World's fastest Cook Islander
I hear ya! Unfortunately, I haven't found any roads in Welly ideal for this style of riding. However, The Targa Rally hillclimb section in Dannevirke is farken wicked! and the loops! Oh those sweet mother f%#$#@ loops! Wohooooooooo!!!!!!Originally Posted by Toast
Uncle B! Tell em all about it! Go on.... Go on..... Pleaseeeeeee!
Hardcore Biker
wouldn't have a clue,wot yah on about man?riding is about PASSION'.......you sound like you need councilling man.
VTWIN- SUPERBIKE
Forum whore
Get a two smoker.Get a naked bike . Go riding in the rain. Ride at night. Ride on gravel roads . Get a slower bike (serious - theres more of a challenge in getting the best out of a slow bike. Powerful bikes make it too easy).
I reckon if you can't get *something* out out of pushing a naked twosmoker hard down a gravel road in the dark and rain, then there's no hope for you.
Just ask yourself, what is it about riding OTHER than speed that you enjoy. and focus on maximising that (or those) on each ride. Appreciate each ride for its own sake, not just as an opportunity to go faster.
40 years, it's just as much fun now as it was when I started.
If "buzz" is all the biking is to anyone, then maybe they're not really into riding long term. Not everyone is. some folk come, dabble a bit and move on. Others stay.
Hone made me
Yeah I've thought about getting a scooter Tex, just for the wheelies really. Maybe a mini-motard or something though, bit more fun in the wet around town.
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Hardcore Biker
What about getting a nekkid bike Buell,S4R,Brutale etc. You can hammer the twisties as fast as you think you can go, have grunt for wheelies and shit and you dont need to be going hard out to have a ball.
I don't have hair on my balls,
Hair doesn't grow on steel
Me Like Cafe
I agree, you have been spoilt with a super machine that does everything well.
I find it really satisfying to wring every ounce out of a less powerful machine when the everyday bike gets a little lame, or you are pushing your luck with speed etc.
How about a trail bike so you can practice stunts without the risk of damage to the main ride, then you can take it off road for more fun, or super motard it
Blast From The Past Axis of Oil
Hone made me
Yeah Uncle B, tell us about the bloody loops, Dafe's not at his most eloquent right now.
Man I've often thought about how cool it would be to recreate the Targa on bikes....watched it a few times on tv, great event.
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I WENT THROUGH THIS PERIOD AS WELL, BUT TRUST ME THE BIKE CAN USUALLY GO FASTER. PROBABLY NOT WHAT YOU WANT TO BE DOING THOUGH.
JUST WAIT A WHILE IT WILL PASS, OR TRY RIDING LESS AS WELL. I SORTA LET MY BIKE SIT FOR A FEW DAYS APART FROM COMMUTING AND SPENT WEEKENDS OFF IT AND IT HELPED WELL. I DON'T HAVE MINE FOR ANOTHER 2 WEEKS AND IT WILL MAKE ME START GETTING CAGEY ETC, SO TOO LONG IS BAD I GUESS.
ZEN STYLES IS AWESOMENESS! JUST WAIT TILL YOU GET THERE
GOOD LUCK. P.S. ARE YOU JOKING ABOUT THE ZXR250 IN YOUR SIG YOU HOMo?
frequent infrequenter
work on your wheelies an stoppies
work on taking corners harder and faster
work on keepin up with the likes of MR, LB, WT, 2S
work on staying on the road
work on getting your knee down on the track
work on your bike - maintenance and performance etc
work on your suspension, tyres and brakes
work on your mental state while riding..
plenty ya homo. get over it and get on with it..
riding is an option, not a requirement. If you're getting a bit bored of it, give it a break for a few weeks and see how you feel. If you miss it, you'll never be without it. If you can go without withdrawals, then you can take it or leave it as you want..
For whom the bell tolls
cheers for the tips guys, its probably coz im poor and havent been out for a decent fang, that and the fact that the bike isnt in the best shape to be doing so at the moment.
two things i gotta have a laugh at - ixion, thats some funny shit mate (naked two smoker, on the gravel, in the rain at night... that would be a buzz for sure)
and also sixpak's take on the whole thing "I know, its cos you havnt fallen off in a few weeks...HAHAHAHAHA...fuck I crack me up"
KiwiBitcher
where opinion holds more weight than fact.
It's better to not pass and know that you could have than to pass and find out that you can't. Wait for the straight.
Kiwi back at home!
surely a decent paced split home up to where I saw you the other day would give you enough of a buzz? I was splitting at a fair pace today and I had to slow down so I could blink a little as I was concentrating on the road and traffic so hard I relised I hadnt blinked since getting on the MW, a bugger wearing contacts!, but funny how at normal car pace everything seemed stopped must be one of those time slowing down things, cept it was the MW and they were stopped lol
ps uni sucks so does studying!
The metal is always nude.
Well I thought I was turning into an old man having the big ZX-10 after considering 600's etc.
And I was,...until last Sunday when I went for a ride. It went okay until my mate with a Buell wanted a race....then the hooligan (which I thought was well and truly supressed) came out. Drag raced him,...did a couple of wheelies and kneed out cornering....hmm,...
Like the others have said it's only a phase and it it takes is the right situation to bring it all back out. The x-factor never leaves you,..just sits there waiting...
"...you meet the weirdest people riding a Guzzi !!..."
Born To Fish - Forced To Work.
Try riding a Honda bro, it will make you appreciate your Yama so much more!.
fuckin grumpy leave me alone
try drug's
F/F
No Gareth, what you need is a dirt bike, am thinking about going back to one myself, when are you at work again, come and see me and we can have a chat about it.
F/F
"Kiwi Biker, still a great place despite the mods "
"Would crawl over broken glass before owning Suzuki"
The only reason I only ride in the Iron man Class is I have no friends left to enter the two man events,
my own fault really.
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The Zen thing is important but....
It's got very little to do with numbers. Going fast on a modern japanese hypersport bike has little impact as they are just so damn good. The 'edge' is now a long long way out there and getting close to it means you are not only risking your license and life but a lot of other peoples as well.
A less technically advanced bike can sometimes make sense once you can put numbers and models etc behind you.
The ancient Moto Guzzi is a truely classic motorcycle. It was built but people that understand what I've just described and it is NOT user friendly at all. You have to be prepared to sacrifice skin, money and time to the spanner gods because most dealers won't touch it with a 10 ft pole. You have to learn not only the lore and how to work on it but how to ride it and more importantly, learn to ride around it's obvious defects. Every ride is a challenge and frankly I still stuff up more corners than I get right but every now and then, you get everything right and once in a blue moon, you get a sequence of things right. Then it flies and it takes your soul along with it, the weight of ancient heroes ride at your shoulders in a glourious wail of gears and fire. Diving in just a bit too hot, trail the linked brakes while the too heavy rear drive starts the rear wheel skipping, ease off the front and foot, crash through the straight cut box while the engine screams like a Spitfire diving on Berlin as you clip the apex and wrench open the throttle that feels connected to the engine by a steel bar as the big carbs gulp a lungful and the whole plot leaps forward like a startled hippo spearing towards the next bend as you wonder if you have enough brakes left to take it. What the hell, at least you will die like a man! You realise you can feel every stone on the road and every pulse of the engine and try to remember when you last felt so damn alive. It's a drug like no other because a little piece of you joins the ranks of the immortals every time the needle strays into the orange zone.
Give up the appliance and buy a bike for heros mate. You will regret it a hundred times and yet be paid back a thousandfold.
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