Moar Bikes

[PirateJafa]

Once again (http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?p=1580568#post1580568), two nameless folk have bought new motorbikes, this time down past Dannevirke.

One has a trailer.

One has a car [which he can swap for a car with MOAR POWAR].

And so Captain Bligh and Professional Passenger hatch a nefarious plan.

These two intrepid heroes, along with their sidekicks Wonder Woman, Unremarkable Man and the Golden Mane bravely set out, away from the city of a million moccachinoes.

We leave the first house at 1pm. By the time we have spilt one engine-worth of oil into the trailer and waiting for a anonymous chap to condition his hair we manage to leave Auckland at 5pm.

Taupo before dark? Ha! Whilst rocking along the Taupo coast road we pull up behind a truck. What a godsend - now we can leech off his headlights (which actually illuminate things!) and we follow as he thrashes it along the desert road, crossing the centreline and pulling away from us on the hills. :blank:

We hit Palmerston North around midnight and drop off Clivoris' motor to him and AJTurbo. We then find out that apparently the entire city (Ha!) of Palmerston North spends Friday nights at church. After we give up on finding a bar suddenly we see flashing red and blue! Hrmmm, I suppose that headlights are moderately important. Pull over and have a chat to the lovely gal and her colleagues in the booze-wagon - and roll away with a set of directions back to Clivoris' lawn.

After several hours of talking shite we discover that the old Commodores have DAMN comfy seats to sleep in.

The Doomwagon goes forth.
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Hazard: Cones ahead.
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Play nice back there dammit.
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Wait, salvation beckons!
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Good cheer and harmony take hold (except where singing is involved).
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The regression to childhood begins. I spy with my little eye, something that begins with the letter G...
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Ramming SPEED!
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When you let a female navigate. Dammit!
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Trying to entice her out before we end up in the fires of Mt Doom.
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A balanced diet!
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[PirateJafa]

We wake up in the morning and disappear in search of petrol. Cruising along at 90km/h we see disco lights behind us. Again.

Turns out the trailer isn't warranted. Doh. Taking my word (ha!) that there are two full license holders in the passenger seats the cop throws us a ticket which we can get off within 14 days by WOFing the trailer. Fooking thanks mate! :niceone:

The cone is stolen by Wellingtonians!
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And liberated!
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Ahhar! Heading in the right direction!
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Guess who didn't have to sleep under the trailer last night.
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The chances on a cop being around that corner is 0.014...
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You can never go wrong with moar Vikings.
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Warp six please Mr Spock.
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[PirateJafa]

Arriving at our target (eventually) we collect the loot and do a runner.

Reaching Fielding, we spot that the oil pressure gauge is registering nil. Hrmm. Oh and what's that? The temperature guage is well in the red? Methinks it may be time to make a slight detour to the nearest shoulder we can or cannot fit onto!

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Okay, let us apply our motorbike knowledge to cars. No oil pressure. No coolant. Redlined temperature guage. Well, Holden nearly sounds like Honda, so let's just keep going regardless!
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The scapegoat.
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I smell pretty, oh so pretty!
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Sigh.
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Rest of pictures posted up for one of the others to add the story to because I am way too tired to finish this saga tonight!

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Sleep!
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[PirateJafa]

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Someone looks cheerful!
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I know, after a restricted license driver breaching multiple license conditions for a couple thousand kilometres, let's put one of the full license holders behind the wheel for the last 20 minute leg of the trip now we've dropped off the trailer!

Or not. That's right, you'd better be facepalming ya damn westie.
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Hit by the disco lights four times in one day! Do we smell or something?

We can fit the sidecars in there, I'm sure!
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[Slyer]

Damn westies!
I didn't find the commodore that comfy to sleep in, but I was sleeping in the boot on top of a fire extinguisher.

Conelius got us in trouble twice!
We were taking photos with him at the army museum, you know climbing on tanks, trying to stick him on the end of the barrels and such when a security guard decided that this cone was one of his.
He proceeded to yell at us from the entrance, not to take photos with the cone while we kindly explain to him that it's our cone so he can fuck off.
He then stood there giving us the evils till we left.

Much later on we found a roadblock where we were briefly searched by a cop armed with a flashlight. Who knew they were looking for cones eh?
He told us off for having it but I think he let us off once he realised he couldn't care for the conelius as well as we could.

[Ragingrob]

Hahahahahahahaha.

Brilliant write up Jafa!

[Timati]

Quite the story.

[gijoe1313]

Road trips are classic quintessential rites of passage ... heck, I even go on them impromptuly! I guess Cornelius was giving the rozzers the raspberry so attracted them quick smart ...

I take it the infusion of moar oil into the engine helped it summit wat? More importantly, the sidecar all works tickety-boo?

[motorbyclist]

jeez jafa you couldn't have posted photos in chronilogical order could you?

[motorbyclist]

conelius learns to fly!

[TOTO]

You guys are legends.


You should start a company "Adventure on the Go".

:clap:

[motorbyclist]

after another successful trailer through drive thru manuevuer, we went for our midnight playground trip.


it would appear hanne got stuck.... let's all stand there and watch rather than help her down:D

[motorbyclist]

ehab and the last crunchie bar

rocking out with the kids infront:Punk:

and timing is everything:first:

[motorbyclist]

MOAR BUCKET SIDECARS :D


the car we should have been driving and what stephen's shed should look like



we had a great chat with the guys who offered us delicious scones - turns out one of them is the engineering teacher at the high school in fielding, where the year 13 students get to make there bucket sidecars and race em at manfield! best. class. ever.

[Slyer]

I swear you stretched my head. :P
I'll put up my photos tonight.

[motorbyclist]

apparently security guards and the SMC really don't get along

[motorbyclist]

damn mowers!

go the honda!


"caution, diggers swinging out over road despite passing traffic"

[Slyer]

Here is an approximate route.
1200km woot!
http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?f=d&saddr=Southern+Mwy&daddr=Gordonton+Rd+to:Lake+Tce+to:Rangitikei+St+to :SH+2+to:Featherston+St+to:Lake+Tce+to:Burwood+Rd+ to:SH+26+to:SH+2+to:-36.868635,174.760895&hl=en&geocode=FRGDzf0dibRqCg%3BFXxAwP0dxatyCg%3BFTKSsf0d Yrp-Cg%3BFSpUmP0dXIZ3Cg%3BFRDFm_0d5BiACg%3BFVJPmP0dHIp 3Cg%3BFXJ_sf0d2NV-Cg%3BFajcvv0dKBJ6Cg%3BFVqfwv0dmoN4Cg%3BFTwzxf0dohF 5Cg%3B&mra=mi&mrcr=6&mrsp=10&sz=10&via=5,7,8&sll=-37.043121,174.953156&sspn=0.849509,1.235962&ie=UTF8&z=10

[motorbyclist]

loading bikes without wheels onto trailers:

pull out the axle before lying on the side the axle pulls out from
always check that the left hand cover is present before laying it onto the left hand side

long story short, we had to make a wee stop by placemakers to see ross about getting some sand in the trailer



now while jafa and i did prove very effective at talking our way out of trouble while the others pull the beer bottles down from the windows, we still had a bit to learn about avoiding police:

don't drive a station wagon full of people, with a trailer, aimlessly around suburbs at 1am without your headlights on
check that the trailer has a current wof before you leave
having a traffic cone in the back apparently distracts the fun police from technical breach of driver's licence conditions
don't let a westie drive a celica in west auckland late on a saturday night


navigation:

westie knows better than maps
maps from 1986 aren't that accurate anymore
asking at shell stations for directions just leads you to another shell station


budgeting:

we had to get from the hauraki plains to auckland on just $17.60.... sure am glad i didn't buy that ice cream at the previous stop!


automoblies:

oil pressure guages on holdens fail when things get too hot
service records run to 115000km, only service recorded, however, was at 15000km
when, "the odo stopped working at 230,000km", perhaps you should look at another vehicle... maybe even one with air conditioning

[Clivoris]

Epic journey. If I see any bucket sidecars for sale in Dunedin I will let you know.

[Phurrball]

That's the best road-trip pictoral sequence ever! [even if the sequence is odd...]

Hurrah for the SMC road trip! A great tradition has begun...

Please tell me that these partial bikes are not joining Squiggles bursting garage... There'll be no room for SMC fix its before long...


(snipppy)
long story short, we had to make a wee stop by placemakers to see ross about getting some sand in the trailer

Not to mention that D shackle for the safety chain! Than feck you had that, or the friendly orrificer might not have been so nice to y'all with your dodgy trailer!


now while jafa and i did prove very effective at talking our way out of trouble while the others pull the beer bottles down from the windows, we still had a bit to learn about avoiding police:

don't drive a station wagon full of people, with a trailer, aimlessly around suburbs at 1am without your headlights on
check that the trailer has a current wof before you leave
having a traffic cone in the back apparently distracts the fun police from technical breach of driver's licence conditions
don't let a westie drive a celica in west auckland after midnight


(snippy more )

My addition - Police don't like a toot and a friendly wave when they're parked up at night with all their lights off sending radar pulses at suspiciously swift looking cars. :shifty:

In fact, if you do it twice (soley because your passenger egged you on, of course) they follow you for a while to freak you out and then pull you over to check everything over while claiming you were 'trying to get their attention' :Police:

(Disclaimer - All of which I completely deserved for being so cheeky...and it was a few years back, before I became 'old and sensible'™ :laugh:)

[Squiggles]

Oh, and we became an honorary truck on the way down to palmy too. Over the desert road we noticed our super speedy guide truck kept winking with the right indicator at all the other trucks. So we decided to try it too. Not sure what the final count was, but I reckon we got at least 30 winks back by the time we reached our destination (and had passed the truck depot 3 times. LOST!)

Oh, and did oyu know that once you tee off a golf ball you hand over ownership of it to the green? So you can't go into the bushes and take the 4 balls you find because that is theft? I woke up on the Hauraki plains to some guy in blue leaning in the window giving us the learn on golfball ownership and eyeing up Conelius. Thay can't take him! No! He is like a child!

[Hanne]

Oh, and we became an honorary truck on the way down to palmy too. Over the desert road we noticed our super speedy guide truck kept winking with the right indicator at all the other trucks. So we decided to try it too. Not sure what the final count was, but I reckon we got at least 30 winks back by the time we reached our destination (and had passed the truck depot 3 times. LOST!)

Oh, and did oyu know that once you tee off a golf ball you hand over ownership of it to the green? So you can't go into the bushes and take the 4 balls you find because that is theft? I woke up on the Hauraki plains to some guy in blue leaning in the window giving us the learn on golfball ownership and eyeing up Conelius. Thay can't take him! No! He is like a child!

[Hanne]

after another successful trailer through drive thru manuevuer, we went for our midnight playground trip.


it would appear hanne got stuck.... let's all stand there and watch rather than help her down:D

meanies! :bash:

[Slyer]

Was going to say that that post didn't sound like squiggles. :P
Moar photos!

Engine we picked up on queen street
Our bed for the night
Picking up sidecars
We killed it good!
Conelius molestation!

[Hanne]

Need a sprocket to mount on the wall next that awesome hunters shot.

Jaegers ftw!

[Squiggles]

Having rigged up a new clutch cable tonight, i can officially say that those cars are insane.

[motorbyclist]

oi!

me and jafa dibs first bin!

[Squiggles]

Pfft, i had it on two wheels too

[EJK]

Shit.... Roll the Dai anyone?

[Hanne]

Man that thing was getting up speed going up the driveway!
The completely flat front tyre made things slightly disconcerting... pootling along then wall wall wall, turn... oh shit, WALL!
(It's ok, we missed the wall. This time, anyway...)
I foresee hours of AWESOME fun!

[PirateJafa]

now while jafa and i did prove very effective at talking our way out of trouble while the others pull the beer bottles down from the windows, we still had a bit to learn about avoiding police:

don't drive a station wagon full of people, with a trailer, aimlessly around suburbs at 1am without your headlights on
check that the trailer has a current wof before you leave
having a traffic cone in the back apparently distracts the fun police from technical breach of driver's licence conditions
don't let a westie drive a celica in west auckland late on a saturday night


Yeah we're a good team: I hit on the female coppers while you flirt with the male rozzers - seems to work so far!


maps from 1986 aren't that accurate anymore
asking at shell stations for directions just leads you to another shell station


They are accurate! People have just put funny new towns in the way. Also, they appear to have named streets since then.

[PirateJafa]

now while jafa and i did prove very effective at talking our way out of trouble while the others pull the beer bottles down from the windows, we still had a bit to learn about avoiding police:

don't drive a station wagon full of people, with a trailer, aimlessly around suburbs at 1am without your headlights on
check that the trailer has a current wof before you leave
having a traffic cone in the back apparently distracts the fun police from technical breach of driver's licence conditions
don't let a westie drive a celica in west auckland late on a saturday night


Actually come to think of it, it was quite marked how much less lenient the cops got as we headed north.

EDIT: Not only did I not multi-quote, but I even quoted the same thing twice. Ha, screw you internet!

[Slyer]

Doublepost!

[EJK]

Doublepost!

Yeah gotta be careful with that. Andrew may red rep you for it :shit:

[motorbyclist]

psssh i only red rep for arrogance/being a dick

[Real_Wolf]

so you red rep yourself all the time?

Soz, couldn't resist, was just like asking for it there

[motorbyclist]

if i could i'm sure i would've by now :p

[Hanne]

if i could i'm sure i would've by now :p

*insert Westie in cop car facepalming here* :whistle:

[Slyer]

Speaking of which I need to go get my car at some point.

[Squiggles]

I've got Jafa's... and his rd. Want me to rep you andrew? :lol:

[EJK]

THAT WAS FUN!

Ning... ning ning NING BAAA BAAA BAAA!!! *Chunk!* *wiggle wiggle wiggle*

Both: "Ahahahahaha!!!"

Turns around at the end of the drive way

Ning ning *chunk!* VAAAAAAA!!! BAAA BAAA!!! *wiggle wiggle wiggle*

"Wall!!!"

*wiggle wiggle*

BAAAAA AAaaaa hh...hh......

Both: "Ahahaha!!!! THAT WAS FUN!!!!"

[Squiggles]

^^ All that means is that it handles better with pumped up tires, but that gear shift is suicidal.

[EJK]

^^ All that means is that it handles better with pumped up tires, but that gear shift is suicidal.

How fast did we go up on the drive way again? I'm preety sure we went about 70kph.... Well... atleast it felt like 70kph :lol: (Actually it was near 20-30kph)

[Squiggles]

First real rip around:
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=84275

Yes you can spin up the back, have her on two wheels, and skid the front :eek:

[motorbyclist]

and get the peg down!

[Hanne]

l and p ftw!

[Hanne]

Jafa, this one is for you!