Well just for the record i'm still very much alive, but life circumstances once again dictate to me that I will be bikeless shortly, and quite probably for some time to come. This decision i've made for a number of personal reasons. My bike is currently for sale here if anyone is interested.Originally Posted by Dialogue from the movie Pulp Fiction, 1994
I know and understand by past observations that *goodbye* threads are a bit of a joke on KiwiBiker, but rather than just disappear into the shadows (which is what i intended on doing) i decided i'd do you the courtesy of one final thread. I have made so many biker friends and acquaintances over the near 3 years that i've been a member here that i think i owe you this much.
I joined KB on 21st January 2004 and at the time i owned and was riding a Kawasaki Z(ed)X6R green machine, hence the nickname Zed. See, it has nothing to do with that weird Tarantino movie! After riding the Kwaka for about a year i upgraded to a later model Honda CBR600F, but unfortunately i wrote that off about 6 months later on a KB ride (surprise surprise?). That bin saw me bikeless for a mere 6 months until i decided to have a go at the sport-tourer thing and purchased a Honda CBR1100XX, which was a great experience, but after 20,000kms i started feeling restricted on it and chose to get back onto a hardcore sprotsbike, so here i am on my current Honda (note a pattern emerging?) CBR954RR. (see attachments of all 4 machines)
Over this near 3 year period and these 4 machines KB has been a wonderful experience for me personally with meeting & riding with so many of you cool cats, venturing out on roads and to destinations that i'd never been to previously in my life, doing 10 trackdays over that time and LOVING it, and learning far more than i'd ever counted on about motorcycles through the great wealth of knowledge that exists on this site. I want to say a big thank you to everyone who has been a part of my KB experience!
On a final note, many of you know that i am a Christian man and that from time to time i have been outspoken about my beliefs on here, eg. The Scottish Thread (to keep you Macbeth fans happy by not mentioning it's real name), my signatures which have been Bible verses, and my custom user title "Seated in heavenly places" which is from Ephesians 2:6. I did get a hard time for my stand from a small group of members for the first 2 years of my participation on here, which was to be expected, but i'd just like to say that i purposefully restrained myself from being vocal a majority of the time (which was difficult for me) because i have respected that this is a biker site and not a religious forum, yet i did appreciate SpankMe creating an avenue for venting in the famous RR thread (oops nearly said it!). The battles behind the scenes were hard to bear at times however, but as my wife always reminded me "it takes two to tango, baby!" As a Christian and a biker i think i proved to many of you that we religious zealots aren't as strange (the Bible word is "peculiar") as you may think, and that at the end of the day there is not much difference between us. I would like to leave you with one last admonition from the Bible, and i do this out of love for you all:
Isaiah 55:6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
Romans 10:9-11,13 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
So with that said and done i bid you all farewell, i wish you all a great life and my sincere prayer is that i meet up with you again in the life to come.
Keep the rubber side down and the shiney side up!
And so as the Two Ronnies used to say "it's goodbye from me (Matthew), and it's goodbye from him (Zed)!"
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