Fun today. Stopped at the traffic lights, I get distracted looking at a lovely 1950’s vintage Austin Healey waiting at the lights on the road to my left, and I don’t notice the lights go to green. I hear a horn from the car behind me, I look at the light and notice it’s green, so I lean forwards and move off…
When moving off I guess I pushed the throttle too high and let the clutch out too fast, because instead of going forward the front wheel went up. Not up a tiny bit up like it sometimes does, skimming just above the ground, but up as in why-is-the-tank-so-much-closer-to-my-face up, a bona fide wheel-up-in-the-air-moving-forward kind of up. I’m somewhat embarrassed to say that I immediately hit the rear brake, then pulled the clutch in, then hit the front brake, and stopped hard with both wheels on the ground. I’d moved maybe three meters from the lights (dead in front of that lovely Healey!). I stood there for a good few seconds scared out of my life while the car behind me that had sounded its horn went around me, staring at me as if I were a 19 year old tearaway 
And people do this deliberately? Damn! I think I’d better learn to control it properly, where should I go to practise? 
