Highlights

a) What was your best personal biking moment of 2003.
and:
b) What was the best biking moment on UKRM during 2003.

a)
Wheelying at eeek speed down a motorway in fourth gear for a long way.
Also, overtaking Cane on the Mxx then checking to see if my GSXR1000 was
indeed de-restricted [1]


b)
Champ winning that race. It really made me smile.

[1] It was and just kept on going. [2]
[2] But I weigh nothing anyway.

 

Riding the public-road sections of the track at Le Mans. Several times.

 

a) Discovering that my commute from my new house included 10 miles of
unclassified roads.

b) Even though I missed it by a few seconds, the Ginge/Seat interface
on the Spring French run..

 

Not Fucking Crashing.

The appearance of the Imaginary R1.

 

This was not mine.

 

Alan.T.Gower said...

Coming round a roundabout on Jas's ER-5 and seeing the beginning of the
famous tunnel in Monaco that the F1 cars scream through.

Seeing 18 year old Dynamic thrashing the tits off Blaney's CBR600 after
being subjected to a shite TZR125 and a ZZR250, and then the grin on his
face as he pulled his lid off in the carpark afterwards. It's things
like that make me smile.

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No one moment, but getting my confidence back on the ZRX has been great.

Not really on UKRM, but on a UKRM trip..

Watching Bonwick try to stand up the morning we all had to ride back,
then seeing him fall flat on his arse, more pissed than he was the night
before.

It was only justice though, after all, the fucker stood there drinking
my pint when the frogs loaded me into an ambulance. )

 

S'ok. Wasn't really a biking moment.

 

Well, no.

 

a) a spirited ride along the A413 ending in the guy behind me being pulled
by the unmarked plod car we'd overtaken somewhere on the road.

b) The miscellaneous threats of bodily harm? Actually I don't really have
any UKRM highlights. Porl's attention seeking perhaps...

 

a) Yesterdays dirt biking exertion.
b)Kev O getting back on a bike. (Dunno why, only met him once, but thought
he was a fucking hero
after all he went through.)

 

Fk, I thought this was a hair-care topic.


Umm OK........

a) Going flying ~ Courtesy of Geoff Mayes' Wildtrax MX school (Jesus I
would never have believed those jumps are so high).

b) For me? Borrowing Pip's trailer to go and collect my own moto-crosser a
few months later.


--
Nidge
ZX6R J2 Stunning in zit yellow. Bits of CB500S in Norwegian Parrot blue.
BOTAFOT#63

'Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand'.
(Homer Simpson).

 

Clearing the tabletop at Wildtracks: just floating down to the softest
landing ever. Or maybe getting my left knee down at Silverstone so
many times... before the bloody FZR highsided on its own coolant.

TOG's auction. Hilarious.

Yes, it is New Year's eve and I am that sad git.

Bah! Humbug.

 

Getting my wheels back on the road after too long out the saddle.

Meeting real (ish) live (ish) ukrmers for the first time.
Some true friendships in the making I hope. (know).

 

There's a bit of a dirt biking theme to 2003 is there not.

 

Going over the Wrynose Pass with not a soul (or sheep) in sight.

Bear unsubscribing? (has this cheap shot been done yet?)

 

Selling the XV535 and buying the FZS600 then seeing overtaking spaces
increase ten-fold,
although meeting that moose of a woman a couple of hours later in a
motorway service station was a mistake. 4 feckin warts on her nose was
the least attractive of her anti-assets. Yick! She sounded so good on
MSN Messenger.

Someone replying to one of my posts.
Hello? Can anyone hear me? Does my bum look big in this?

--
FZS600 - silver/black
GS125 - black/rust
'81 Bobtail - vaguely green (FOR SALE £800)
CAAD7 - black
LTS2 - blue, not black
OE6 + Quotefix

 

Difficult one. The summer. Probably riding home from work in a shirt,
trousers and brogues day after day after day. Sun, sun, sun and more
sun. Lovely.

But if it's got to be an individual moment I would suspect that would be
finally finding a hotel after riding from Bordeaux to (north of Paris)
having to go right through the middle of Paris (since the exterior and
interior peripheriques were shut) and having suffered 40 degree+
temperatures and a breakdown on the way. It was nice to stop and to get
under a cold shower to try to take some of the heat of the sun off my
arms.

Pass, I really don't remember. Hmm... Des claiming Fora wasn't a plural
of Forum possibly...

 

a] Getting the R30. It's just wild.

b] darsy offending people and them unsubscribing.

 

The ride back from Italy, but that was a bit long to be called a
"moment".

Sinking the first ice-cold glass of Chimay, at the eponymous town, when
we arrived in the heatwave. By the fifth, I'd forgotten where we were.