Wish I had a bike right now

[Slipstream]

I took a long drive up to Napper-chang-chang (Napier) and now completely understand why some people enjoy long distance travel ... when you are the one at the wheel. I can't wait to go for a long distance ride and not be the pillion.

I got the same feeling when I was learning to fly a plane.

It's so peaceful. The only thing you have to worry about is petrol, getting there (wherever that may be) and not having an accident.

Almost Zen-like really. Wasn't there a book about that? "The Zen of motorcycles" or summat?

Yeah :yeah: , riding a bike right now is exactly what I need to be doing. Would beat sittin' round the house at night feeling upset, while my newly made x rides around freely. :disapint:

Pfft! :o

So anyways... anyone else agree that long distance riding (or maybe even other modes of travelling) is a good way to get rid of the blues?

[Jsn]

I think it was "Zen and the art of motocycle maintainance".. I have it lying around somewhere.
And yeah looking forward to some long distance riding eh.. Hopefully should be getting a wof and reg tomorrow morning bright and early (8:15... its early enuf) then i'll be keen to go on some rides

[dangerous]

I took a long drive up to Napper-chang-chang (Napier) and now completely understand why some people enjoy long distance travel ... when you are the one at the wheel. I can't wait to go for a long distance ride and not be the pillion.

I got the same feeling when I was learning to fly a plane.

It's so peaceful. The only thing you have to worry about is petrol, getting there (wherever that may be) and not having an accident.


So anyways... anyone else agree that long distance riding (or maybe even other modes of travelling) is a good way to get rid of the blues?
Ohh yeah... I know what ya mean, I get a bit worked up prior to a big ride but once out there, all worries go, usually end up humming the last song I heard on the stero before leaving and I also can relate to your comment on flying aswell.

ps: I find that new rd's are an extra buzz :scooter:

[Cajun]

I took a long drive up to Napper-chang-chang (Napier) and now completely understand why some people enjoy long distance travel ... when you are the one at the wheel. I can't wait to go for a long distance ride and not be the pillion.

I got the same feeling when I was learning to fly a plane.

It's so peaceful. The only thing you have to worry about is petrol, getting there (wherever that may be) and not having an accident.

Almost Zen-like really. Wasn't there a book about that? "The Zen of motorcycles" or summat?

Yeah :yeah: , riding a bike right now is exactly what I need to be doing. Would beat sittin' round the house at night feeling upset, while my newly made x rides around freely. :disapint:

Pfft! :o

So anyways... anyone else agree that long distance riding (or maybe even other modes of travelling) is a good way to get rid of the blues?
Yep riding is good ways to get rid of the blues, (c:< rideing fixes many troubles
also can bring any but that is another story

[JohnBoy]

I reckon its the best way to start a holiday, i ride from Ham's to welly about 3 or 4 times a year and really enjoy it.

my helmet is too loud to have a walkman so i have got pretty good at singing... well, it sounds pretty good when you cant really hear it!

get out there on a bike, take the long way home and kick back and have a blast! i would do it more often but i dont have a tree in my back lawn where tyres grow. :ride:

[StoneChucker]

Can you please not mention flying planes... It's really frustrating having HALF a pilots licence, but not being able to finish because you're skint :angry2:

Hey, do Hijacked flying hours count towards the required total? :Punk:

[vifferman]

I wish you had a bike right now too, Slipstream! :)

I find long rides tiring. Must be getting decrepit. :o But hooning is a good way (or is that "bad", as in the naughty sense?) to get rid of the blues. :ride:

[F5 Dave]

I like longer trips by myself, shorter ones with mates.

Still there is another alternative for introspective thinking. Go have a good talk with the ducks in the local stream or pond. I always find they have all the answers or at least put some perspective on things.

Seriously.

(They talk better when you feed them).

[Slipstream]

It's really frustrating having HALF a pilots licence, but not being able to finish because you're skint :angry2:


I hear ya brutha.

I know how to fly a plane but do not have necesary licence, or money either...same goes with bikes.... :(

Next year....oh bliss and rapture....next year a licence and a bike and money for both...hurry up 2005, I'm waiting :2thumbsup

:ride: :ride: :ride: :ride: :ride: :ride: ............................. :ride:

[dangerous]

Can you please not mention flying planes... It's really frustrating having HALF a pilots licence, but not being able to finish because you're skint :angry2:

Hey, do Hijacked flying hours count towards the required total? :Punk:
OK.......... so what if we take Slipstream's your's and my hours add them up I reckon that would cover the hours in toatal, so between us we will have a licence......... just means that we would have to all go flying together, we could handle that right? But if we take a moth for a spin then I bags the rear seat and SS would have to take the wing walkers seat aye! cos shes proberly the lightest.

[Hitcher]

Zen-like is a great description. It's not about going somewhere, it's about the ride. Time and distance are transformed. You are at-one with the road, the weather and the scenery. You are the bike.

Robert Pirsig wrote Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. Highly recommended!

[F5 Dave]

Yeah just don't expect it to be about motorcycles. After you get that straight it is a good book, but it's not a light read.

[Slipstream]

But if we take a moth for a spin .....

Moth schmoth....I wanna pilot a VTOL aircraft, specifically a Harrier Jet. That's the reason I was learning to fly. :yeah: That and Topgun.... :shake:
'You lost that loving feeling, woOOAah that loving feeling...' :lol:

[Slipstream]

Zen-like is a great description. ......... You are the bike.


Thank you :) .... It's amazing isn't it. When you are in a cage going "hypothetically" 120km would seem bloody fast and outta control. Yet when on a bike going "hypothetically" 160km wouldn't seem that fast, cos you would move with the bike, like it is an extension of yourself... as you said. :yeah:

[dangerous]

Moth schmoth....I wanna pilot a VTOL aircraft, specifically a Harrier Jet. That's the reason I was learning to fly. :yeah: That and Topgun.... :shake:
'You lost that loving feeling, woOOAah that loving feeling...' :lol:
shezzzzzzz girl............... next you will be wanting a 900 ninja doing 2 hundie down the back of the airport, shades on and no lid, hair waving out the back...... errr hang on, that wont work will it :ride:

'woOOAah that loving feeling...'

[James Deuce]

You can have mine.

It's fukt but.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a depressing tale of a child's abuse at the hands of a crazy father. I loathe it. My opinion though.

[jrandom]

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a depressing tale...

It's just a shaky and turgid pseudoautobiographical clothesline for Pirsig to hang his ideas on. I kinda-sorta enjoyed the book, although I thought his philosophy came under the heading of pointless intellectual masturbation.

By the way, given the coincidentally fortuitous turn of topic, does anyone like my user title? Nyuk nyuk.

[Edit: is it not somehow appropriate that in my 3000th post, here, I manage to incorporate both a nine-syllable word and a tautology? Go me...]

[Slipstream]

[Edit: is it not somehow appropriate that in my 3000th post, here, I manage to incorporate both a nine-syllable word and a tautology? Go me...]

How about,
Redundantarrayofinexpensivedisk (11)
... or even ...
Proprioneuromuscularfacilitation (13)

:bleh: :eyepoke: :lol:

[Deano]

I took a long drive up to Napper-chang-chang (Napier) and now completely understand why some people enjoy long distance travel ... when you are the one at the wheel.

Might just have to watch those gutters on the bling bling mags though eh?

What do they say about women and parallel parking... :shit:

[SPman]

It's just a shaky and turgid pseudoautobiographical clothesline for Pirsig to hang his ideas on. I kinda-sorta enjoyed the book, although I thought his philosophy came under the heading of pointless intellectual masturbation.

By the way, given the coincidentally fortuitous turn of topic, does anyone like my user title? Nyuk nyuk.

[Edit: is it not somehow appropriate that in my 3000th post, here, I manage to incorporate both a nine-syllable word and a tautology? Go me...]
Jeez JR, do you read the Greater Oxford dictionary in the bog, or something?
Zen and blah blah...
I got as far as the title and there, on the bookshelf,it remains, thirty years later. Now I know what its not about, I'll leave it there for another thirty years.
Hey you other 2 - you can have my 200 hrs as well - should be able to shoe in then - mind you, it'll have to be mainly on Piper Cubs, but that's not all bad.

[Slipstream]

Might just have to watch those gutters on the bling bling mags though eh?

What do they say about women and parallel parking... :shit:


Hmm :rolleyes: , considering that there was no parallel parking done while I had said vehicle and I wasn't the only one driving it the week before I used it.... :Playnice:

It's just easier to blame the girl driver, right :P

Besides, I've _never_ written off a bike(or cage) or had a crash :P

The only thing that I will admit to being my possible fault is any "Hypothetical' speeding tickets clocked over the the weekend. Man that cage is quick. It's just to damn easy to go past the speed limit accidently. :sweatdrop

I saw a licence plate surround that's perfect for my 'Rolla, '0 to 100Km in 5 mins' :laugh:

I need to go for a ride :ride:

:cry:

[dangerous]

Hey you other 2 - you can have my 200 hrs as well - should be able to shoe in then - mind you, it'll have to be mainly on Piper Cubs, but that's not all bad.
sweet..... the canterbury aero club (think they still do) has a cub ZK-BNL but I never got the chance to fly in that one.

[Hitcher]

[Edit: is it not somehow appropriate that in my 3000th post, here, I manage to incorporate both a nine-syllable word and a tautology? Go me...]
And here's me hoping for a couple of stanzas of iambic pentameter. Sigh. There's always your 4,000th post to look forward to...

[jrandom]

And here's me hoping for a couple of stanzas of iambic pentameter. Sigh.

The post count caught me unawares. In fact, the manner of my ascension was so unremarkable, one might justifiably wonder...

Was *that* the post that filled a triple star,
and set the name of Random ranked afar?

:bleh:

[Hitcher]

Was *that* the post that filled a triple star,
and set the name of Random ranked afar?
You should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

[jrandom]

You should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

Come on, have a crack at one of your own, or an adaptation of some poor spinning-in-his-grave bard to a bike-related theme, or summat.

See, now I feel unappreciated, after all that effort I put in with my poor strained not-very-creative brain, and on a Sunday afternoon too, I dunno...

:apint:

[Slipstream]

Come on, have a crack at one of your own, or an adaptation of some poor spinning-in-his-grave bard to a bike-related theme, or summat.

See, now I feel unappreciated, after all that effort I put in with my poor strained not-very-creative brain, and on a Sunday afternoon too, I dunno...

:apint:

Poor Jrandom does thee feel offended,
after all emotion you have upended?
I tip my hat in your general direction,
and leave these words for thourough inspection.
Roses are red and vilolets are blue,
some poems rhyme but this one doesn't.

;) :moon:

[Deano]

and leave these words for thourough inspection.


You left that in on purpose didn't you ?