I've been riding 250cc bikes for a while now (5 to 10 years) with a break in between while I had a family with the wife (who didn't like me riding). I should say former wife, and with that problem gone, I'm fully back into riding again. This year I finally decided to move up to a 600CC bike. OMG, what a difference. My CBR250RR was fun, but the CBR600 is incredible by comparison. For some reason I lost a lot of confidence in my riding abilities when I moved up a bike ...
The horse startled and Mum was dazed on the ground. She would get on her horse and ride to the end of the road and when out of sight of her mother would get off the horse and walk the horse the rest of the way to school. It was the Great Depression and outside of Queanbeyan was a little mining town, Captains Flat. Mum was kicked by the horse, and many years later the consequences of this accident were realized. Mum loved horses and in particular trotting harness racing, she would not bet but find ...
“Hey soldier come over here and listen to this – the Japs have just bombed Pearl Harbour….” My Dad was pulling guard duty in Riverside, California just outside Los Angeles when the taxi driver called him over. He joined the National Guard in Reno, Nevada in 1939 and by May 1942 he was camped with the first wave of US Army forces in parkland adjoining Melbourne Zoo. He recalls one of the first nights returning to camp from downtown Melbourne, it was dark as, but the sound of lions ...
The movie “As Good At It Gets” starring Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt centres on a guy with an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. I have presented two clips here and depending on how you see a glass as either half full or half empty, each clip presents the lead character in various states Self Centred: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32cil3p55z4 Recognising false logic, and moving on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5A6HIaqzxM ...
This year’s Allied Group Conference was held in Rotorua again, so I took the opportunity to have a ride, albeit in crap weather. During the week before the ride I kept a close eye on the weather forecast to help decide my route but it didn’t help much so come Wednesday morning I decided to hit the road and wing it. I filled with gas and checked the tyres on the way to work, then got away about 1100, heading straight up one fully kitted with wets. I didn’t need to be in Rotorua until ...
Hello this is BuckBuck#1 and for those of you that may be familiar with OCPD, I trust in the weeks and months ahead that you may find an interest and insight to my condition and my journey since I commenced riding in 2006. For those of you that may not be aware of OCPD, then perhaps in time you may want to either read on or click the mouse and move to another section in this Kiwibiker website. For those of you that were around in 2006/8 some of you may remember the Newbie Training ...
One of the best things about MM was the controller, though I forget his name. Usually controllers are ex riders so they know all the tricks, and they also know London well, very well indeed. MM controller was great. He never pushed you, enjoyed a sharp dry wit, (really important when it was dark, miserable and chucking down), was on your side in difficult deliveries and kept his humour when you’d deliver to the Barbican. The Barbican is a sprawling concrete acreage of 70’s tower blocks, no entries, ...
8 May 2009 You know that uni has really started to kick in when I start to procrastinate. And you can tell when I am procrastinating because suddenly the kitchen is filled with cakes. Yesterday it was apple cake, the day before it was scones, the outlook is very dim for my dwindling supply of flour… The baking spree actually began on Saturday when Holly (from NZ) and I decided to organize a champagne breakfast. We were jealous of the Finns you see, because they spent ...
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