to biking and looking forward to the learning experience. I have a 2006 GZ 250 with just over 12,000 miles on it.

Practice, practice, practice and have fun! The GZ is a perfect bike to start out on.

Welcome to the forum bikerangel. I hope your GZ serves you as well as mine did!

Welcome Angel. Alway good to have a new member and especially fine to have another Gal join us. You will grow to love the GZ for it's ease of riding and user friendly size. My SO(Lynda) got her 06 GZ in late 06 and was thrilled with it. Took a rider training course in the following spring. Lynda had never ridden before the GZ and I only taught her enough to get her going. We both agreed that I am not an instructor and a real professional was best. The GZ is a great confidence builder and is not an overwhelming first bike for a new rider. The GZ carried Lynda half way across Canada and back without a whimper in 2008.
We had a sad day when the bike was delivered to it's new home but a new M-50 was waiting to come home from the dealer.

Welcome,have fun.

Woohoo, Doris! I love my GZ and, despite getting a couple of bigger bikes, I still like to play on my little workhorse. Hope you enjoy riding your own mount.

Welcome Bikerangel. I'm a newbie here also with a 2007 GZ250. The weather here has been warming so I'm finally getting seat time each day. Part of the time is spent working on the skills taught in the MSF and part of the time is just crusing the neighborhood. It's a great bike to learn on.

Welcome aboard Doris. My wife usually rides behind me on my old Goldwing but also wanted her own bike. She too has recently bought a GZ250. I know your husband from the Goldwing forum, I think our Goldwings are about the same age.

What's up k1w1t1m? My GW is an 80' so it's pretty old, but it gets me where I want to go.
I rode the Geezer to a parking lot Monday night and the boss finally got a start on learning how to ride. Take offs are still a little shaky and we haven't been able to get out of first gear yet, but baby steps. She has never driven an five speed vehicle in her life, so getting the hang of taking off with a clutch is the big issue at the moment. She had one incident where the little thing just about fell over with her, but she had the where with all to keep it up right. I'm so proud.
I feel sorry for the bike though. With my big rear end on it, I had it wide open throttle and couldn't get above 50mph.

I wish all of you newbies/gals would take an MSF course instead of having your husbands try and teach you how to ride. It would be done in a more systematic structured form and, guaranteed, you would be better off for doing it. Meanwhile, welcome to the club and stay safe while you enjoy the ride.

I know this is cars, not bikes, but ....... I remember in the 1960s when my father was teaching me to drive. He rode bikes & drove cars, as well as driving lorries & buses for a living. In short, driving was what he did best. As he had an old van, I decided that I needed a decent car in which to take the driving test, so I went to a driving school. After taking me out for the first time, the instructor said " o.k., you can drive, but now I'm going to teach you how to drive to pass your test" The difference was that after so many years, my father had picked up so many bad habits, that even he would have failed the test. The same thing applies to bikes today.

I couldn't agree more. All I could teach Lynda was my bad habits. Thankfully we found a real fine riding school annd WE both attended classes. I had to unlearn a lifetime of bad habits but it was well worth it.

It's amazing what these little 250s will do. I won't talk about our weight but I'm sure it's considerably more than a GZ 250 was designed to handle, and I know it's more than my GW is designed to handle but it gets along pretty well even two up.

My GW is also an 80. It just rolled over 100,000 miles. I've had it for just over a year and have put the last 25,000 on it.

My wife's doing pretty good. We have Scala headsets so we can communicate. I follow her on the GW. She'd go to classes but the only place around here that does them has 500s and she doesn't want to ride anything that big at this time. She will be going to a course at some stage though.

You're relatively close so one day we might have to meet in the middle somewhere.