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Message: [QUOTE="slideways11, post: 270497, member: 18068"] [b]my riding bio[/b] In Canada in 1984, at age 14 I had several fun experiences on a boyfriend's dirtbike before being banned from riding for crashing while showing off on his brother's bike. Only months later I was banned from their tractor too. I didn't ride again until Tim and I were in the Middle East in 1996 (running a sport fishing yacht for a Sheik in Dubai) and met a crazy Kiwi couple in charge of one of the Crown Prince's yachts. We all had a lot of free time because the super rich rarely have time to play with their toys. They had a kx200 that Chantelle taught me to ride while the boys were busy doing captain stuff. We could ride out of the garage onto beaches and into the desert. We blew the minds of the very Muslim Emirati up in Umm al Quain. Their eyes bugged out of their heads when they saw a couple of girlies on a dirt bike but when we really wanted to freak them out we went rollerblading in bikinis. When we got back to Florida in 1997 Tim and I got married, bought a BMW R1100GS and rode it up to Alaska and back - 15,000 miles in 2 months. We took a year off and competed in the Florida Skydiving League, in a 4-way formation team. When we left Florida I had over 400 jumps and Tim had over 1300. We took a job on a 103' motor yacht based in Cozumel thinking we could continue to skydive at the drop zone in Playa del Carmen but it turned out to be too much of a hassle to try and organize formation jumps because they're mainly a tandem drop zone. So we needed another outlet for our energy and another source of adrenaline and we started buying bikes. The first one we brought down was a Suzuki DR650 that was fun but not ideal for what we had in mind. After that, Tim got an XR400 and I got an XR200. We started exploring the trails and quarries on the island and met up with a group of local riders and formed a club. One of them took us to the little motocross track on the island and regrets it to this day because we pretty much abandoned the enduro guys and started playing at the track every afternoon. We sold the XR400 and bought a 2001 CR250 and then in October last year when I was ready to move up we bought a 2002 YZ125 and 250. We race here on the island and in Cancun and Playa del Carmen. Tim's been riding and racing motocross and superbikes on and off since he was a kid. He's thrilled to be back in the sport and doesn't even think about the ten thousand dollars worth of skydiving gear collecting dust in crew's quarters. Liz [/QUOTE]

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