Meet The Mods!

[SOUP]

Welcome to GBBikers!  Its good to have you with us!   

While you are introducing yourselves to us, its seems only fair that you know a little about the people who manage and moderate this place.  They keep it running smoothly, enforce our rules, and contribute to the general well being of members and the forum on a
daily basis.  Their positions are not remunerated, so bear this in mind before you give them a hard time.   

[SOUP]

Position:  Admin

Age:  Old enough to remember clackers, the beatles first time round, everlasting toffee strips and heating my grandma's iron next to the open fire.  

Member of GB Bikers:  3rd Feb 2004

Full Bike Licence:  7 years.  Interest in motorcyles all my life.

Favourite Bike:  Mr. Yukky.  W650 Kawasaki.  But I love all bikes particularly old Brits.

Bikes I would like to own:  hundreds.  But top two, a 1940's war time harley and a 650 Panther.  

Favourite Books:  The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell.  If not now When - Primo Levi

Favourite Films:  The shawkshank redemption.  Cinema paradiso.

Favourite Music:  Anything except country and western.  

Personal Qualities:  Honest and reliable.

Personal Flaws:  Can talk for England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and then some.  

Personal Philosophy:  If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all (unless you feel its absolutely necessary).
                             Treat others as you would wish to be treated.
                             If it hasn't got two wheels I'm not that interested.
                             People are more important than possessions.  

Pet Hates:  Speed cameras.  TV adverts for personal items, especially wings. GRRRRRRRRRRR!!  

Things you need to know:  If you think I am not listening I am thinking.  (so stand well back in case I explode)  

Very happily married with two wonderful sons.  Fortunate, to have the most wonderful friends!  
                              

[Frevrod]

Position:  Junior Admin*

Age:  As old as the woman I feel and I've been happily married for over 38 years with two children and four grandchildren.  
I've worked in IT support for the last 22 years (Deej and I met on our first day at a new company in 1988).  

Member of GB Bikers:  23 April 2003

Full Bike Licence:  8 years.  But I bought my first bike in 1971, just never bothered taking a test.

Favourite Bikes:  Big nakeds. I'm lucky to be able to afford what I want so I've got a BMW F800ST and a Yamaha BT1100. I use them for commuting as well as pleasure so do around 18000 miles a year.

Bikes I would like to own:  See above really but I'd like to get a bike I used to own in 1971, a BSA C15

Favourite Books:  Anything  Sci-Fi

Favourite Films:  Action

Favourite Music:  Moody Blues, real rock-n-roll

Personal Qualities and flaws:  None, DILLIGAF

Personal Philosophy:  No religion but I believe if you can help someone you should and I passionately hope karma is real.

Pet Hates:  Drivers who don't use their indicators, drivers who don't look, just drivers really.

I've been to all the Welsh weekends since 2005 and all the Goat meets plus a few other rideouts. I've made some great friends on this site and look forward to making many more.                              


Edit:  Title change.  Too busy working hard to change it himself  

[HappyHippy]

Position:  Retired Mod*

Age:  Well, this will change depending on when you look at this, but if we say 'around 30' then that should suffice for at least a while.

Member of GB Bikers:  30th March 2007

Full Bike Licence:  See 'Age'. Again, 'a couple of years' should suffice, with 6 months of CBT commuting beforehand.

Favourite Bikes:  Ones that work and don't have a knackered fuel tank Love the styling of Bonnevilles and such, think sports 400s are wicked fun but I'm not overly sniffy about any style.

Bikes I would like to own:  One that works and doesn't have a knackered fuel tank...

Favourite Books:  Jim Butcher's 'Dresden' books, anything by Terry Pratchett as well as SF Grand Master stuff (Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, Niven, etc...)

Favourite Films:  Depends on my mood at the time.

Favourite Music:  Eclectic. From Scarlatti to Senser - classical, jazz, rock, blues, tacky 80s synth-pop. Pretty much everything bar R&B.

Personal Philosophy:  A bit deep for me. I tend to go for a more pragmatic approach and simply get on with things.

Pet Hates:  Don't get me started. No, really, I mean it...    

* Edit  -  wore his fingers to the bone in this place                

[swylo]

Position:  Mod

Age:  49 going on 19  

Member of GB Bikers:    October 05, 2005

Full Bike Licence:  4 to 5 years ago ,.. I think ??  Not all that good at remembering dates !!!! Started riding everything and anything many moons ago when I was a young teenager.  Worked my way through many mopeds & 125's to a Honda 250 Superdream, as in those days you could ride a 250 on "L" Plates !

Favourite Bikes:  Sports bikes do it for me !  I have two at the moment, a CBR600Fv, and a CBR600RR.  


Bikes I would like to own:  If money was no object, I would have a garage full of bikes, ( *if* I had a big garage !!) which would probably include a Buell,... a KTM,......a Duke' and some form of big ole cruiser,.. just because i can :-)


Favourite Books:  Anything by Andy McNabb,.. Chris Ryan etc

Favourite Films:  In no particular order,.... Pulp Fiction,.. The Warriors,... Fiddler on the Roof,... Grease,... Lock Stock & two Smoking barrells,... Snatch,... PS I Love you,..... and many many more !

Favourite Music:  Way too much to call favorites. Depends a lot on the mood etc, but my collection covers just about everything from the 1930's/40's up to present day, and covers everything from Clasical to Hard Rock and everything in between ("Except" all this new bump bump house/garage/rap/shouting/pretending they can sing stuff!!!)

Personal Qualities: Honest,.. Hard working,... Reliable,... Trustworthy,.... Generous,.... Sympathetic.  Flaws: The *Odd* white lie !!!  

Personal Philosophy:  If it ain't broken,... "Leave it alone"!  If is "is" broken,.. call for help !

Pet Hates:  Ignorant people, ...Bad Drivers,... Drunks, when I'm sober,....... Cats,......... Parsnips,....... and "Having" to go to work !

Claim to Fame :  Took part in the Bennetts Biker TV Advert shot in Wales, and got to ride along with James Toseland !!

Famous (or not so) people I have shaken hands with :  Princess Diana,... Barry Sheene,.. Ron Haslam,... Freddie Spencer,... Joanna Lumley,.... Barbara Windsor,... June Brown (Dot Cotton),..... Leslie Crowther,.... Mike Harding,.... Jimminy Cricket.

Countries I've been to: England,... Ireland,... Scotland,... Wales,... France,... Belgium,... Germany,... Holland,... Spain,... South Africa.

[woody100]

Position:  Mod

Age: In my late 30's although some would say 12 years old....especially when hanging out with Mallet!!

Member of GB Bikers:  January 19, 2004

Full Bike Licence:  Held for about 10 years. Did my cbt the day Princess Dianna was buried.

Favourite Bikes:  Love my sportsbikes. Plastic fantastic jap fours do it for me. Had my blade until Oct last year when I sold it. "Between bikes" at moment.

Bikes I would like to own:  Too many to mention....what wouldn't I like to own!!!???

Favourite Books:  Like autobiogs....read Sheene's, Hislop's, Chris Moyles, Gordon Ramsey's recently.

Favourite Films:  Shawshank redemption, Blues Brothers, Lord of The Rings trilogy

Favourite Music:  Oasis, Stereophonics, Travis

Personal Philosophy:  Have a laugh......and make others laugh whilst you are doing it.

Pet Hates:  "Holier than thou" people.....just because someone else does or thinks differently to you doesn't make them wrong! My other pet hate is Monkey Boy.......Valentino Rossi!!!  

Other stuff: Love the T.T. If you have never been to Isle of Man T.T. you gotta try it at least once.
Love riding fast, small number plates, loud cans, and iridium visors!
I have 4 tattoos, and intend on having couple more.  
Got married on 18th July 2009 to my fiancee of 13 years, Louise.
Have 2 great kids, Dylan 7 and Tayla 4. Dylan has recently been scouted by Tottenham Hostpur.
Best mate, and member on this site, is Mallet......top geezer!!
Made some great friends on this site, and lost one.....RIP Mick aka "Gixxer".

[Deej]

Position:  Junior Admin *

Age: Uncertain, I lost count years ago.

Member of GB Bikers:    April 27, 2003

Full Bike Licence: Six years plus.  

Favourite Bikes:  Changes from time to time; currently 04 - 08 R1s and big nakeds i.e., XJR1300 - and my current FZ6-S of course!

Bikes I would like to own: See above. **Edit: never thought I'd own a R6, test rides are worthwhile!

Favourite Films:  Shawshank, LOTR x 3, The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Carry On Up The Kyber, Jaws and many more.

Favourite Music:  Radiohead, Muse, Arcade Fire, Pearl Jam, Queen, 70s Genesis (+ some later), SOAD, Girls Aloud....

Personal Philosophy:  You can't take it with you.

Pet Hates:  The UK "family" court system - don't make me laugh, and toe-jam.  

Other stuff: Seem to have made IT a career - clothing company at mo - after military stats and HR work for the MoD in the 80s. My hair and teeth are my own. Being classed as tall is currently a pipe-dream (until I visit Lilliput).

* Edit -  Keeping him way toooooooo busy to change it himself  
** Different 'bike.  

[harum-scarum]

Position:  Mod

Age: Just entering my prime.

Member of GB Bikers:  February 06, 2005

Full Bike Licence:  Over 25 years, and first rode a motorbike in 1975.

Favourite Bikes:  Of all the bikes I've owned, the FZS1000 Fazer. That I wanted but never owned, the KH250

Bikes I would like to own:  Brough Superior SS100, Ducati Multistrada 1200S, KTM 990 SMT, Triumph Speed Triple

Favourite Books:  Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins, Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie, Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

Favourite Films:  Blade Runner, Blues Brothers, Brazil

Favourite Music:  Guitars, Church organs, double speed kick drums, cellos, and more guitars. There is quality in all genres.*

Personal Philosophy:  I try and follow the Prime Directive: Squeeze as much fun as possible out of every twenty-four hour period. Also, Zen Dog: I know not where I'm going, for the road it will decide; it's not the destination but the glory of the ride.

Pet Hates:  I have no pet hates.*

Other stuff: The board game 'Go', playing pool, maps, museums and art galleries, crosswords and sudoku, Scotland, France, Spain, poetry, sausages, constant radius right handers.

Ambitions: To get a mohican. To still be active on the forum when we get our twentieth goat.










*Except country and western, obviously.

[MR SOUP]

Position:  Admin

Age: I remember the last Trolley Buses In Bradford
Member of GB Bikers:    September 28, 2004

Full Bike Licence:  Been riding since the early 80's, toured Europe in the late 80's and early 90's on the Bike, long before Google Maps and Satnav's and a vague Idea of what countries I wanted to go to as I set off.

Favourite Bikes:  Most striking Katana 1000, Most versatile XJR1200, most fun to Ride BSA B31 ( only done 9 miles on him so far in 3 years)

Bikes I would like to own:  Any Panther big single thumper

Favorite Books:  still working my way through one I started 9 years ago.

Favourite Quote: I have the body of A God........... Buddha  

Favourite Music:  Will listen to just about anything,

Other stuff: love Gadgets ,

Ambitions: To win the lottery or Ride to the Arctic Circle

[Fee750]

Position:  Mod

Age: 30 but I don’t look a day over 31.

Member of GB Bikers:     April 11, 2007

Full Bike Licence:  Same as above.

Favourite Bikes: The one I have now…..GSXR750 K6.    

Bikes I would like to own: Anything half decent that I can use as a dedicated track bike and I won’t be too upset about binning. A Desmosedici, mainly because it’s just ludicrously expensive. And I’ve always quite fancied a 675 but they’re too tall for me.

Favourite Books:  Mostly girly stuff I’m afraid, like Bridget Jones etc. I’m currently reading and addicted to the Twilight series.

Favourite Films:  We were Soldiers, Shaun of the Dead, Happy Gilmore……there’s too many to list really.

Favourite Music:  Anything and everything, I have a very eclectic taste in music from classical to funky house/electro.

Personal Philosophy:  Life is too short, so have fun and be the best that you can be.

Pet Hates:  Not sure, but my pet likes are Horses and Dogs.

Ambitions: To do more tracks than just Cadwell! To try skydiving and bungee jumping.  

[jonfp]

Position:  Mod

Age: 36 and a quarter

Member of GB Bikers:     May 29, 2006

Full Bike Licence:  19 years

Favourite Bikes I've owned:  RD350lc YPVS, Honda VT250F

Bikes I would like to own:  RD500LC, R1 and maybe a K series BMW when my knees stop bending.

Favourite Books:  Wilbur Smiths, especially the Courtney Series and the Egyptian ones. Orwells Down and out in Paris and London, Ann McCaffreys Dragons of Pern books, The Twilight series since Hollie persuaded me to read the first one.

Favourite Films: Highlander, Pulp Fiction, True Romance, In the Name of the Father, Shrek

Favourite Music:  Stone Roses, New Order, 80's & 90's dance. Now mostly what is played on Radio 2, Oh and Happy Mondays of course.

Personal Philosophy: Why worry, if its gonna happen, it will.

Pet Hates:  Try not to hate anything. I get wound up by anything that wastes my time, from supermarket queues to pointless form filling and badly phased traffic lights.

Ambition: One day I'd like to go to bed on the same day I got up.

Other stuff: I like to get out on my bike whenever possible, alone or in groups, enjoy the social side of biking as much as riding. I've met a load of great people on here and look forward to helping with whatever I can.

[Mav]

Position:  Junior Admin - Retired *

Age: Lets just say I passed 40 a couple of years ago.

Member of GB Bikers:    July 11, 2003

Full Bike Licence:  6 years

Bikes I've owned:  Kawasaki AE50, Yamaha YZF600R

Bikes I would like to own:  Yamaha FS1E, RD350LC, MV F4 1000 Senna.

Favourite Books:  Autobiographies - mainly of people I admire including amongst many, Valentino Rossi, Barry Sheene, Bill Clinton and Brian Clough.

Favourite Films:  Pretty much anything with Tom Hanks, Morgan Freeman or Samuel L. Jackson in.

Favourite Music:  There's only two types of music - music you like and music you don't.

Pet Hates:  Speed cameras, the global warming band-wagon, drunks.

Ambition:  To visit the TT, visit all 30 MLB Stadiums, retire to somewhere warm.

Other stuff:  I don't ride really as often as I should, so I really ought to make more effort including attending GBB meets.


* Edit - last heard of living it up in Cuba    Guess its hard work but somebody has to do it.

[qwakers]

Position:  Moderator

Age: 21

Member of GB Bikers:    April 12, 2006

Full Bike Licence: 4 years

Bikes I've owned:  Kawasaki Gpx250, Yamaha FZR600RR, Suzuki Bandit 750, Honda VFR400 NC21, Yamaha R1

Bikes I would like to own:  BMW S1000RR, New R1

Favourite Books: Biggles (how sad am I?)

Favourite Films:  too many to pick just one.  

Favourite Music:  Ditto.

Pet Hates:  Thieves.

Ambition:  To make lots of money doing a job I enjoy. and to go back to the T.T in 2011

Other stuff:  I really should go to more GBB meets.

[notoriusb.e.n]

Here goes...

Position:  Mod

Age: 25

Member of GB Bikers: February 08, 2008

Full Bike Licence:  3 years

Favourite Bikes: ooh, I don't know..something loud, fast and preferably black.

Bikes I would like to own: HP2 Sport, Some kind of Ducati, Boxercup Rep.

Favourite Films: Allsorts. Got a shameless penchant for Cult zombie "B" movies.

Favourite Music: Have a wide and rather eclectic taste, anything I'm too young to remember the first time.

Personal Philosophy:  A good cup of tea's the only way to start your day.

Pet Hates:  Messy people, untidyness. I'm a clean freak.

Ambitions: A (preferably full) Five bike garage, and a million miles on the clock. And to discover the ultimate cure for sunburn.

[killamoggie]

Position:  Mod

Age: 45 years, 5 months and 10 days

Member of GB Bikers:    June 05, 2008

Full Bike Licence:  3 years

Favourite Bikes I've owned:  Current bike, Billy the Bandit  

Bikes I would like to own:  Aprilia Shiver (rear of the year) and Aprilia Dorsoduro 750  

Favourite Books:  Left for Dead - Nick Ward, Touching the Void - Joe Simpson

Favourite Films: The Life of Brian, Wall-e, 9, The Hangover

Favourite Music: All sorts really including Kings of Leon, Foo Fighters, Pink Floyd, Hot Chip, Chemical Brothers, Ninja Tuna .

Personal Philosophy:  Life’s a bowl of toenails. It’s something me dad used to say. I haven’t a clue what it means, but it always makes me laugh, which I guess is a good philosophy in itself.

Pet Hates:  Shopping trolleys that don’t steer properly

Ambition:  To ride over the Millau Viaduct

Other Stuff I have a delinquent son and a teenage cat. No, sorry. Make that a teenage son and a delinquent cat.

[ulster exile]

Position:  Mod

Age: 33 years last time I looked.

Member of GB Bikers:    July 10, 2008

Full Bike Licence: 2 years.

Favourite Bikes I've owned:  My Hornet - it's my first big bike and I'm still in love with it.  How sad is that?  Not too sad, I hope.

Bikes I would like to own: I'm not too sure to be honest.  I quite fancy the look of the new CBR600 but not sure I could tear myself away from the hornet even if I could afford it.

Favourite Books:  Generally anything by Peter F Hamilton.  I'm in awe of the Night's Dawn Trilogy and Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series has been a fun ride too.

Favourite Films: The Notebook for its soppiness and Pitch Black for Vin Diesel's body and voice.  Mmmm Vin Diesel!

Favourite Music: A bit of everything really.  I do love Ray LaMontagne's voice, I was a big Garth Brooks fan in my yoof and I dabble in a bit of everything from My Chemical Romance to Amy MacDonald.


Personal Philosophy: What doesn't kill me can only make me stronger.


Pet Hates: How much time do you have?  The whole "there, they're and their" thing gets me, along with people who can only do one speed - 40 in a 50 or 40 in a 30.  *counts to ten and takes a big deep breath*

Ambition: To have an ambition

Other Stuff My life revolves around my beautiful dog Jake.