are you a bikeaholic?

mrmina · Post by **mrmina** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:46 pm

i use to be.

Strika · Post by **Strika** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:35 pm

An alcoholic would have had more than 20 drinks in their lifetime yeah??? Well I've only had about that many bikes so I can't be a bikeaholic!

Neka79 · Post by **Neka79** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:34 pm

meh ur all a bunch of soft cocks...how many of u ever actually ride those bikes??
how many have stripped a bike down to bare essentials cos ya ploughed it into a car/bike/guardrail/tree ??

how many of ya have made sumthin from one bike fit onto a tottally different make/model??

how many of ya would ride 2000km just to have a beer with ur mates, and watch bikes go round real fast...???

ok so IM a bikeaholic too...so wot.. gotta stick together lads/lasses!!

Post by **robracer** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:35 pm

Um yes

22 years of road riding 8 years approx of competitive racing
Over 31 bikes (dirt road & race) bought & sold but slowing down now & cant remember more than 31 but there might be more

Guess the classification needs to be defined but qualifing should not be a problem here

varden · Post by **varden** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:38 pm

I used to always have at least two registered cars, now its a car, a road bike, a race bike and a bike for parts....and many many other bike parts.

And I'm still looking out for a commuter bike.

And a trail bike.....

A touring 12 would look good in the stable too.

MickLC · Post by **MickLC** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:14 am

Neka79 wrote:meh ur all a bunch of soft cocks...how many of u ever actually ride those bikes??
how many have stripped a bike down to bare essentials cos ya ploughed it into a car/bike/guardrail/tree ??

how many of ya have made sumthin from one bike fit onto a tottally different make/model??

how many of ya would ride 2000km just to have a beer with ur mates, and watch bikes go round real fast...???

ok so IM a bikeaholic too...so wot.. gotta stick together lads/lasses!!

Let's see...

Softcock? Yep, I'm at work and they don't like it when I've got a hard one

Ride my bike? I ride the 10 every day mate, then I sit in my garage at night with the Z650 and make broom broom noises

Stripped the bike down? Yep, but not cause I plowed into something but because the gearbox blew up

...then there's the old Z...

Fitted something from different make and model? I would never fit something from a different make, but I fitted a gearbox from a different model

2,000km ride for pissup and races? Twice a year plus HG this year

...maybe I do need help

Auscruiser · Post by **Auscruiser** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:39 am

Mick C wrote:No, I'm not a bikeaholic....I can stop anytime I want...I just don't want to stop right now...but if I did I could stop whenever I like...no really I could...why are you looking at me like that?...do you know where the nearest bike shop is?...spare me change for a bike magazine?...can I just sit on it and make broom broom noises?

bonester · Post by **bonester** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 5:21 am

Yup bikeaholic here. Own 12 bikes, 3 very dead, unlikely to recover and 9 runningish. (GT in bits, another GT unregistered, ZZR bald rear tyre etc) Decided a job working with bikes would be great. Talk bikes constantly. Bore others not interested in bikes. Reading material is usually bike mags. Spend hours on the net discussing bikes and researching bikes. Most (all?)of my mates ride. Won't admit I have a problem so that is how it is going to stay.

Chuck · Post by **Chuck** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:04 am

Well I've been riding for years apart from getting cleaned up be a car about 2 years ago and having to get my leg reconstructed and spending 18 months in wheelchairs and crutches and I'm still riding . Does that count.

Stereo · Post by **Stereo** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:46 am

Neka79 wrote:meh ur all a bunch of soft cocks...how many of u ever actually ride those bikes??

At least twice a day

Neka79 wrote: how many have stripped a bike down to bare essentials cos ya ploughed it into a car/bike/guardrail/tree ??

Hell no.... Mechanics are really good at that kind of thing.... Im good at fixing computers..... I fix computers until I can pay a mechanic to do that kind of thing... sure they rip me off... but then... they get their computers fixed... and I rip THEM off... so it evens out...

Neka79 wrote: how many of ya have made sumthin from one bike fit onto a tottally different make/model??

Hmm... I used an R1 exhaust on my CBR.... and I adjusted the needles myself...... Does that count?

Neka79 wrote: how many of ya would ride 2000km just to have a beer with ur mates, and watch bikes go round real fast...???

When I was young, we used to live in a cardboard box in the middle of the road....

Neka79 wrote: ok so IM a bikeaholic too...so wot.. gotta stick together lads/lasses!!

HTFU

I-K · Post by **I-K** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:41 pm

Phil wrote:considering i nearly broke down and cried in the orthopedic surgeons office this morning when he told me it would be at least 8 weeks untill i could ride again, i guess that means i'm afflicted too.

They're such pessimists, orthopaedic surgeons... after my knee reconstruction in October last year, I was supposed to stay off the bike for two months. I lasted three weeks. It took that long until I could bend my knee far enough to get it onto the peg... another few days, and I could do it without having to use my left hand to lift my leg off the ground and bend my knee into position...

...in the meantime, I cheered myself up during the week and a half I spent convalescing in bed by buying my current ZX9 off Ebay.

Now I'm off to have a cigarette on the front porch, and I'm taking my coffee with me.

I-K · Post by **I-K** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:43 pm

Chuck wrote:Well I've been riding for years apart from getting cleaned up be a car about 2 years ago and having to get my leg reconstructed and spending 18 months in wheelchairs and crutches and I'm still riding . Does that count.

Unless you quickly make mention of a wheelchair fitted with a ZZ-R1100 motor, it doesn't.

Chuck · Post by **Chuck** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:19 pm

I-K wrote:
Chuck wrote:Well I've been riding for years apart from getting cleaned up be a car about 2 years ago and having to get my leg reconstructed and spending 18 months in wheelchairs and crutches and I'm still riding . Does that count.
Unless you quickly make mention of a wheelchair fitted with a ZZ-R1100 motor, it doesn't.

How much fun would that be

Strika · Post by **Strika** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:09 pm

I-K wrote:
Phil wrote:considering i nearly broke down and cried in the orthopedic surgeons office this morning when he told me it would be at least 8 weeks untill i could ride again, i guess that means i'm afflicted too.
They're such pessimists, orthopaedic surgeons... after my knee reconstruction in October last year, I was supposed to stay off the bike for two months. I lasted three weeks. It took that long until I could bend my knee far enough to get it onto the peg... another few days, and I could do it without having to use my left hand to lift my leg off the ground and bend my knee into position...

...in the meantime, I cheered myself up during the week and a half I spent convalescing in bed by buying my current ZX9 off Ebay.

Now I'm off to have a cigarette on the front porch, and I'm taking my coffee with me.

How was that lung buster I.K.?

I can empathise with the surgeon warnings! When I banged my left shoulder up a few years back they told me it would be three months before I could ride after they removed the screws and plates. I lasted two days before getting back on the thing that caused all the damage, and riding it like I stole it!

I also know a bloke who took his leg out of plaster a week after breaking his ankle and foot, to do a ride day! He wired up a plate to the brake pedal and footpeg to rest his broken foot on, and still managed 1'50"s on an old GSXR1100H with Avons!

So Neka's 2000k's for a beer is pissweak I reckon!

Neka79 · Post by **Neka79** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:32 pm

Strika wrote:I also know a bloke who took his leg out of plaster a week after breaking his ankle and foot, to do a ride day! He wired up a plate to the brake pedal and footpeg to rest his broken foot on, and still managed 1'50"s on an old GSXR1100H with Avons! So Neka's 2000k's for a beer is pissweak I reckon!

well my dicks not as big as that guys dick...BUT after i wrote the VTR off i went to test ride the CBR... i got out of the car on crutches (was bruised from my shoulder to my knee , had a coupla cracked ribs and a broken thumb)...hobbled over to the bike and asked the owner of said bike to get my lid out of the car....he proceeded to tell me how i couldnt ride his bike in that state, i proceeded to tell him how i had the $$ in my account and if it fell over i was buying it... he held the crutches as i rode around for abt 15min before i came back, took my crutches and hobbled back to the ute to get the deposit...

picked the bike up the next day, and my mate followed me home with my crutches in the back of his car...