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Freedom, it’s the sound of two wheels on the road, the rush of the wind, the smell of fuel and the adrenalin rush of speed, that’s the bikers’ world, it’s a world that Gina Skilling loves. He talks to Sue Newman about his

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Freedom, it’s the framework Gina Skilling has built his life around.

He’s Di’s husband, Gene and Karla’s dad and he’s a grandad too, but above all else,

he’s a man who loves to break free, cut loose and hit the road.

He no longer sports his trademark ginger locks, grudgingly admits to being 65, but says he’s got plenty of good riding years left .

“You don’t give up when you hit a number, you ride as long as you can sling your leg over.”

And even when you’ve fi nished riding that doesn’t mean it’s the end. Gina intends to exit this world in style, on a Harley, even if that means a casket towed behind his bike on a trailer.

There’s an Aussie undertaker who does bik-ers’ funerals, Highway to Hell it’s called, and he’s hoping the idea will move across the Tasman by the ti me he needs it.

“You have to go out the way you lived,” he says.

His kind of freedom is a lifeti me commitment, a love story that

will never grow old. He’s a man whose enduring passion is motorbikes.

When most kids were riding their trikes, Gina Skilling was already dreaming of riding a motor-bike. The day his uncle slung him over the petrol tank of his bike for a quick ride down the drive was the day that passion was born.

“That fi rst whiff of petrol, of oil and I was hooked.”

He comes from a long line of blokes who loved bikes – uncles, cousins, his dad; in his youth he just assumed bikes and boys belonged together.

Gina’s one of those guys who, when he makes a commitment, is in for the long haul. Take his job on the slaughter board at Silver Fern Farms. He’s been there so long he’s become an insti tuti on – 46 years and rising. Like biking, he has no intenti on of reti ring any ti me soon.

But work, like most things in Gina’s life, fi lls the gaps between one ride and another. A love aff air with a bike is like having a terminal dis-ease. Once it’s in your system it’s there for

life, there’s no room for compromise, he says.“It’s not just a big part of life, it is life.”Nothing, absolutely nothing can beat the free-

dom of the road, the wind in your hair. The wind in the hair days, of course have gone. Helmets and a receding hairline have taken care of that.

“Back then it was long and it’d get all tangled; it’d get knott ed to hell but it looked good.”

He scraped together enough cash at 16, to buy his fi rst bike, a Triumph. It mightn’t have been the fl ashest or the fastest bike on the road, but he thought he was made.

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Today he owns fi ve. He’s not sure how, or why.“I know you’ve only got one arse and you can

only ride one at a ti me, but you somehow just seem to accumulate them.”

Having a fl eet of bikes makes you feel prett y good about the world and while they repre-sent a sizeable investment, paying for them is only the start.

He’s not sure wife Di agrees. She’s had to adopt the love-the-man, love-the-

bike philosophy, to adjust to a mar-riage where she was never sure who ranked number one – the bike, the wife or the kids.

She reckons they’re his super. He’s not so sure.

Bikes, good bikes, aren’t cheap, but once you’ve bought them and start ti nkering, that’s when the costs start mounti ng.

True bikers do most of their own maintenance; today’s bikers, Gina says, have no idea what it was like in an era when bikes were far from reliable.

In his youth, there was a real camaraderie between the young

men fi nding their way in the bikers’ world. They were bound together by their love of bikes and the pleasure they took in riding – fast.

True bikers don’t go chasing image, it comes to

them. They ride because they love to ride, the rest is just window dressing.

Back in the day when Gina was fi rst hitti ng the road, anyone with a bike was perceived as a bad guy, but today you never know who you’ll fi nd under a helmet, he says.

“People with the money like playing the big bad boy image, but we’ve always had that. It’s been a lifestyle for us; people are buying that lifestyle today.”

In his hard core biker years, Gina says he remem-bers people asking him if he was ever going to grow up; those same people own and ride bikes today. Biking as a mainstream recreati onal acti vity has come of age.

Like his friends, Gina has had to batt le public percepti on.

“People get the wrong idea when they see a group of bikes, but the guys are just out there on the road to enjoy riding their bikes. Some people think that anyone riding a bike who’s not in a fl uoro vest is a drug dealing, murdering thug. Don’t believe everything you see on TV.”

And what happens when a biker falls in love? There are conditi ons of course and that’s that the bike is part of the deal.

He’s lucky, wife Di loves his bike. He assumes she loves him because she’s stuck with him for years.

While some biker wives barely tolerate bikes, but others deliver the bike or me ulti matum.

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For Ashburton’s homegrown, hard-core bikers, there’s a special place they call home. It’s a house on Alford Forest Road, the Jokers’ Club.

Don’t go looking to join. They won’t have you. Membership is by invitati on and it’s gender specifi c. No girls allowed, says Baldy Roulston.

“Look at the name, it says Jokers, not Jokesses. If women want to join, it won’t happen in our life-

ti me, for them it’s all bad news. We have enough problems amongst ourselves without chucking women into the mix.”

Sure you can bring your other half along to the odd social functi on, but the club is all about blokes being blokes.

“You talk about friendships in clubs, well ours are ti ghter,” he says.

They meet once a week, ride most weekends and share the kind of bond that’s forged on the road through hard riding and watching one another’s backs. Age doesn’t matt er, it’s the passion that counts.

“You can’t just rock up and ask to join. Hang around for 12 months and we’ll see.

We need to get to know you’ll fi t as a member.”Membership of the Jokers is not for everyone. It’s a

commitment, there’s no such thing as a casual member. Join up and be part of the brotherhood or don’t bother.

Jokers don’t like talking about gangs. They say a gang name is just another name for a bikers’ club. It’s just that some clubs take behaviour to the edge.

“You have bad eggs in all clubs, but just because they ride bikes they’re seen as bad. Most of the guys in the outlaw clubs are just the same as us, but those clubs have just got some hard men.”

The bikie reputati on rubs on off mainstream bikers too.

“We all get hassled but what people don’t realise is most of us are people with families, nice homes and good jobs.”

The club is not just about boys and bikes, however. It runs the South Island’s largest bike show every second year and it does that with just a handful of members doing the work.

This November will be the 11th show and each year it gets bigger – more bikes, more bikers, more specta-tors.

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Inevitably for some, marriage meant an end to all kinds of freedom and Gina says he’s lost count of the bikes that disappeared the day a wedding ring arrived. It wasn’t an opti on for him.

“We all scrimped and scraped to get by so we could keep them; it’s either in your blood or it’s not and if it is, you don’t let your bike go.”

At the end of the day it’s all about balance. Getti ng it right with the woman in your life, being a dad to your kids and turning up for work on Monday ready to put in a hard week so you can go riding the next weekend.

He must have the balance right, he’s sti ll married, sti ll employed.With age, the reasons for riding change; now it’s as much about the

company as it is the desti nati on or the speed, Gina says.“You could ride to Fairton with your mates and have a good ti me.”He reckons he’ll be sti ll cruising the highways and byways for a while

yet.“Hell I hope I’ve got another 20 years riding left yet. It’ll be a bad day

when I can’t ride, when I have to sell my bikes and go into a rest home.”But what is it that keeps men in their middle years, with thinning hair

and looming paunches, conti nuing to don leathers, hop on Harleys and roar off into the sunset?

It’s hard to describe, Gina says. It’s the feeling, the people you’re with, the freedom and it’s, well it’s just the bikes.

Mum Dulcie reckons she had two choices when her boys Tony (Gina) and Wayne decided to buy motorbikes – fi ght it and lose them or ac-cept it and deal with it.

Dad was no stranger to bikes, but his were never the speedy kind, more oft en broken down and pushed than ridden. Even so, Gina stashed his fi rst bike at a friend’s house for a few weeks before he braved bringing it home.

With ti me, Dulcie became so accustomed to the bikers’ world she admires good bikes and takes a mother’s pride in Tony’s collecti on. She tagged a ride on a Harley for her 80th birthday but when the ti me came, she chickened out.

She’s a big supporter of the Jokers’ Club bike show but reckons at 83, it’s ti me she stopped att ending. It’s a bit embarrassing being the oldest bike fan there.

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At one of the last bastions of the blokes world, Gina Skilling enjoys a beer with fellow biker Baldy Roulston at the Jokers’ Club.

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The softer side of the hard man-on-the-road, Gina Skilling relaxing at home with wife Di.

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A modern two-storey house which rises from the plains at Lismore is the home of April McDougall and husband John.

The couple moved into their newly built home one year ago, leaving behind their two sons in the farm’s homestead, just down the driveway.

“We always joke about that, that we had to build to get away from the boys,” she said.

The boys are Cory, 25, a builder, and Bradley, 21, an engineer.

They also left behind two cats and two labradors, which had all been happy to stay in the house they knew so well, meaning Mrs McDougall is thinking of getti ng another cat to

keep her company in the new home.Mrs McDougall has beauti fully decorated

the new house, and is planning landscaping, to involve one acre of lawn, hedges, trees and garden beds.

The house represents the fi rst build for the couple, and looks out to a large storage lake with a distant backdrop of the Southern Alps. Birds, including a black swan couple and their six cygnets, are resident on the pond, and Cory has built a jett y.

It is a place in their lives they want to be, being able to entertain friends and family, including their two sons and their long-term girlfriends.

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Mr McDougall is the third generati on of his family to farm the property, and aft er marry-ing the couple fi rst lived in the farm’s cott age before moving to the homestead when they had children.

The luxury of modern living is a far cry from the upbringing Mrs McDougall had on Mt Al-ford Stati on, where she was the youngest of 10 children to parents Jim and Nancy Harmer.

It was a typical hardworking family farm life for April’s parents, and she would oft en wonder when her mother slept.

She would be working late at night in the home, and up early in the morning, having to undertake many tasks on the farm as well.

“My mother was my role model really. I

think she’s really insti lled the work ethic into all of us,” Mrs McDougall said.

Her older sisters, of which there were six al-together, would go mustering on their horses with her father and be away for days on end. As one of the younger ones she would go up into the hills picking wild strawberries, and in summer she and her siblings would bike down to Taylors Stream and Bowyers Stream and swim there for the day.

“It was amazing because what we could do as kids, the kids these days don’t get to do the same things.”

She would perch on the back of the trailer as her dad fed out hay, and she and her sister would trail pieces of string behind it

as it moved along to see who could get the longest piece.

Her older brother took the farm over but later sold it and is now on another property, causing some grumblings among family members, parti cularly the brothers. But it was short-lived and today all 10 siblings get on well and manage to catch up together from ti me to ti me.

Most of her siblings were farming today, and all but one, at Kaikoura, remained in Canterbury.

Mrs McDougall enjoys being home-based so she is available to help out on the family farm on a daily basis. In spring she also works as an AB technician for LIC, and is a fi eld as-

sistant for LIC.Her busy working life does not leave a lot of

ti me for outside interests, but she belongs to a small badminton group at Hinds, where she has made great friends.

The issue of farm succession is one she and Mr McDougall will be considering for their two boys soon, and they plan to sit down and talk about what the future may hold for the family.

While the couple had created their dream home, it was one they built in mind for the future of their farm going into a fourth gen-erati on.

“Hopefully one day the boys will take over and we will reti re off the farm,” she said.

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Olda Cizak says he’s living the chef’s dream – snowboarding by day and cooking by night.

The 26-year-old man from the Czech Republic is happily sett led in Methven, earning his living at Ski Time and spending that cash on Mt Hutt Skifi eld. He couldn’t be happier.

In terms of his career, he’s sti ll young, but when you started in the industry at just 15, 11 years mounts up to a fair bit of experi-ence, Olda says.

He admits he’s lucky to be able to combine the three loves of his life – travel, snow and food and says New Zealand is a close as it gets to perfecti on for someone like him.

In the fi ve months he’s been in New Zealand, Olda has worked at Hanmer’s

Braemar Lodge, but the lure of snow drew him south. “I am lucky because I spend my day on the mountain and then I come back to work at 3pm. In the summer I hope I can get some work on a farm with kiwifruit.”

While there are diff erences between the food he cooked at home and the food he cooks in New Zealand, he’s impressed with what he’s found here.

“In New Zealand it’s good, we cook real food at Ski Time.”

As a chef he’s passionate about food and when it comes to his own favourites, he fi nds it hard to choose just one.

“I like all good food, but it must look nice and it must be tasty.”

From Ski Time’s menu Olda says he can’t go past blue cod.

“It’s my absolute favourite.”When cooking, a chef has to turn a hand

to everything, but given a choice, Olda would take meat every day over desserts.

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Falling in loveby Roderick Lonsdale

There were two features that made Avi-gnon in the south of France memorable – the Popes’ Palace (Chateau Neuf-du-Pape) and the famous bridge (Pont du

Gard). I fell in love with this att racti ve walled city, in

spite of the indiff erent weather. And who could really complain about the rain when the whole area was suff ering a spring drought?

Situated on one of France’s greatest rivers, the Rhone, Avignon has a typically turbulent history. One only has to look at the crenellati on adorning the Palais des Papes; not so much a palace but a fortress. It should be a priority to visit, it isn’t ex-pensive and the audio guide is free and essenti al.

The actual history of the Avignon popes and their liking for luxury, or austerity, is fascinati ng in itself. No-one more fascinati ng than Pope John XXII, elected at 72 as a caretaker pope – he lasted unti l he was 90! And now, the bridge. The

idea of building the bridge here was the brain-child of an unschooled shepherd boy, Benezet, and constructi on started in the 12th century. It had a chequered history and was fi nally parti ally washed away in the 1668 fl oods. And so it re-mains, a bridge to nowhere, the strong waters of the Rhone swirling around it. For a small fee you can walk on the remains of the bridge with your ‘free’ audio guide. Hang on to your hat, though, it can be very windy up there and I was in fear of my glasses being whipped off !

For another angle on the bridge you can walk across the Daladier road bridge and along the opposite bank of the river. The city very thought-fully provides a free ferry back to the steps below the gardens that rise behind the Palais des Papes.

For the culturally minded Avignon has an excellent opera house that puts on chamber concerts, ballets and opera and there are several excellent galleries. It’s such an enjoyable city to walk around, with its medieval street patt ern and ancient buildings, let alone the proud city

walls. There are several tours off ered from Avignon and one not to miss is the combined tour to Pont du Gard and Chateauneuf-du-Pape. For me, see-ing the Pont du Gard was like seeing Brunelleschi’s great dome in Florence for the fi rst ti me, familiar yet sti ll breath-taking. Built around 2000 years ago, the highest bridge ever built by the Romans (160 feet high) it combines power with beauty. Don’t go to Avignon without driving out to it or taking one of the many trips!

If you combine the excur-sion with Chateauneuf-du-Pape it might be a lot bett er that you don’t drive for wine-tasti ng is on the menu.

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CeilingsWhen rolling paint on a ceiling, maintain a

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WallsPaint the enti re wall before stopping so

the painted areas won’t lose their wet edges. Whether you paint in secti ons from top to bot-tom or from side to side across the room is up to you.

Tight spotsYou probably won’t have enough room to use

the zigzag technique over and under windows and above doors and doorways. Instead, just roll the paint on horizontally. For areas that are narrower than the standard roller, use a smaller roller or a paintbrush.

Last month Shane Woods looked at preparing your interior for painting. This week we

get the paintbrush out ...

INTERIOR PAINTING –

Above – While you would normally use a roller to paint your ceiling, an ornate ceiling may be thejob for a brush.Right – Painting windows is quicker with a sash trim brush, making it easier to get into corners.

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A roller will give you the same surface fi nish as the rest of the wall whereas brushes apply paint less evenly and tend to leave trails.

Doors, windows, trimNow that we have covered the walls and

ceilings, it’s ti me to move onto windows, doors, skirti ng boards and trim.

Even when the walls and ceilings - the largest painti ng surfaces in a room - are coated, the job is far from over. Painti ng the trim, windows and doors can take as much ti me, if not more.

Doors with smooth, fl at surfaces are easily rolled, but doors with inset panels can be tricky. No matt er what type of door you are dealing with, paint the enti re door without stopping, otherwise the lap marks may show. Before you start, remove the doorknobs, the plates behind them, and the latch plate on the edge of the door. This makes for a ti dy fi nish and faster painti ng.

On ornate doors, start by painti ng the inset panels at the top of the door.

Paint all the panels and the moulding around them. Then work your way down

from the top to the bott om, painti ng the top rail, middle rail, and bott om rail (the horizon-tals) with back-and-forth strokes. Then paint the verti cal sides with up-and-down strokes.

Painti ng windows will be quicker with a sash trim brush, angled slightly across the bott om to make it easier to get into corners and ti ght spaces.

Work inside to outside, top to bott om, cut-ti ng up to the glass fi rst, trying to get 1-2mm on the glass to create a good seal. Finish with the reveals or face of the window, then the sill.

Ordinary Kiwi bloke Shane ‘Woodsy’ Woods is handy around the house with a hammer. Each month we’ll check in on what his latest DIY project has been.

Shane Woods

Painting a room is one of easiest and most affordable home improvement projects you can do.

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CELEBRATING 15 YEARS

by Sam Morton

Kurt Greenland is leading by example for his family.

Together with his wife Eva, he is dem-onstrati ng the importance of following

your dreams, and since moving to New Zealand 10 years ago, Kurt is proud to call Mid Canter-bury home.

The couple moved to Tinwald in 2010 with their fi ve children Mailaka, 17, Anastasia, 15, Olivia-Rose, 7, Isabella, 4, Caleb, 3, and fi ve months ago welcomed baby Josh to the family.

Kurt and Eva, of Zimbabwe and Botswana re-specti vely, spent about eight years dairy farming

throughout Canterbury, before Kurt decided he had had enough, packed the job in and aimed for a career change.

The 33-year-old turned his hand to building and is now enjoying his fi rst year as an appren-ti ce with local fi rm Bradford Building, where he says the lifestyle is more balanced.

“It’s defi nitely colder in Ashburton, but we feel a real sense of belonging as a family,” Kurt said.

“We’re very comfortable and sett led in Tin-wald now and for us it was important to give our children the best upbringing, somewhere safe and somewhere we can all call home.”

Interesti ngly enough, Eva has her hands full at home too, not only looking aft er their newest

additi on, but also voluntarily home-schooling her other children fi ve days a week.

It’s a system that puts limits on their social life, but there are no complaints with elder siblings Mailaka and Anastasia who both fi nd plenty of ti me to socialise through their sports and other clubs.

“I’m hoping to go to university and study anthropology, maybe something about people too,” Mailaka said.

“I have a real interest in the Middle East and I’m working hard to get what I need to get in.”

Meanwhile, the other children are kept occupied through study and a variety of youth groups such as the St John youth cadets, which they are all acti vely involved with.

In fact the family is so busy, Eva predicts they only fi nd ti me to get together once a week.

“We’d sit down for a family dinner maybe at least once during the week, everyone is so busy,” Eva said.

“With dairy farming, we didn’t know if we were going to stay in one place for long and with the kids all being so homesick, we decided that we would keep them home and teach them.

“It was a real big deal for the kids leaving Botswana, but I’m happy to say everyone is enjoying their new life in New Zealand and they all love Ashburton,” she said.

The family marked a special occasion last week, pledging their allegiance to New Zealand and becoming true Kiwis.

From Africato call Ashburton home

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Proud family: The Greenland family Caleb, far left, Anastasia, dad Kurt, mum Eva holding baby Josh, Isabella, Olivia-Rose and eldest sibling Mailaka, are enjoying their new life in Mid Canterbury.

20 YOU and your toys

by Jonathan Leask

Due to having a rotary engine the Mazda RX-7 has a disti ncti ve sound.

Jared Tubb’s RX-7 is even more disti ncti ve because he built it himself.

As a fi rst-project car Jared picked up an RX-7 body and set about sculpti ng an end product essenti ally from scratch.

“We stripped it all apart and had it redone. Nothing has been untouched,” Jared said.

For over fi ve years he, with help from his brother, Tony, toiled away on the car in their spare ti me, unti l it was fi nished last year.

As well as being car enthusiasts the pair had the advantage of working in handy trades, with Jared an upholsterer and his brother a painter.

“It made it more fun being able to do things yourself.”

So impressed with the fi nished product, Jarred entered his RX-7 into the Fours and Rotaries Nati onals last year and came away with two awards.

“It got awarded best paintwork and best bodywork in show.

“The most sati sfying part about the car was that we were basically doing it all on the cheap. So doing as much of the work ourselves as we could so that the fi nished product was really ours.”

It looks good and, depending on your opin-ion, its sound is horrible or music to the ears. But how does it drive?

“It’s prett y nasty to drive and I don’t really take it out all that much ... it’s an every-now-and-then car.”

It’s low to the ground and the disti ncti ve sound of the engine also makes it a noisy ride.

The Mazda RX-7 is renowned for its rotary engine, an internal combusti on engine that works in a completely diff erent way to the

conventi onal piston engine.In a piston engine, the same volume of

space (the cylinder) alternately does four dif-ferent jobs – intake, compression, combusti on and exhaust. A rotary engine does these same four jobs, but each one happens in its own part of the housing with the rotati on creati ng the iconic sound.

With Jared’s RX-7 project now completed, he has already picked up his next project, a Toyota Trueno.

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Right: Inside the completely re-done RX7 interior is all Jared’s handiwork.

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