mfinlay
Junior Member
Hi, this is Matt. I live if Far Hills, NJ. I manage a private equity fund and travel all around the world. I have a wonderful wife and three active boys, age 15, 12 and 10. Life is excellent, but stressful at times. I like my job, but it's a real handful. I spend a lot of time overseas, in airports and hotels. That's hard with a family. Also, the work I do can itself be stressful.
With all this stress, I need a way to chill out. Frankly, there are not many better ways to chill out than to bring my '09 (fast) blue FZ6 out of the garage and take a spin on all the twisty roads near where I live. On the days that I work in the office, it's a great, twisty 20 miles from home to office.
I started biking as a college student back in the 80's. I rode 35K kilometers around Australia one year, and 20K miles around the US two years later, all on smallish bikes. The US trip was done on a Yamaha Radian, a 600cc inline four which is very similar to the FZ6. I absolutely LOVED that bike. It was much faster than it looked - I used to be able to blow small superbike guys off the line, much to their surprise. I sold that bike when my first son was born.
I just bought the FZ6 last month, and couldn't be happier. My midlife crisis disappeared in the 3.something seconds it took me to get from 0-60 first time heading out the exit ramp onto the highway.
Glad to find such a great board!
With all this stress, I need a way to chill out. Frankly, there are not many better ways to chill out than to bring my '09 (fast) blue FZ6 out of the garage and take a spin on all the twisty roads near where I live. On the days that I work in the office, it's a great, twisty 20 miles from home to office.
I started biking as a college student back in the 80's. I rode 35K kilometers around Australia one year, and 20K miles around the US two years later, all on smallish bikes. The US trip was done on a Yamaha Radian, a 600cc inline four which is very similar to the FZ6. I absolutely LOVED that bike. It was much faster than it looked - I used to be able to blow small superbike guys off the line, much to their surprise. I sold that bike when my first son was born.
I just bought the FZ6 last month, and couldn't be happier. My midlife crisis disappeared in the 3.something seconds it took me to get from 0-60 first time heading out the exit ramp onto the highway.
Glad to find such a great board!
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