Waddup? last time I checked in I wrote about losing my nerve. A quick catch up on that post is here if you aren\u2019t up to SPEEEEED.<\/p>\n
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Yes it\u2019s true, I turned into a yellow bellied gecko and got back in a cage for some years after leaving a motorcycle life behind in good ole rAdelaide, and moved to Melbourne.<\/p>\n
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It wasn\u2019t long though, before I made new mates with motorcycling in their blood, and I found myself back on two wheels. But how did I forget that moment? Well I never did really I guess, it stuck with me and even getting back on two wheels again it was there in the back of mind, always.<\/p>\n
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It is called FEAR, and it has no place in motorcycling.<\/p>\n
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It crippled me for years that fear, and I hate it. I hate thinking I could be called a coward. I hate that word and don\u2019t particularly like it being applied to me.<\/p>\n
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There is only one way to get over it, man up, move on and get your nerve back and it should come as no surprise.<\/p>\n
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Get. Back. On. Ride.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s that simple.<\/p>\n
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My journey was at least, the minute I got back on that GSX400FW that Wombat (yes, he\u2019s short, fat n hairy, you can make up the rest) sourced me for a princely $900 back in early 2002 sometime.<\/p>\n
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Part of that fear kept me from jumping back on a big\u00a0bike, and the commitment money wise seemed right at the time, little did I know how much of a headache a grey import with carby slides that continually fall off when you lean over say, 10 \u2013 20%, would be.<\/p>\n
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Doing the daily grind had freed me again, I was in love with motorcycling and beating the shitty traffic and not being stuck in a cage etc etc.<\/p>\n
But my heart longed for speed.<\/p>\n
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And carby slides that didn\u2019t fall off every few kilometres.<\/p>\n
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I also needed a bike for the newly formed, upcoming, inaugural Australia Day Ride that Wombat and Murph were organising. I\u2019d need a bike that could do 500kms a day without needing roadside repair.<\/p>\n
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That was when I fell in love with the Yamaha TRX 850.<\/p>\n
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A jap twin that had the cafe racer looks, reliability and didn\u2019t require a whole bucket load of cash to aquire one.<\/p>\n
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I scored an absolute pearler of a bike, a one owner, garaged, low kms, like new, even had the original tyres still, for $4500. It was a few hundred kms away from home but worth it.<\/p>\n
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That first ADR, nine years ago almost to the day, I found my nerve again. Being out on the open road with a bunch of mates, hooking through the coastline we were headed to Bombala for our first nights accommodation. I had found my legs again.<\/p>\n
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The road up to Bombala (the Cann River Highway) is renown for two things; awesome sweepers and shit loads of coppers.<\/p>\n
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I didn\u2019t know this and didn\u2019t care, it was my first time and I was like The Flash on that thing, top gear, pinned to the tank, flying through those perfect camber corners I was hitting 180+ around 75km sweepers on that little trx and I knew, from that moment on, I was never giving up on two wheels again. The fear was gone, and I\u2019m possessed again, it\u2019s in my blood.<\/p>\n
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The rest, as they say, is history.<\/p>\n
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Until next time two wheelers, stay upright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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