On an FZ400R (1984) Celebrating my last day employed, yesterday on a damp and wet in places Croft Race Curcuit. Must have forgot that sparkie sliders were not welcome...
This is mine, What is yours?

Mine was coming down off the TT mountain course on Mad Sunday knowing that I, a granny on an old GT550, had achieved something that most of the bikers I know have never done!

And no, I wasn't scared - I was too busy keeping out of everyone else's way to have time to be scared!

Arriving at Land's End having set off from John O'Groats and raising £2,200 in the process for the Children's Hospice Association of Scotland (CHAS). There was no-one there to meet me, no fanfare and no reporters keen to know of any difficulties but I still shed a tear knowing my weeks holiday and first big adventure on a bike had been well spent.

After seeing two gixxer thou's & a ZX10 fly past me on the M60, catching them up and staying with them on the twisties A57 "snake pass" on a lil' ole bandit too

picking my first bike up, best feelin eva.

I guess it was when i got my first bike.


I was saving to buy a 2nd hand bike and worked the whole summer school holidays selling Ice-tea. Lemonade etc on the beach.

My Granny was going to help me, bcos I was still under age to have it on my name etc. So she said she was going to have a chat her cousin that has a HONDA shop......

I had to wait a few more weeks till Xmas to go and collect it, since Granny lives 2 hours drive away..

To my surprize when I got there, it was a brand New Bike. All shinny


It was only a 125cc, similar to the CG but with front disc brake, 2 level seats etc....

I guess I will never forget that moment.... My First bike.....




In honour of my Granny.
Thank you for believing in me, when nobody else did
I do not know what waits for us when we pass away......
but you live in my heart always

Not had many moments bit it'd have to be when I first too the KH on the road.

I was only going to take it easy and go round the town and surrounding villages but ended up doing the best part of 80 miles "exploring" and getting lost.

Came back home and was proper chuffed ... despite finding parts hanging off

Actually managing a u-turn on my 2nd test and passing

Buying a bike I have wanted for the last 20 years and then hitting the fabled Vboost zone for the first time.

Grin? - my face nearly split in two.

Picking up my brand new GS1000, my first new bike, after years spent repairing and doing up old wrecks and selling them on, untill i had enough for a new bike.
The feeling sitting asride the bike and knowing that it was the first 1000cc in town and it was !! mine!!. was unbelieveable, I had a grin on my face bigger then the Cheshire cat. I felt as proud as a peaccock riding around town, i must of done about 100 miles that day just riding around Grimsby and Cleethorpes.
The only other time i have had a feeling like that was watching my son being born

Yup, I'll agree with everyone who said getting their bike was their best moment.

(I thought it was for me too...but then I had a better moment a few weeks back - twisty b roads round where I grew up on a sunny Sunday morning with no traffic except horses. When I stopped I wasn't just grinnin' - I was laughin' with delight !

Yep, I've had that euphoria too! tis a wonder. I had been doing 150mph for about ten mins on my Gixer. 1995 between Assen and Amsterdam. stopped and stroked my rear tyre with my white Kush!tani glove. the Rubber just melted off the tyre onto the glove and I fell over laughing and couldn't stand. My mate on his RF900 was the same. fast roads are a good for adrenaline. Confine those antics to the track now...

been riding 28 years, be riding at least that again, ask me in another 20 years or so

maybe not my best moment but .. in 1989.. watching 2 norton rotarys fly past all the jap bikes on the snetterton straight like they were standing still

made me proud to be british !

Think my best moment never was about 10 years ago when i was racing motocross We were riding at Foxhills GP track and just after the first corner there was a massive downhill, you had a job to walk down it and you couldn;t see the bottom of the hill untill you stood right on the edge. To say i was s***t scared would be an understatement. Anyway when i got there i just give it some and jumped of the edge and meet the ground again about halfway down Laughed my head off ever time after that.

Building me first ever Hardtail Chop 14,000 miles later i'm still smiling

The best moment ever was at 1 second past 12am on October 2 1980, my 16th birthday, I was off on my Yamaha TY 50 for my first completely legal ride. I didn't sleep much after that ride because I was so excited and I'm still excited after a good ride.

Pugwash!

GOD DAMN!!! That chop is AWESOME!!!!

Is it a Gixer 11 motor and front end with a hard tail?

What does it ride like?

Does it go round corners?

Is it able to be ride far and fast?

Tell me more. I am am being inspired here!

Any moment i spend on a bike is a good time

Spending the time on a bike with my brothers is even better.

but the time that springs to mind is

my birthday last year, having not been on a bike since my accident & gave up trying to persude my wife round to my way of thinking I thought it will have to be a trike or nothing ( i love my trikes but it is not the same as a bike ).
i waited all day for my present from Sandy ( she always goes out of her way to buy me something special ) She had told me in the morning that my present was being kept at one of the lads houses as it was to bulky for her to hide in our house so I would get my present when we went out for a drink that night.

I did not have a clue what she had got me, so that night we went down the pub the lads came in one by one drinks where drunk talk was talked, then sandy says ok i have made you wait long enough she got me to close my eyes & led me outside the pub pushing a small object into my hand & saying happy birthday you can open your eyes now.

I looked but had no idea what i was looking for then she said seen one of them before pointing at a bike outside the pub ( there was about 10 bikes there nothing unusaul there ) yep that's a GT550 says i why?

that is your GT550 she said

it took me almost 10 minutes before i could speak & the only thing i could say was Fecking hell you brought me a BIKE & then i laughed & cried & laughed it took about 3 days to get over the shock lol

the small object it was the keys wrapped up in a ribbon

You must have the kind of marriage I'm looking for....

We are not the perfect couple we have our up's & downs like everyone else.

Aren't we all? Just...

[img]http://static124.photobox.co.uk/images/link/1/5229c03c9085d90f4516_131158_11809445.jpg?ch=1[/img]Has to be when I manged this for the 1st time!!

Best moment ever for me was my first time on the cat & fiddle

before the cameras, man it was awesome and it scared me sh1tless

tight bends gearbox working overtime it was a lesson in itself

Im ashamed to say this but my best moment was today. 1st gear on the blade, bro on the back, nine thousand revs and up she came, second, third, fourth and a one hundred and fourty mile per hour wheelie two up. Not big and not clever and i wont do it again. I am a worm. But the child in me loved it.

i go with that but it was the 5th of aug 1978 on a FS1E, my burfday was on the 30th of july but i was away on hols with the folks and they refused to let me take the bike !!
getting back on the road a few weeks ago comes a very close second!

nice bike Pugwash!

only ever ridden a hard tail once, a very badly done gs750 with fork oil leaking all over the discs,(didn't realize till i needed to stop !) a random 4 cylinder twin, 360 degree gear change, on the worst bit of 1 mile road in town.. it wasn't very inspiring!!

Honda's suck huh?! ....





ok! ...



i can go with that!, mines the other feckin extreme to a hard tail!! cb750fb= a pogo stick on speed with a dirty great big hing in the middle!

Nice to see you back again woodz mate.

zombie, will you teach me how to wheelie? last time I had to buy a gixer 1100 and just wind it on. there must be a better way. Always fearful of the clutch way. never really understood the knack..

my best moment ever was picking up my cm 125 and riding it back home, best and scariest to boot
However, finally, finally, getting the cb to run properly on all 4 pots with no misfire and no oil leaks this week has to come a close second

not mine but made me smile

click here

small video clip

worth it really

crist i nearly sh!t me guts out laughing at that m8

very funny

Loz - i would advise against wheelying mate. I know this osunds odd but its when we show off that we usually crash. Sadly the blade has reawakened my hooligan side - i may have to get rid of it for something more sensible.

If you really must wheelie theres only two ways. Power the bike to the max power point for that bike and hope it comes up on its own or clutch it up. Simply ( lol) ride it to the power band then snick the cluthc in without throttling off for a split second, then when snapping the clutch out simply wind it full open - it WILL come up. Wether you can control this is your business and never shut the throtltle or will hit down crossed up and youl be off.

My advice is book a day at a wheely school and use their expertise and their bikes with ignition killers fitted. dont practise on the road or you will end up in tears mate. I know i did it and it may sound stupid but it was a very silly thing to do.

In All Seriousness Zombie, I have always had two goals with bikes. to get my knee down and to wheelie. I've done some little ones but never got to holding it on the balance point.

In truth I don't really want to learn the hard way so I have stayed clear. when someone gives me a foolproof way of doing it ( other than a gixer thou or bandit 12) I'll MAYBE try again. till then I will find other ways to look cool on my bike.

might be the firt guy to get his knee down on a chop on a track day.... for instance..

Its gota be my old LC, stan stephens tune and race pipes, the power band would kick in at below the usual point an all hell would break lose. Very addictive and it wasnt long before i had to let it go for fear of my life, they dont call them widow makers for nothing.

As for wheelies, i have always been curious, done a couple involantry ones on my LC but the dan thing always felt so unstable that i would bring them down quick time.

The ZX has the power but i dont think i have the bottle, also if i learned to do it it would become adictive too, i easily get caught up in the hooligan aspect of biking and that just wouldnt do......






















There's a kid in here some where just itching to get out...... back i say back !

I have to say i am not advocating wheelies - ike speeding or any other irresponsible act it may end in tears/fines/exsepnse or all three. Mate of mine recently did a wheelie school day ( on a bandit twelve with kill thingy hanging out the back) on closed runway and he loved it but i bet he now starts doing regular wheelies.
I was serious about maybe having to get rid of the blade. its so fast and so dsharp that im speeding everywhere and wheelying like a fecking idiot. Its like drinking too much, you know you'll regret it but you have a few and then lose all sense and have a few more, before oyu know it youre pissed and feel crap the next day. I have started to go this way with the blade. I WILL have to get rid of it i reckon, its not the bikes fault its me, im a child at heart and cant help myself pushing my luck.

What a bike though, a mate told me that the RRW is the best sports bike ever built and im starting to agree with him. My rear tyre is shredded in two thousand miles from spinning out of bends and im just behaving like a complete twonk on the hting. Itll end in tears so it will have to go, but what to get next?

Almost anything Zomb, get rid of it quick, we don't want to lose you!