Kula Meenur

Yes, I really am looking to re-locate after I finish high school in 2 years. America is just not an especially great country, and the only reason I'd even consider staying wont be staying around forever.
Ever since I was young, I've always wanted to get out and see what it's like in other countries, and meet the people that live there instead of seeing the stupid news reports that make every person in another country to be some kind of savage criminal. Even my U.S. History teacher says its better to go out and see the world than hang out in one country forever.
What kinda shop do you want to set up?
and whats the auto racing (not motorbikes, but cars) down in Australia?

Being from Finland I'm pretty used to the extreme cold, its the heat that bothers me. How hot does it get in Australia?
What kinda trade schools are there too?
I'm looking for either automotive or ballistic kinda school, and there aren't many good ones out here...

I've been deciding between England, Russia, and Germany, though you have given me a serious reason to consider Australia. Where in Australia do you live?

you may be kidding but it's not far from the truth

I've never seen him here in New Jersey, I wish he'd come, as trance isn't to popular here
How much is housing in Australia?

I'm browsing different countries to move to after I graduate.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK lol. Sounds fun.

What the hell did you guys do?

Yes yes. ;(

Thanks, tbh though, I'm not to fond of the image.

YOU ARE A LUCKY LUCKY MAN!
wish I were in Australia going to see AVB with ya

hahaha I locked it on the 4,000th post, but that's only the 3,999th reply, so I was like **** it

Not that I know of, but someone mentioned making an article for it but I don't see it so I'm a sad puppy.

Thanks for post bro, this stuff is pretty good, going through The Drill and DJ Shah now.

-Jungle Strike-
Mission Complete!

Oh yeah, he was probably doing his exams and shiz

Doink!

No idea. I just stated so because they are both assholes of a same grade
Also, why is Soulslicer bant?

he asked
Didn't say why though. He'll be back in a month.

awesome list!

thanks alot mena!

hi..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeFureokHHA&feature=related

This techno/trance song is ****ing awesome. I love songs like these, including Dj tiesto, Dj Mystiq and stuff etc. I don't know much..

so please recommend me some good trance songs.

Well, important thing is that you're ok. Hit and run drivers are utter pondlife scum IMO. Lowest of the low. Damage all fixed now?
I had someone knock my bike over once, reversing out and partially ran it over, they actually left me a note with their details. Cool guy.
Was great for me actually, that bike ('98 Fazer with 53,000 miles) was an ill-maintained, dangerous piece of shite that an unscrupulous dealer flogged to me at way over the odds back when I knew nothing about bikes. Electrics used to cut out while I was riding along, leaking fork seals, holes in the downpipes, the lot.
The insurance valuer came round and vastly over-estimated the cost of the damage for the purposes of declaring it a write-off, like "oh the front fairing is damaged, that'll be 700 quid" lol. So out of that I got a cheque for the same amount of money I paid for the bike, and then sold it to my mechanic for 50% of the same. Got a few weeks to play around on shiny new hire bikes, and then bought my awesome '02 Fazer with 13k miles for a bargain price.
Going full circle actually, because my bike has had the frame replaced, and in the UK registration numbers are tied to frames, and it's now a '98 plate lol. That will be fun to explain if I ever decide to sell it!

I don't have a winter bike. If I did, I'd be riding it. Mine's not fixed for a few days, I had the cast taken off and was discharged from the fracture clinic on Thursday.
It's proving quite difficult, I tried to go back to work on public transport but my leg just can't cope with all the walking and standing. It was absolute agony and took me an hour to walk a mile back from the station on the way home, so I'm not going back in until I have the bike. Lots of physio ahead, I foresee. On the plus side, I have some cool scars.
Eventually I'll probably have like a CB500 or something for a commuting bike. I'm getting heated grips fitted to the Fazer anyway so it should see me through this winter.

I'm hoping to do a France-Spain-Greece type tour this summer actually. If I can afford it.

Koola meF*CK

Heck yeah. abababadonvididon. <-----------Russian.


I can't learn much on a diet of potatoes and vodka.

That was a pretty intense answer! :|

Koola, I Speak Russian sometimes, but I don't feel like it right now. Or ever.

Just collecting information from reading, and i guess it gets jumbled up.

Also, in reply to your picture comment- I mostly draw just to get the ideas out of my head, but I am occasionally hired by the drama group at my school (and other places) to do posters or flyers or tickets.

Heh, I know

Huh, for some reason I thought koola mena was 25 and married with two kids, exactly. I guess I was thinking of someone else.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I did. :|
Got too confident and pushed it far too hard in inappropriate conditions. It's amazing how mundane stupidly risky things can seem when you're used to them.
The woman sounds like a lunatic btw.
Our clueless riders (excluding kids on mopeds aka pedbois) are usually midllife crisis sufferers. Looking to get some excitement back into their life, they can afford to go out and buy a brand new R1 complete with matching power ranger suit, yet their only experience is either getting their license on a 500cc commuter or riding bikes 30 years ago. You see them hammer it down the straights and wobble round the corners at like 15mph, it's really rather sad. They also account for more serious injuries and deaths than any other group of riders, it's almost like a massacre. 40 year old riders killing themselves at a far greater rate than 20 year old ones...interesting, huh?

How can people not ride in that what you call "winter"? That's absurd. It's 25C here today and I'm roasting. Your winter isn't much colder than our summer. I wouldn't want to ride in 45C heat tbh, sounds like a nightmare.
The thing about snow and ice etc is, it's unpredictable. We have maybe one or two snowy days a year, if that, so it's not a major issue. I've never ridden in it. But with the temperatures as low as they are here in the winter, you get patches of ice scattered around the place, and black ice which is of course invisible. There's also the problem of micro-climates - as it gets really cold overnight, it gets really icy, then the sun comes out and melts the ice. However, under trees and in the shade etc there's still liable to be ice. So you can go from having good grip to no grip just like that and you often won't be able to tell just by looking.
And with the tarmac being so cold, it's difficult to get tyres to warm up at all. It doesn't offer the kind of grip you need for spirited riding, you have to be really, really careful.
The other annoying thing is that they salt the roads to deal with the ice and so on, and bikes don't like road salt. You know how most modern sportsbikes have utterly shite build quality? Well, if you ride them through a British winter, they're likely to fall to pieces. Some bikes, especially Suzukis and Kawasakis afaik, can look like they've aged five years if they get used on salted roads and then left overnight without cleaning. It corrodes everything. The Fazer deals with it a lot better than a ZX6R would, but you still have to clean it every day to keep the bike in decent condition. A lot of people buy a crappy old hack for riding through the winter because of this.
Basically, you can't ever rely on there being grip in winter, if you make that assumption you'll end up coming off on black ice in no time at all. I avoid rural roads like the plague in the winter because they're incredibly dangerous - try to stick to main roads and motorways at all times.

Ukraine...cool. I've been thinking about moving overseas again lately. I was thinking of Spain, Greece or somewhere like that. I'd really like to live in China for a while, but what a shite place to ride a bike. :|

There are now 13 days until I get my cast off for definite. I have to get back to work asap unfortunately, but I'll certainly be having some fun.

I need your help in doing Ukrainian accents.

When you see me online we'll voice chat

The system for getting a license isn't too annoying, but the things they teach are so irrelevant to the skills needed to ride a modern bike. They don't teach you anything about cornering, yet bad cornering skills are by far the biggest cause of fatal bike accidents. They don't teach you anything about proper braking, only how to stop quickly in a straight line from 25mph. How is that any use in the real world? Bad braking technique is also one of the biggest killers.
They don't teach you safe overtaking either. Only that you aren't allowed to exceed the speed limit to overtake, which is incredibly dangerous and irresponsible bullshit. Anyone who doesn't exceed the speed limit to overtake is putting themselves at extreme risk...and yet again, incorrect overtaking maneuvers are the second biggest killer.
They don't teach you how to filter/lane-split either. One of the most dangerous things you can do on a bike, and around here an absolute necessity. It's completely absurd.

What is your winter actually like? I bet it's not too different from our summer. :E
It's about 22C at the moment, high twenties is pretty standard for summer, although we do get mega-hot heatwaves too. In winter, daytime temperature is generally anywhere from -2C to 8C or so. Really hard to keep warm in these temps, and the the worst thing is the ice and shit on the roads. Totally different experience from riding in the summer, impossible really to ride fast. On the plus side, all the clueless summer riders disappear and it's much easier to find a parking space.

I haven't been abroad at all for over a decade, and never been to Oz.
An old friend of my mums (they went to school together, she moved to Australia 28 years ago) offered to fly me out there for a holiday, so it depends on how well my leg heals really as to how soon I go. She lives out in the sticks, somewhere near Sydney, is all I know. Her husband rides so I thought I'd hire a bike and we could go touring for a while.
What's the best time of year, weather-wise? 70-80F is about ideal for me, hotter than that and it's pretty uncomfortable. Into the 90s and it's unbearable. Such is growing up in England.

Thanks. I'm getting really impatient now, but not too much longer.

That whole stepped license thing is a pain in the arse. There is a similar system here, but if you're over 21 you can take the unrestricted test (on a bike with at least 46.5bhp) and then ride any bike. Under 21 and you're restricted to 33bhp for two years.
It would be a whole lot easier and more effective if they just taught people how to ride properly in the first place. We have the hardest bike test in the world and it still doesn't even come anywhere near to preparing you for real road riding.
Nice with the Ducati. I'd love one of those new KTM RC8s one day...
Imagine the cost of all the gear riding in the UK, need completely different sets of kit to deal with the extremes of the summer/winter we have. Unless you want pneumonia or heatstroke.

BTW, I'm not sure when but I'm going to be staying in Australia for a few weeks at some point. Near Sydney. Will hire a bike if I can afford it too...whereabouts are you?

Might just be another couple of days.
I had an operation 10 days ago, got a cast on for now. But I can walk and everything. I went to the pub with a friend today and walked the whole way (used crutches to help, though) - first time I've been out anywhere on foot in several months. Great weather too - it was the best day I've had in a long time.
And I've got a hospital appointment on Thursday, so I'm hoping they're going to take the cast off and then I'll be back on the bike. Shouldn't be more than a couple more weeks at the outside though!

It's all about sportsbikes in the UK. The top 10 selling bikes over 125cc (so not including scooters and learner legal bikes etc.) are all 600cc+ sportsbikes, complete polar opposite of how it is in the USA. We also have a full leathers culture - you very rarely see someone on a bike without full riding gear from head to toe, well jeans are quite common but still not as common as leather/textile trousers.

You very occassionally see Harleys, but they're pretty damn rare. Other than sportsbikes, you see a fair amount of streetbikes like Bandits/Fazers/Hornets and the like, the odd big sports-tourer or traillie, and in London 500cc commuter bikes like the CB500 are common.
And about 50% of the market is scooters, but they don't count.

Other than the learner-legal 125s, you rarely see bikes smaller than 500cc. 250s, 400s etc are usually only available on import, most people start off with a 600 of some kind for a first big bike. For some reason people here have this idea that an R6 is a good first bike...

thanks!

Ukraine
Fella

Nope can't say I did.

lol, I go to tafe in Joondalup, right next to ECU.

It's ok, I'm doing Tafe courses, work experience getting my liscence all that stuff, what about you sir?

I like it

haha hello!

Why hello there Koala man!