Hello all! An introduction...

[Z]

Hi all.

Just thought I'd introduce myself - since I've seen a couple of other intro's on this forum it might be the place to be.

My real name's Leon, 27, got into biking a couple of months ago - have been wanting to for ages, but had girlfriend issues. Since I split up with her I decided to just go for it - along with a whole load of other things I can now fix in my life

Booked and passed my theory, then booked a 6 day intensive DAS course with orangebikers / Paragon (https://www.orangebikers.com/) - I do recommend them to any in the area looking for training. Admittedly I'm not exactly an expert, but the price was good, and the training excellent. I went on to pass my test on the 6th day with absolutely no minors. To tell the truth the examiner seemed a little miffed since he didn't actually talk to me about anything. Was very confused - and then well pleased afterwards obviously. The trainers were a little surprised since I'd managed to get the nickname, Muller - cause I mullered everything dropped the bike on the 3rd day, knackered some headphones same day... It was all bad.... And yet, by the end

About 2 weeks later bought the ninja - decided on a cheapy bike (no offence to other ninja riders - it's an awesome bike) that wouldn't depress me too much if I dropped it (only £1600 for it, a pretty good deal - although check my other threads to see why ). So far it's been cool - once ran out of fuel on the dual carriageway, had a few fun moments and a couple of stupid mistakes that luckily I've survived unscathed (aside from pride and adrenaline!).

Went on a VMCC rally - had some fun treks through the woods (yes I know my bike's not vintage, but was one of two modern bikes - the other belongs to my mum's fiance who works with one if the vmcc organisers) helped a broken down vintage biker A fun day..

That's about it biking wise... Commuted to work a few times, but it's a killer hauling everything I need to on a rucksack on my back - am trying to sort a topbox to make that easier, but not gotten there yet....

I'm a software engineer, doing property development, and attempting to start my own company in the software / web arena. Into amature DSLR photography, hoping the biking will tie into that nicely..

Joined this forum for some friends, some ride outs, advice (and plenty of it please ) and to take my biking further...

Hope to get to know you all much better over time

Z.

Ahh yes, here's a quick piccy of me at the goodwood festival of speed (apologies to anyone it frightens... Have improved since then I swear )
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Kawasaki Ninja - ZX6R (Black 'n' Silver yeah!)
Check out some photos at flickr Z's Flickr Page

[byke95]

Glad you're enjoying riding (despite the jip the Ninja is giving you!) and BCF

[Minty]

May I be the first to say hi?




Hi.




Welcome to BCF.



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[hendo]

Welcome Z - nice intro

[Z]

Thanks for all the welcomes

I was wondering - I took a lot of photo's at the festival of speed, some even of bikes (although I went on the friday so wasn't main track day) - would people be interested in seeing them, or would I just be using up BCF bandwidth - I'd obviously cherry pick the decent ones (took over 800 that day) and keep it pretty much bike related.

Or should I look at something like flikr to host them and just link them?

I realise the festival was 4 months ago - and has probably been covered already so feel free to tell me I'd just be duping

Any thoughts?

Z.
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Never biked + 6 day DAS * perfect test first time = Unrestricted license!
Kawasaki Ninja - ZX6R (Black 'n' Silver yeah!)
Check out some photos at flickr Z's Flickr Page

[Annabella]

Hello and welcome! Nice introduction, I don't recall having seen any photos of Goodwood (though probably missed them during a blonde moment) so feel free to post them.


Congratulations on the no minors
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[Road_Menace]

Welcome aboard nice intro

I havnt been a member long but i think its a smashing place with some top people

And piccies are always good

James....
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[BanditBitch]

Hi

[Z]

Thanks again guys 'n' gals. I'd hoped for a warm welcome - and was not disappointed

The photo's are being worked on, but I ended up with 50 odd meg of them (only 23 photos, but even cropped and with reduced quality they are around 2 meg a piece...), and didn't want to add to BCFs bandwidth bill - so signed up to flickr, only it doesn't quite mention that you can only upload 20meg a month (obviously until after you've gone through the hassle of signing up), unless you go the pay for route...

Since I want to get into the photography side, I thought, yeah why not... Only it's gonna take a while before they enable the account fully - sigh...

Just thought I'd say thanks - and I'll hopefully have the photo's up in the next day or so... So stay tuned

Z.
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Never biked + 6 day DAS * perfect test first time = Unrestricted license!
Kawasaki Ninja - ZX6R (Black 'n' Silver yeah!)
Check out some photos at flickr Z's Flickr Page

[dew]

Hi and welcome to the forum!

[Z]

Arrrgh nooooo.

I don't use outlook - never been a fan... Aye I could resample the pictures but then you'd lose a lot of the glorious hi res goodness Cheers for the suggestion though, I think if you see what I've got uploaded already you'll agree that it's much prettier in high res

If you check my sig you can see the 6 I managed to upload to flickr before hitting my 20meg a month limit... I've paid for the beef it up to 2 gig (that's enough to almost upload my entire photo collection from that day) but for some reason, despite having received my money they've not updated the allowance yet...

Might just post a topic with the 6 as a teaser for more to come

Z.
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Never biked + 6 day DAS * perfect test first time = Unrestricted license!
Kawasaki Ninja - ZX6R (Black 'n' Silver yeah!)
Check out some photos at flickr Z's Flickr Page

[Z]

Ok, here's the first 6 for those watching this thread

https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=100526

Z.
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Never biked + 6 day DAS * perfect test first time = Unrestricted license!
Kawasaki Ninja - ZX6R (Black 'n' Silver yeah!)
Check out some photos at flickr Z's Flickr Page

[froggeh]

Nice introduction! ... And welcome..

[Richard Green]

Hi Z and welcome