New Zealand Motorcyclist

[Madness]

Riding for 20 years now, these days as my favoured form of recreation whenever finances & the weather etc. permit. I drive a company car (sales-rep) so am incredibly jealous of bike commuters on a fine summers day. Nothing puts a smile on my face quite like a good fang over the local goat-track and honestly feel that riding helps keep me sane...

[Ixion]

Riding for 40 odd years. Ride most days , wet or dry, day or night.Commuting, touring, exploring. Do (almost ) all my own maintainance. I ride like Nana's Nana. Mostly. Except for two strokes. Two stroking doesn't count.

[MSTRS:Me]

Hasn't this been done before??
Never mind - I've ridden on and off for 35 years, mostly road riding. Always place myself in the medium/fast section at trackdays & ride the same on the road (with respect to conditions of coarse)

[Edbear]

and honestly feel that riding helps keep me sane...

And yet... here you are on KB.....

[Motu]

I've been riding since 1970,I consider my riding style to be constantly evolving,taking in concepts I learnt 3 seconds ago,on that last corner where the bump snatched the throttle on sooner and harder than I wanted....it worked pretty well,I think I might do it again.The bike is as important as the ride,I'd as soon work on my bike as ride it...makes no difference to me.I need input,not just a few corners - it has to be constant and at a high level....I want peace and I want to be alone...I want to see things,to think about things,to stop and inspect.I hope we never lose the gravel,because that's where I find all these things....

[DemonWolf]

Started relatively young.. did the ol farm bike thing... blatting around and used it to go do chores.. 'borrowed' brothers ax100 for awhile, binned it a few times riding down Mt Ruapehu.. a few serious accidents, broken collar bones a coupla times.. had a 7 year stint away from bikes.. and now bake into it. Commute and weekend\organised rides...

[SARGE]

grew up on bikes ..mostly old farm-shitters.. when i told pop that i wanted a street bike .. he handed me the keys to the barn and his toolbox and told me where all the Harley parts were..

been without maybe 2 years since i was 10 years old.. did alot with V8 Mustangs, where bikes were a weekend toy, but always had them

[Maha]

Been riding for 2 1/2 years, first bike was GN 250, 2nd was a YZF 600, was riding that on my restricted, cos i could, now i have the Triumph and my full and ride two up. Got the bike bug while in Rarotonga and so glad that i did. Kinda wish i had been doing it 20 years ago, but i guess i will get more than 20 years from here on in, so im happy............

[scumdog]

Been riding about 25 years, arsed up on my Honda 350xl about 20 years ago.

Ride in what I consider a safe manner

Bike does not get as much use as I'd like due to work committments and having other available vehicles to play with.

I do as much work as I can on all my vehicles - my Scots blood cringes at paying $40+ an hour for work I can do myself.

Do oil/filter changes as part of regular maintenance and use quality products only on my bikes and vehicles.

[motoGP]

Been riding coming up a year now, love it. Nothing better. My bike goes were I go, sun rain cold, I'll take it on.

[Squeak the Rat]

Started riding late - late twenties on a '96 cbr600, riding for about 6 years with a couple of years gap (travelling). Primarily for recreation - ie, touring, fun etc. Commute roughly once or twice a week. Do oil changes occasionally, otherwise get my local shop to sort it out. Love it. Freedom.

[oldrider]

Been riding since I was 14yrs old, learned on an old army Indian left on my grandads farm during WW2. (We had to get the big kids to start it)
Bought my first bike at 15 got my licence at 15 in 1954 been riding bikes almost continually since. (my wife has had a bike licence for 35yrs too)
I use my bike in preference to any other mode of transport. Cheers John.

[SwanTiger]

Cheers for all the responses, I am hoping to get at least 70 responses to get the right amount of numbers to work with.

Briefly browsing over some of the responses it is amazing to see we have a combined several hundred years of experience amoungst us. It just goes to emphasis the fact we should apreciate what Spank has done and help support Kiwi Biker. I cant think of any other place you can find such a vast wealth of knowledge and experience - FREE!

On the issue of bling (as updated in the original post):

Seen as so some of you are so obsessed with bling (and I knew it was going to be the only way to keep a clean thread) please be aware that I can only bling so many times within a 24 hour period. You will get blinged eventually.

Keep the responses rolling...

[The_Dover]

My name's Dover and I'm an alcoholic.

I love riding my bike. But some bastard pig is gonna put an end to that soon cos I was endangering someones Sunday morning peace and quiet. But there was no one around. Except the pig. I think he was having a snooze after his donuts and coffee.

I used to have a handbag like swannys. I sold it to buy a shiny blue and white penis extension which some asian drove into.

So I got another one.

I crashed that one all on my own. It was silly.

Then I thought I'd try my luck on a black and grey one. But only cos some other bastard bought the last blue and white one before my insurance paid up.

I laid that one down gently on SH22 but she still loves me. I think.

I recently bought a black one. It's very nice.

I hope I don't crash again cos I like riding. I ride a lot. Even to work and back. And I sit all day at work dreaming of riding.

Motorbikes are good.

Cars are bad.

Unless you have kids or need to move things. But I think I'll stick to my motorbikes.

Love

Dover.

[madmal64]

Been riding for 27 years now. Got my license the day after my 15th birthday. Back then you only had to do written & oral question to get you "provisional"
I ride just about everyday as long as I dont have to drop off the kids or do someting else that makes riding a bike a pain in the butt.
Had a BAD accident 20 something years ago, put me in hospital for a while and did rock the old confidence levels for quite a while, but Im still here, occasionally getting knocked down by cages (still) but they havent killed me yet. They have tried but I enjoy it so much I keep going.