I'm ready.........

[ogr1]

This is my " 97 Blackbird", just fitted a Renntec sports rack, got the new tankbag and now I'm just waiting for the Scotland trip at the end of this month. Keep you all posted.

[SuperDave]

That 2nd pic looks pretty freaky cause you can't see a head in the helmet even though the visor looks clear. Enjoy your trip.

[Maha]

take heaps of pic's for us to view ogr1, i would love to visit Scotland...safe trip mate........:bye:

[ogr1]

Tis a "pinlock" dark visor insert....and I am freaky lol

[Blackbird]

Boy, your 'bird comes up nice Karl:rockon: I haven't got a tank bag but seeing how much you can get in yours, I might have to look at getting one. Do you have anti-scuff on the top of your tank?

Ride safe and have a fantastic trip. Russ fae Fyvie from Aberdeen (UK 'bird member) is coming to ride in the south island in February.

Cheers

Geoff

[limbimtimwim]

Yay! Weeks of riding around. Ohh, I love it.

If you are going 1up, see if you can turn that rear bag around, moving the mass of it towards the centre. Might improve the handing. But you may need gymnastic skill to get on the bike.

[Meanie]

Real nice lookin bike
Have a good and very safe trip :rockon:

[ogr1]

Boy, your 'bird comes up nice Karl:rockon: I haven't got a tank bag but seeing how much you can get in yours, I might have to look at getting one. Do you have anti-scuff on the top of your tank?

Ride safe and have a fantastic trip. Russ fae Fyvie from Aberdeen (UK 'bird member) is coming to ride in the south island in February.

Cheers

Geoff

Hi Geoff,
I use turtle wax car shampoo and "Pledge" furniture polish, sure does the job. The sports tankbag is by "Oxford" and is a 40 Litre one (see link) I place a non slip rubber mat on the tank first, similar to the stuff you put under carpets which stops them creeping. Just cut it to shape and away you go. It's amazing what you can stuff in them, but they do deflect the wind more around the neck area.
Cool that your the resident ambassador for your area, hell!... I would give you a medal :first:

http://www.oxprod.com/

Ride safe m8.
Karl.

[ogr1]

Yay! Weeks of riding around. Ohh, I love it.

If you are going 1up, see if you can turn that rear bag around, moving the mass of it towards the centre. Might improve the handing. But you may need gymnastic skill to get on the bike.

TBH..The rear bag tends to lean further forward as I tighten the straps up, does'nt help due to the rack being tilted on an angle towards the seat, but that's how it was designed to fit.

Thanks guys for the comments.

[emaN]

"Pledge" furniture polish...non slip rubber mat on the tank

that's what i used to use over in the UK! good o' Pledge... still use that webby stuff too..

what's your itinerary? there's a great backpackers in Durness (?); at the top, past Ullapool. could've stayed there for a week!

[ogr1]

that's what i used to use over in the UK! good o' Pledge... still use that webby stuff too..

what's your itinerary? there's a great backpackers in Durness (?); at the top, past Ullapool. could've stayed there for a week!

Well, Ullapool is the first port of call so to speak from Lancashire (ouch) B&B.
Then onto the Isle of skye, Inverness and John O' Groats B&B.
Head back home, visit Loch ness (ya never know?) camera ready.
Set off Friday morning and return Sunday night, approx 1,300 mile round trip.

My mate has done it before, and asked me if I wanted to play out this time, well I have to don't I?

[Squeak the Rat]

Go safe mate, and enjoy! Just watch your lane positioning, some of them roads are mighty narrow....

Feck I'm jealous! :)

[Edit:] PS - nice 'bird!

[emaN]

Sounds good; we went to Skye, didn't see much of it tho'! (only time i've come close to physically being blown off the road too!)
Hope ya get some good weather dude; some fantastic scenery up there,innit?!
Here's pix from our trip:
http://community.webshots.com/user/jontash/1 and
http://community.webshots.com/user/jontash1
(being free sites,we ran outta room & had to create another album)

[ogr1]

Cheers fella.
Here are a few pic's taken today "Sunday" of our local biking haunt "Rivington barn" and the roads leading up to it.
(Was quieter today though).
Tis very popular and I've been attending since I was a wee lad on me Suzuki GT 185 in the seventies..........enjoy.

[ogr1]

A few more..............

[emaN]

Good times!
Something the UK has, obviously, over NZ is the biking scene!
Used to frequent The Red Lion in a little wee place just off the M4, and Box Hill was always worth a visit too...

Stayed with some mates in Ashington; they took us thru' all these wikkid 'borders roads' for the day...awesome stuff!

Enjoy yer summer mate!

[ogr1]

Cheers........as you know, we get short change with "Brit" summers. :angry:

[emaN]

So how was your trip?
Pick up any whisky on the way thru'?

[ogr1]

So how was your trip?
Pick up any whisky on the way thru'?

Errrrrrrrrrrrm.....It's not happenend yet.:Oops:
The mate who is supposed to organize this trip is going through a divorce, house sale etc etc....
and the weather is changing to brass monkeys on a daily basis. :angry2:
I would imagine that if no trip by mid October then forget it.
Apologies for the let down on the pic's front :whocares:
Other peoples lives just get in the fugging way :brick: :brick: :brick:

[McJim]

Ach well - Scottish weather being true to form it's getting a bit late in the year - you'll have to trust to luck as Autumn moves in.

If/when you do get up there I look forward to the photies. It'll make me proper homesick. Most of the roads up that way have got good texture from memory - a lot of the stuff out here is like polished asphalt and coz they don't got proper railways a lot of freight goes by road and you can imagine what that does to the surface.

Awra best....and love your cartoon strip...that is you innit Ogri?

[ogr1]

Ayeeeeeeeeeee big Jim, tis the promised land for biking, but if my mate don't pull his finger out soon?
Then we may as well hire a feckin skidoo :done: