My reason for riding has changed

**Steam** · 1st April 2007, 22:51

I confess, I started riding to save money on petrol. Getting around on $15 of gas per week instead of $60 was the only reason I got my license.
But it has been 10 months since I got my learners license and compulsory GN250, and today I realised my reason for riding has changed.
Now it's about cruising through corners, leaning, lines, vibrations, revs, resonant exhausts, chatting with other bikers, and making new friends. It is about wondering what that grinding noise is and solving the problem through kiwibiker. It is about seeing new places and getting rained on and raging at cagers. Heck, I didn't even know the word "Cager" until I joined Kiwibiker.
I foolishly have three bikes at the moment and ride two of them every day.
I dream of the day I will have the skills to ride a litre bike. (and own it myself.)

People talk about riding as a lifestyle and it really is.
I've got the damn bug now!
Long may I be bitten!

**Ixion** · 1st April 2007, 22:52

heh heh. You're hooked.

**Midge** · 1st April 2007, 22:55

Heck, I didn't even know the word "Cager" until I joined Kiwibiker

UM ME TO! sum 1 elaborate please

**Motu** · 1st April 2007, 22:55

My riding has changed my reason.....

**NighthawkNZ:Me** · 1st April 2007, 23:00

Originally Posted by Steam

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Now it's about cruising through corners, leaning, lines, vibrations, revs, resonant exhausts, chatting with other bikers, and making new friends. It is about wondering what that grinding noise is and solving the problem through kiwibiker. It is about seeing new places and getting rained on and raging at cagers.

Welcome to the darkside... bwahahhaha... So you finally realised you can't be turned from it
errm thats why we all do it... isn't it???

**beyond** · 2nd April 2007, 09:15

You're buggered mate. You're hooked, you're addicted, you're a bikie junkie.

I got mine to get back into biking and ride just for fun after a long absence.
I never intended to ride intentionally again when I gave my last bike as part mortgage payment and then the sprogs came. You soon forget, but man it bites with a vengeance when you get your next bike and get back into it again.

I could ride all day everyday and never get sick of it. I love riding, the corners, the speed, the power.....

Yeah, riding and bikes are awesome.

**Macktheknife** · 2nd April 2007, 09:32

The power of bikes is not really about the throttle action, it is about the hold on your soul, the deep and abiding pleasure that only comes when you stay close to what you love.
It's like loving a woman only they don't talk back. lol

**Deviant Esq** · 2nd April 2007, 11:07

They do talk back, but in ways that a woman never could.

**gijoe1313** · 2nd April 2007, 11:17

I hear you brother, you are preaching to the faithful already. When people say "so you got into bikes to save petrol $$'s?"

My response is always "heck, no way - I spend more on petrol each week than I ever did on my cage (explain cage here to people as well!)"

I always wanted to ride bikes, ever since I did a quick jaunt on one in my early twenties. Conniptions my mum went through when she realised we were doing it meant I backed off and let my younger brother do it first (foolish older brother thinking). Full circle now. My brother thinks I'm even madder as a biker than he ever was (and jealous as heck now he isn't allowed to ride anymore!)

I love the feel of freedom on two wheels, I love the friendships I have made through it and ... the new vistas I entertain on my sojourns and.. and.. gosh... I'm lost for words when it comes to this wonderful world!

**orange dog** · 2nd April 2007, 12:14

I Tried a car once... thought it might make the winters easier. Drove it once and swapped it for a crappy old toploading video player... good deal !

**The Pastor** · 2nd April 2007, 12:21

My reason for bikes is that I enjoy it. I found with cars I'd have to be doing something crazy for me to get to enjoy it, with a bike I can safely go around a corner at safe and legal speeds, well within my limits (lets face it I cant ride to the bikes limits) and still enjoy myself when I pull off a nice smooth line, Or find out I can brake a lot later into the corner (actually this is just a dream, I don't have brakes atm).

I've yet to figure out how to load all my fishing gear on my bike. I think I can get my tackle sorted but a 5m surf-caster rod is proving difficult. Plus how would I stop my leathers from smelling like fish?

I love biking, but I don't hate cars.

Bikes are pure awesome, Cars are tools you use to cart gear.

Bikes = cool and cars = suck I think its newtons 4th law or somthing?

**Lissa** · 2nd April 2007, 12:22

I fully understand that feeling. When I first got my little GN250 I thought I would probably have it for a few years... no hurry, just go on little rides out in the country. Now after owning it for not even 6 months I am already researching my next bike... maybe a SV650 or SV650S

I have been bitten by the bug...it certainly is an addiction. Its the freedom, the feeling you get when riding along, learning as you go and the great people you meet.