Vortac

NICE!!! i wish my 450 had black forks

i'll trade you my black forks for your extra 200cc's

nice!!!

next queation, what are you shooting with

D60 with kit lens

sorry the pics are so big

welcome mang!!! come down to columbus for our cookout this weekend if you can.... check thread ....http://www.ohio-riders.net/showthread.php?t=22428

gotta fly back to tucson to pick up the bike and colleen.. but thanks for the invite.

welp.. i'm here... finally.. moved into my place yesterday, and start work tomorrow. colleen will be here next week. ended up finding a place in Elyria.

sooo.. anyone recommend a bike shop for tire changes and such?

Sorry for the late reply... been busy!

Anyway, yeah my NSR use to be a NSR50, I took the 50cc two stroke motor out and put a XR100 4 stroke in there, bored out with a BBR120 kit and aftermarket cam, it has a few other mods done to it but yeah... it is a fun bike for sure!

We race on the Wilson track at BeaveRun... if you go to my website, you can see a few onboard videos of the track when I had my old 65cc two stroke motor in the bike.

http://www.teamquazzymoto.com/ Check out the "NEWS" section and see pic's of the motor conversion I did last summer... I think there are a few videos of it running on there as well. I need to update the website this weekend... its been a while!!!

My bike... Number 4

very nice!

Welcome!

Ohio motorcycle roads:

http://www.motorcycleroads.us/states/oh.html

http://www.motorcycleroads.com/routes/MidWest/OH/OH_index.htm

thank you, i'll have a look

I can't believe nobody's commented on your bike pix.....You got some very cool ones there!! Especially the one with the canyon/desert in the background, & the other with the reflection of the bike in the building glass The graffiti ones are kinda cool too, but almost distracting to the bikes. Ditto what Schmuck said about the 599.....I've always thought those were cool bikes.

thanks, i try

Did you say how soon you're getting here?

should be sometime around the first of April (hopefully dodging most of my first OH winter )

I like your bikes!!!

welcome!!

I want a wr250x!

thanks.. are you on supermotojunkie? i swear i've seen your avatar pic over there.

vortac are you going to be working at oberlin college???if so let me know I have a close friend that works there

no sir

well, not knowing anything about the place, i can't really say about the commute... i just don't know. looking at a map, Avon and Westlake don't look too far, but that goes back to not knowing the area.

i'm sure i'll have more questions as april gets closer, so i might get back to ya.. thanks!

What kind of atmosphere are you looking for? Closer to cleveland, more country, what?

Oberlin is...quaint. It's a middle-class college town (maybe even toward the upper middle), but it's country - flat country. The more west you go, to more country it gets until you hit Toledo.

Lakefront is in Vermillion / Lorain, but Lorain is pretty ghetto, as is Elyria. Certain areas anyway - each town has it's crappy areas and nice® areas.

For riding though, you're kinda screwed.... all the good stuff is south (Coshocton / Mohican area).

If you have specific questions on specific parts of town - I'll do my best to give an opinion - I've only lived here for 5 years.

ehh, i don't mind the country .

i know this is bassackwards, but i'd rather live in a decent area, and have to go a little ways to find good riding than live in a crappy area closer to the good riding spots.

so stay away from lakefront, vermillion, lorain, and elyria?

yea, steer clear of Cleveland...

yeah, i didn't have an option, lol

Nope... has a 120 cc four stroker in her. Its a very nice ride!

a 120 4 stroke?? do you ride it on the big track at beaverun or the small?

sounds like a good matchup for the supermoto

Oberlin... about 10 miles west of me.

Welcome. We'll get some rides going this summer. Myself, InyaAzz, RVTPilot, Shittygsxr (sometimes), and r1Crusher are all really close to the Oberlin area.

Love the Interceptor.

cool... any suggestions of places to look to live (and places to steer clear of)??

amish country is pretty fun there are a bunch of nice roads around there.

so there is hope? haha

ahh, just checked out the link... pretty cool, i'll def have to make it out there. thanks!

yikes! that thing looks pretty wide open for a supermoto, unless that Wilson circuit is open

Welcome! I love that Yamaha WR250x! I seen one at the track at BeaveRun running supermoto there! That thing was flying around the track!

You should take it to BeaveRun (about 1hr from Cleveland) and run it on the track! I race a NSR there all the time.

ahh, i'm interested... what kind of track is beaverun? we have a gocart track in tucson that was converted to supermoto that's really nice, but these things aren't suited to any kind of high speed stuff... it'll do about 95, but it likes 30-50mph stuff better.

i'm guessing your NSR is a 250?

Thanks for the welcomes..

soo about those secret riding spots..... dont make me use the search button!

So far how do you like Ohio Riders in comparison?

so far so good.

What site in Arizona are you on?

tucsonsportbikes.org

Welcome, anti-snowbirds! Hope you find us more hospitiable than the weather, though by April, the worst it should be is wet. Whereabout Cleveland will you find yourself working?

yeah, i'm scared of the weather, haha.

I'll be working in the Oberlin area.

What's up everybody? My name is Chris, and I recently took a job that will be relocating me to Cleveland from sunny, warm Tucson, AZ, sometime around the first of April. My girlfriend also joined this site (hence the post title) yesterday, and her name is Colleen. We both belonged to a similar website back in Tucson, so it's nice to see that there is one for Ohio.

So with that out of the way, let's get to what's important... Does the Cleveland area have any good roads to ride? How about bike shops to get misc. things done (tire mounting, minor work etc.)?

Also, since I have never been to Cleveland, and don't know the area, if anyone wants to give me some pointers on good places to start looking for housing (i'm going to be working in the Oberlin area) and what places to steer clear of, that would be great

Anyway, I currently ride a Yamaha supermoto, it is my 4th bike. I started off with a 2006 Honda 599, then had a 2006 Honda VFR800, then a 2007 Kawasaki ZX6r (which I at times miss very much ). And Colleen rides a 2001 Yamaha R6.

bike pics...

First bike 2006 Honda 599

Second bike 2006 Honda VFR800

Third bike 2007 ZX6r

Aaaannnd, the current bike 2008 Yamaha WR250x

This is Colleens bike 2001 Yamaha R6