Why did you decide to get a bike?

**Itchy_Kiwis** · 9th October 2009, 22:04

Originally Posted by ecko_nzed

You know that feeling when you enter a corner fast enough that your sphincter starts to pucker just a little because it may be too fast? But you nail the apex and get on the gas nice and early. You feel the suspension and tires working hard to obey the twist of your wrist. As you launch towards the next bend, that’s the moment you know you got the corner right.

That’s why I got a bike

so your vote would be a: or b: ?

**Edz1** · 9th October 2009, 22:04

I got a bike cos it was only when I moved to NZ that I learned that it was gonna be at least 9 months before I could drive a car on my own- and I need wheels like yesterday!

Now I have the bike I realize just how much this same reason has landed me on my feet!

**chef** · 9th October 2009, 22:09

somehow i couldnt be botherd waiting around 6 months for a car learners to get to ristricted so i did bhs and learners and was on the road straight away now im in love with bikes just after 6months of riding never getting a car

**tribsanor** · 9th October 2009, 22:13

Originally Posted by McJim

And when it fucks up and you end up under the log truck coming the other way? How does that feel?

It usually becomes unpuckered and a wee bit sticky

**trailblazer** · 9th October 2009, 22:18

i have always wanted one and last year i did my bhs and 6 weeks ago i finally went and got my licence and got a bike and love every second i spend on the bike. And if i only use the bike for commuting it only cost me $20 a fortnight.

**ecko_nzed** · 9th October 2009, 22:23

Originally Posted by McJim

And when it fucks up and you end up under the log truck coming the other way? How does that feel?

don't know how you run track days down in the south island, but in the north we make the logging trucks circulate the track in the same direction as the bikes.

hear what you're saying though, I save pushing myself for track days. I always tone it down the road. Plus I'm not a fast rider by any stretch, so a perfect 'fast' corner for me, would prob be slow for someoone else

Originally Posted by Itchy_Kiwis

so your vote would be a: or b: ?

prob more like G: all of the above

**Itchy_Kiwis** · 9th October 2009, 22:30

Originally Posted by ecko_nzed

don't know how you run track days down in the south island, but in the north we make the logging trucks circulate the track in the same direction as the bikes.

PMSL !!!!!!!!!

**NewRob** · 9th October 2009, 22:45

Cause I always like bikes, rode one when I was 13

and bought one when I was 20

..and still enjoy riding a bike.

**R1madness** · 9th October 2009, 22:46

saw my first bike when i was 5. rode my first 1 at age 8. brought my first 1 at age 15. never been without at least 1 since then. ownly owned 3 cars tho... ok a ute and 2 vans... I have been hooked on bikes because of the individual freedom and excitement they give. Selfish pleasures for sure but i am just a guy after all.

**NighthawkNZ:Me** · 9th October 2009, 22:56

Originally Posted by Itchy_Kiwis

Why did you decide to get a bike?

My parents said I couldn't, and we weren't going to get another horse... so with this knowledge the next I went and bought my own bike and they couldn't stop me... that was ummmm well and truly before I got me license... I was like 8 and on the farm...

okay okay... it was my mum that said no, and dad bought the bike for the farm but was kind of mine... beacuse the other ones I couldn't touch the ground when I was riding it and would up to and along a bank and fall into it or up to a log or something, to get off the damn thing... was funny to watch... (BTW the new bike was no better for a year or two and tippy toes was established)

I never have really stopped and that was 33 odd years ago

**centaurus** · 9th October 2009, 23:07

Got taken as a passenger on a bike when I was 7 or 8 by a friend of my dad and since then I dreamed all my childhood to have motorbike.

Only later on, growing up, I discovered that I was kind of a speed freak and even later I discovered that I liked leather also, so getting to wear leather was an additional bonus of motorcycle riding

Had my first bike way after getting the car license (about 22 or 23) and it ended up being a disaster (I spent more time trying to repair it than riding it). I had to give it away for free just to get rid of it (it was costing me to garage it).

After that experience it took another 4 years or so until I was able to buy another one, but the dream of riding a motorbike never left me. Even though nobody in my family has ever owned a motorcycle until recently (my brother bought one) I've always wanted one - it's one of those things in life that you know it's you, the first time you see it (kinda' like love of first sight

). It might sound cheesy but it's true.

**tri boy** · 9th October 2009, 23:13

Females would only root me if I had a bag over my head, so helmeted transport was the logical choice.

**Milts** · 9th October 2009, 23:14

Well, there's no free carparks at uni, but plenty of space for bikes, so it makes sense.... at least, that was my excuse. I've been driving since I was 15 (5 years now) and I loved it, my father rode a lot up until he had kids, and from talking to him it sounded fun and cool and like something I would enjoy. I figured since I loved driving fast-ish, surely it would be even more fun on a bike... took a BHS course and decided then and there to buy one. That was only 5 months ago but if winter in Wellington hasn't put me off, I'm hoping not much will....

Anyone else start out driving cars and pick up a bike purely to 'feel' closer to the road... I don't know how to put this. Riding takes more concentration and input than driving, and that's what draws me to it. Well that and passing all those cars.