55,000km just for fun

[beyond]

55,000kms just for fun :)

Well, time for some ramblings here.
31 years ago I sold my last motorbike to cover
a mortgage, pay for kids and generally just survive.

I managed to scratch up enough dough to buy a Kawasaki
CSR250 belt drive single for "commuting" purposes and
well, I was lucky the missus accepted that excuse :)

Would you believe I clocked 25,000kms in one year and
sold the sucker for more than I paid for it? Awesome!

Then life hit home. No bike till three years ago and
I go out and buy a K2 GSX1400. Lost my boy at the age
of sixteen from a genetic disease and still have a
daughter who just hit 25 years old this year. That loss
hit home real hard and hurts like hell twelve years after
he's gone. I try not to think about it and I'm a Kiwi
Bloke but when the subjects brought up it's still darn hard
not to go soppy and shed a tear :(

But, shit....I love riding. Please tell me where I can
get a good paying job just riding/test driving/running in/
motorbikes or exotic cars but mainly bikes....please.

I traded my K2 on a K6 GSX1400. If you've never ridden
one of these bikes than I can honestly tell, you don't know
what you are missing. They are the most under-rated value
for money bike on the market today and they are just.....
well bloody awesome!

I love the 1400. I've just clocked 55,000kms on these bikes
just for fun and loved every second of it. I've been off
road twice on the K2 involuntarily of course, but it managed
it well till I came to a dead stop.

I've been down hard on the K6 which run up $5500 in repair
bills and it bounced back fine. It runs with the sporties
when ridden hard and smooth and can cruise all day without
a sore neck if you keep it under 200kmh.

I can ride it all day long and feel fresh enough to
do it all over again. It's an awesome bike and fun to
ride.

I loved the ZX14 and was sorely tempted to buy barbenders
ZX when he was selling it for some crazy price with all the
extras but just couldn't bear to part with the GsX. This
bike has me by the short and curlies....it just does all I
want from a bike without any fuss and bother.

I'm working on another video and yep, I expect some flack
on KB as usual when it comes out (youtube user "beyondkiwi"
8 vids up now)

But, I admit....I push the envelope for this bikes design
and yes, I think often of our mortality:-
See my mortality series starting with part one:
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=39808

We are fragile little beings in the scheme of things and
man, when we hit something hard, our fleshy little bits get
hurt a lot and it isn't fun. Broken bones take a long time
to heal and in cold weather it feels like they never did.

But, man, it's so worth it. I've said over and over again
and so have others, that five minutes in "the zone" on a
nice bit of road, going for it, means you live more in five
minutes than many will in a lifetime.

There's not much more in life that can give you such a buzz
in a moment of time than riding a motorbike on your favourite
stretch of road, throwing your machine from side to side,
throttling out of the corners, hitting the warm patches
and cold zones, smelling the grass, the cowshit, the silage
and some farmers wife's cooking. We are free!

Pure and simple, we are one with our bike, the road and
our own company. Free to concentrate on taking that next
bend perfectly without any other care's of life crowding
our minds.

Shit: I love motorcyling. :) :) :) :) :)

[Grahameeboy]

Then life hit home. No bike till three years ago and
I go out and buy a K2 GSX1400. Lost my boy at the age
of sixteen from a genetic disease and still have a
daughter who just hit 25 years old this year. That loss
hit home real hard and hurts like hell twelve years after
he's gone. I try not to think about it and I'm a Kiwi
Bloke but when the subjects brought up it's still darn hard
not to go soppy and shed a tear :(

I know where you are coming from dude.....

[Katman]

We are fragile little beings in the scheme of things and
man, when we hit something hard, our fleshy little bits get
hurt a lot and it isn't fun. Broken bones take a long time
to heal and in cold weather it feels like they never did.

But, man, it's so worth it. I've said over and over again
and so have others, that five minutes in "the zone" on a
nice bit of road, going for it, means you live more in five
minutes than many will in a lifetime.



Fuck you talk some shit Paul.

[Grahameeboy]

Fuck you talk some shit Paul.

It takes one......:msn-wink:

[gijoe1313]

:sunny: Good on ya matey, let your next 55000kms be just as much fun if not moreso! :niceone:

[beyond]

Fuck you talk some shit Paul.
I know mate :) Enjoy your riding. :innocent:

[Katman]

That's not a smile on that dead guys face.

It's more likely a grimace of agony, mixed with a sense of self loathing for being such a stupid fuck, mixed with a sense of despair knowing they'll never see their family again, mixed with a sense of shame knowing that seconds before they sucked in their last breath they shit their pants - literally.

[dino3310]

shit bro you almost brought a tear to my eye,
Ride on

[kiwifruit]

:grouphug:

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[stify]

That's not a smile on those dead guys faces.

dead men can't smile ya wanker...

men an women who live to enjoy the freedom that is only limited by our imagination deserve to be free to be...ride hard and flow with the road...fuck the arse's that wish to squash that sprit...

[beyond]

That's not a smile on those dead guys faces.

It's more likely a grimace of agony mixed with a sense of self loathing for being such a stupid fuck mixed with the despair of knowing they'll never see their family again mixed with the shame of knowing that seconds before they sucked in their last breath they shit their pants - literally.

Katman, I'm sure that deep down you are a really nice bloke. People die all the time and most of them die doing things they do not enjoy. No one wants to leave this world before their time and certainly all would like to choose their time and place. We don't have that luxury. The choice is not ours.
All we can do is enjoy those we share our lives with, our experiences, our sad times and our happy times.

When the lights finally go out, we can only be thankfull that we lived and shared our life with others and hopefully in some way enriched them. No one leaves this world without leaving something behind and no one is in control of their own destiny. I'd rather die riding my bike than screaming in agony for months from some wasting disease. I've had a melanoma cut out already and have no idea if bits have floated off to start chewing away at me somewhere else.

[AlBundy]

Katman, I'm sure that deep down you are a really nice bloke. People die all the time and most of them die doing things they do not enjoy. No one wants to leave this world before their time and certainly all would like to choose their time and place. We don't have that luxury. The choice is not ours.
All we can do is enjoy those we share our lives with, our experiences, our sad times and our happy times.

When the lights finally go out, we can only be thankfull that we lived and shared our life with others and hopefully in some way enriched them. No one leaves this world without leaving something behind and no one is in control of their own destiny. I'd rather die riding my bike than screaming in agony for months from some wasting disease. I've had a melanoma cut out already and have no idea if bits have floated off to start chewing away at me somewhere else.


Well said!

[Storm]

That's not a smile on those dead guys faces.

It's more likely a grimace of agony, mixed with a sense of self loathing for being such a stupid fuck, mixed with a sense of despair knowing they'll never see their family again, mixed with a sense of shame knowing that seconds before they sucked in their last breath they shit their pants - literally.

How about if you've got nothing nice to say, you fuck off back under your bridge eh?

[snuffles]

That's not a smile on those dead guys faces.

It's more likely a grimace of agony, mixed with a sense of self loathing for being such a stupid fuck, mixed with a sense of despair knowing they'll never see their family again, mixed with a sense of shame knowing that seconds before they sucked in their last breath they shit their pants - literally.

Its twats like you that make me want to stop coming to this site.......The only problem is, if we all left, you would be here wanking by yourself.......Ah no change from normal then.

[Katman]

Oh dear, looks like we've got a few in here choking on a dose of cold hard fucking truth again.

[vifferman]

Nice lil bit of words, Beyond. :niceone:

[jrandom]

Oh dear, looks like we've got a few in here choking on a dose of cold hard fucking truth...

You like it when they choke on your 'hard truth' (http://www.ehow.com/how_2098053_control-gag-reflex.html), don't you?

:love:

[BarBender]

Oh dear, looks like we've got a few in here choking on a dose of cold hard fucking truth again.

You make it sound like you have the patent on TRUTH.

I'll let you know when you're reality and mine are the same.

In the mean time...Go fuck yourself.

[enigma51]

You make it sound like you have the patent on TRUTH.

I'll let you know when you're reality and mine are the same.

In the mean time...Go fuck yourself.

SMASH HIM! ....... please

[NZsarge]

People die all the time and most of them die doing things they do not enjoy. No one wants to leave this world before their time and certainly all would like to choose their time and place. We don't have that luxury. The choice is not ours.
All we can do is enjoy those we share our lives with, our experiences, our sad times and our happy times.


+1, riding has become a corner stone in my life too, enjoy it. :niceone:

[Katman]

Or maybe there's a slight look of relief on that dead guys face as well.

That will be from knowing at least he doesn't have to face going to court for the death of that 10 year old, whose brains are now forming an abstract artwork on the road, who just happened to make the mistake of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

But who gives a fuck - at least he got to live his life to the full, right?

[MSTRS]

Don't you need to go and do your nails Katman? Where the fuck do you get off spouting that shit in a thread like this one? Or any thread for that matter?

[Katman]

Yeah, that's right. Nobody ever gives a fuck about consequences.

[snuffles]

Yeah, that's right. Nobody ever gives a fuck about consequences.

especially not you by the sound s of things:girlfight:

[MSTRS]

You got that right...the consequence of spouting inappropriate comments in the wrong place is that no-one listens to the sensible stuff you do post.

[enigma51]

no-one listens to the sensible stuff you do post.

When did that happen?

[MSTRS]

When did that happen?

No proof exists either way. I was trying to give some benefit of the doubt. I guess that's me fucked, then...

[enigma51]

No proof exists either way. I was trying to give some benefit of the doubt. I guess that's me fucked, then...

dont let it happen again :angry:

[slimjim]

Yeah, that's right. Nobody ever gives a fuck about consequences.


...wrong there dude..

[MSTRS]

dont let it happen again :angry:

Yeth, mathter...thorry, mathter.

[Katman]

No proof exists either way. I was trying to give some benefit of the doubt. I guess that's me fucked, then...

Just how sinister is your agenda?

[MSTRS]

Ya what? Sinister? Agenda?
Can't you read?

[Katman]

Your agenda? Let me spell it out to you.

You choose to come out in support of an attitude that is responsible for countless needless deaths, including those of the innocent, simply because it's a chance to try to ridicule me.

Mentor? - my fuckin arse.

[AlBundy]

I see Katman is back...

Wondered where he went....

I think Katman is a TROLL. He takes every opportunity to turn any thread into a debate like this has become.

We all should read it, acknowledge the point he's trying to make, then simply continue along and not feed him...

We all have differing views on aspects of life. That's what the school of hardknocks is all about. The Big Dude in the sky would never learn anything if we all did the same thing. Life is about experience and we all go about it differently. We all make choices based on conscience. What one person considers acceptable is most certainly not for another person.

So, I respect Katman for his opinion. I would like it if he'd make his point once, then fuck off and let threads take their course...

Katman... A lot of us have spent time at accident scenes. For a lot of us, it's been trying.
The difference is, some people slow down. For others, it's a debate to give up or continue. A lot of people ride for fun and if it means riding differently, ie. slower, which means the fun goes away, then they stop riding. OR. Since it's a big part of their life, they continue on, considering the risks.

[Katman]

I would like it if he'd make his point once, then fuck off and let threads take their course...

Well that's the bitch about the internet, isn't it?

:niceone:

[Swoop]

Nice words Beyond & up to your usual standard. An appreciation of the joys of biking.

How do you do it? Provoke the normal reponse from the kataflam one?

[AlBundy]

Well that's the bitch about the internet, isn't it?

:niceone:


Too true...

[Katman]

You make it sound like you have the patent on TRUTH.

I'll let you know when you're reality and mine are the same.

In the mean time...Go fuck yourself.


I don't think yours and my reality will ever be the same.

I don't take steroids.

[BarBender]

I don't think yours and my reality will ever be the same - I don't take steroids.

:lol:
Oh my god....more assumptions
....or are you taking the piss.

Either way your blinkered and insulated outlook on life is being exposed.


Here's a few more for you to grab a hold of...

[Bonez]

Hope you get tons more kms out of the 1400 Beyond. Enjoy. You're right they are under rated.

[phiretrojan]

[QUOTE=beyond;1798541]55,000kms just for fun :)

Well, time for some ramblings here.
31 years ago I sold my last motorbike to cover
a mortgage, pay for kids and generally just survive.


--- gotta Say, it was a nice read, - General i think the world is so F*** up, everything is getting Dear and Taxed More, - and our pay we earn from work is Jack Crap to live on - i work for a telecommucations as a internet developer all my hard work trying to get somewhere, shit man just work for mc'ds or a petrol station and you'll get more!!! - but anywayz Riding i only been riding for about 1 year now i'm using a Fxr150cc i gotta say, when im riding i feel so different for some reason aswell i feel more alive when i throttle it up (i do love my life and my wife etc etc) but its a nice feeling i get when i ride the street, alot of people been telling me you just feel free you are not locked up in a cage, - which i understand now................ but Mortgage yip its a tuff job looking after a mortagage we got our first house 3 yrs ago and what a B*** alot of money gone. but just think of the next few years house pay off, so you can retired and dnt need to worry about it then past it on to your kids........... i know how you feel when you spoke about your kid passing away, Sorry to hear, i just lost my Father from cancer died at 45.. way to young - we were really Close just like father son, he show me how to fix motorcycles etc, mate wanna cry, just cry! your life no one elses, everyone crys no matter about it.......... if not outside, inside... anywayz im just bored at work no work to do.... =) p.s CBR250R ,-- are they good bikes time for me to upgrade!!!

[enigma51]

:lol:
Oh my god....more assumptions
....or are you taking the piss.

Either way your blinkered and insulated outlook on life is being exposed.


Here's a few more for you to grab a hold of...

Just smash him ............................NOW

[Bonez]

but anywayz Riding i only been riding for about 1 year now i'm using a Fxr150cc i gotta say, when im riding i feel so different for some reason aswell i feel more alive when i throttle it up (i do love my life and my wife etc etc) but its a nice feeling i get when i ride the street, alot of people been telling me you just feel free you are not locked up in a cage, - which i understand now................ !Thats the one.

[Bonez]

Oh dear, looks like we've got a few in here choking on a dose of cold hard fucking truth again.Have you been drinking at work again Steve?

[sinfull]

No it wasnt !!!
Trojan, you wait till you get that thing on a track !!!

[MSTRS]

Your agenda? Let me spell it out to you.

You choose to come out in support of an attitude that is responsible for countless needless deaths, including those of the innocent, simply because it's a chance to try to ridicule me.

Mentor? - my fuckin arse.

I suspect that it is a forlorn hope that you will actually post up links to where I have even hinted at such a thing.
Go on...put up or shut up.

[martybabe]

I read a man express the love and joy he gets from his family, from riding and life and his sadness at the loss of his son.

Genuine and sincere reflective thoughts about the joys and sadness of one guys life and the road he's traveled.

How on Earth did that turn into the cyber equivalent of a Bar room brawl. :mellow:

[MSTRS]

Tis the standard reaction to 'that login', who has this pathetic need to accuse and blame motorcyclists for the impeding destruction of the world as we know it. It is a sickness, he won't take his meds and Dr MT won't make him. Personally, I think his hands should be superglued to his handlebars (inside his gloves, of course...gotta think of the safety angle) - then he can get out more and talk to people in person. Thence to be delivered of a lesson that will stick (try his KB postings in the flesh and see what happens).

[Katman]

My initial post in this thread was in direct response to the passage I quoted.

The idea that battered and bleeding bodies (and by implication - dead bodies) are something that should be happily accepted because the Joys of Motorcycling make it "worth it" is a concept that I will fight against till my last breath.

Don't like it? - Put me on ignore.

(I know none of you can though).

[doc]

Don't like it? - Put me on ignore.
(I know none of you can though).

I get your drift most of the time, but I think sometimes YOU have to ignore the comment. The post was aimed at the joys , disregarding the consequences wasn't. :Police: putting people on ignore is sort of like American foreign policy

[beyond]

Well, as usual yours truly just gets back from a hard days slog at work and finds that a thread that was meant for uplfifting and sharing ones joy of motorcycling has degenerated into a slinging match yet once again.

Me. I'm not fussed. I feel empathy for those that responded and were shot down in flames. Thanks for the awesome posts and the green...you know who you are.

Shit, I'm 52 years old. You get a fairly thick hide by then I can tell you :)
Katman, more people are killed and maimed in car accidents every year around the world than were killed in World war 1 and 2. Anyone that has an accident on a motorbike, more often than not does themselves in with virtually no other casualties in the majority of cases.

To ride a bike involves risk on a higher level than other pursuits and wether we choose to ride a bike instead of extreme snowboarding, skiing, hunting, motocross ot any other activity that puts the human frame at risk matter not one iota.

Every human with an ounce of life will push the boundaries in one form or another and the age in which we lives just means that the methods we employ are faster, quicker and more exciting.

If I had to stop the way I ride for fun when I am on my own or with others than I would toss my leathers, boots and gloves into a ditch and never ride again.

I confess to having a penchant for power and speed. I can't help it and nor can untold thousands of people around the world. Mate, I love riding and it gives me a real sense of peace, at one with the earth and the cosmos.

Maybe you have never found 'the zone". It's an awesome place to be and one you just want to visit over and over again.

Their is a real kinship with those that have been there.

Sure, I don't want to die before my time but there is only one in this universe that knows when that will be.

[Katman]

Every human with an ounce of life will push the boundaries in one form or another and the age in which we lives just means that the methods we employ are faster, quicker and more exciting.


I have no problem with that - just take it off the fucking road.

[AlBundy]

I have no problem with that - just take it off the fucking road.

Never gonna happen. The road is the most accessible place for people to get up to mischief.
Go and preach to boy racers and drunk drivers. They'd easily be causing more harm on the road than motorcyclists.

Doh! I just responded to your trolling...

[Katman]

Never gonna happen. The road is the most accessible place for people to get up to mischief.
Go and preach to boy racers and drunk drivers. They'd easily be causing more harm on the road than motorcyclists.

Doh! I just responded to your trolling...

www.ricerssuckcock.co.nz and www.fuckI'mpissedwhere'sthedemisterbutton.co.nz can take care of the them.

I'll concentrate on motorcyclists.

[Kiwi Graham]

Love the honesty and truth of your comments Beyond, biking is a passion I have had for many years and I'm lucky enough to have a wife who is happy to share my passion on the sunnier days. This is a free country thank god and not the nanny state some clearly want it to become and as long as I can get out and ride my bike within my limits and enjoy the experience of being in that zone some of us know exists the I bloody well will. Good on ya mate, look forward to the next video. KG

[AlBundy]

I'll concentrate on motorcyclists.

Talking to you, is like talking to a wall.

You no risten!

[Katman]

You no risten!

Sorry, what was that?

[jrandom]

I don't take steroids.

And BarBender doesn't smoke P.

[Katman]

And BarBender doesn't smoke P.

Well clearly.

You don't get to that size being a P head.

:msn-wink:

[jrandom]

You don't get to that size being a P head.

Correct.

Although it does have an observable effect on attitude.

:sherlock:

[raftn]

I read a man express the love and joy he gets from his family, from riding and life and his sadness at the loss of his son.

Genuine and sincere reflective thoughts about the joys and sadness of one guys life and the road he's traveled.

How on Earth did that turn into the cyber equivalent of a Bar room brawl. :mellow:

I couldn't of said it better myself!

[Katman]

Correct.

Although it does have an observable effect on attitude.

:sherlock:

Correct, so does steroid abuse.

:msn-wink:

[jrandom]

Correct, so does steroids.

You reckon, eh?

You should probably reconsider your acceptance of that myth.

It would also be wise for you to reconsider your habit of making enemies unnecessarily.

[Katman]

It would also be wise for you to reconsider your habit of making enemies unnecessarily.

Fuck him. If you look back you'll see I got told to go fuck myself first.

And any "enemies" I make I'm prepared to accept as the price for getting the message across.

[nallac]

Fuck him. If you look back you'll see I got told to go fuck myself first.

yip and we are still waiting for it to happen.......................

[Katman]

yip and we are still waiting for it to happen.......................

Here's an idea........... (Dan will remember this one).........

.......Hold your breath.

[jrandom]

... I got told to go fuck myself first.

With due cause. You failed to make any clear points about specific issues with what beyond posted; you just frothed and bubbled as an apparent kneejerk response to someone who enjoys riding their motorcycle.


And any "enemies" I make I'm prepared to accept as the price of getting the message across.

That would be understandable if it were actually the case; however, your making of enemies only obscures and dilutes your 'message'.

Your response to BarBender was, as you just made clear, dictated solely by your hurt pride. If you want your 'message' to be taken more seriously, you need to rise above such interaction, rather than simply rising to the bait.

[Katman]

Your response to BarBender was, as you just made clear, dictated solely by your hurt pride. If you want your 'message' to be taken more seriously, you need to rise above such interaction, rather than simply rising to the bait.

Not hurt pride at all. Simply another way of saying :finger:

[nallac]

Your response to BarBender was, as you just made clear, dictated solely by your hurt pride. If you want your 'message' to be taken more seriously, you need to rise above such interaction, rather than simply rising to the bait.

well said, how can we take anything said by katman seriously when all he does is try and piss people off with his i am holyier than thou are speils.



Anyway i enjoyed the read Beyond

[Katman]

You failed to make any clear points about specific issues with what beyond posted;

Refer post #49.

[Boob Johnson]

Fuck him. If you look back you'll see I got told to go fuck myself first.

And any "enemies" I make I'm prepared to accept as the price for getting the message across.
The winning of hearts n minds <_<

[Boob Johnson]

What an awesome read Beyond, particularly post 51 :niceone:


Right on :scooter:

[MSTRS]

And any "enemies" I make I'm prepared to accept as the price for getting the message across.

You'd make few-to-none if you carried out a dialogue with your target audience. And your 'message' would actually get some respect, as would you. Plus, people might actually try to act on at least some of what you say.
But no, the Katman way is to finger-wave, lecture, abuse, ridicule, accuse (and refuse to answer straight questions - post #46?).
So naturally, the only response you get is the one that is along the lines of "Fuck you and the horse you rode in on".

Beyond - your post #51 captured the essence of what we do and why, perfectly. Sorry I can't bling you again. The zone you speak of is found in different places for different riders, but found it is. I wonder if it is the reason that bikers from all walks seem to share an affinity with each other? After all, it is only by experiencing can one truly understand.

[phiretrojan]

No it wasnt !!!
Trojan, you wait till you get that thing on a track !!!



i wish i could, i'm Selling it now >< - im about to place a ad on here for it ... =)