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  • July 28, 2009 at 4:19 pm #96902

    Anonymous

    Well, as of the 21st July I have owened my bike exactly one year. It was my first enduro bike and my first bike after my road bike way back in 1998. How time flies…..

    It has been an excellent year and my 08′ KTM 450 has been a worthy steed. We’ve had some great times together and through my new passion I have met many new people, all of which I consider to be my friends. It has also led me to this great site and the fun and games that come as part of being an Old Bull.

    Stuck on this ship with lots of spare time to ponder the last 12 months I have realised that in my first year I have done many types of rides, covered almost 5000K’s and even had my first and second bike related surgery’s :P

    In total I have spent 4 months off the bike this year (injury and work as the cause), so practical experience is only really about 8 months. I have come along way from the days of being nervous about raising the front wheel off the ground in 1st gear and almost pooping my panties when I managed to break traction with the rear wheel pulling a little power slide on the firetrail :P

    Here’s to many more years of riding for me, all of you OBT’ers and to continued friendships.

    Happy trails :)

    July 28, 2009 at 4:51 pm #145635

    Adrian Lee
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    I know what what your talking about Moto.I have only been riding 18 months and some days its still feels like i dont know what im doing.I have just traded up from my 250 to a 450,im shitting myself:laugh: starting to ride is the best thing i have done in one hell of a long time,it doesnt matter whats going on in your life when your on your bike all you worry about is that little piece of dirt ahead of you.

    July 28, 2009 at 11:04 pm #145636

    jamie
    Member

    Yeah moto,
    I agree there mate, nothing like a excessively steep learning curve. Which normally ends in getting intimate with the ground.

    July 29, 2009 at 12:17 am #145665

    Bruce Curtis
    Member

    Sometimes when you’re on a bike (road or dirt) you can reach a state of nirvana, almost at one with your machine. this feeling becomes my “zone” and everything just floats and is effortless, until you stop and the energy levels are depleted, but while you are there, t’is magic.

    good to see Moto you are getting the feeling of what it is all about.

    BC

    July 29, 2009 at 12:37 am #145666

    Trent
    Member

    Congrats mate! I will have owned my bike a year in a couple of weeks too and its been great getting into the sport and I’m looking forward to more frequent rides soon so hopefully can put at least 5k on it per year.

    I assume you’re back now?

    July 29, 2009 at 1:22 pm #145672

    Anonymous

    Yeah, I’m looking forward to getting out Blue! I’m not back either, I expect to return around mid August give or take:(

    Blue – I know what you mean. Most of my ‘nirvana’ moments are on my iPod but I have had a few on the bike :P I remember one at Wauchope on the second day when it felt like I was unstoppable and everything just seemed to happen. Awesome!

    July 29, 2009 at 1:31 pm #145814

    Dean
    Member

    Moto wrote:

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    Yeah, I’m looking forward to getting out Blue! I’m not back either, I expect to return around mid August give or take:(

    Blue – I know what you mean. Most of my ‘nirvana’ moments are on my iPod but I have had a few on the bike :P I remember one at Wauchope on the second day when it felt like I was unstoppable and everything just seemed to happen. Awesome!

    Yeh I remember now when you swapped onto my bike:laugh:

    Ollie

    July 29, 2009 at 1:39 pm #145817

    Anonymous

    It was way before then, when my limbs were still doing as my brain commanded :laugh:

    July 29, 2009 at 1:46 pm #145822

    Dean
    Member

    Being stuck on a ship sucks bat!! look forward to our next ride up the Wato’s mate.

    OllieB)

    July 29, 2009 at 1:51 pm #145825

    Anonymous

    Yes, tell me about it. It’s a pretty good ship s far as they go (LNG Carrier) and even has a salt water swimming pool! Still, I want off and I want to get back to blighty :angry: We get back to port in Rion on the 31st so hopefully I’ll get out of here shortly after that, make my other stops on the way home and get back to the bike for a burn!

    July 29, 2009 at 6:32 pm #145826

    Anonymous

    will be great to have ya back mate. i’ve been off the bike with work stuff too. :S

    all work and no play makes champo a dull boy
    all work and no play makes champo a dull boy
    …

    hope the tiger and the lion are going well without ya. sam will be huge by now.

    July 29, 2009 at 9:39 pm #145637

    Chris
    Member

    Moto wrote:

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    Well, as of the 21st July I have owened my bike exactly one year. It was my first enduro bike and my first bike after my road bike way back in 1998. How time flies…..

    It has been an excellent year and my 08′ KTM 450 has been a worthy steed. We’ve had some great times together and through my new passion I have met many new people, all of which I consider to be my friends. It has also led me to this great site and the fun and games that come as part of being an Old Bull.

    Stuck on this ship with lots of spare time to ponder the last 12 months I have realised that in my first year I have done many types of rides, covered almost 5000K’s and even had my first and second bike related surgery’s :P

    In total I have spent 4 months off the bike this year (injury and work as the cause), so practical experience is only really about 8 months. I have come along way from the days of being nervous about raising the front wheel off the ground in 1st gear and almost pooping my panties when I managed to break traction with the rear wheel pulling a little power slide on the firetrail :P

    Here’s to many more years of riding for me, all of you OBT’ers and to continued friendships.

    Happy trails :)

    Moto I am impressed, a well written, thought of entertaining post that ship must be rattling your brain… Na Good Post.

    Chris

    July 29, 2009 at 10:21 pm #145638

    David
    Member

    Moto wrote:

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    Well, as of the 21st July I have owened my bike exactly one year. It was my first enduro bike and my first bike after my road bike way back in 1998. How time flies…..

    It has been an excellent year and my 08′ KTM 450 has been a worthy steed. We’ve had some great times together and through my new passion I have met many new people, all of which I consider to be my friends. It has also led me to this great site and the fun and games that come as part of being an Old Bull.

    Stuck on this ship with lots of spare time to ponder the last 12 months I have realised that in my first year I have done many types of rides, covered almost 5000K’s and even had my first and second bike related surgery’s :P

    In total I have spent 4 months off the bike this year (injury and work as the cause), so practical experience is only really about 8 months. I have come along way from the days of being nervous about raising the front wheel off the ground in 1st gear and almost pooping my panties when I managed to break traction with the rear wheel pulling a little power slide on the firetrail :P

    Here’s to many more years of riding for me, all of you OBT’ers and to continued friendships.

    Happy trails :)

    Good report Mate, thats what having a passion for riding bikes does to you, brings the best out I say, the Old Bull site brings us together to share the madness, and to the non riding adults out there in the world we are classed as Mad, crazy, deathwish types, but I do feel sorry for them leading their mundane lives. Lets hope you have many more 8 months a year.

    Hey Moto,the main reason you only got 8 months was the side of the drawer you get your undergarments from, when you get them out of the other side of the draw you may be able to work up to 12 months, Panties are for girls, they are on the left, Undies are for boys they are on the right:P :P :P :laugh:

    July 30, 2009 at 6:56 am #145838

    scott bocking
    Member

    The “Zone” is the moment when you are thinking of nothing else but the job at hand. Every single sense is trained on the one task and you and whatever it is your are riding become one piece. No reflection, no distraction, just pure focus.

    When anybody talks about living in the moment I smile knowingly because when you are pinning it through some singletrack your thoughts can be nowhere but in the moment.

    What seems an unatainable dream for many is simple for us. We kick her over and give her a twist. The rest takes care of itself.

    Ride on!

    July 30, 2009 at 5:50 pm #145857

    Anonymous

    Good posts guys :)

    What’s wromg with wearing panties Dave, it feels better area my ‘special area’? :laugh:

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