Your best biking memory?

[Conquiztador]

When you think back at all the riding/bike stuff you have done, what stands out as your favorite occasion or memory?

For me it is 82 when I spent a couple of months travelling Europe with my then 750 Bonnie. I was in Italy when Italy won the soccer World Cup. Maan did the Italians go crazy!! The police painted their cars in the Italian flag's colours and went driving around the city with everyone else drinking wine.

Those days you were allowed to ride in Italy without a helmet. And say what you will re saefty, that was nice. But forget to try and sort out the hair afterwards...

Got together with a group of German riders, (Germany lost in the soccer final against Italy and they did not take that to well...) we stayed in this little town on the Italian riviera. Used to travel up a mountain (took about 1/2 hour) where there was a bar at the top. We sit outside at a large stone table having some drinks and cracking nuts on the stone table in the warm evenings. Then ride down the winding road and go to town. Get home at 5am. Sleep, get up, have something to eat, ride to the beach and then do the same thing again.

There was something special with that. Could also have to do with that there was this little Italian girl that used to pillon with me...

[HDTboy]

Racing with Texmo and Dylan Telfer, the race we had was so close, and we swapped places so many times that it was just awesome.
One corner at Manfeild is extremely long. I was following Texmo through it accelerating the whole way, with knees firmly planted, and I had time to think to myself "Shit that looks cool. Hey, I bet I look that cool too" It's all about the look

[jimbo600]

Traveling around the Basque region of Spain then through the Pyrenees to Andorra back through France to Biarittz then back into Spain to get the ferry back to Pommy. All on a GSXR750 WP

[Marknz]

Two things spring to mind for me.

1. My very first motorcycle trip to Phillip Island to watch the MotoGP in 2001. I was on L plates, had the VTR250 stocked up with Ventura rack and bag and tankbag and tent and sleeping bag and off I went. Joined up with a Wayne Gardner led ride from Woolongong to the Island over two days and riding across the San Remo bridge onto the island with a few thousand other riders and their bikes was something special. And to top it off, the race weekend was f'n brilliant.

2. Phillip Island again. This time for my first race meeting on the track in mid 2002. Arriving there on the first morning with the bike in the van, getting access to the circuit, unloading everything in the pit garage and then jumping the wall to stand in the middle of the circuit, looking down over the hump on Gardner Straight to the Southern Ocean. I was there at the mecca and I was gonna do it. 2 hours later I was flat knacker in top gear go through turn one... un-f'n-believable feeling.

[Goblin]

Racing with Texmo and Dylan Telfer, the race we had was so close, and we swapped places so many times that it was just awesome.
It's all about the look

I remember that race! I even have some photos of Texmo taking the chequered flag but they're a bit dark.

My best moment was taking the chequered flag, twice, at Taupo old track Then there was riding the MV SENNA on the full track! No speed limit!! Also riding Dennis' RMZ450 at the Suzuki trackday.
A few road rides stand out...like the Awakino meat feast ride, the Whangamomona ride and a few Coro loops have had me smiling for ages.

[blacksheep]

spending three weeks touring europe,visiting the mediteranean camping where we ended up that day,living on bread and cheese and the petrol pump vino all on an fz750.halcian days!

[Zapf]

One of my best rides, riding by myself on a CB900 Hornet just setup by Shaun in Napier back to Auckland via SH3 at night (leaving Napier around 6pm) last Sept. With blowing wind and pouring rain. It sounds like bad conditions to ride in but I was very very much enjoying the whole ride.

[janno]

The day my mentor had to actually wake up and chase me up our twisty practice road, instead of dozing and looking at the scenery while I doddered around the corners.

That was the day I found out why everyone loves corners, and what getting the line right through a set of fast corners feels like. In a nano second, the worst part of the ride became the best!

Was like changing from a boy to a man . . . except, I'm, uh, ya know, a woman.

[Crasherfromwayback]

The first time I rode a bike. It was a Suzuki RV125 at Riversdale beach, I was ten and I'd spent most of the day revving the nuts of the poor thing in first gear.
I had no one to show me how to do the bizz, as my father didn't ride.

I eventually worked out how to hook another gear....I fucking nearly wet myself once I'd sussed that out.....the rest as they say...is history.

[deanohit]

I eventually worked out how to hook another gear....I fucking nearly wet myself once I'd sussed that out.....the rest as they say...is history.

Nice one man. Mine was when I got back on my bike for the first time after a 4 month break.The ride started out slow as I got back into it,but with little traffic on the road it was no time at all before I was having fun through the bends again.Was so much fun I went back the way I'd came and did it all again.

[T.W.R]

Probably the best memory I'll keep for a long time would be the last ride I had pillion with my father on his Norton chasing my aunt around the backroads of Nth Canterbury

[babyblade250rr]

In my short career of motorcycle riding, The best time for me was when i rode me cbr250rr out of the shop mannnnnn was that a thrill!!

[Steam]

The first block I rode around, scary and thrilling! Just a year ago actually.

[Mr. Peanut]

The first time I got on my scooter, 125cc of fury! Wet mud, sliding all over the place. Awesome fun.

Then the time I wound out first gear on the NSR, and learned all about powerbands. That was the first time I laughed manically.

[MotoGirl]

The sessions before I wrote off my VTR at the old Taupo track.
I'd never been so quick in my entire life and (now I appreciate living) I doubt I'll ever go that fast again.