The KB Effect!

[SPORK]

is that so you dont die of jealously?

(the spelling is just for hitcher)

No, just to fit everyone in. Like, all 2000 of us...

But that sounds a bit ghey...

Anyway, I'm plenty jealous!

[Zed]

Time for a group hug in the gargre?

It doesn't have the same effect without the 'group-hug' smilie!!

Now c'mon Mr Hitcher, I know you've got more thoughts on the subject at hand than that mere short sentence!

[FROSTY:Me]

KB--what does it mean to me. Really my siggy says it all for me -It totally applies to KB as far as Im concerned.
Its given me a second chance to save the lives I couldn't when I last rode with a big group of riders. I buried too many mates and I swore when I got the chance Id pay back what I'd been given
Indirectly Its got me back into racing. Ive made some pretty amazing freinds along the way.

[zadok]

Don't know that it has affected my riding at all, but my getting a new bike certainly had something to do with K.B. Thanks to all yoos guys and gals.

[placidfemme]

Just a thought straight from the heart...

Since I've been involved, through thick & thin, in KiwiBiker, some quite positive effects on my motorcycling have taken place! Discussing my two-wheel passion with others who share it has been most enlightening to me, to have the knowledge that others feel the same way as I do has really changed my attitude towards other riders I see on the road each day, a greater respect if you will. Also, getting out there and meeting/riding with many of you has been really good for my riding and I have seen heaps of improvements in my technique and skill level.

I'm interested in what impact KB has had on your riding, if any?


Zed

KB has had a huge impact on my riding... I've learnt a lot from everyone on here... how to do certain things mechanically with my bike... how to be a better and safer rider... went on my first group ride with KB, and I've meet a lot of great people off here so far

Everytime I talk to a biker I tell them about KB

[TonyB]

Weird. I was supposed to post something like this yesterday as it was my 1st birthday on KB. :hbd:

It's fair to say that in the past year KB has had a major effect on my riding and on my life in general.
Riding wise, I've realised I'm a better rider than I gave myself credit for. My riding has improved massively thanks to riding with people who are better at it than me, and from taking their advice- big thanks to Dangerous here. I've 'met' some great people on line, and met some great people in person, infact everyone I have met has been a great person (well OK Kickaha is the exception- but that goes without saying KIDDING).

If it wasn't for joining KB and meeting Kickaha, Dangerous, K14 and Diesel Pig I would have never even considered going racing.
If it wasn't for Wildcat-LGF ordering in those leathers, I wouldn't have my new gear so I couldn't have gone racing anyway.
If my wife hadn't been watching a MSN messenger conversation I was having with a few of the local crew, she wouldn't have realised just how passionate OTHER people are about motorcycling, so she wouldn't have made the comments which were the spark that started the idea for my new business. The comments were "You guys are all so passionate about bikes, I just can't believe that NONE of you work with them for a living" and then later on when I was pissed off about my job "Why don't you do something involving bikes?" to which I replied "Yeh, but what?"
If I hadn't gone Bucket racing I wouldn't have needed to order the parts that gave me the answer.

So, in a nut shell because of KB my riding has improved, I've made some good freinds, and I've started a business. Starting the business means that I now work long hours and have another mortgage ...... and I've met Kickaha ...... ... and I have guilt at work 'cause I'm always on here .... *hmmm, long hours, huge debt, guilt and Kickaha.... ... hmmmm ....... waaaaait a minute!*
CURSE YOU KBeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bugjuice]

no idea where I'd be, if I did have this place.
I've learnt how to ride better from watching and talking to others (and still learning)
I've learnt more about my bike and it's abilities
I've learnt about first aid and accident scene etc
I've gotten to make heaps of new friends
I've had some of the best laughs (and gone thru the sad bits too)
I've also got half the amount of work done compared to what would have done last year

bloody love you guys..

i've also become more of a pervert. so in the group hug, I may grab a tushy. I'm sorry.

[ManDownUnder]

...
bloody love you guys..

i've also become more of a pervert. so in the group hug, I may grab a tushy.

awwww - I'll be in for that... but I'll stand the other side of Joni if you don't mind...

Effects on me? Fun and friendship. It's not changed my riding much but it's raised my awareness of the dangers of riding.

The riding "community" is one I was completely ignorant of though - and the comeradery that develops in here is quite surprising.

I haven't turned into the perv that buggy has - I am a very accomplished liar though.

Something that delighted me was re-aquainting myself with Surfchick - a friend from years ago that I'd lost touch with. Good to see she's made good, (as have her siblings...) and is finding her own way in life.

Met a few bloody good people in here that I've developed a lot of respect for, Zed, Biff, MadDuck and Frosty are 4 that come to mind straight off for various reasons.

Onya guys and gals

[vifferman]

How has it affected my riding?









Not at all.


How has it affected me?
My number of real friends has increased tenfold, from 0 to.... um... 0.

I waste an AWFUL lot of time on here when I should be working. It'll probably get me fired. I asked my boss just a wee while ago if I was fired, and could I go home once the fog had lifted, after somthing really dumb I'd done turned up on a client's computer system.
He said "no." Just like that, without the capitalisation - I should hace corrected it, sent it back, and fired him...

[scumdog]

is that so you dont die of jealously?

(the spelling is just for hitcher)

I think the KB spelling is 'jeaslously' BTW

[MSTRS:Me]

is that so you dont die of jealously?

(the spelling is just for hitcher)

Spelling - Eeh! Wrong!! Punctuation - Eeh! Wrong!
Is that so you don't die of jealousy?
Our education in all things, continues.

[TonyB]

Hmmm, surely there are more people who have experienced the KB effect?
BOING!

[MSTRS:Me]

You are right TonyB. I've learned that I knew more than I thought I did about the language and less about bikes & riding. I continue to work on that disastrous imbalance.

[stevedee]

Yup KB reading for 7 months, realising there were good people out there to ride with + 1 Born again biker = one Kawasaki.

I'd been thinking of buying a bike again and stumbled across the site by accident one night, best thing I'd done for years.

I've directed countless people to this site because it is so good.

spd :-)

[SPman]

Hmmmmmm....crawling out of warm beds of a cold morning to go on KB rides and having to realise there are lotsa other people that ride bikes and meeting self same people and making friends and contacts and spending years on a computer and having fun and.....
Nope - hasnt affected me at all...