ÜberDoober
03-28-2008, 10:26 PM
Hi! I'm the ÜberDoober, also known around the world as EKron or EK for short - all short for what started out as my online sim racing name, Elisabeth Kron.
In real life, my first name really is Elisabeth but I'm called by my middle name, Diane. Some places, I'm known as E. Diane. (I get around, what can I say?) :rolleyes: Confused yet?
I am a couple of years into my 50's, (said while trembling and forcing fingers to hit the 5 key), a grandmother and lifelong fan of motorsports and a lifelong motorcyclist. What time I have for hobbies, I love reading about the whole extraterrestrial/UFO thing along with a good dose of secret black project conjecture thrown in to stimulate the neurons. Not that I'm a believer or a debunker, but as a fan of science fiction from the time I was a kid, I find thinking about it all very entertaining and escapist. Then of course, there's my racing addiction. Get up at 3:00am to watch an event live? Yeah, that's me.:o
I do a bit of sim racing on the PC with rFactor & GTR2 and can also run a server that's good for a dozen or so other people. I worked with iDT, the development team that was working on the offical game of Champ Car and released many community mods. I've done the whole Half-Live 2x series a few times and consider it the ultimate FPS adventure shooter. Portal was kickass. On the Xbox (that just got the red ring 'o death sent back, and returned with a big crack in the face place and a little plastic door broken off that has to be sent back AGAIN), I'm waiting to finish Halo and go back and try once again to get through the last huge battle in BioShock. After being a hardcore PC simmer, I don't much like racing games on the console but have had some fun with MotoGP.
At any rate, I started out with a minibike in 1968 and have never stopped. I raced motocross in High School until I crunched up my tib/fib and did take a few years off to recover and do the whole kid thing (my daughter will be 33 this year). I got my first licensed street motorcycle in 1981. Not that it's a lot for how long I've had, but I have about 4K to go to break the 200,000 mile mark.
In the 1985/6 time frame, I began racing with, and later became a board member with PRRO, the Phoenix Road Racing Organization, that ran the local AMA/CCS club races at the time. Kevin Elliott was also on that board and is now the president of CCS Motorsports (http://www.ccsracing.us/). In 1987/88, I took individual class championships in MWSB (middleweight supebrike) and F1 and was the AMA/CCS Southwest Regional season points runner up. I ran the #2 plate on my 600 Ninja and 750 GSX-R.
After retiring, I returned to the dirt for a few years on a CR250 or two. I spent a few years riding an XS1150-S Yamaha musclebike and purchased a brand new GL1500SE Honda Gold Wing in 1993.
These days, I'm riding a 1985 Kawasaki Ninja. A bike that was bought new, stripped and modified for racing then parked in a garage under a blanket for 15 years. I revived her from moth balls a few years ago, put some lights back on and stuff, and am riding her still, although not as much as I would like to.
So that's my story or at least as much as I can ramble without putting everyone to sleep.
Here are some pics of my scooter. Nifty bits are the Dymag wheels and PM brakes.
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g223/EKron/Picture338.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g223/EKron/Picture358.jpg
oops, busted reflector
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g223/EKron/Picture317.jpg
In real life, my first name really is Elisabeth but I'm called by my middle name, Diane. Some places, I'm known as E. Diane. (I get around, what can I say?) :rolleyes: Confused yet?
I am a couple of years into my 50's, (said while trembling and forcing fingers to hit the 5 key), a grandmother and lifelong fan of motorsports and a lifelong motorcyclist. What time I have for hobbies, I love reading about the whole extraterrestrial/UFO thing along with a good dose of secret black project conjecture thrown in to stimulate the neurons. Not that I'm a believer or a debunker, but as a fan of science fiction from the time I was a kid, I find thinking about it all very entertaining and escapist. Then of course, there's my racing addiction. Get up at 3:00am to watch an event live? Yeah, that's me.:o
I do a bit of sim racing on the PC with rFactor & GTR2 and can also run a server that's good for a dozen or so other people. I worked with iDT, the development team that was working on the offical game of Champ Car and released many community mods. I've done the whole Half-Live 2x series a few times and consider it the ultimate FPS adventure shooter. Portal was kickass. On the Xbox (that just got the red ring 'o death sent back, and returned with a big crack in the face place and a little plastic door broken off that has to be sent back AGAIN), I'm waiting to finish Halo and go back and try once again to get through the last huge battle in BioShock. After being a hardcore PC simmer, I don't much like racing games on the console but have had some fun with MotoGP.
At any rate, I started out with a minibike in 1968 and have never stopped. I raced motocross in High School until I crunched up my tib/fib and did take a few years off to recover and do the whole kid thing (my daughter will be 33 this year). I got my first licensed street motorcycle in 1981. Not that it's a lot for how long I've had, but I have about 4K to go to break the 200,000 mile mark.
In the 1985/6 time frame, I began racing with, and later became a board member with PRRO, the Phoenix Road Racing Organization, that ran the local AMA/CCS club races at the time. Kevin Elliott was also on that board and is now the president of CCS Motorsports (http://www.ccsracing.us/). In 1987/88, I took individual class championships in MWSB (middleweight supebrike) and F1 and was the AMA/CCS Southwest Regional season points runner up. I ran the #2 plate on my 600 Ninja and 750 GSX-R.
After retiring, I returned to the dirt for a few years on a CR250 or two. I spent a few years riding an XS1150-S Yamaha musclebike and purchased a brand new GL1500SE Honda Gold Wing in 1993.
These days, I'm riding a 1985 Kawasaki Ninja. A bike that was bought new, stripped and modified for racing then parked in a garage under a blanket for 15 years. I revived her from moth balls a few years ago, put some lights back on and stuff, and am riding her still, although not as much as I would like to.
So that's my story or at least as much as I can ramble without putting everyone to sleep.
Here are some pics of my scooter. Nifty bits are the Dymag wheels and PM brakes.
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g223/EKron/Picture338.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g223/EKron/Picture358.jpg
oops, busted reflector
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g223/EKron/Picture317.jpg