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The Excellent Adventures of.. Trudes

This is a blog to write my ramblings, adventures and other shit for all you poor suckers to read (once, and only once, guaranteed!).

Anyway, more to follow soon, gotta go have a bath now.

  1. The Maori bucket lives again!!!

    by , 27th April 2009 at 08:34 (The Excellent Adventures of.. Trudes)
    Rangi has been turned into Super Rangi!!

    So, Rangi went to the SkunkWorks bucket factory for some diagnostics to figure out his fueling issues and rolled out two weeks later a different bike!!!
    Sketchy_Racer offered to do some tuning on him to make him run a bit nicer for nanna here and so we could put my larger carb on and get him running. What he's done I don't entirely understand, (maybe he might like to tell us, but maybe it's his secret) all I know is that he is one ...
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  2. Rangi da Munta.

    by , 22nd March 2009 at 18:38 (The Excellent Adventures of.. Trudes)
    Well, Rangi is all together, and looking pretty good!! Everything seems to be going good, new engine is a hummer, the gear box is sweet, frame and everything else seems to be working good.....(Thanks to Sully60, Skunk, Sketchy and Kendog!) Just having some fueling/carb issues, seems to keep "bogging" (not sure if that's the right term, but that's what it feels like he's doing when he does it) and feels like it's starved of gas. Tried some things, but he doesn't seem to want to go for more ...
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  3. I have bruises to prove how much fun we had!

    by , 3rd January 2009 at 21:03 (The Excellent Adventures of.. Trudes)
    Quote Originally Posted by Trudes View Post
    I just realised that I have been having so much fun reading other people's reports of their adventures at Taupo that I hadn't gotten around to writing one of my own

    Our weekend started early, Wednesday to be exact with a ride through to Wairoa in the Hawkes Bay to spend Xmas with family. Pissed down the whole way except for about an hour, luckily from Napier to Lake Tutira, the best bit of the trip!

    Spent Xmas in Wairoa then rode through to Gisborne on
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  4. Pammy's new look.

    by , 8th December 2008 at 09:08 (The Excellent Adventures of.. Trudes)
  5. Pamela's plastic surgery.

    by , 8th December 2008 at 09:05 (The Excellent Adventures of.. Trudes)
    Quote Originally Posted by Trudes View Post
    Pamela has had some "work" done.
    Thanks to Skunk putting a new tail piece and seat on his AX he had a spare tail piece like Pammy's that got trashed when we hit the track, along with his flash as seat and two side covers.
    Pammy always only had one "real" side cover as Skunk orginally purchased Pamela for her right hand side cover for his bucket, so we'd fabricated several side covers which kept breaking, but now she has a real one,.... very smart! The new seat is also a bit lower
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  6. Pamela's plastic surgery.

    by , 8th December 2008 at 09:05 (The Excellent Adventures of.. Trudes)
    Quote Originally Posted by Trudes View Post
    Pamela has had some "work" done.
    Thanks to Skunk putting a new tail piece and seat on his AX he had a spare tail piece like Pammy's that got trashed when we hit the track, along with his flash as seat and two side covers.
    Pammy always only had one "real" side cover as Skunk orginally purchased Pamela for her right hand side cover for his bucket, so we'd fabricated several side covers which kept breaking, but now she has a real one,.... very smart! The new seat is also a bit lower
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  7. Pammy at Kaitoke

    by , 17th November 2008 at 10:58 (The Excellent Adventures of.. Trudes)
  8. Pammy does Kaitoke.

    by , 17th November 2008 at 10:52 (The Excellent Adventures of.. Trudes)
    Quote Originally Posted by Trudes View Post
    I hadn't ridden Pammy since the last points round at the Slipway, had started her a couple of times to check she still would (with quite a bit of prompting and pushing) and had changed a few things since. She had broken her clutch lever when she'd had a little lie down so I had replaced that but hadn't had a chance to check and adjust it so that it engaged properly. I had also replaced both fork seals as one was leaking, but when I'd replaced the leaky one discovered that there was only a few mils
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