The ultimate loaner....... [Archive]

aff-man

26th April 2005, 18:40

Well as some of you know i have had a few issues with gearbox and on the rally a sprung a leak (only leaks at high speeds so probably just a worn gasket) But i go into the friendly guys at mt eden with a forelorn look on my face and ask if i can pleeeeeeaaaase have a loaner to get to work etc....

Right off the bat mike says okey dokey just check with ricky how long it's gonna be.. sweet as looks like a couple days to assess the bike so what can i take.

Well at first it looks like a cbx400 good enough bike and will get me to work. Uhoo chris has already lent it out bugger. So mike starts to have a mingle about the yard i think the scared look on my face when he suggested a dirtbike put him off that idea. Then came the mighty cb750.... Here i am thinking well not a sportsbike but certainly a powertrain to get me from a to b. But he didn't have a key or something about the ignition..... So that was it he made a decsion ..........................................

The one

The only

the mighty might mighty

PGO PM-X 110 scooter

It was honestly the most frustrating ride home. think you can make a gap but it takes about a minute for the power to wind on :killingme :killingme :killingme. Also almost killed my dad cause he was laughing sooooo hard when i came home. That being said at least i have something to ride.

Cheers mike......................... just watch out for those laxitives in your coffee :killingme :killingme :killingme

Waylander

26th April 2005, 18:42

Hehe bet you looked silly wearing your leather suit on that thing.:killingme :killingme

Coyote

26th April 2005, 18:42

What style, I'm jealous

John

26th April 2005, 18:45

Better than the bright red 50 (it actually struggled to 50kmph) I was stuck on while I was bikeless for best part of two months :(

Oh well get the cbr fixed up good and you will be ready for some anal punishing... I mean, punishing road... yes indeed.... :lol:

gav

26th April 2005, 18:51

http://forums.maxima.org/images/smilies/worthless.gif

bugjuice

26th April 2005, 18:56

:shake: I got this (http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=9975) when I dropped off my bike..

aff-man

26th April 2005, 19:26

Well pics will be here later tonight (waiting for bro to sort out his digi camera)

aff-man

26th April 2005, 19:28

:shake: I got this (http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=9975) when I dropped off my bike..

Bastard hahahahahahahahaha just about the same amout of power though :killingme :killingme

Jeremy

26th April 2005, 19:39

Luckily when my GN250 had an electric fault, I was saved from the scooters. Due to the fact that Colemans -> Manukau is not exactly a scooter trip. Unless you want it to take an hour or two.

badlieutenant

26th April 2005, 19:52

:killingme :killingme :killingme :killingme :killingme :killingme :killingme

aff-man

26th April 2005, 20:01

well here is a pic of the mighty beast

crashe

26th April 2005, 20:02

Madguitarist!

26th April 2005, 20:06

But think of the savings in gas monies!!! :laugh:
And parking is absolutely no worries coz you could just carry it along with ya if you can't find a lot!! :killingme

woody68

26th April 2005, 20:10

Lets see you get your knee down on that one Aff. :laugh:

Skyryder

26th April 2005, 20:56

Early last year I had to take the Drake in to get his feathers unruffled. Well they gave me scooter to take home. So I says OK no problem. Well I'm riding down Colombo St and have to stop at some lights and caught sight of myself in the reflection of a shop window. So here I was all togged up and sitting on this pimple of a scooter. Shit did I look silly. Well the lights change to green and I take off and two harley riders come along side of me. No one says a thing but I can tell that one of them is about to take the piss out of me. So quick as a flash I says "Why don't ya get a real bike." He guns it foward and cuts me off. Not dangerous like but just giving me the message. They just have no sense of humour.

Been looking for that bike for some time.

Skyryder

bugjuice

26th April 2005, 21:06

lamo.. have fun while it's not your bike. We won't tell, honest..

Mr Skid

26th April 2005, 21:07

Let us know which bits scrape first.

Motu

26th April 2005, 21:29

I wouldn't of accepted it - what a total fucking wanker to step from a sportsbike to a scooter...I bet Mike did it as a joke and the boys were laughing themselves silly when you took it and rode away :killingme :killingme :killingme

aff-man

26th April 2005, 21:33

Awwwwww you poor wee thing.....
Having to ride home in full leathers on a purty wee scooter....

I am soo looking forward to seeing these pics of you sitting on the scooter in your full leathers...hehehehehe :msn-wink:

So what will you be wearing tomorrow to go to work.... whilst on this scooter?

(When I had to leave my bike there one night I got a loaner.... and it was another Virago.... :ride: )

Luckily wasn't wearing leather. Just the usual synthetic jacket jeans riding boots helmet gloves etc.... still probably looked like a toss. Had a guy on a 250 laugh at me......... gonna find him when i get the 600 back and see how much he laughs when i pass him on the back wheel................ :devil2:

I might take a few days off work....... guys will be taking the piss out of me if my dad was anything to go on :no: :no:

So far i have yet to meet someone who hasn't laughed at me ... oh well what you gonna do??

justsomeguy

26th April 2005, 22:04

Holy shite,

Sorry matey...... how bout you phone mike or whoever first thing tomorrow and see if they can give you some other loaner........

They know you by now and should be understanding, I guess...........dunno really, but worth a try huh??

Sutage

26th April 2005, 22:22

See all those posts about "proper" gear on a scooter? Then read all the posts saying "why dont fucking 50cc scooter drivers wear real gear whinge bitch moan' :msn-wink: :msn-wink:

:killingme

gav

26th April 2005, 22:30

Hey Aff Man, you can borrow my bike if you like? Just sitting in the garage, come and get it......

aff-man

26th April 2005, 22:31

See all those posts about "proper" gear on a scooter? Then read all the posts saying "why dont fucking 50cc scooter drivers wear real gear whinge bitch moan' :msn-wink: :msn-wink:

:killingme

Well i wasn't wearing a t-shits, shorts and jandels...... aka "scooter gear" :killingme :killingme :killingme

aff-man

26th April 2005, 22:32

Hey Aff Man, you can borrow my bike if you like? Just sitting in the garage, come and get it......

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh man grrrr arse piss grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. You are a very very very mean man :mad: :mad: :killingme :killingme

Stevo

26th April 2005, 23:12

I was always taught to not laugh at another man's misfortune. :killingme
But in this case it is impossible.

Go back and tell Mike or sales guy that you are sick of the 6 hundy and want to demo a CBR thou. Or not but worth a try?

Gremlin

27th April 2005, 01:10

*tries very hard not to laugh* .... *fails* :killingme :killingme :killingme

Sorry, but I have a very good imagination, and even tho you weren't in a leather one piece, it made it even more funny imagining a full set of gear on a scooter. Just about choked while laughing.

Better safe than sorry as for the gear. Maybe Mt eden was taking the piss and didn't believe you would actually ride off on it...

:killingme :killingme :killingme

John

27th April 2005, 01:34

Why are people going on about how 'gay' 'homo' it is for scooter riders to wear full gear, and then go bitch about how they dont wear it in another post. GO figure.

Gremlin

27th April 2005, 02:18

*moves quickly to cover own ass*

I don't know about others, but I am not calling it anything like that. Its just that your average scooter person wears skirts/shorts and t-shirts. Hardcore bikers such as ourselves (can I be included? pretty pleease?) spend money on gear to protect ourselves because of the possibility of binning - which is kinda related to the *sensible* speed we are doing.

Scooters are not equal (need a "not equal" - ooh !=) to racing machines. So seeing one piece leathers (in my picture) on a scooter is hilarious. Like that ad where two scooter kids pull up next to the bikers on their hogs etc.

Its funny. And it takes more muscles to frown than smile. :D

Sniper

27th April 2005, 07:31

well here is a pic of the mighty beast

Nice one Aff, I really like the "Bike only parking" sign in the background.

Hehehe :laugh: :laugh: :killingme

aff-man

27th April 2005, 09:01

Why are people going on about how 'gay' 'homo' it is for scooter riders to wear full gear, and then go bitch about how they dont wear it in another post. GO figure.

Hope you not talking about me buddy. Even though i felt like a toss wearing full gear on the scooter.... i wouldn't wear anything else. Better safe than sorry..

About to take the mighty beast into work.....

Preparing myself for having the piss taken out of me :no: :no: :killingme :killingme

Wolf

27th April 2005, 12:01

Hope you not talking about me buddy. Even though i felt like a toss wearing full gear on the scooter.... i wouldn't wear anything else. Better safe than sorry..
Too right! What I hate about the smaller scooters - the machines themselves - is their low power, low visibility and pissy-little wheels. I don't think they're safe to ride so I'd be inclined to wear full gear while riding one, as well. I wear full gear on bigger, faster - but better appointed - bikes, and I feel "safe" on them, so I'd certainly wear full gear on something I don't feel safe on.

Occasionally I felt unsafe on my big, heavy Zundapp and Puch - when I was at the maximum wind on the throttle or when hitting sixty miles per hour downhill on the (relatively) small wheels and getting "speed wobbles" - and I class them as better appointed and "safer" than most of the 50cc scooters I've seen.

aff-man

27th April 2005, 17:28

yeh and even the 110 is scarey. Mike said it went up to 120ish but i have had it at 85-90 and it aint going faster. It also corners like shit :killingme :killingme

danb

27th April 2005, 17:35

Classic.... :killingme :killingme

I call it an insult to poor affman..

Im sure the guys at Mt Eden are laughing their asses off. (Surprised u took the darn thing...)

Just take the scooter back to them with no rubber left on the back wheel and that will teach them :killingme :killingme :killingme :whocares:

Biff

27th April 2005, 17:47

Casbolts In ChCh give you a CG125 if you're daft enough to ask them for a loan bike. To rub salt into the wounds some focker has stuck Ducati 999 decals on it.
I even had a couple of forkin teenagers race me from a set of lights when I borrowed it once, and they won, on foot. Arse biscuits.

Waylander

27th April 2005, 17:49

I even had a couple of forkin teenagers race me from a set of lights when I borrowed it once, and they won, on foot. Arse biscuits.

I don't think that's something you should admit to mate...:killingme

Oscar

27th April 2005, 18:07

I got this from Boyds as a loaner:

http://oscar.smugmug.com/photos/20639792-M-0.jpg
Honda Silverwing - 650cc Twin - went like stink.

I also got a demo (brand new) DL1000 V-Strom from Holeshot for three weeks while I was waiting for me DRZ400 to be delivered. I love those guys... :ride:

[edit] No image - here it is:

Gremlin

27th April 2005, 23:29

It may go like stink, but its still got stupid dangerous little wheels...

No wonder they called it the silverwing. Before I had read that, it looked like a baby goldwing.

Oscar

28th April 2005, 08:41

It may go like stink, but its still got stupid dangerous little wheels...

No wonder they called it the silverwing. Before I had read that, it looked like a baby goldwing.

Interesting riding postion, too - basically your lounge chair position.

Coldkiwi

28th April 2005, 13:19

Mr Skid

28th April 2005, 13:48

I reckon you need to give up trying to knee down and try for a motard style ride with feet flying :)
Thats a good idea. Would probably want to spray some chain oil on the rear to get it sliding though.

When do you have to give it back aff-man? I reckon it's just the thing for some off roading. :shifty:

Some mud and cow poo baked to the exhaust would make them think twice about giving you something with less that 100hp and a 180 rear. :devil2:

aff-man

28th April 2005, 18:09

Sorry I missed your first showing of the PGO the other day buddy!
I reckon you need to give up trying to knee down and try for a motard style ride with feet flying :)

someone has GOT to get a picture of you on that thing!

Unfortunatley it went back today. They wern't going to get round to looking at my bike this week (due to mechanics taking days off for thier kids holidays) so i went and got the 600 back cause i need to do a bit of errands this weekend..... So it goes back on monday and we'll see what i get next time :no: :no: :killingme :killingme :killingme

P.s. F%##%King woman drivers. Was taking the scoot back and well she just pulled out right into me. I swerved and the left handelbar was over her bonnet and i am sure i felt my pants brush her bumper. If it was the cibber she would have cleaned me out... or i would have enough power to get out the way......

P.s. thinking of getting a cheeeeap scoot for offroading stunts now :devil2: :devil2:

John

28th April 2005, 18:15

Unfortunatley it went back today. They wern't going to get round to looking at my bike this week (due to mechanics taking days off for thier kids holidays) so i went and got the 600 back cause i need to do a bit of errands this weekend..... So it goes back on monday and we'll see what i get next time :no: :no: :killingme :killingme :killingme

P.s. F%##%King woman drivers. Was taking the scoot back and well she just pulled out right into me. I swerved and the left handelbar was over her bonnet and i am sure i felt my pants brush her bumper. If it was the cibber she would have cleaned me out... or i would have enough power to get out the way......

P.s. thinking of getting a cheeeeap scoot for offroading stunts now :devil2: :devil2:
what was your longest wheelie, I kep't mine up (lol) for 5 sex then dropped her, becuase the wind was playing with me..

V Twin Raver

28th April 2005, 18:29

ahh aff-man, I was in at Mt Eden yesterday & I was wondering if that was your bike. My suspicions are now confirmed. Hope it gets better real soon........and for minimal cost

gav

28th April 2005, 21:16

http://www.racingacademy.com.au/images/scooter_drag.jpg

k14

28th April 2005, 21:42

Hey Aff Man, you can borrow my bike if you like? Just sitting in the garage, come and get it......

Give me your address and i will be round in 15 mins. Ok?

gav

28th April 2005, 23:10

Too much bike for you, sonny... how many times did you fall off that little 125 in the weekend?

aff-man

7th May 2005, 23:29

well here is how the last 2 weeks have been
2 weeks ago from this coming tuesday i take it in.... and they give me a scooter..... then i go back on thursday cause i needed my bike for last weekend (even though i didn't ride it at all i might have needed it) then go back monday and ricky is sick so take it in tuesday and they give me a cbx400f.... and say they'll know by friday.. call them yesterday and it's next in line so first thing monday....

oh and the cbx is a mighty beast. It gets that whole oscillating bucking horse motion in corners which is a little unsettling. Also i start her up yesterday morning and the end of the exhorst fell off and the baffle came out. Luckily i was at home and it was a quick fix....

That being said it is quite fun to ride might ask mike how much he will part with it for :killingme :killingme

crazylittleshit

8th May 2005, 00:22

I feel for you bro.
At least your not walking everywhere

danb

8th May 2005, 00:28

Sounds like you luck has run out, hope you get it sorted out soon :niceone:

aff-man

10th May 2005, 19:21

Zapf

10th May 2005, 22:41

aff-man

11th May 2005, 00:20

saw your bike at Mt.Eden.... they are a bit busy there are they not...

Mine is next in line to yours.... the little CB400 cus. At the moment I am on a 85' GSX that dies everytime I stop. How does that compair with your CBX? :msn-wink:

What you do to the gixxer??? Well needless to say she is a good un when running but doesn't like it untill you've had her on the road. keeps dying untill it gets warm :killingme :killingme

Holy Roller

11th May 2005, 02:22

Should have tried for the VMax they have there :ride: :whistle:

250learna

11th May 2005, 12:49

well here is a pic of the mighty beast
that is SEXUAL :killingme

Biff

11th May 2005, 13:13

that is SEXUAL :killingme

It's not the mouth it comes out of it's the mind it goes into ya perv. :D

(Trust me - I'm an expert in these things)

Coldkiwi

11th May 2005, 17:24

you poor beggar!

(that'll teach ya for buying a honda)

hehehe!

aff-man

11th May 2005, 17:35

you poor beggar!

(that'll teach ya for buying a honda)

hehehe!

So whan am i taking the gixxer out aye?? Told your wife i'd borrow it cause you no longer seem to ride it anymore and the tyres are becoming square :killingme :killingme :killingme

Stevo

12th May 2005, 01:11

the end cap fell off the zxorst on the mighty CBX yesterday. found it but it's a bit munted where a car ran over it. So now it has basically a straight through exhorst, might as well have just an iron pipe on for an exhorst... :killingme
On the plus side the now "racing" straight through exhorst does make it run a lot better, still buck like an unbroken horse it you try and dip it into a corner though :no: :no:
Just not a touch on the six hundy eh? Lucky you got the Honda as a loaner bike as opposed to the Zooki by the sounds of things.
Took the Mrs bike to town today for some new feet, and the chain felt odd so that I thought to myself I must tighten it up. The mechanic says later on you realise the chain and sprockets are bout stuffed. (Rolley eyes and moan to myself) No I didn't. Anyway I picked up the bike later with the drivetrain parts ordered and went to scrub the tyres in so that they did not not have big wide chicken strips like the old ones :killingme Anyhow, when I lay the bike into corners esp with a bit of gas on and the thing was shuddering like crazy! Not really sure how the Mrs put up with it?? :no: Be nice to jump back on the trusty little 6 hundy tomorrow. Not that the ZX9 is normally too bad, But it's not often crazy critters like me are allowed on it :killingme

Coldkiwi

12th May 2005, 12:54

So whan am i taking the gixxer out aye?? Told your wife i'd borrow it cause you no longer seem to ride it anymore and the tyres are becoming square :killingme :killingme :killingme

cheeky young punk! its getting lovingly carted into town everyday thank you very much. As for squaring the tyres, the most risk that rear tyre is at is when I go for a hard thrash and open the gas on the way out of corners! I spent that last ride out to coro reminding myself to go easy on the exits to STOP it getting flattened.
and I do believe i've seen more squared tyres on your bikes me old chum! :nono: