By Chance

[stokes]

Hi all,
I'm "stokes" from Queensland Australia, with some 60 + years of riding and racing bikes. I'm currently into my 4th FJ and this is a 1991 FJ120ABS model, had this for about 9 years now and have 86000klms on the clock. They are a fantastic piece of machinery and go like the clappers. My other steed is a 1949 Triumph Speedtwin 500cc, which I have spent the last 4 years restoring.
In finding this forum I note a member called "ELIMINATOR" I do believe that although we are not known to each other, we hail from not far. I come from Shirley, Southampton, that was many, many years ago ~ in another life ~..
Well nice to be part of "FJowners" and hope to get a chance to chat to many members in the future.
stokes.

[Dads_FJ]

Hi all,
I'm "stokes" from Queensland Australia, with some 60 + years of riding and racing bikes. I'm currently into my 4th FJ and this is a 1991 FJ120ABS model, had this for about 9 years now and have 86000klms on the clock. They are a fantastic piece of machinery and go like the clappers. My other steed is a 1949 Triumph Speedtwin 500cc, which I have spent the last 4 years restoring.
In finding this forum I note a member called "ELIMINATOR" I do believe that although we are not known to each other, we hail from not far. I come from Shirley, Southampton, that was many, many years ago ~ in another life ~..
Well nice to be part of "FJowners" and hope to get a chance to chat to many members in the future.
stokes.

Greetings Stokes (That your first or last name?)... Welcome to the club!  Say, you're the 2nd new Aussi member in as many days, how'd you hear about us?

[racerman_27410]

Welcome to the group Stokes, good to have you with us mate!


KOokaloo!


Frank

[FJmonkey]

Welcome to the asylum we call the Kookaloo zone. What did you do to the other 3 FJs? 

[aviationfred]

Welcome to the group Stokes, You will love the great people here and the huge wealth of knowledge that can be found here.

Fred

[The General]

Welcome Stokesey!  That Pic looks a bit like a display at Phillip Island. (Would be clearer if those sheilas didn`t jump in and Hog the Pic - Happens to me all the time too!) Great to see another from God`s Country. All those stealth years with an FJ and ya now outa the closet. What part of QLD?             Doug

[movenon]

Welcome ! Lots of us "experienced" (old farts) still peddling around on two wheels. It never go's away . I recently ran across a 74 year old guy on a sport bike so there is continued hope ! 

[The General]

Welcome ! Lots of us "experienced" (old farts) still peddling around on two wheels. It never go's away . I recently ran across a 74 year old guy on a sport bike so there is continued hope ! 

That`s the great thing about full face helmets. I love pulling up at Pete`s Bellbird Creek Tea House www.bellbirdcreek.com/ with it`s kilometres of perfect twisties leading to the shop.. - and the guy you`ve been tailing with his sliders and repsol badges, discovers the headlight up his arse is from a DR650 with knobblies and a pensioner riding it on the way ta buy the family groceries. (Pete sells good vegies too). I got a mate in his eighties that does track work. I ride to Phillip Island (The long twisties way) with my 72 year old mate that rides a kwaka 1400rr (fastest production bike on the planet). His Son (in his fifties- but still club racing) rides up from Melbourne (1000 miles+) just so he can ride with his dad back down again.  Yeah, the older I get, the faster I was - but, I once asked my young looking mate on tha Kwakka "whaaat isss ya ssssecret to find`n the ffffountain  of Yyyoouuuu..th! ...What is in common with alllll tha bbbblokes like you (hic..up)" He told me that he had in fact researched & pondered this very question at length and came to the conclusion - the one thing they all had in common was this fact.   "ththey....are all rrrratbags!" ...So thare ya have it...tha guys on this forum are in for a long long life. 

[Harvy]

Welcome to the group Stokes.......where in Qld do you call home?

Cheers
Harvy

[stokes]

 :shok:Hi,
Other FJ's, well 1 and 2 got sold, for a change, 3 got rebuilt to 1500cc with new barrels and pistons ect. four I'm still ridding. I'm an EX VINCENT man, that is if there ever is an ex vincent man. When I got my first FJ, I was so imprested with the rider control and comfort both long and short distance ( rode to the first GP at Phillip Island ) when Gardener took the World Championship. I wrote to the General Manager Yamaha Motorcyles in Japan and expressed my feelings for such a great bike, I hadn't ridden with so much comfort and fun since my last Vincent 1000. Bit of the past, we oldies are good for a yarn if nothing else.
The handle of "stokes" is my none-de-plume from my navy days, Ex stoker Royal Navy, just kept it going.
My other passion is my Triumph Speedtwin, it takes me back to when I was a boy in the North of England "dreaming of things to come" That's another story and another time. I don't write a lot of s----t, as there's too mich of it out there and it smells, so forgive me, I just love motorbikes, have, all my life and will do till the end, what is left, So U all ride safe and enjoy.
Also - Hail from Warwick, looking over Cunninghams Gap, wonderfull place, been here nine years and retired from NSW central coast.

[stokes]

Welcome Stokesey!  That Pic looks a bit like a display at Phillip Island. (Would be clearer if those sheilas didn`t jump in and Hog the Pic - Happens to me all the time too!) Great to see another from God`s Country. All those stealth years with an FJ and ya now outa the closet. What part of QLD?             Doug

The pic is from the Melbourne bike show a couple of years ago (aren't they lovely/) THE CITY OF WARWICK

[stokes]

Welcome to the group Stokes, good to have you with us mate!


KOokaloo!


Frank

Thanks for the welcom mate - excuse my ignorance - What's "KOokallo" ?

[stokes]

Welcome to the group Stokes.......where in Qld do you call home?

Cheers
Harvy

Warwick.

[racerman_27410]

Thanks for the welcome mate - excuse my ignorance - What's "KOokallo" ?

See here for the full story of KOokaloo!

http://www.fjowners.com/index.php?topic=5015.0

[stokes]

Welcome ! Lots of us "experienced" (old farts) still peddling around on two wheels. It never go's away . I recently ran across a 74 year old guy on a sport bike so there is continued hope ! 

I'm glad U said 2 wheels as I haven't quite got around to "TRAINERS" yet. I hope you "ran across" literaly and not across "over" ~ could be quite painfull.