Aah the John/Jon's. Thank you both.
Slow exploration of personal and machine boundaries. Always felt a need to know, if for nothing else, just how far one can go when it becomes necessary, and of course for the sheer joy of flight.
Count blessings at having discovered a unique niche in aviation, a way of aviating within my financial grasp and that is incredibly responsive and intriguing in it's complexity, certainly to me.
Never been good at mechanical things, or anything too complicated, just always loved flight and getting off the ground. It's been very fulfilling, met some amazing people.
Very fortunate with the field we fly from, it's big, reasonably remote, and in lovely countryside. Also starting with basics, and getting great instruction.
Jon, my HD Contour is stuck between two pieces of trailing edge foam strip which I tie wrap between the front forks just above the nose wheel. Cheap cheerful and works very well.