Help - I'm thinking of chucking in biking

[R1madness]

Yea the rules are getting tougher but its a game.... you just bend the rules..... Someone elses said try a supermoto and i agree. There are lots of ways to get it going on a bike and if the top speed thing doesnt get off because of the risks (to licence or life) go hard another way. How about a little wheelstand after drifting the rear into a round about on a DRZ400 motad?
GSXRs and R1s etc (yea the 600s too) are licence eaters if ya let them but its hard to resist..... a good radar detector and some riding buddys help, so do tight roads with 45k to 75k posted corners in a 100k zone.
Fools in cars.... thats up to you to watch out for but you knew that right?

[madmal64]

Jeesh... Just get back on a bike and get on with it.
All of the things you mention will become minor worries once you get a few k's under your belt on a great day on some nice twisty road out in the countryside. We do it because of the feeling we get from riding and on a good day it just cant be beaten.

[SlashWylde]

Yeah OK, but a lot of that stuff is just conjecture at this stage, it hasn't yet been implemented and will likely take a long time to happen if it ever does. Don't forego what is a hugely enjoyable passion/lifestyle just beacuse of a few negatives.

Like Bartman10 said, go demo a late model bike and I guarantee you'll fall in love with the machines again. Do it now, and THEN see whether any of the transponder chips etc etc come to pass.

[Hitcher]

• Speed limits on open roads being reduced.
• Bikes being impounded under the boy racer act.
• Road conditions worse than ever.
• Saturation of roads by swarms of revenue-generating police.
• More useless / blind / incompetent drivers out to kill bikers.
• 30kph over = suspended licence (ie safe passing manoeuvre)
• Talk of transponder chips to track vehicle movement (what????)
• Getting through grid-lock subject to policeman’s mood at the time.
• Front licence plates for motorcycles.

The above are reasons why I’ve suddenly felt like abandoning my plans to buy another bike. It’s been three years since I’ve ridden, and things look so much worse now than they did when I last had my leg over the old stead.

I’ve been looking forward to a new bike, but all of a sudden I don’t know if its worth it. Maybe I just need to take a pill, but I need some words of wisdom KB’ers!

Harden up, you poof.

[Badcat]

Do us all a favour and stick to public transport,we don't need any more riders on this site bleating about unfair Cops picking on them,crashing on road hazzards they didn't have the eyes to see,cars trying unsuccessfuly to kill them,or any other reason for them post threads about poor me I'm hard done by - fuck off and buy a bus ticket!

i'm with motu.
if you're a whiner (and by the look of your post, you really are), we're better off without you.
see ya.

[ducatilover]

Do us all a favour and stick to public transport,we don't need any more riders on this site bleating about unfair Cops picking on them,crashing on road hazzards they didn't have the eyes to see,cars trying unsuccessfuly to kill them,or any other reason for them post threads about poor me I'm hard done by - fuck off and buy a bus ticket!

but busses are slow smelly noisy uncomfortable full of niggers and skinhead oversize cages..........

[Motu]

but busses are slow smelly noisy uncomfortable full of niggers and skinhead oversize cages..........

Scary shit alright,I'd rather be on a bike.

Positive Thinking - keep your mind alive with negative thoughts and your life will be full of negatives - don't let them in!!

[Toast]

I went through the same thing when the gun laws toughened - and it drove me the OTHER way, I bought more of 'em and pushed the boundaries to the limit and enjoyed them all the more,- do the same with you motorbike stuff!

Ummm...did everyone else miss this post? That sounds kinda like an endorsement to "push the limits" (the law) from a bloke in blue...one who loves chasing bikers at that...you getting bored down there Scumi? Want some more kittens to play with?

[scumdog]

Ummm...did everyone else miss this post? That sounds kinda like an endorsement to "push the limits" (the law) from a bloke in blue...one who loves chasing bikers at that...you getting bored down there Scumi? Want some more kittens to play with?

In case this is not a wind-up: No ya dork, I meant take it to the limits, i.e. whatever the law lets you do - take it to the extreme without breaking the law.

The other didn't miss the post - they knew what I meant!

Go and felch with the kittens

If it is a wind up - well done!

[Toast]

In case this is not a wind-up: No ya dork, I meant take it to the limits, i.e. whatever the law lets you do - take it to the extreme without breaking the law.

The other didn't miss the post - they knew what I meant!

Go and felch with the kittens

If it is a wind up - well done!

Yup, definitely a wind-up... Bored shitless, not getting enough...will fix that soon. Cheers

[skidMark]

• Speed limits on open roads being reduced.
• Bikes being impounded under the boy racer act.
• Road conditions worse than ever.
• Saturation of roads by swarms of revenue-generating police.
• More useless / blind / incompetent drivers out to kill bikers.
• 30kph over = suspended licence (ie safe passing manoeuvre)
• Talk of transponder chips to track vehicle movement (what????)
• Getting through grid-lock subject to policeman’s mood at the time.
• Front licence plates for motorcycles.

The above are reasons why I’ve suddenly felt like abandoning my plans to buy another bike. It’s been three years since I’ve ridden, and things look so much worse now than they did when I last had my leg over the old stead.

I’ve been looking forward to a new bike, but all of a sudden I don’t know if its worth it. Maybe I just need to take a pill, but I need some words of wisdom KB’ers!!!!!

.

so your saying you no longer want to be a temporary new zealander?

[Mattyc]

sounds like a wind up.....

or someone who has way to many excuses not to ride

Go smoke a bit fat number and go buy a bike, either that or go buy jourself a pink shirt, an ipod and a pair of yellow lensed sunglasses, and a couple of glow sticks

[S&S]

Am I missing something, Front licence plates for motorcycles WTF ???

[Paul in NZ]

Well we just fight back...

Screw this, it's still a free country and these idiots have gone too bloody far. I think there is a ground swell of public opinion that would back it as well...

I know how you feel and at times I have thought the same way (in my weaker moments) but I've been doing this all my life and I'm not giving in until they lever the fecking twist grip out of my cold dead hand...

I'm not advocating stupidity here but enough is enough! Do you think Burt Munro or John Brittan would just give up? Harden up mate! IF there is a fight a brewing, I don't plan on being on the loosing side!

Cheers

[TLDV8]

• Speed limits on open roads being reduced.
• Bikes being impounded under the boy racer act.
• Road conditions worse than ever.
• Saturation of roads by swarms of revenue-generating police.
• More useless / blind / incompetent drivers out to kill bikers.
• 30kph over = suspended licence (ie safe passing manoeuvre)
• Talk of transponder chips to track vehicle movement (what????)
• Getting through grid-lock subject to policeman’s mood at the time.
• Front licence plates for motorcycles.

The above are reasons why I’ve suddenly felt like abandoning my plans to buy another bike. It’s been three years since I’ve ridden, and things look so much worse now than they did when I last had my leg over the old stead.

I’ve been looking forward to a new bike, but all of a sudden I don’t know if its worth it. Maybe I just need to take a pill, but I need some words of wisdom KB’ers!!!!!

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If you ride/drive around at the speed limit you won't have a problem,if you decide to take the risk of exceeding it then some of that may apply...Freedom of Choice