Readers' wives (...husbands, partners, etc)

**Zukin** · 23rd November 2006, 16:56

Here is a pic of my daughter
Nickname Squirt

(cause she short)

Not bike related, but she loves all sort of motorsport
Can you guess which is her favourite team and driver??

**terbang** · 23rd November 2006, 17:53

Heres a couple of little rev heads for ya..
the bigger one aged, Georgie aged ten at the time, rode on the back of that bike on a 6 day trip Darwin-Ayers Rock-Darwin.

**avgas** · 23rd November 2006, 18:11

Here's my types of poison!

**Big Dave** · 25th November 2006, 02:22

The Co-pilot - It started with motorcycles.

The first thing I noticed as she crossed the room was that she was 6' tall in her boots and had a great physique. Hellloooo!

It wasn't till 20 years later when 'Xena - the Warrior Princess' first aired that I realised I had a Xena 'thing', but there she was, (in jeans and a flannelette shirt) in the lounge bar of the Sylvania Hotel on the Princess Hwy in Southern Sydney. 3km from home.

She was selling raffle tickets for the 'Burning Palms Surf Club'. One of her flatmates was fund raising and they took the tall chick to sell more tickets.

I was there with 'Wardie' doing what I always did with 'Wardie' and 'Simmo'.
Most Sydney summer nights we rode our bikes or took Simmo's hot rod and we went looking for bands and babes. ACDC, INXS, Cold Chisel, Mi-sex, Split Enz, Oils, Mondo Rock, Divynils, Dragon (Yes, many Kiwis). One was always on somewhere if you could be arsed with the crowds.

I had a very tasty XS1100 and I was doing all right. We all were. We knew groups of chics in various pubs across the south side of town and rode out to see ‘em.

The lounge at the Sylvania was busy, smokey. We were near the exit and contemplating ‘Mick Moylan’s?’ (Another Pub) as time, noise...everything, stopped and she walked straight up to me.

I was immediately impressed with the way she iced Ward - the representative lock forward we called 'Krypto'(nite) cause he was harder than superman and who called himself the 'Old Master' (aged 22) - he made the opening play, but she only had eyes for me.

She walked straight past him like I’d never seen Ward ignored before and stood square before me.

I looked down and instantly fell deeply into those gorgeous pools of blue.

Looking back on it, I was ‘Gooooone’ in that instant.

‘Do you want to buy some Raffle tickets?’

‘No thanks...’ Says his mouth, which seems to have chosen this particular moment to completely defy the urgings of every other fibre of his being, which was screaming 'YOU F'ING MORON! OF COURSE YOU WANT TO BUY RAFFLE TICKETS!!! QUICK! SAY SOMETHING!!! AND MAKE IT CLEVER!!!'

‘…I don’t, but would you like to come and see my motorcycle?’ (Fark – lame! I blew it, damn damn damn.)

‘Love to!’ she says. (Whew! Yesssss!! Whhheeeew! - glad I didn't say something stupid!)

She hands Christopher the flatmate the bag and the raffle tickets, points at Ward and says ‘he’ll sell some’, sticks her arm in mine and we walk out the door to view the nearby steed.

When I picked her up for our first ride and date (2 days later) I find she already has her own helmet, gloves and jacket (and flat) and is seriously into riding. Brilliant, funny, clever, successful and beautiful - we’ve been best friends and inseparable since. (Christopher gave me '2 weeks'.)

We got married 2 years later after a particularly romantic proposal involving ice cream, a paint sign, a hamburger joint, a motorcycle and a roadside. But that’s another story.

25th Anniversary next July. One lucky bugger is I!

Co-pilot circa 1981:

**Wasp27** · 25th November 2006, 06:43

Yep, I also consider myself extremely fortunate

....... Man shes gunna kill me for this

**klingon** · 25th November 2006, 08:34

Originally Posted by Big Dave

The Co-pilot - It started with motorcycles.

First thing I noticed was the 6' tall in her boots and great physique thing. Hellloooo!

It wasn't till 20 years later when 'Xena - the Warrior Princess' first aired that I realised I had a Xena fetish, but there she was, (OK - in jeans and a flannelette shirt), in the lounge bar of the Sylvania Hotel on the Princess Hwy in Southern Sydney. 3km from home...

...We got married 2 years later after a particularly romantic proposal involving ice cream, a paint sign, a hamburger joint, a motorcycle and a roadside. But that’s another story.

25th Anniversary next August. One lucky bugger is I!.

Aaaaw what a lovely story!

I think she does look very xena-esque in that picture and she sounds like a pretty cool chick as well. Thanks for sharing your story, Dave.

**Big Dave** · 25th November 2006, 10:13

Originally Posted by klingon

Aaaaw what a lovely story!

I think she does look very xena-esque in that picture and she sounds like a pretty cool chick as well. Thanks for sharing your story, Dave.

Cheers - and I even edited it to get the anniversary date right. august is birthdays :slap:

**Nicksta** · 25th November 2006, 17:06

Oh Big Dave, that was the sweetest story i have heard in ages..... i hope some of us are as lucky as you one day!!

**crashe** · 25th November 2006, 18:04

Awwww Big Dave...... you big softee....... you are such a romantic......
What a beautiful story...... she is very lucky indeed to have found you....

**Shazz** · 25th November 2006, 18:16

Now that tore the heart strings, and gave this old romantic a nice warm fussy. I knew there was the real thing out there, just takes the right one, aye. Thanks for sharing that, and best of luck for lots more years with your Xena.

**Motu** · 25th November 2006, 21:15

She wasn't really looking for a Trident,but when she came back after test riding this she said ''I don't care what you say,but I'm having this!'' It broke the clutch cable when I rode it,but I was pretty impressed too.This is in about 1979 or '80,she rode it to work,around town and on trips.Four kids later we are into our second week of being grandparents.

**Toaster** · 25th December 2008, 20:43

There is a photo of my Mrs alongside my bike in Bike Rider Mag December issue.... and the rest of the family, Mitch and I.... next bubs due Feb 4th.

Oh heck.....

**Bruiser** · 26th December 2008, 09:21

We met the eve of the millienium, Dec 30 1999. I'm the luckiest bugger around, she is the first woman who inspires me, who showed more loyalty, support and love than I ever believed possible.

The bonus.....she loves our harley and is the one who pushes us to head out for a ride when I find excuses. Oh, and she's 16 yrs younger than Bruiser, keeps me young too!

And she will be my wife in May 09 in Rarotonga.

**Number One** · 26th December 2008, 09:40

This is my baby and I LOVE IT!!!!

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/pi...ictureid=12726

Ok so maybe I didn't read the first post properly. BUT IT IS MY BELOVED

**Curious_AJ** · 27th December 2008, 21:50

Originally Posted by Number One

This is my baby and I LOVE IT!!!!

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/pi...ictureid=12726

Ok so maybe I didn't read the first post properly. BUT IT IS MY BELOVED

go go suzuki!!! ^_^

just to add my beloved to this (although you've all seen him a million times)