Spose I should say hello...

[warewolf]

Seems to be the done thing so I'll post a short intro; Greetings to all.

First, the bad news: I'm an Aussie!

Second, the good news: After my first visit here (30 days in a hired van - can you imagine the torture that is to a motorcyclist?), I decided I'd better relocate to this biking paradise, so 18 months later moved over here with my bike (oh yeah, and my woman). Seven years and counting... lovin' every one.

I enjoy riding. And I mean that literally as, "I enjoy riding, full-stop." Don't care what, when, where or why. The longer and harder the better, as the actress said to the bishop.

Road-wise, I hang with the Auckland RATs on my aging '95 Triumph Trophy 900 / Daytona Super III sleeper. I'm also a regular at Rusty Nuts events, such as the Grand Challenge and Southern Cross. Hence the 160,000km+ on that bike.

In the dirt, I play on an '01 Suzuki DR-Z250. It's a struggle in the sandy hills at Woodhill, but hey, it's cheap motoring while I'm on the steep part of the learning curve.

The DR has a second set of wheels with street tyres and taller gearing for road use, especially daily commuting. It also gets used as a day-ride blast machine, particularly when riding with other lower-capacity bikes - say hi to changing_man .

I've done some adventure rides over the years, on various bikes, but I've discovered that I prefer more technical riding and less open tracks. I do a fair bit of caving (other love of my life) so I'm not short on the "scenery experience." Adventure rides are fantastic, and I commend them to you, but I just don't have the time to do it all.

Anyway, enough of my ramblings. Hope to meet some more of you in the flesh sometime.

Cheers,
Colin

[Skunk]

Welcome to you. Adventure riding... hummm, good stuff.

[Joni]

Allo!
:spudwave:

[Waylander]

Welcome to the site mate, wipe your feet and your ass when you enter this gargre.

[Indiana_Jones]

I like "warewolf".........It's close to "wolfman"
"This stuff gives me a hard-on"
"don't tease me..."

-Indy

[outlawtorn]

g'day mate, put another shrimp on the barbie!!!!

Sorry, I've always wanted to say that to someone...

Welcome to the website dude

[Holy Roller]

Welcome aboard

Grand challenge

[Blakamin]

howzit? welcome and all the biz...


whereabouts in Oz are ya from????

[Sparky Bills]

YOYOYO!!
Whad up wid ma homie!!

Make youself at home.
Martin

[MSTRS:Me]

Good on ya mate. KB is the icing on the cake.

[Sniper]

Greetings mate. Hope you have a good time on this site

[Biff]

:spudwave: Welcome.
Good choice in bikes mate. You and Big Dave should get on well. He's ageing and in need of a good service as well.

[Storm]

Welcome to the site mate. Hope all your questions are answered and many hours spent wasting time on here

[warewolf]

KLX

What flavour? Last decent ride in Woodhill was with a bloke on a new KLX300. We worked out the thing had roughly 10% more power but 30% more torque, for virtually no size/weight penalty over a 250cc. Sounds like a good idea to me!

Cheers,
Colin

[warewolf]

whereabouts in Oz are ya from????

Grew up in a big country town, more of a rural capital really, a sports-mad place called Wagga Wagga, located about half-way Sydney-Melbourne. Moved to Sydney to go to Uni and the last few years before NZ was in the Blue Mountains.

Living in the mountains made for good post-work rides after working late, taking the long way home via Bells Line of Road out to Lithgow. Helps that my then-girlfriend lived out there.

Cheers,
Colin