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Welcome - Getting started & FAQs - Read Here First... => Introduce Yourself & Your Bike => Topic started by: DJW on September 25, 2013, 11:29:20 AM

Title: Newbie from Toowoomba
Post by: DJW on September 25, 2013, 11:29:20 AM: Hi all, a great forum. I have ridden on and off for about 30 years now but have been without a bike for the last few years until 3 weeks ago when I bought a ST1300. What an awesome bike, love it and have ridden it pretty much every day since buying it. It is my day to day ride to get to work and my weekender to get away.

Hoping to meet up with some other members around the Toowoomba area and participate in some weekend rides.

My 11 y/o son has never been on a bike before but I can't keep him off the back of it with me. As soon as he sees me get the key he is helmet on and on the back before I get out the door.

Stay safe and ride safe all

(http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd499/ozstoc/DJWST1300_zps83158921.jpg)
Title: Re: Newbie from Toowoomba
Post by: Marcus on September 25, 2013, 11:39:23 AM: Quote from: DJW on September 25, 2013, 11:29:20 AM
Hoping to meet up with some other members around the Toowoomba area and participate in some weekend rides.
I'm sure you will, about 1 million of our members seem to come from around there...

Welcome to the forums
Title: Re: Newbie from Toowoomba
Post by: Pezzz on September 25, 2013, 11:48:36 AM: Love the gravity defying photo ..... (Out of curiosity did you take it with a Samsung Galaxy range camera ?? as mine did the same thing)
Welcome to the forum... only fairly new here myself but ... wow .. what a bunch of great people ...
I am sure you will catch up with STreak and many others from over there.
Welcome from WA ..

:wht11 :wht11
Title: Re: Newbie from Toowoomba
Post by: Streak on September 25, 2013, 12:02:27 PM: Welcome DJW!

Great to see another Toowoomba member here, there are a few of us, Myself, Wild Rose, RustyEB to name a couple of us, Keep an eye out for us, I have a Black 1996 ST1100 that covered in lights.

(http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd499/ozstoc/50408f692a748f5700b0ac8ecc560a32_zpsefac90f6.jpg)

Drop in and say hello at the shop if you want, Hip Pocket Workwear & Safety, we are on Anzac Avenue next to Petstock & Horseland :thumb

(I Fixed your picture up for you)
Title: Re: Newbie from Toowoomba
Post by: StinkyPete on September 25, 2013, 12:33:19 PM: Hi DJW and welcome to OzSTOC from the SA crew. :hatwave
Title: Re: Newbie from Toowoomba
Post by: Biggles on September 25, 2013, 01:09:56 PM: Nice looking ST13. Congrats. Where did you find it?

Show your pillion how to clean the bike properly (not just hosed off) so he can pay his way. :grin
Title: Re: Newbie from Toowoomba
Post by: Abe on September 25, 2013, 01:30:34 PM: Welcome from Sydney, and enjoy your time here.

It's good to see you are showing your young bloke the right gear to wear, lucky kid. :thumbs :thumbs
Title: Re: Newbie from Toowoomba
Post by: Mitch on September 25, 2013, 02:05:57 PM: Hi DJW and a Warm Welcome from the Wild West :hatwave :runyay
:grin :blk13 :grin
Title: Re: Newbie from Toowoomba
Post by: Sean on September 25, 2013, 03:28:36 PM: Welcome aboard DJW good to see you have the young fella involved. I'm sure you will have plenty of great miles to cover together. Now just to get my girls on the back.
Title: Re: Newbie from Toowoomba
Post by: royst1100 on September 25, 2013, 04:05:57 PM: welcome djw. you will like this group and lately plenty of rides
Title: Re: Newbie from Toowoomba
Post by: ST2UP on September 25, 2013, 05:37:55 PM: Welcome mate......enjoy :thumb

:beer
Title: Re: Newbie from Toowoomba
Post by: Wild Rose on September 25, 2013, 05:59:06 PM: Welcome DJW from another Toowoomba member, Hope to catch up for a coffee and ride one day :beer
Nice looking Bike,Where did you pick it up from ?
Enjoy the Bike :thumb Enjoy the Forum :thumbs
Title: Re: Newbie from Toowoomba
Post by: DJW on September 26, 2013, 10:06:33 AM: Thanks for the welcome all. The photo was taken on my wife's phone, a samsung, always turns them upside down. After looking for about a month with a price range in mind I found this one down in Brisbane at Virginia. I rode 4 but this seemed to be the one that suited me. A bit high in the. K's - 95k but has a full service history from day one with all requirements completed on time. Funny thing is the bike comes from Queanbeyan brand new and the person who bought it lived two streets over from me when he bought it 2003 when I lived there.

Next up is a pair of boots for the boy, the jacket was a good buy from the pawn shop for $20. New gloves and new helmet for him.

Love reading about the mods that others have made to their bikes and the accessories that have been added, gives me some ideas.
Title: Re: Newbie from Toowoomba
Post by: saaz on September 26, 2013, 12:03:44 PM: Welcome from near your old home! 95K is nothing much on an ST13 when well looked after. They are a rough crew up there so I hope you will bring in some class :beer
Title: Re: Newbie from Toowoomba
Post by: Shiney on September 26, 2013, 03:23:54 PM: G'day DJW, welcome to the forum :hatwave
Title: Re: Newbie from Toowoomba
Post by: Pocket STocker on September 26, 2013, 09:26:58 PM: Lovely to have you here and a warm welcome to you and your son, may I offer some humble advise from a mum and a pillion with your son as a pillion ?? Ditch the boots with the laces or tape them up. Kids and shoes laces are a pain at best of times but on a bike |-i.

Enjoy the OzSToc experience :hatwave

Pockey :wink1
Title: Re: Newbie from Toowoomba
Post by: Wombat on September 26, 2013, 11:46:23 PM: Another welcome from the west :hatwave

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