G'day KBers (Smifffy)

[Smifffy]

Howdy all,

It's been a number of years since I had a bike, but I've always had a desire to get another one, just mortgages and life in general always seemed to have other priorities. About this time last year my wife and I decided that this summer would be a good time to take the plunge.

We plan to do mostly weekend, fair weather rides two up for a start and go from there, so we are now the next owners of an 07 C50T Boulevard.

First time on a bike for 12 years or so was the test ride 2 up, which went fairly well, then the trip home on my own through the twisties in the rain while er indoors followed in the car. Handling through the twisties was a little different to how I remember my old RD350LC behaved :bleh:

Went for another short scoot on Tues with er indoors pillion, and she seems to be enjoying it. The 1st time she was ever on a bike was on a short (20 min or so) test ride with me 6 years ago when I was considering getting back on a bike on a shoestring budget (older unreliable bike would probably have cost more in the long run), and the second time on a bike was the aforementioned test run on the boulevard.

We bought new safety gears with the bike and so far so good.

That's about it for now, guess I should go polish some chrome :whistle:

[Blackbird]

G'day Smiffy from an ex CNI'er (Tokoroa)! RD350LC - lovely choice of bike. Great time of year for cruising on the Boulevard - enjoy!

[The Everlasting]

Welcome to KB. Good your enjoying your new Cruiser...plenty of summer left for riding.

[98tls]

Welcome,awesome to be back on 2 wheels eh.All we need now is a summer.

[Smifffy]

Thank you all for the welcome! The weather forecast isn't looking too promising for the weekend, but never mind. It certainly is good to be back on 2 wheels again. Blackbird I used to share cube space with the guy that now does the role that you used to do - always entertaining :lol:

[Mrs Cowboyz]

Welcome to the mad mad world of KB!

[Blackbird]

Thank you all for the welcome! The weather forecast isn't looking too promising for the weekend, but never mind. It certainly is good to be back on 2 wheels again. Blackbird I used to share cube space with the guy that now does the role that you used to do - always entertaining :lol:

Bloody heck - small world! Will send you a PM and you'll be able to reply when you get to 5 posts!

Geoff

[Swoop]

Welcome to the madhouse of KB! A nice choice of bike. You'll have a heap of fun on her.
:ride:

[one fast tl1ooo]

Welcome to kb

[sinfull]

Welcome back !
Bit of an arse re all the rain, but i recon the winters gonna be another mild one ! Kinda blessed in this country aye, another layer and perhaps some heated grips and she's riding weather all seasons !

[kiwifruit]

hey up :sunny:

[Ypawa]

Howzit Smiffy & welcome to KB....congrats getting back into riding...nice bike too :yes: enjoy whats left of summer :woohoo:

[crazyhorse]

Good to hear you are back to riding and with your lovely wife on the back too.

Its never too late to get back on. Good on you :niceone:

[cc rider]

Hey ya smifffy. I second what the dear lady above said :2thumbsup

and the loud one in purple :laugh:

cc

[Roadsafe Nelson]

Hi Smifffy.. welcome to KB & back to the REAL world.. of motorcycling!! ;)

I take it that CNI is central North Island...?? or somewhere near there?? :scratch:

If you can get yourself to Wgtn, contact Andrew & Lynne at Roadsafe www.roadsafe.co.nz & book yourself in for a Refresher Course!!! (They also go to Hamilton sometimes..) I promise you it will be worth every penny!

Good gear might save your skin & bones.. but good rider training might save your life!! :niceone:

[Thaeos]

Good on ya, the more bikes on the road the better... until it reaches critical mass and a spontaneous nuclear chain reaction

[cc rider]

Good on ya, the more bikes on the road the better... until it reaches critical mass and a spontaneous nuclear chain reactionThaeos, you like to watch things explode I'm guessing :laugh:

[Thaeos]

Well who doesn't! It's modern entertainment, disaffected youth and all that.

[cc rider]

Well who doesn't! It's modern entertainment, disaffected youth and all that.Umm... no-one. Was 'old' entertainment too. But we were more ineffectual youth :lol:

[shafty]

Good on ya Smiffy and Wife (Wifffy?) - and your bike sounds like a goodie. Where in CNI are ya? I'm based in the King Country, but o'seas at present. Enjoy your riding Mate - I'm stuck on a 40km long island, and despite the fine roads and constant sunny weather......

[Smifffy]

Thanks again for all the welcomes! I got your PM Blackbird, and will reply when it lets me (need to get busy posting). I had to work Yesterday, so no riding, but I got out for a small scoot today with Wfffy. Headed down SH32 from Tokoroa to Pukawa and took a couple of Pix of the bike (first pix and all that), then fuelled up at Tokaanu and on to Turangi for lunch. Had lunch in the Rose Garden at the Mustard Seed cafe - felt a little like eating lunch in a cemetery with the fleur de lis fence around us. Another customer in the cafe warned me to watch out coz all the nannas in town were perving on the bike lol.

After lunch we headed to Taupo, and since things were still going well, decided to go SH5, rather than 1, so blatted up to Vegas, and back to Tok.

Will put up some of the pictures we took.

Over-cooked one of the corners down the western side of the lake, which earned a Karate chop in the ribs from 'er on the back, once we got onto an even keel again, think I worked out where I went wrong and had a pretty good run from then on. Nothing that a few more miles won't fix.

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