Fantastic weekend

[Coldkiwi]

Originally posted by bluninja
Great to talk (and talk, and talk) with so many at the BBQ.  TTFN

by cripes si' you're not wrong! you could talk the big end off one of those dirty great marine diesels you were on about, let alone a horse! you did, however, do a fantastic job of not winging (as many of your fellow pommy men do so poorly) and for that you must be heartly congratulated! (especially given how much you said!) hehehe

awesome evening. the heater was a definite plus and obviously appreciated by all the girls in attendance!

[bluninja]

winging? I'm always winging it BTW I ride an RSVR. What do I have to whinge about

Bloody hell though...you even remembered some of the stuff I said.....just don't post any of the other stuff though OK? (Si starts to get a little worried) it was just the (ginger) beer talking.

TTFN

[Duke of Rogan]

LOL, I was going to point out the spellling

was a good barbie, wish I stayed longer, next time I'll bring the wife

I took her for her second ever pillion ride yesterday, up to Matakana and back. she got all my good gear, and I was back to my old leathers from the bikes last owner.
we met up with her mother in Matakana, who does not approve of my motorcycle, much

> 300km's clocked up in 2 days, and now no bike for a few weeks as its finally getting painted

[SPman]

As I left home to do some shopping at 11 on Sat. morning and got home at 10.30 Sun night, it must have been a Good weekend!

 Good BBQ - thanks to Mitch,Slim,KK and all! KK, how many Reds did you get through......amazed you could walk on Sunday, let lone ride!......aaaah youth............sigh!

GR8 night. Any photos of the skin show??

[Kwaka-Kid]

hey again guys.

nope, no pictures @ all were taken during skin show, sorry to those that didnt stick around.

was good 2 meet you MikeL and you too andrew, and its too damn true that there aint enuf of us young ones getting into it.

Good Tats all round in the skin show, not one that i didnt dislike, and a true congrats to your well thought of one Si.

oh and the last things have been bolted/bracketd on the vfr, and i ran her today without any packing in muffler, sounds like a beast just need to mount front fairing actually and go buy some more fibreglass etc to lengthen rear tailpiece.  Thanks for the millionth time to all those KB'ers that showed up even if you didnt stay long, it was all good and i will post my approx 5 odd pictures i took up on thursday after work, wait, so that makes it friday.. yeah/

[Antallica]

There's pics, where?

[aff-man]

Quote :  and its too damn true that there aint enuf of us young ones getting into it.

Well KK I'm tring to get a few of my mates into it who are keen (2 are chicks) but convincing thier parents is the hard part

[Kwaka-Kid]

sweet aff-man

even if it means letting them ride/scratch the VT eh? its worth it.

[Gixxer]

Convincing Parents?

That will never happen unless your parents are riders, hell I'm - (not much older then you lot i'm sure.) and my old lady still hates me riding.

 

[aff-man]

Well i did it the "interesting way" told my parents i was going to ride a bike, they didn't believe me so i worked my ass off and when i actually went and bought one that's when they were quite worried (crashing twice in the forst 2 weeks didn't help). But now they're sweet with it most of the time i think it's just the initial 'oh no if you ride a bike you will die' syndrome  .

[Coldkiwi]

no, it CAN happen! I explained to my mum why I wanted to get a louder exhaust on the 6R (because two cars have bumped me that didn't hear me) and she agreed!! (????) there is hope! also, my g/f's parents let her ride on the back with me... and I've just found out that they gave her a stern warning about dating bikies a few years ago too!

hehe... what can I say? miracles can happen!

[bikerboy]

My parents got me and my brother started when wre were rather young. However, once we got older and the bikes got bigger then they suddenly were not happy.

I'm a lot older than you young ones and my parents still aren't happy.
But hey, you gotta do what ya gotta do, life's to short...yada,yada,yada!

[Nouseforaname]

My mum loves the fact that i rde, it's my dad that hates it... i guess it's beacuse he drives a van and he's got the job of coming to pick me and my bike up every time i stack it :-(

Gutted i missed the BBQ, but got no wheels at the moment so it makes it hard to get around..... my chauffer who drives me in my big yellow mercedes benz only sticks to the routes he knows and isnt keen to learn new ones.

[Kwaka-Kid]

haha Nouse, pitty you were not there, i like your sense of humour

Yeah well after being on back of bikes on street scince like 3 and always helping my dad in garage, parents decided (well dad) that it was only a matter of time, and so got me on dirt explaining to my mother that it would give me some good/basic skills hopefully avoiding some of hte simple accidents related to being so wooden on a bike that are incurred during the first wee while of riding.  Funny enuf then my mother really liked me getting out there as much as possible... and when the day came, and i got my 250 my mum didnt mind that much... it was the day i got my full licence @ 16.5 and took my dads (250-60kg?) GS1000 out weighing only 60kg and her having been on the back of such bikes that she was worried... infact the most cut-up i ever seen her when i told her i was starting to ride the beast ... and still she really really doesnt like me on the GS or my old GPZ750, but is happy with me on the little 400 fours which me and my dad/her hubbie have easily convinced her into believing dont really go that much faster then the CB250

but yes i definatly think having at lesat 1 biker parent helps ALOT in it all.

[Coldkiwi]

KK, i have A LOT of sympathy for your dear mum. Most mothers probably worry a bit too much about their kids riding bikes... but I think yours has every reason to be worried about you taking that dodgy old bodged together GS out! Your 'lets ride with a tinted visor at night because i can't be arsed changing it' attitude coupled with your belief in saving money on parts scares the heck outta me.. it must be murder on your family!!