Who are we chatting to?

[Dean]

Estimated kms to date: 15,000 - 20,000

[Bonez]

Profession: Sledges right hand man.
Age: I forget.
Bike: Some '70s/'80s jappers in various states of repair.
First Bike: Honda CJ250.
How many years riding: For a while now.
Best bike memory: First decent ride a month after I bought the CJ-Blenheim to Hobsonville via Wairapa and Hawkes Bay.
Worst bike memory: Being T-boned by a car.
Estimated kms to date: Lots.

[Dean]

Beaudene
Profession: Looking for mechanic apprenticeship

Age: 17

Bike: Yamaha zeal

First bike: Honda Cb125

How many years riding: 1 1/2

Best bike memory: Having fun when discovering how to lean off my bike

Worst bike memory: Bike broke down in the school carparks, had to get my mum to get me some petrol

Dislike: People who cant learn to have a bit of fun on threads

[wbks]

WBKS
Profession: Student
Age: 16
Bike: gsxr600
First bike: PW50!
How many years riding: On and off since forever
First/best bike memory: First-Not best: lengthly (30 sec) talk from dad about using the brake and throttle, first ride- Full throttle into our back fence, then hours of crying over the beaten up mudguard hahaha
Worst bike memory: Forgetting how many laps I had done on the same tank around a trail ride, getting lost and unwittingly back tracking like a complete dumbass, getting stuck in an uphill mud bog about 3 times, then having to push the fuckin bike (which was about a foot taller than me at the bars at the time) a very real 1.5 km's back to the ute, half of which was uphill racing before the sun went down . Oh, that was fun!
Estimated km to date: Probably only 30-40,000?

[usa-vtwin]

Profession: Sales - Used to manage a small Honda dealership, been a MC accessories Sales Rep..and ages ago warehouse guy for MC accessories importer
Age: Over 30, under 42
Bike: 08 HD
First Bike:Honda QA50, then TS90..at 11yrs
How many years riding: 25yrs on and off
Best bike memory: I always wanted to ride a loud Harley through Lyttelton Tunnel..tick! Outrunning cops on ......sowwwwwwwwwwwy
Worst bike memory: Riding @ Woodhill Forest all day on XR500..then riding home fatigued! Hooning down the road leading to HW16 in a daze...then realising I was going to fast to stop before the t junction. I had 5 seconds or so to decide to a: drop the bike and hit the road or b: just ride out onto the highway and pray no cars were coming...and that I'd make the turn without losing it if I wasn't taken out by an oncoming car or truck. I took option B. Made it! Scared me shitless..that was 20 yrs ago and I've had a few offs, both on/off road but that one scared me the most.(might add it was raining at the time)
Estimated kms to date: Hard to say as I haven't kept count

[What?]

Profession: Prostitute.
Age: About the same as Bonez.
Bike: Some.
First Bike: Raleigh Sports.
How many years riding: My age minus eight.
Best bike memory: Can't remember.
Worst bike memory: Still can't remember.
Estimated kms to date: Nope, can't remember, but somewhere between a thousand and a thousand thousand. Probably well past the half-way mark...

[KrazyGixxerBoy]

Profession: Operations Manager
Age: 28
Bike: GSXR1100 & Ducati Paso 750
1st bike: Nifty Fifty!!
Years riding: about 15
Best bike memory: Doing the front tabletop at long gully (Brooklyn) on a CB650 custom and walking away!
Worst bike memory: Putting the handlebars of my ninja through my abdominal wall...actually...can't really remember much....

[Her_C4]

Profession: Director
Age: 50+
Bike: a red one
1st bike: that I rode? A 125 stinger. That I owned? A GN 250
Years riding: not enough
Best bike memory: The first time I got pulled up by cop on the 1098 and the look on his face when I sat up and took off my helmet - priceless
Worst bike memory: Dumping the 999 and having no memory of the lead up - oh and dropping a nifty fifty in gravel about 36 years ago in front of all the neighbours (SHAME!)

[Her_C4]

PS Interesting thread

[pocketcracker]

name: kyle

Age: 34

Bike:04 gsx-r1000

First bike: cr125 - across250

How many Years riding: 15+

First/best bike memory: Racing my peewee at lions safari park in auckland

Estimated km to date: approx 3000 -5000 kms per month for past 10+ years.

[ready4whatever]

Profession: surveyor but currently unemployed
Age: 20
Bike: DT175
First bike: TF125
How many Years riding: 9. 1 on road
First/best bike memory: first time on open road
Estimated km to date: about 30. (20 for my restricted test)

[LBD]

Reliability Specialist...Lubrication...(No Jokes either)
Age....STOP REMINDING ME!Gaarrrggghhhh
Yamaha JT1 60cc trail
43....Nnnooooooooo....Now Ya gone and reminded me again!
First/best memory? First wheel spin in a wet grass patch in a paddock on Dad's 350 Jawa
200 000km?

Not handling this age thing very well....am I?