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[ ]NetWriter - Issue 7 The official netrider.org.au newsletter. ---------------- :: Contents ::: ---------------- . Family XMAS BBQ . Motorcycle Diaries . Toy Run . Merchandise Available . Website Updates . Membership Details . Partners and Sponsors . Member Bio . The Rear Wheel ---------------------------- :: Family Xmas BBQ :: ---------------------------- The FREE Netrider annual Family Xmas BBQ is just over 2 weeks away. Join us on Saturday 11th December at Kevin Bartlett Reserve, Yarra Boulevard, Burnley (Melway Ref. Pg 59, B1) from 12 midday. We will be providing sausages, vegie burgers, bread and margarine, sauce, salad, cordial, and plates/cutlery. If you have any additional desires, please feel free to bring along your own. The reserve has approx. 5 picnic tables, electric bbq's, small rotunda, and a kids playground nearby. The BBQ area is right beside a cricket pitch, so please feel free to bring along your cricket gear, foot/soccer ball, frisbee, etc. If the cricket pitch is in use, there is grass area close by. Don't forget to bring your picnic rug and/or seats if you have any. For catering purposes, PLEASE PLEASE (can I say it with any more importance!?!) let us know your coming. Goto http://www.netrider.net.au/?page=xmasbbq2004 to enter the number of adults and children you are bringing. If you don't have web access, please reply to this email and let us know. As the BBQ is free, unfortunately we can only provide food and drink to members and their immediate family or partners with your Netrider membership card. If you have lost your membership card, please send us an email (netrider@netrider.com.au) requesting a replacement card (a gold coin fee to cover costs may apply). If you are not yet a member, you can join at http://www.netrider.net.au/?page=membership. ---------------------------- :: Motorcycle Diaries :: ---------------------------- It's the latest motorcycling movie - "The Motorcycle Diaries" - and Netrider has secured an exclusive screening. Two men, 1952, a 1939 Norton 500cc, 8 months, and 32,500km through the Latin American Continent. From it's director: "It's a [true] story of two young men who leave on an adventurous journey throughout an unknown continent, and this journey of discovery becomes one of self-discovery as well. This is a film about the emotional and political elections we have to make in life. It's also about friendship, about solidarity. Finally, it's about finding one's place in the world ...". This exclusive Netrider event is open to everyone, members and non-members, and screens on Thursday December 16th from 7pm at the Cinema Nova in Lygon Street, Carlton. Included in the ticket price, is Netrider's exclusive drinks and canape's before the show from 6pm in the Nova's private foyer. Please spread the word around about this movie and invite your non-riding friends and family to join us. Buy your tickets from our merchandise page at http://www.netrider.net.au/?page=merchandise Due to the coordination involved, we cannot provide tickets on the day. With just under 3 weeks till the movie, please get your purchases in now. If ticket sales do not improve within the next week, we will unfortunately have to cancel the event. The official movie website is http://www.motorcyclediariesmovie.com/ ---------------- :: Toy Run :: ---------------- Netrider is putting on it's inaugural "feeder runs" that will join up with the Melbourne Toy Run on Sunday December 12th. Dress up yourself and your bike with your finest Xmas decorations and join your fellow Netrider's for the run into Albert Park (GP Track garages in Aughtie Drive, Albert park) and then as one big Netrider group as we make our way to the starting point in the CBD. Details for the runs are (see http://www.netrider.net.au/?page=toyrun2004 for maps) ... Northern: Assemble from 8:30am at the Kmart Carpark, Crn Mahoneys Road and Hume Hwy, Campbellfield (Melway Ref. 7 G10) for a 9:00am sharp! departure. Route is Sydney Rd, Moreland Rd, Citylink, Kings Way, and Albert Park at ~9:45am. Contact the ride leader, Matt Fox (mattfox@bigblue.net.au), if you need any further details or can offer assistance with marshalling. Thanks Matt! South/Eastern: Assemble from 8:30am at the Ringwood Market Carpark, Bond Street, Ringwood (bottom corner near Gym) (Melway Ref. 49 G8) for an 8:40am sharp! departure. Route is Maroondah Hwy, Cantebury Rd, and Burwood Hwy. The group will arrive at the Burvale Hotel Carpark, Cnr Springvale Rd and Burwood Hwy, Burwood East (Burwood Hwy side) (Melway Ref. 62 D7) at ~8:55am to pickup riders and depart at 9:05am sharp! Route is Burwood Hwy and Springvale Rd. The group will arrive at the Village Green Hotel, Cnr Springvale Rd and Ferntree Gully Rd, Mulgrave (Melway Ref. 71 B9) at ~9:15am to pickup riders and depart at 9:25am sharp! Route is SthEastern Fwy, Swan St Exit, Alexandra Pde, Punt Rd, and Albert Park at ~9:50am. Contact the ride leader, Steve Roberts (cbrsteve_roberts@yahoo.com.au) if you need any further details or can offer assistance with marshalling. Thanks Steve! Western: Assemble from 8:30am at the Wyndham City Council Civic Centre, 45 Princes Hwy, Werribee (Melway Ref. 206 B7) for a 9:10am sharp! Departure. Route will be Princes Hwy, Westgate, Kings Way, and Albert Park at ~9:55am. Contact the ride leader, Steve King (shadowbolt@iinet.net.au), if you need any further details or can offer assistance with marshalling (Steve especially needs a few people for marshalling!). Thanks Steve! Albert Park: Assemble from 9:30am at the GP Pit Lane Garage's on Aughtie Drive, Albert Park. (Melway Ref. 2K H10). We will await the arrival of the above Netrider feeder runs and depart at 10:10am sharp! Route will be Clarendon St, Lonsdale St, William St and Latrobe Street at ~10:30am. The main ride departs from Latrobe St at 11:00am. The Toy Run official website is at http://www.toyrun.org.au --------------------------------- :: Merchandise Available :: --------------------------------- T-Shirts, Polo Shirts, Beanie's, Caps, Number Plate Frames, Visor Cleaner, Crash CD's, and Movie Tickets. By popular request, we've got the lot!. (We'll almost) Checkout http://www.netrider.net.au/?page=merchandise for all the goodies and to place your order. We are especially looking for people to buy the number plate frames so that we can meet the minimum order quantity with our supplier. Be seen and recognised on the road (or parked at the cafe/bakery) with your Netrider number plate frame! It's the "must have" accessory for every Netrider member. Don't forget to get your movie tickets for the "Motorcycle Diaries" whilst your there! Don't leave it till later as it would be a shame for us to have to cancel this event. It will be an interesting and enjoyable movie, and a great time to catch-up with those you met at the XMAS BBQ. ------------------------- :: Website Updates :: ------------------------- WOW!! We are now at over 3 million hits per month!! Yes it's not a typo - over 3 million hits per month and growing. (For the interested it's also 50-60Gb of bandwidth per month too). Netrider is now one of Australia's highest rated motorcycling websites. With the discussion forums, links directory, classifieds, events calendar, articles, and Ask Vic! sections is it any surprise? We've listened to your feedback and put in some hard work over the last 12 months to give you what you've asked for. But we haven't stopped there, with some future sections coming very soon including advanced ride announcements and nominations, picture gallery for you to upload ride and bike pics, and some action around a Netrider Assist concept for volunteer members to help other members when their bikes breakdown or something more serious. Keep your eye on the Events Calendar at http://www.netrider.net.au/calendar/ for details on rides and other motorcycling events. Please use the submit option for add your own events or rides to the calendar, and let everyone know about your ride or event. As you can probably imagine, paying for a website with over 3 million hits and 20Gb of traffic per month is by no means cheap. We have some advertising on the site to help offset these costs, but welcome any more. If yourself or anyone you know is interested in advertising with Netrider for your/their business, please take a look at http://www.netrider.net.au/?page=advertising or send us an email to netrider@netrider.com.au for further details. Starting at just $15 per month, it's excellent value to reach a targeted audience of motorcyclists and share in the over 3 million hits per month. We'd ask all members to please click on the unobtrusive ad's you see if you are interested in the product or service. It's only through these clicks that we are able to attract the advertisers and help offset the large monthly bill. I'm sure my wife see's the monthly charges on the credit card and thinks I'm off to a short stay hotel! If you have any articles or any suggestions/feedback you'd like to share with us for the website, please email them to netrider@netrider.com.au We'd love to hear from you! ----------------------------- :: Membership Details :: ----------------------------- Please take a moment to check and update your membership details (home address, email address etc.) with us, especially if you didn't receive this newsletter directly from Netrider. Goto http://www.netrider.net.au/?page=membership&action=edit to verify and update your details, if required. If visiting the membership update page for the first time, you will need to request that a password for your membership record be sent to you. Enter either your member number or email address, and click the 'Reset Password' button to have a new password emailed to your email address that we have on record. If you experience any problems, or have since changed email address and can't retrieve the password, please contact us as detailed on the webpage. If you don't have web access, please feel free to email us to update or check your membership details. ------------------------------ :: Partners and Sponsor :: ------------------------------ The list of Netrider partners and sponsors is growing rapidly. These companies value your business and offer at least a 10% discount or similar bonus on their products and/or services to Netrider members, upon presentation of your membership card. Checkout http://www.netrider.net.au/?page=partners for the full list which includes rider training, hire accessories, tyres, ride days, giftware, racing products, hire bikes, security, pocket bikes, orthopedic's, accommodation, transport and recovery, after market accessories, decals and graphics, communications equipment, printer/fax toners, and leathers. Trapdoor Ski Club in Mt. Hotham is our latest partner, and I can personally vouch for it's great facilities for those riding or family trips away. Sleeping up to ~40, it's perfect for the groups rides, or with just your spouse. If your business, or a friends business, would like to become a Netrider partner and sponsor, please complete the application form at http://www.netrider.net.au/?page=partners#add with the details, or let drop us an email to netrider@netrider.com.au If you'd like to suggests a possible Netrider partner business, then feel free to drop us an email. -------------------- :: Member Bio :: -------------------- Name: Chris R Nickname: NovaCoder Rides: ZX6R (last 2 years) Previous Rides: A diet of lower capacity bikes for example a Yamaha FZR400, an RGV250, and loads of 2-stoke 125's (it's a British thing, best not to think about it). Riding Years: Years and years, about 15 I think, scary stuff! Employment: Currently working as a programmer for a bank in the big bad city (Melbourne) Joined Netrider: Nov 2003 Interests: Coding, bikes, and games. http://www.novacoder.com/ Story: 1) Riding along on my little Yamaha RD50 with a mate on the back. Going round a bend in the wet and lent it over too far, bike went down with us underneath but somehow bounced back upright and so we just kept going.....cool, a knee-down save on a moped :-) 2) On another occasion I was going past the local youth-club (riding as GP125) with the same guy on the back (he must have been a sucker for punishment). I decided to do some show-boating and managed to pull this huge mono (not easy when you've only got 12 hp to play with). Unfortunately we got the front so high that the guy starting falling off and grabs my shoulder which then pulls my hand off the bar, this prevented me from pulling the clutch in and returning us to tera-ferma. Luckily after several meters doing a precarious 'balancing act', I realised that standing on the rear brake pedal wound also bring us back down to earth. If you'd like to share with us all a little Bio and story about yourself for the next newsletter, then please send an email to editor@netrider.com.au Some stats such as bike/s, riding years, background etc., and an interesting or humorous story that's happened to you is all we are looking for. ------------------------ :: The Rear Wheel :: ------------------------ Your a motorcyclists if ... . Your best friends are named after animals. . Your best shoes have steel toes. . Every left shoe you own has a black spot on it from the shift lever. . You owned three different bikes before you ever owned a car. . You think Easy Rider has held up pretty well after all these years. . When you refer to Captain America, you mean the bike and not the comic book hero. . You know that Marlon Brando rode a Triumph in The Wild One and not a Harley-Davidson. . You also know that it was Lee Marvin who rode the Harley in The Wild One. . You have motorcycle parts in the dishwasher. . You can tell what kind of bugs they are by the taste. . You're only sunburned on the back of your hands and neck. . You carry around a crushed beer can in case you have to park your bike on hot asphalt. . You pull your bike into the motel room and use a bath towel to wipe it off. . Your significant other (SO) has to climb over your bike to do the laundry in the basement. . You don't know how to do laundry, but you have four different kinds of cleaners for your bike. . You carry a picture of your bike in your wallet. . You wave at bikers even when you're in your car. . Your other vehicle is a truck equipped with a motorcycle ramp. . Your three piece suit consists of leather chaps, a leather vest, and a leather jacket. . Your other suit is a rain suit. . You wake up next to your SO and your first thought is if your bike will start. . You know where Sturgis is. . You take your kids for a ride on your bike before they can walk. We hope you enjoyed the 7th edition of Netwriter, the official Netrider newsletter. If you have any feedback you wish to share with us regarding this newsletter, or suggestions for our next newsletter, please drop an email to editor@netrider.com.au Cheers, Jason, Vic, and John http://www.netrider.net.au
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