Who are we chatting to?

[pritch]

Profession: Civil Eningeering Technican

Yesterday I couldn't even spell "civil engineering technician" now I are one.

I need a drink.

[MaxCannon]

Profession: Senior IT Services Engineer
Age: 31
Bike: Suzuki Bandit GSF600S
First bike: GN250
How many Years riding: 2 and a little bit
First/best bike memory: First one - the BHS course. Never even sat on a bike till then and I was 29. Didn't have the faintest clue about the controls. thought the lever on the left grip was the back brake- like a pushbike Lol.
By the end it just felt like the most natural thing ever (had been cycling since I could walk).
Next weekend - sat the scratch and win, bought my gear, bought a bike, rode it home 40 kms across Auckland. Second ever time I'd sat on a bike.

Best - First track day at Pukekohe. Was buzzing for two weeks afterwards

Estimated km to date: 25,000kms give or take.

[pritch]

Profession: Uncivil servant. Contemplating retirement in much the same way a rabbit contemplates headlights...

Age: 65

First bike: AJS 16ms

Years riding: Fifty years this year since I started, although there were some years I didn't ride.

First memory: The singular lack of natural ability I displayed on the occasion of my first lesson.

Best memory: Any memory involving sun and a winding road. It's a bonus if it's the first time along that particular road.

[u4ea]

Profession: when Im not broken..
Age: 37 years and 3 moons ago
Bike: a relic like me
First bike: a little black plastic three wheeler when I was about 2
How many Years riding: Pillioned for ever :slap:.. 5 yrs in the saddle
First/best bike memory: Getting the 250 and going up Brunswick Road out to Kaiiwi(nice hairpins and narrow roads) after 1 week, when I was told not to by peole who had been riding a lot longer than me..then telling them where Ide been
Estimated km to date: Not as many as Ide like..but more journies to be had!

edit: but i agree with whoever said it in the first couple of pages - best way to actually meet someone is to go on group rides... everyone's persona on here is bullshit!

I shit you not !!!

[short-circuit]

Profession: Town Crier
Age: Octogenarian
Bike: 1982 Mk1 Raleigh Burner 'Model A'
First bike: 2011 Triumph Rocket III
How many Years riding: > 1
First/best bike memory: Receiving a tender hand job from Punky Brewster while powersliding my turbocharged unicycle up the Sky Tower
Estimated km to date: 3

[madbikeboy]

i have a digital one on the truck..

Sarge, I bought one of those off you - for measuring cravers dick - do you have one that goes down to microns?

[madbikeboy]

Profession: full time student (6th year at it - 5th year up in auckland)
Age: 22
Bike: K7 GSXR 600
First bike: FXR 150
How many Years riding: 7 years
First/best bike memory: first bike memory of my own riding is around the school fields, but i grew up on the back of my dads bike (plenty of great memories!) and best memory, well there are too bloody many to pick just one!
Estimated km to date: no idea (as cannot remember how many i did on my first three bikes) but in the last 7 months i have done a solid 20,000 (largely all done in the months before starting uni again (march)). That is thanks to getting my gsxr.. first two months on it I did over 12,000 delightful kms!

edit: but i agree with whoever said it in the first couple of pages - best way to actually meet someone is to go on group rides... everyone's persona on here is bullshit!

You're an awesome rider, it's a great pleasure to ride with you mate!

You're so right about the www persona versus IRL. People here are actually surprisingly cool IRL...

[TOTO]

WOW Brett!!!!!

Are you for real????

Only 24 and only been riding 5 years yet you have done 300,000kms????

YIKES! Thats approx 1154 kms per WEEK.

Given the way our licencing laws work you had to have spent 1.5-2 of those 5 years on a 250cc...thats a shitload of mileage on a 250...

Do you live in one city and work in another???

BTW I am not doubting you, I'm just amazed...(ok I'm wondering if one of the zeros was a typo LOL)

well some people just have more free time for riding. Young, single and FREE I call it

[buellbabe]

Yes and I count myself in that category altho not as young...however Brett did respond and admit it wasn't all BIKE kms, that it was split between car and bike...

Whatever...any day on the bike is a good one LOL. Speaking of which I have tomorrow off work and will be riding a demo... yeeeeeeeeeeee ha!

[SARGE]

Sarge, I bought one of those off you - for measuring cravers dick - do you have one that goes down to microns?

its not cheap but i think i can get you a deal

[NordieBoy]

That Sir. Is brilliant...

[madbikeboy]

Quite.

But one small niggle remains. What happens, during testing, if they accidentally create a black hole...

[AD345]

Quite.

But one small niggle remains. What happens, during testing, if they accidentally create a black hole...

There will be an immediate Commission of Inquiry

[Mikkel]

But one small niggle remains. What happens, during testing, if they accidentally create a black hole...

The black holes of the size that may be created by the energies involved with the LHC are of such low mass that they would evaporate pretty much instantly.

[carver]

You're an awesome rider, it's a great pleasure to ride with you mate!

You're so right about the www persona versus IRL. People here are actually surprisingly cool IRL...

im the exception, i really am a wanker