greatest/proudest biking moments
 

hi everyone,

just looking through the latest threads and this sprung to mind.

out off all your biking moments,which do you wish you could go back to and do all over again?

to start the ball rolling,
i was riding with a mate on the back of my then rgv250,we were following a bus down a very long,steep incline.
the bus indicated to pull in left to a bus stop,so i slowed down ,once the bus had pulled over i blipped the throttle open to go past,bam straight away the front end came up to balancing point(if any of you have ridden an rgv you will realise how easy this is to do,whether you mean it or not especially2up)we then overtook the bus still at balancing point riding like this for about another 30/40 yards (still going downhill)

at this time all i could hear was loads of cheering and clapping ,once the front end came down i looked in my mirror and accross the road behind me was around 5 hundred people waiting to get inside to a rythem&blues festival all looking at us.(talk about centre of attention)

this was not pre-planned or done for the pose but f*** me what a buzz to be appreciated by so many people.:salut:

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Proudest moment was passing my test, had the biggest smile on my face ever to be honest, my cheeks were aching the next day.

Best other moment for sheer buzz, has got to be a ride out of matlock I had near the end of summer, myself and a random huyabusa. I know the quite route i took home like the back of my hand whether it be by bike or car, and I obliterated the busa, at the next crossroad he asked if it was a 1000, it was also the first time i got my knee down whilst not going round a rounabout lol. :rolleyes:

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I've only ridden for about 3 months, but the best so far was flying past my boss round some twisties on my restricted SVs, with him on a ninja-9r :smt066

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Yeah but Busa's dont count as they are only ridden by Weekend Warriors, who do 200 miles a yeat on them.

FACT! :smt098

mostly today I will be wearing a flame-proof suit, hugging a fire extinguisher and hiding from Busa owners :) (actually going for a curry on my bosses expense account :P)

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Passing my test this year, then getting on my sv for the first ride wobbled out da road, came back a few hours later 80 miles road.....It was just awesome, I then knew it was totally the right bike! I loved the first ride and still do....love my bike

I'm looking foward to the summer, when I can do a lot riding!

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:cheers: haha :( whatever :D

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Chasing Busapete and K on the NvS ride with Richie no numbers in my mirrors.

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...th_Nirvana.jpg

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Passing cbt and full license got to be number 1 for most folks?



Getting ready to ride off the ferry at my 1st TT.

Owning any bike from new.

Grinding bits of bike while not crashing.

Winning any sort of trophy.

Boring friends and family with "bike talk" so much they go and see for themselves what all the fuss is about, then seeing them on any type of bike.

1st ton.

A big garage.

Dusting GTI'd mates with a 12bhp 125 everywhere (was'nt allowed on M/way;) )

Any charity/toy/xmas/egg run.

Getting passed another bike that spec-sheet wise, you should'nt.

1st scream from a pillion. (M or F)


:takeabow:



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:)

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Has the guy infront of you got crutches strapped to his back?

That camera set up is awsome, very stable and good position, do you have a picture of it mounted and anymore details?

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The guy in front is K on her Blade which sounds superb! And yes, they are crutches! Vry odd following her with those on view!

The camera is a Fuji F31fd on a Ram mount on the bars.

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...ammount002.jpg

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Yes SHE has. Was a little behind this mob trying to catch up. Kept em in sight though. Bit of a demon overtaker our K (:smt077 - will be having a dig about that for years girl, ha ha!)

EDIT: Pete beat me to it

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Nice one, I would beable to use that mount though :(

I have a fuji S5700 which has an awsome video function, just need to find a way to mount it :(

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Graeme, have a look here.

http://www.ram-mount-uk.com/handlebar-mounts.htm

I'm sure you can find something to use, perhaps one of the ones that mounts onto the lever clamps?

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This year? Probably leading 5 SVs on the N. Wales ride and blowing 3 sportsbikes into the weeds. :smt077


Ever? Making it up the Col de Lauteret in a huge thunderstorm that made it dark at 3 pm and turned the road into a river. Three hours of terror and drama. Was proud of myself and glad I was not dead! :smt045

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Best one I had, coming back home from the yorkshire bike show over the tops, kept pace with 5 guys on thou's who were really really fast .... on the straights :smt077
Supersports thou riders in full leathers with sliders on everything ... being harrassed by a guy on a ratty, restricted SV in combats. Wish I'd had a camera :D Power rangers tee hee.

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nice1
had something similar on the rgv,was on a sunday run up to devils bridge when i found myself in a race with a bloke on a harris,through about 5/6 miles of country twisties i totally drilled him into the ground.

i arrived at the bridge a good sixty seconds before him,he then pulled up alongside side and said "jesus,what have you had done to that thing",i replied that it was just standard.

he then went on to say that i was a hell of a rider,crazy but a hell of a rider.in its own way i was proud of that comment, and cosidering the differance in machines it just goes to show bigger is,nt always better :D

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2 for me.

The North / South 2006, first time I really gelled with my GSXR, the whole weekend has realy stuck in mind.

Then our trip round Ireland in 2006,

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=78606

massive highs, the scenary and one sunny day when we found a beautiful road all along the coast. But also mixed in with some of the most miserable weather I've ever ridden through, wet doesnt begin to describe it, but its the wet ride through the night after getting off the ferry that I'm probably most proud of, weird isnt it as at the time I was totally f*cked off with it, cold, wet and very tired.

Sometimes it's the hardest things, the mentally and physically challenging things that stick with you.

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Yeah, sorry again for spraying a bit of puddle up your screen part way through.:rolleyes: But hey, Pennine roads, Pennine weather. ;)

Hey - I knew you could handle it. :oops:

I'm another one for the N/S ride, like Fizz, the whole weekend has stayed with me.
First time I've ever seen myself ride (thanks to BluePete).
First real twisty ride in the rain too. Being a bit of a fair-weather weekend warrior (hey, it's a luxery so I treat it like one ;)) I'd never really ridden the BlueBlade in the wet and had no idea of what my tyres would be like (Metzeler M3's), but that soggy stretch we had...

... wow. It was on rails. Did myself proud then.



The crutches - meh - who needs a working leg when the bike is there to do it all for me. ;)

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Passing my test. Lots of great biking moments but none as utter thrilling as passing my test! I do also get a buzz from overtaking cars on dual carriage ways on the outside of a sharp bend, and also steaming up steep hills like fish hill and one good one I found going south towards Salisbury. I'd love to do a hill climb!

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Sitting in the pub with a large bunch of mates when my ex-girlfriend described to them how I lofted the front wheel of my Gixer Thou at 100mph and wheelied away from her Bandit 650, keeping it up for about 1/2 a mile and dropping it down gently with about 130 on the clock.

One of my mates, who races and is an extremely fast road rider (he holds the unofficial John O'Groats to Lands End record for a bike on a GPZ750 Turbo), says "but Loz doesn't don't do wheelies" to which she replied "Oh he did, and it was a gooood one, better than I've seen you do".

I'm not slow, but I'm nowhere near super-fast and I'm well known to be **** at wheelying, so that really made me feel good as it's the only decent one I have ever pulled in nearly 30 years of riding, and it had a very appreciative audience.

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Passing my test first time :) was so proud i had date tattooed on my lower back.

Best moment? doing my first and so far only trackday-scraped my rhs peg :)

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It was probably my test as well. Putting my 125 back together after having to replace half the wiring and rebuild the carbs- with no clue at all what I was doing- and having it actually start for the first time in 2 months was a good moment too.

But the absolute best moment was my first real ride after I got back on the bike after missing 6 months through injury... I'd done a couple of wee wobbly test rides which were really frustrating- I had to relearn to ride without using my right leg at all, and all my muscle memory was wrong, so for the first few rides it was like I'd forgotten how to ride- but then I eventually said "**** it" and went off on a 200 mile ride all over the place, no destination in mind at all. Total agony by the end, and I wasn't fast... But I've never had such a fantastic ride before or since, because for 6 months I'd not known if I'd even be able to sit in the saddle, and it all started coming back to me at about Galashiels.

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Ohhhh yes that reminds me...

Rewired the SV, couldn't get any ignition at all, had been buggering about with it for WEEKS, new coils, new alternator, new ECU, not a fart out of it.

Finally, traced a broken wire underneath the ignition switch (the one bit I didnt rewire! Grr!)

11.30 at night, had no can on the exhaust, all the turning it over to get spark had dumped a fair bit of fuel into it, croc clipped the broken wire to earth....
zz zz BAM BRAAAARRRRPP :D
Right fireball out the pipes and a cloud of black shiit with the first bang, but god it sounded good hehe

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Best one for me was passing my DSA test for CBT training, but was very closely followed by a little race up the Cat & Fiddle on a Mille GT Moto Guzzi with the ex wife on the back, chasing (& beating) a ZXR 750 . I asked her if she wanted a drink after I had passed the pub (meaning a coffee in Buxton) to which she replied "I'll have a very large Brandy" :D.
It all stemmed from the night before when she told my mate in the pub that I was a boring rider when she was pillion, so I just wanted to show her how boring :smt081

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Letting the clutch out without causing the bike to stall.Oh happy days!:D

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:smt045:smt045:smt045

What a weekend that was - over 900 miles, 300 of which were on some of the most amazing roads I have ever ridden. Great company, 'enthusiastic' riding and loads of laughs. Even my puuncture at the end couldn't take the shine off.

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impossible to pick just 1 moment from the last 10 years - it's all been great! :D

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Obviously passing my DAS first time also the fork conversion I've just done having never done ANY work on my bike (not even removing the wheels!).

But for riding it has to be the final leg of the invasion of the valleys where the pace got a little more spirited and I managed to keep up with the leading riders (they probably weren't going flat out but it was still a great feeling being relatively new to riding and my first group ride).

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Passing the test, obviously :rolleyes:... but apart from that, best moment so far was putting up my tent on Skye for my first night away on my own just riding around Scotland... although the whole weekend of AR07 is a close contender too... and my first trackday at Croft (even the bit where I binned it lol)...

Oh, I can't decide. It's all been ace. :p

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Best moment for me was when I passed my Response bike course at work!

Ch00

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Reaching Pacific Coast Highway Santa Monica on my **birthday, after riding 3300 mile across America from Wisconsin, with my daughter right behind me on a thundering Harley Sportster!

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Proudest= passing test.
Greatest= first full throttle opening on the sv, that was fun :)

I don't take much pleasure from "beating" other bikes, however potent. I went through that phase in cars when I was 17.

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proudest- passing my test:D first time too.

and the day of the delivery of my SV:cool:

greatest- first time i really opened the my SV up, first time i went over a ton+, oj and riding round feeling like the mutts nutts!

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Riding Tail of the Dragon for the first time, at night, in light rain, 2 up on a Goldwing. Absolutely no other traffic about, really old (1940s) crackly music playing on the radio. Probably the most magical experience of my life and certainly my best biking one. Properly racing (and winning) against a tuned car at over 100mph (private road officer) comes a close second. Very different sensations, almost at opposite ends of the biking experience.

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This must be a festive topic. The same thread came about last year around the same time. :lol:

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Good times:

Riding my smuggled-into-the-country 1990 Yamaha DT-200RA from Connecticut to Mount Washington (a decent haul).
I rode with guys on a CB-900F and CB-700SC Nighthawk S, and at least one of them was skeptical as to the ability of the 200cc bike surviving such a trip without either exploding en route from the constant revs out on the Interstate or at the very least being completely worn out upon returning and requiring an engine overhaul.
The bike was geared up as tall as I could make it (as large a front sprocket that would fit and about three teeth down on the back sprocket) and fitted with road-biased dual-purpose tires (and the wheels were ballanced), but otherwise stock.
Top speed according to my speedo was between 95 and 100mph, and we kept this pace for hours.
One of the guys was all giggly at the DT's ability to run that speed for hours, while my buddy that was skeptical kept waiting for the explosion that never came.
Fun trip, all-in-all.

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Buying my first "real" sportbike:
1994 Yamaha YZF-750RF.
Brand new, and they were pricey for a 1994 750.
Awesome machine, killer suspension (meaning good), fine handling and feel.
Had a lot of fun on it.

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Being right in the middle of the big hoopla when the 1998 YZF-R1 was released in the spring of 1998.
I was the first to get one from the local Yamaha dealer (where I also worked) and this bike delivered on all the hype, the fact that it was a very good-looking machine was an added bonus.
Everybody wanted the blue one (which I bought, too), and it seemed the only guys who wanted the white/red were guys who had to either take that or nothing.
The thing that made this exciting was that there was a feeding frenzy about being able to get one before they were all sold, and I was accused of "buying the bike out" from another guy.
The scene was interesting, yet still a good memory.

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The latest good thing is the purchase of my SV-650K7.
Although I learned this many years ago, it reminded me that the amount of maximum power isn't everything and the way it is delivered (and even sounds) and the way the bike feels while you toss it around accounts for so much.
I love it when some kid not even half my age (and fresh out of his basic rider's course, carrying his GSX-R-matching HJC under his arm but getting beads of sweat in it from his tank top exposing his underarm area while thumbing his cell phone for the latest text message) asks why I "went down" in engine size from the YZF-R1s and FZ-1s (perhaps assuming I must have run into financial difficulty and that was all I could afford).
Actually taking the time to explain how I feel about it results in a confused look on their faces, especially when they're told the bike makes 70hp max. at the rear wheel and isn't the best choice for wheelies.
To me, this is comical.

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My best biking moment was my first ride on my SV, it was a moment I've dreamed of...looking in my mirrors and seeing my dad behind me on his GSXR, father and son out on a ride. Perfect

Matt

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The SV cranked right over, flat out, on the A87 towards the Isle of Skye, then stopping at Eilean Donan castle and waiting for ages for the guys I was with. When they arrived they told me they'd watched me joining the bridge over the south end of Loch Duich from 1/2 mile behind me and stopped to take photos of me blasting up the other side of the loch.

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...=newsearch.srf

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Not sure whether I would want to do it again, but I think passing my bike test was my best day.

I already had Car and HGV. So after many years of struggling with a damaged hip. It was so painful to walk and couldnt sit astride a bike until I had a new hip fitted in the March and passed my bike test 2 weeks later.

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I had one of those too. I thought exactly the same as you. And they had the biggest front brakes at the time too.