Tick Tocks R-E Yarn!

[Tick_Tock_Binned_His_Shit]

Just wanted to get on here and post my yarn.

Today I got my R Class. ITs been a long year... -You know how some ppl say "hey, a year goes really quick" I call Bullshit! ... *Carefull calling Bullshit* I just had my chest waxed because It turns out my mates Norton Commando could possibly have been rigged up so a disabled dude could ride it and thats how he learned to ride... eh hem Yerrr sure u did....

Anyhoo...

It all started here...

GPX is too slow.... *do we remember this one ppl?... we'll leave that right there

GPX Streetfighter hahahahahaha...

Basically in the last year, I've had 5 bikes... It started with the 91 GPX red and black jobby. Awesome little bike. I pumped 30thousand clicks on that riding from mandurah to freemantle everyday. Dropped it twice, Pfft.. whats a drop? High sided it, once, Rebuilt it in a week while on holidays. It was a bodgy fix but still ran strong and true. Untill it met its ultimate end on the 4th of january when mrs Silver SUV pulling random female bad driving episode wrote the GPX off... I went to the hospital and this old white haired doc said, "son, if you cant handle the heat, get out of the kitchen! I rode a Jawa in London for 8 years and in that time I was knocked off 8 times, thats once a year. If you cant take a hard knock and get back up and on with your life then dont ride a bike, get a car. Infact, Have you ever been knocked out in a punch up?" ... they were the Doc's exact words. I sucked it up and rode the *%$ked GPX home, and rode it fully busted and bent for another 4 thousand clicks. Untill I sold it. I serviced it maybe 8 or 9 times, always did it myself. Some of you may remember I had an episode where I was scrubbing off rear tires everyweek with my fully sick skiddies up to the traffic lights... I did a chain and sprockets myself with the help of Dejavu from here. Umm... I had a milk crate attached to it for a long time..

The next bike was Flamedance's lime green 88 ZX2R. Freaking mean light fun machine. But ultimately I sold it because my licence was in trouble. It woud use 3-5 times as much fuel as the GPX, went good for a 250. I nearly killed a drunk dude on a push bike with it one night, He just rode across the road. I locked it up and dropped it. I quickly got the realisation that this bike was a toy not a good commuter, and I commute a lot. So it wasn't economical.

Next poor machine to cross my path was a 95 ZZR.. Loved it, not a scratch on it! Micky *ucking Mouse! untill I Dropped it :-( Actually thats a white lie, I had a run in with another silver SUV this time it quite possibly was more so my faut... So I sold it. I couldn't stand looking at this perfect bike with a nasty ass scratched up busted fairing... It was dead to me :-) didn't want to know about it! I got 6 thousand k's on that thing before getting rid of it.

It was around the time I sen a GPZ1000RX that I had the urge to sell that zzr because I hadn't even seen the GPZ and I wanted it. I still think I paid too much for it, It had an overheating issue that proved a Bitch to work out. A water pump, thermostat, recon radiation, new thermofan and retro fitted overflow bottle later and Its a freaking brute of a bike. I like it because I feel like I'm driving a Matt black 351 XD Falcon when I ride it. It has that hoolum feel to it and the power comes on like being hit with a cricket bat.

So I needed another bike to ride for the 10 weeks I had left to wait for my R Class... That spot was filled with a Big Darrty CB250 Nitehawk... Ummm in red it would have to be the most homosexual machine I ever had to ride. Infact, I dreaded pulling up to mates places on it, I fully refused to take chicks out on it or even park it at their houses. Although 3 weeks ago a mate an I broke the only one penis rule and rode it in the terential rain storm we had that night to go chase some Hippos that were putting out... so umm yeah, good times. Easiest bike ever to service!! and and absolute pest to big bikes in heavy city traffic. $13 per 300 k's was the best part about it! I dropped it 3 times, But thats was from being a knob with it smoking the rear tire and offroading and all sorts of dumb shit you should do to a machine like it!! ...oh and by the way, it runs shit loads better with air in the tires :-)

And that leads us to today I've clocked up 42 thousand clicks on bikes in my R-E year, and I just got y R class. I had 75 cars in almost 10 years before I got my first bike and I hope I never own a Cage again. So I'm already looking for another bike... trip to Frazers anyone? Now if you'll excuse me, I have GPZ to go drop somewhere....

[Sweetcheeks]

This should get entertaining.

[BlackFZR]

This is purely an observation, but as this post is absolutely nothing, it should be written as a blog.....

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