greatest/proudest biking moments

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by graemepaterson

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

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 ( - 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

[Bluepete]

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?

[Luckypants]

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


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!

[yorkie_chris]

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
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 Power rangers tee hee.

Originally Posted by graemepaterson

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.

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

[fizzwheel]

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.

Originally Posted by BluePete

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

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

Originally Posted by Luckypants

Bit of a demon overtaker our K ( - will be having a dig about that for years girl, ha ha!)

Hey - I knew you could handle it.

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

The North / South 2007, first time I really gelled with my GSXR, the whole weekend has realy stuck in mind.

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.

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!

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.