How did you hook up?

[Jackrat]

My wife was grazing a horse on a property I used to shoot rabbits on.
She was there one day when I turned up an we got talking.
She was one of the few girls I'd met that didn't have a problem with shooting,
I also had an interest in horses,so

[Cajun]

First met Ang at Candios nightclub in Wellington , She was out on a hens night. Brought her a drink and had a dance. Thought things were going pretty well ...
Couple night's later I give her a call. Talked for about 20 mins or so , Said she was too busy with work / uni to go out. Didn't think any more of it.
About a month later I go to a mate's 21st , Ang is there with one of her mates . We have a few drinks (Ok, lots and lots) and start dancing around. One thing led to another so I end up going back to her place , ended up talking a lot. Stayed the night, the next day she drops me home on her Xj600 motorcycle. I was very impressed !(She got me into motorcycles as well as Jim2).
Couple of days later I moved in. Brought a motorcycle shorlty after.
Been together 15 years yesterday (married 5).
I have the prefect wife (hey , she's into motorcycles and still puts up with me.)
Neal

Hey neal i'm a neal too, don't meet to many people who spell there name same as me. you work in same area as me well, and my wife is in to bikes, but mine was other way around, i got her into them, she always like them dated other guys who riden them, but never really riden them herself

and you got one of the bikes i wanted if is yellow?? or red?

[Mooch]

Hey neal i'm a neal too, don't meet to many people who spell there name same as me. you work in same area as me well, and my wife is in to bikes, but mine was other way around, i got her into them, she always like them dated other guys who riden them, but never really riden them herself

and you got one of the bikes i wanted if is yellow?? or red?

I thought may parents must have been drunk with the "Neal" spelling.looks like they weren't. Good to see another couple into the bikes , your in one of the best places in the country for riding. Nice bike btw , have always like gsxr's. Mine's Yellow as well.
Cheers
Neal

[Skyryder]

Met my wife on the beach. She was with her two girlfriends. Well to cut a long story short the first time we went out was to her school end of year dance. I am ten years older than my wife and to be honest at first I did not take her very seriously at all. Like ten years, nothing now but bloody hell she was still at school when we met. She went off up to the Sounds to work for about six weeks. I partyed all the weekends (this was in the Xmas New Year and I was working at a night club at the time.) and now on occasions we wonder if our relationship ever would have taken off if she had not gone away. It was definatley not love at first sight or indeed second sight. When she came back I asked her out as I wanted to see Disney on Ice. This was an ice circus and being an ice skater from old and her so young compared to me ............well what did I have to loose. It was that point that her opinion of me changed and I saw someone that I had never known or wanted to leave. She was different and being alone together for the first time allowed our own personalities to bond. Been bonded for thirtythree years years and married for twentynine. Love her as much now if not more.

Skyryder

[Motu]

A friend,who is a member of this board,introduced our small group of riders to another person he knew,and this opened up a whole new field of new aquaintences.He was a riding instructor and took a couple of girls he was teaching under his wing,they weren't into the latest shiny bikes,they loved the sounds and smells and mechanical side of British bikes,and as he rode a Triumph they were sold.We are all still friends today.

We knew each other for a couple of years and it was obvious there was an attraction on both sides - but she was my best mates girlfriend,that was a bit of a bugger.Finally on the last day of 1976 I returned home with a rattleing big end on my BSA,to find she was home with a leaking gearbox in her Speedtwin - and her boyfriend had gone and left her stranded.Well,I'm leaving for Taranaki in 5 mins in my pick up,grab a toothbrush and lets go....so off we went.We took a long time to get back to Auckland,we just kept turning right.

The resulting drama when we got back would have made me a millionare on reallity TV,but we didn't have it then.There were punch ups and yelling that went on for months,I was fighting with my best mate over a bloody chick - but I knew who I wanted to spend the rest of my life with - and it wasn't him!

So now we have 4 kids and are still happy with each other - well I am.I reckon she was a steal for a black eye and a split lip.

[toads]

Met my wife on the beach. She was with her two girlfriends. Well to cut a long story short the first time we went out was to her school end of year dance. I am ten years older than my wife and to be honest at first I did not take her very seriously at all. Like ten years, nothing now but bloody hell she was still at school when we met. She went off up to the Sounds to work for about six weeks. I partyed all the weekends (this was in the Xmas New Year and I was working at a night club at the time.) and now on occasions we wonder if our relationship ever would have taken off if she had not gone away. It was definatley not love at first sight or indeed second sight. When she came back I asked her out as I wanted to see Disney on Ice. This was an ice circus and being an ice skater from old and her so young compared to me ............well what did I have to loose. It was that point that her opinion of me changed and I saw someone that I had never known or wanted to leave. She was different and being alone together for the first time allowed our own personalities to bond. Been bonded for thirtythree years years and married for twentynine. Love her as much now if not more.

Skyryder

how wonderful, I just love that sort of happily ever after stuff. Congratulations too, 33yrs is a decent stretch of time.

[toads]

A friend,who is a member of this board,introduced our small group of riders to another person he knew,and this opened up a whole new field of new aquaintences.He was a riding instructor and took a couple of girls he was teaching under his wing,they weren't into the latest shiny bikes,they loved the sounds and smells and mechanical side of British bikes,and as he rode a Triumph they were sold.We are all still friends today.

We knew each other for a couple of years and it was obvious there was an attraction on both sides - but she was my best mates girlfriend,that was a bit of a bugger.Finally on the last day of 1976 I returned home with a rattleing big end on my BSA,to find she was home with a leaking gearbox in her Speedtwin - and her boyfriend had gone and left her stranded.Well,I'm leaving for Taranaki in 5 mins in my pick up,grab a toothbrush and lets go....so off we went.We took a long time to get back to Auckland,we just kept turning right.

The resulting drama when we got back would have made me a millionare on reallity TV,but we didn't have it then.There were punch ups and yelling that went on for months,I was fighting with my best mate over a bloody chick - but I knew who I wanted to spend the rest of my life with - and it wasn't him!

So now we have 4 kids and are still happy with each other - well I am.I reckon she was a steal for a black eye and a split lip.

awesome Motu, out of curiosity are you and your ( ex) best mate on good terms now?

[FzerozeroT]

Found the missus online, thats what i tell people, just type it and the internet will find:

"sugar mommy with a big rack"


2 and a half years and we still fight as much as we ever did

[KATWYN]

Mile high club












sorry, couldn't resist. We went out for 12 months then got married. But we knew if we were going to go out with each other ....it was "in veiw of marriage" being a likely outcome

[Skyryder]

But, one day she had too much week left at the end of her pay and accepted an invite out for a drink and to listen to some god awful dorkland band in a pub that since caught fire and fell down....

I can think of some pub bands that should have caught fire. Some were so bad they were replaced with disco music.............now that's got'a tell ya something.

Skyryder

[What?]

A mate's sister introduced me to the now Mrs What? via the blind date method. We didn't think much of each other at the time, both having negative attitudes after previous relationships (I had a t-shirt that read: "The more I learn about women, the more I love my motorcycle"). But somewhere, somehow, it all started to gel and eighteen months later we married. That was 6 1/2 years ago now.
Fortunately, Mrs What? knew that taking me on meant bikes, fishing and firearms, so none of the woosy compromises we hear some people making to pay for their slice of pie. Meanwhile, I let her carry on gardening...

[Holy Roller]

I met Beth at a church camp in Tauranga new Years 84. Earlier that day I had been showing off on my bike by pulling a mono on the grass, forgetting that i was on a road bike and not the trail bike that I used to ride. I fell off in front of a bunch of girls and broke my collar bone, bent my handle bars and severly bent my pride. Having a free afternoon a bunch of us guys went to the hot pools at Welcome Bay. I saw this red head there who I had seen at the camp and knew instantly that she was going to be my wife. I went over to her and spoke to her a few words about myself and walked off to be with my mates. unknown to me Beth had earlier asked God that her husband be like such and such, a list of five attributes. Those few words I said to her was exactly what she had asked God for, to in her future husband. Except for the fact that I was in the Navy

In Feb at my fifth birtday fancy dress party (I'm a leap year kid) I told her that every thing was off I had a bad case of cold feet.

God impressed Beth to move move to Auckland where she moved into a girls flat from the local church in Takapuna. I had been living in Devonport but my mate wanted his flat back, as he had come back from England, I moved into the guys flat that was next door to the girls flat.......
End of story

Engaged in August and married in December
5 wonderful kids that we homeschool
and all this in 20 years this year.

[Lou Girardin]

We were introduced when she was on holiday from the UK. 3 years and many misadventures later we were married.
I can't imagine being with anyone else.

[Kwaka-Kid]

given to me by god... Attached since birth one might say... doesnt talk back, does what i want, and controls the speed at which my bike goes!.
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Good ol' Mrs Palmer...
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Oh damn, we being serious? Wish i could say but im single ...
Can i tell you about the lsat one anyways?... well i will... It was a warm and sunny day... the birds were chirping, the wind was gentally just flowing... and then i said "sweet, im gunna go on a ride"... she (being a mate) said "hey, can i come" unfortunatly i said yes, so the bike did it for me, and the rest is history, yep, 5 long months of wasted time. *insert nasty words for females here* *instert a whole load more here*
Yeah im done :P Kidding! its all good... And the one before that was a New Years party from memory(but my memory was pretty blurred around that one! but yeah... ill stop there...
What about the next one you ask? Well... Im gonna be walking through Mt Eden and shes just gunna jump out at me and say "Vroom vroom!*translated ZX10 speak* ill be your baby!".... /KK wakes up, oh yeah... i wish i could afford her.

[Motu]

awesome Motu, out of curiosity are you and your ( ex) best mate on good terms now?

Sort of,we see each other every few years at some bike thing,we talk,but not about the past,I think we still have a lot of respect for each other as riders and what we did together.Hah! - one day we were talking on the phone for quite a while and before he hung up he said say hello to Jenny for me - she's not Jenny!!!! jeez,she was a bit pissed at that!