Wish I had a bike right now

[Slipstream]

I took a long drive up to Napper-chang-chang (Napier) and now completely understand why some people enjoy long distance travel ... when you are the one at the wheel. I can't wait to go for a long distance ride and not be the pillion.

I got the same feeling when I was learning to fly a plane.

It's so peaceful. The only thing you have to worry about is petrol, getting there (wherever that may be) and not having an accident.

Almost Zen-like really. Wasn't there a book about that? "The Zen of motorcycles" or summat?

Yeah , riding a bike right now is exactly what I need to be doing. Would beat sittin' round the house at night feeling upset, while my newly made x rides around freely. :disapint:

Pfft!

So anyways... anyone else agree that long distance riding (or maybe even other modes of travelling) is a good way to get rid of the blues?

[Jsn]

I think it was "Zen and the art of motocycle maintainance".. I have it lying around somewhere.
And yeah looking forward to some long distance riding eh.. Hopefully should be getting a wof and reg tomorrow morning bright and early (8:15... its early enuf) then i'll be keen to go on some rides

[dangerous]

I took a long drive up to Napper-chang-chang (Napier) and now completely understand why some people enjoy long distance travel ... when you are the one at the wheel. I can't wait to go for a long distance ride and not be the pillion.

I got the same feeling when I was learning to fly a plane.

It's so peaceful. The only thing you have to worry about is petrol, getting there (wherever that may be) and not having an accident.


So anyways... anyone else agree that long distance riding (or maybe even other modes of travelling) is a good way to get rid of the blues?

Ohh yeah... I know what ya mean, I get a bit worked up prior to a big ride but once out there, all worries go, usually end up humming the last song I heard on the stero before leaving and I also can relate to your comment on flying aswell.

ps: I find that new rd's are an extra buzz

[Cajun]

I took a long drive up to Napper-chang-chang (Napier) and now completely understand why some people enjoy long distance travel ... when you are the one at the wheel. I can't wait to go for a long distance ride and not be the pillion.

I got the same feeling when I was learning to fly a plane.

It's so peaceful. The only thing you have to worry about is petrol, getting there (wherever that may be) and not having an accident.

Almost Zen-like really. Wasn't there a book about that? "The Zen of motorcycles" or summat?

Yeah , riding a bike right now is exactly what I need to be doing. Would beat sittin' round the house at night feeling upset, while my newly made x rides around freely. :disapint:

Pfft!

So anyways... anyone else agree that long distance riding (or maybe even other modes of travelling) is a good way to get rid of the blues?

Yep riding is good ways to get rid of the blues, (c:< rideing fixes many troubles
also can bring any but that is another story

[JohnBoy]

I reckon its the best way to start a holiday, i ride from Ham's to welly about 3 or 4 times a year and really enjoy it.

my helmet is too loud to have a walkman so i have got pretty good at singing... well, it sounds pretty good when you cant really hear it!

get out there on a bike, take the long way home and kick back and have a blast! i would do it more often but i dont have a tree in my back lawn where tyres grow.

[StoneChucker]

Can you please not mention flying planes... It's really frustrating having HALF a pilots licence, but not being able to finish because you're skint

Hey, do Hijacked flying hours count towards the required total?

[vifferman]

I wish you had a bike right now too, Slipstream!

I find long rides tiring. Must be getting decrepit. But hooning is a good way (or is that "bad", as in the naughty sense?) to get rid of the blues.

[F5 Dave]

I like longer trips by myself, shorter ones with mates.

Still there is another alternative for introspective thinking. Go have a good talk with the ducks in the local stream or pond. I always find they have all the answers or at least put some perspective on things.

Seriously.

(They talk better when you feed them).

[Slipstream]

It's really frustrating having HALF a pilots licence, but not being able to finish because you're skint

I hear ya brutha.

I know how to fly a plane but do not have necesary licence, or money either...same goes with bikes....

Next year....oh bliss and rapture....next year a licence and a bike and money for both...hurry up 2005, I'm waiting

.............................

[dangerous]

Can you please not mention flying planes... It's really frustrating having HALF a pilots licence, but not being able to finish because you're skint

Hey, do Hijacked flying hours count towards the required total?

OK.......... so what if we take Slipstream's your's and my hours add them up I reckon that would cover the hours in toatal, so between us we will have a licence......... just means that we would have to all go flying together, we could handle that right? But if we take a moth for a spin then I bags the rear seat and SS would have to take the wing walkers seat aye! cos shes proberly the lightest.

[Hitcher]

Zen-like is a great description. It's not about going somewhere, it's about the ride. Time and distance are transformed. You are at-one with the road, the weather and the scenery. You are the bike.

Robert Pirsig wrote Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. Highly recommended!

[F5 Dave]

Yeah just don't expect it to be about motorcycles. After you get that straight it is a good book, but it's not a light read.

[Slipstream]

But if we take a moth for a spin .....

Moth schmoth....I wanna pilot a VTOL aircraft, specifically a Harrier Jet. That's the reason I was learning to fly. That and Topgun....
'You lost that loving feeling, woOOAah that loving feeling...'

[Slipstream]

Zen-like is a great description. ......... You are the bike.

Thank you .... It's amazing isn't it. When you are in a cage going "hypothetically" 120km would seem bloody fast and outta control. Yet when on a bike going "hypothetically" 160km wouldn't seem that fast, cos you would move with the bike, like it is an extension of yourself... as you said.

[dangerous]

Moth schmoth....I wanna pilot a VTOL aircraft, specifically a Harrier Jet. That's the reason I was learning to fly. That and Topgun....
'You lost that loving feeling, woOOAah that loving feeling...'

shezzzzzzz girl............... next you will be wanting a 900 ninja doing 2 hundie down the back of the airport, shades on and no lid, hair waving out the back...... errr hang on, that wont work will it

'woOOAah that loving feeling...'