Beemer
22nd July 2005, 12:25
I've been checking out this site for over a year and when looking at some of the new member posts I figured I suppose I should give a warning about myself... even if it is probably too late!
I'm older than 30 (that's all I'll admit to!) and live with my husband just north of Levin. I'm a freelance journalist and photographer and work from home - meaning the garage and the bikes are just a hop, step and a jump away when the sun is shining!
I've only been riding bikes myself for about seven years but I had been a pillion many times before that. My husband has been riding for years, in fact we met at a WIMA Rally in 1999.
Mike Esdaile (former Kiwi Rider editor) was responsible for me getting my licence in the first place - I'd been doing some freelance writing and photography work for them for a couple of years when he rang to see if I could do a used bike test for him. Silence. "You do have a licence, don't you?" "Uh, no." "Never mind, it's a dirt bike, you can just take it off road." Silence again. "You DO ride, don't you?" Um, no." I hadn't realised you needed to ride to work for a motorcycle magazine - hell, I also do some work for the prisons and I'm not (yet!) a criminal! So I felt guilty and set about getting my licence and buying a bike.
I ended up with a brand new RG150 (now proudly owned by jimdaworm) and had a lot of fun on it for four years before upgrading to the BMW F650CS that I had fallen in love with at the Big Boys Toys Show in Auckland the year before. I loved the bike, but after a couple of years I was not enjoying the weight and seat width because it meant I was on tip-toes and I dreaded stopping on off-camber bits of road. So she's on the market, and I replaced her in my affections with a Goose! Great little bike, perfect size for a shorty like me, and I have rediscovered my love of riding.
That's about it, hope to meet some of you on rides at some point in the future. And if anyone tells you any tales about me - they're probably true! :yes:
I'm older than 30 (that's all I'll admit to!) and live with my husband just north of Levin. I'm a freelance journalist and photographer and work from home - meaning the garage and the bikes are just a hop, step and a jump away when the sun is shining!
I've only been riding bikes myself for about seven years but I had been a pillion many times before that. My husband has been riding for years, in fact we met at a WIMA Rally in 1999.
Mike Esdaile (former Kiwi Rider editor) was responsible for me getting my licence in the first place - I'd been doing some freelance writing and photography work for them for a couple of years when he rang to see if I could do a used bike test for him. Silence. "You do have a licence, don't you?" "Uh, no." "Never mind, it's a dirt bike, you can just take it off road." Silence again. "You DO ride, don't you?" Um, no." I hadn't realised you needed to ride to work for a motorcycle magazine - hell, I also do some work for the prisons and I'm not (yet!) a criminal! So I felt guilty and set about getting my licence and buying a bike.
I ended up with a brand new RG150 (now proudly owned by jimdaworm) and had a lot of fun on it for four years before upgrading to the BMW F650CS that I had fallen in love with at the Big Boys Toys Show in Auckland the year before. I loved the bike, but after a couple of years I was not enjoying the weight and seat width because it meant I was on tip-toes and I dreaded stopping on off-camber bits of road. So she's on the market, and I replaced her in my affections with a Goose! Great little bike, perfect size for a shorty like me, and I have rediscovered my love of riding.
That's about it, hope to meet some of you on rides at some point in the future. And if anyone tells you any tales about me - they're probably true! :yes: