Hi Sophie Louise

Yes we are both very much into bikes. My b/f sold his bike (ZX6R) to come over here to the UK - I don't have one

We will of course be getting a bike once we are settled over there...its a brilliant place for bikers. Great roads, weather and scenery. Unlike Scotland which has the scenery and roads but CRAP weather...lol.

I am sooooo freaking out now.

I lived in Bennan Square for 14 year...went to Queens Park Secondary and had a best friend who used to live in Boyd Street.

Small world indeed !!

Tenement or houses end of Boyd Street - we live at the Aikenhead road end, I know most families in Boyd street as they are all related - small irish community!
Know Bennan Square very well - me mammy was a district nurse and used to take me to a couple of her patients who lived round there, (god totally against health and safety regs now!!) used to deliver papers round there aswell when i was about 12!!!

My friend lived in the tenements at the top end of Boyd Street. I seem to remember that my brother had a boy in his class who lived in the houses at the Aikenhead Road end...I think his name was Gary Walker.

I know Gary and his wife and his mammy and daddy. His mammy worked with my mum - they are all part of the Boyd Street posse!!
God how freaky!

Excellent! My boyfriend's got a zx7 (and is dying to get a zx10 having test ridden it), and i've got a yamaha fzr400. Think we'll have to sell them to go over, but it'll be a good excuse for him to get his 10, and me to get the new 636!!!! (Sorry to non-bike people reading this....)

Sophie

Don't even mention the ZX10..... Jim has already been dropping "not so" subtle hints about it...lol

Boyfriend just got excited that someone else wants one too.... They're very pretty... not very good pillion though!

Sophie

I'm a 'pillion' over here too. Never even been on a bike (other than dirt) until I got here. I love going up through the moutains, stopping off at a cafe, and then all the way down the otherside!!

What a great way to start a Saturday morning, reading friendly banter between posters . .. long may it live!

M

Going pillion is what got me taking my test! We went on a bike trip all around Europe this Summer for 3 months (desperately trying to see everything as though we were never returning from Oz ). I went on the back as I only passed at teh start of the year, and didn't feel up to the mountains (we went through the Alps and the Pyrennes) on the wrong side of the road!!!! It was a fantastic trip though, and the plan is to do one in Oz and one in the States, on separate bikes (so I can carry more shoes!!!!!!)

Never been dirt biking though - boyfriend's family all do that in Brisbane, so will have to give it a go... Mount Glorious is one of his favourite roads apparently....

Sophie

LMAO - sounds about right, probably what I would be doing if I could too
Mt Glorious is probably only 10/15mins from where we live, we go via Clear Mtn, which is only about 5/10mins so a nice long trip! We were there last weekend and it was great

Can't wait. Hopefully will be borrowing some bikes while we're over in March/ April time and I'll get to see it for myself!! Until then made do with some photos.... not quite the same.....!

Sophie

We borrowed a friend's bike when we were up in Queensland last October. It was brilliant...I hadn't been on a bike for a couple of years and it was bloody marvellous getting back in the saddle again !!!

It was also great being able to get on a bike without having to put thermals and five layers of clothes and a set of waterproofs on...lol.

Can't wait to get back over there and enjoy the Aussie biker life !!

Definitely!! Mine's under a cover at the moment and I take the car to work... Fairweather rider, I know, but the commute in to Southampton on a freezing rainy day is not why I bought a bike!! Looking forward to being in warmer climates, where it is actually nice to ride to work.... (Without salt ruining your bike too!) Last time we went out riding here we had to get plastic gloves from a petrol station to wear under our bike gloves, to try to keep our fingers warm. And I'm not even going to go into where we had to stuff the newspapers....

Sophie