danger stock on road

Howdy folks, I’m new at this blogging stuff [newish to computers]

From what I gather I get to say stuff and you guys out there in the matrix can have a laugh, knock it, or what ever, sort of like an open diary [correct me when I’m wrong]

like most people I’m opinionated but have lead a diverse life and had some extreme experiences so I hope my opinions have some value

I’ve been lucky enough to have traveled from NZ to foriegn lands mostly Asia with an emphasis on Thailand lately

I don’t know what it is about Thailand that keeps drawing me over there but there is something that I have yet to do, so i will follow the urge and return as often as it takes to do what ever it is that I am to do

I’ve had some life changing moments through traveling so if I get the urge to go some where and the urge turns into a nag then I try my best to go

The first time through Thailand I hated it, got all Fucked up in Bangkok, ended up in a city called Pattaya took three days to get over the Bangkok thing [haha]

Long story short I now travel to Pattaya often and have made friends with the guy who Tattoos me, and another man and his wife who I have purchased a lot of silver and garments through, I have established a small business importing T-shirts and silver ware, silk clothing etc back here to NZ

The business has dropped off a bit lately due to the global recession etc so I have let it go dormant, The good thing is that it wasn’t my fulltime job so to speak and my day job means I won’t starve

I’m self employed at the moment with a container servicing business I employ one man so I am realy a one man band [haha]

He’s a good worker something that is hard to find so I treat him well, pay him the best that I can afford and work hard with him, He gets a few perks too the lucky bugger I wish I had me as a boss instead of most of the arse’s that I’ve worked for in the past [but there’s another story]

The big news in my day is that I have brought a motor bike after not having one for four years, man that hurt, worse than losing a girl friend, ‘specialy since the guy who got her lives just up the road and I’d see her going by with him, talk about ouch!!!

So the reason behind selling her was two fold,

I have dropped out of the Harley riding biker scene.

I put the money into my business

I know what you’re thinking, but let me tell you it’s bloody hard work looking so cool, when you’re rideing like a madman, getting stoned all the time partying every weekend not to mention the odd 3-4 day long weekend bashes and have a girl friend half your age, if you don’t believe me try it sometime

just having a girl friend half your age is work enough for most men [haha]

So there I was disillusioned with the life that I had and looking to change, so it was get the girl gone, more hassel than the return, and the bike as well as it’s hard to convince the nice policeman [giving you the speeding ticket] that you no longer hang around with those [nasty] people who his computer says that I do, when you’re in leather on a bike that’s worth his years pay to replace

so the bike went the way of the girl and I became your standard old batchelor [that might have been when the trips To Thailand became more interesting haha]

So as the years past I realised that I could live without the lifestyle, I could live without the girl, [you geussed it] I cannot live without my motorcycle, it’s impossible, Im addicted to it, and having been addicted to u know STUFF, I know an addiction when I see one, however I did not want the harrassment that comes with the harely from the law and other people on harleys that didnt like the people that you know etc, that life was gone

While in Thailand I hire [$17.50 a day] big jap bikes they go like mad and are usualy reliable, it was like Luke Skywalker being lured  “I am your father Luke” “Come to the dark side of the force”

the sheer power the superb handling the awesome braking, all the things you hate [sic] about rideing [haha] I was lured, tempted even, frick  it you got me I was sold

Like a junkie having his first hit I INSTANTLY  wanted a thousnd more

OK so there I am with my dark secret, How can you tell your harley fanatical friends that you’ve got this jap bike problem going on?

Then fate stepped in as it often will and through some other business I made contact with an importer of Italian motor cyclces,

So I could get away from the old crowd but still be on a “respectable” machine, at fisrt I wasnt sure I’d had my mind set on a big Suzuki, maybe a Hyabusa, but going with the flow I realised that if I was’nt meant to have this bike why would such a good deal get offered [it was an outstanding deal] right at the time when I had decided that I had to have a bike again

So i’ve had herfor five weeks, it’s a whole different way of riding compared to the harley’s but I’m startin to get the hang of it, the machine itself is very nice, or as I like to say “WOOF WOOF”

1100cc Vtwin configuration, 6 speed shaft drive [pause to wipe drool from keyboard] Motto Guzzi “GRISO”

She goes like a scalded cat, If any one out there knows of a radar detector that will go onto a bike or how to water proof one give me a heads up mate

The first bike that I’ve ever managed to buy brand new [an ambition of about 20yrs] She has more computer diagnostics than the fricker they used to put the man on the moon, fuel injected, I’m in awe of the engineering they have put into her

She’s still a bit tight and the road was running out but some bugger clocked 196kmph on her the other night [ that will teach me to lend it [haha] There’s a nice piece of back road that goes for 10kms and has no side roads and big open paddocks either side so you can see clearly … I’ll say no more…

So now I can come home from work and aftertea on a good day take her out and spank her, she loves it, being a sport bike in the true sense she likes to rev from the 3000 mark upto 8500 with most of the power delivered from 5500, and she loves to rev under load, loads of tourqe, just loves it, screams “more please”

But the weather dictates it will be a polish in the shed day today MMMMmmm that just polished smell [pause to wipe drool from key board haha ]

So my addiction is under controll as they say at the re-hab, Im maintaining [haha]

So you now get the reason for the name danger stock on road, I’m back

More stories and comments from the riders point of view to come