Lazarus Rising

['nixer]

G'day people of PSB,

I'm back into street riding after a long - 15 years! - break, but have been riding dirt bikes that whole time. After a few beers I'll even admit to having ridden a scooter now and then over the years ... Absolutely loving riding a bike again, anyway.

The only thing I forgot last time I had a road bike was to get a license, so I've sorted that part out now. Yeah, don't worry - I cringe that I did that as well. Being older and wiser, I'm even riding a bike within the right class (R-E) for my license - the venerable* ole ZZR 250. Mates might tell me it's boring, but when your roadcraft is as rusty as mine I'll take boring over binned.

I have to say, PSB was a great help when it came to the procedures of getting the license, taking the practical test etc. I was able to do the learner's test, book an appointment for the practical at City West a week after that, and 3 weeks later have another couple of letters to add to my DL all from mainly the info on this site.

I'm in the last couple months of finishing a computer science degree having gone to uni as a mature-age student after having a variety of non-descript jobs. Gotta say though, being a courier for 5 or so years allowed me to get a good view of idjits on the road and what to look out for.

As with other interests I have, I'm always happy to swap my computer/IT/networking knowledge and time for (in this case) the motorcycle knowledge and time of others.

Laters.

*YMMV

[Wedge]

G'day,
You will find PSB is much more then a motorcycle forum, we discuss topics that range from political topics to lonely hearts. There's quite a few I.T people around and I expect you will make more great additions to the Healthy Wealthy and Wise threads.

['nixer]

Cheers, Wedge. Thanks for the heads up about the Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise threads, looks interesting beyond motorcycles.

As for the lonely hearts thread, Phildo's line on the last page - "This is why I try and keep my mail order brides under the $1,000 threshold. They're bloody ugly and don't live very long, but at least they're cheap." - lets me know I'm going to enjoy this forum