Bye, bye Auckland

[6Chris6]

Bye, bye Auckland.

Hello Queenstown :Punk:
Well as a few of you know i've been thinking about moving down to the South Island for a working holiday as they're screaming out for chippies down there at the moment.
Well decision made i've been offered work and accomadation in Queenstown for three months, so i'm buying me a (second hand) snow board and heading off tommorro!
I'm taking the cage down through necessity (sp?) ie tools etc, and leaving my bike with KK :sweatdrop :crazy: :weep:
Until i get sorted and get it transported down or get back.
Cheers KK your a legend.
I'll miss riding with the Auckland (and surrounding) KB'ers what a great group you are :grouphug:
But it'll be summer when i get back, and i'll hopefully have saved enough to look like a toothpaste tube by then :D

Any KB'ers down Queenstown way feel free to pm me for a beer or something as i'll be Billy no mates when i get there.
Seeya
Chris

[Mongoose]

Bye, bye Auckland.

Hello Queenstown :Punk:
Any KB'ers down Queenstown way feel free to pm me for a beer or something as i'll be Billy no mates when i get there.
Seeya
Chris

Same to you Chris, get bored with Q'town pm mself and we will see if we can't get you out of that party town rut. :banana:

[Paul in NZ]

I lived/worked there for 5 months a few years back...

Fun in a drinking dancing feeling awful in the morning kinda way... I didn't enjoy the high cost of living though!

Have fun! (you would have to be dead not to)

Cheers

[Motoracer]

Ya lucky bugger!! :angry2:

Na, all the best and have fun (which you will!) :niceone: . See ya when you get back. You'r bike might have a few missing bits by then though. :shutup:

I wana do the same thing hopefully next year. Either there in Queenstown or maybe somewhere overseas...

[Mongoose]

Ya lucky bugger!! :angry2:

Na, all the best and have fun (which you will!) :niceone: . See ya when you get back. You'r bike might have a few missing bits by then though. :shutup:

I wana do the same thing hopefully next year. Either there in Queenstown or maybe somewhere overseas...

Thought Q'town WAS overseas for you guys? :shit: Did I say that out loud? :crazy:

[Firefight]

good one Chris, hope it works out for you mate.


F/F :ride: less atm

[Motoracer]

Thought Q'town WAS overseas for you guys? :shit: Did I say that out loud? :crazy:

:laugh: I guess that's true.

[sAsLEX]

Sad to see you go, but will be down there for a week early september for a wee trip so will have to catch up on the slopes or more likely in the bar!

[aff-man]

Have fun mate. I'll keep an eye out for you when you get back. :niceone: :niceone:

[FROSTY]

Good onya brother. I don't think You'll regret it.
For Fuck sake stay in touch and um er if ya need ya bike delivered --well ya know I might force myself to bring it down for ya :Punk:
Seriously dude The trashman will be bringing my bike up here. -If ya talk to him he might take it to welly for ya -then its halfway there

[Two Smoker]

All the best for work down there Chris :niceone: I can't believe you are leaving your ZX-6R with KK..... Are you insane????? He's bound to give it the westie testie.... It will be the flashest bike ever to be in his garage hehehe :lol:

Anyway, all the best :niceone: and hopefully you have a computer down there.....

[6Chris6]

Cheers guys

Started packing now and really lookin forward to the trip down, excitements kicking in! :banana:
Gonna take a slow drive down so might come to Manfield to watch the racing.
Anyone give me an idea of how long it takes from the ferry (Nelson is it?) to Queenstown?

[Two Smoker]

Cheers guys

Started packing now and really lookin forward to the trip down, excitements kicking in! :banana:
Gonna take a slow drive down so might come to Manfield to watch the racing.
Anyone give me an idea of how long it takes from the ferry (Nelson is it?) to Queenstown?
Picton, i think it will be about 10 hours......

[MikeL]

Hey Chris, good luck mate with your new job. Sorry to see you go - I've enjoyed our rides together and won't forget how you helped out when I had my bin. Look forward to riding with you again when you get back (unless I can justify a Sth Island tour before then - haven't been skiing for ages...)
Cheers (and keep in touch)
Mike

[Kwaka-Kid]

good good
all has worked out, i now have the beast in my posession

Muhuhahahaha!

Hmm carbon fibre race/home made Can nearly in its finishing/testing stages....

[MadDuck]

awwww...seeya when you get back Chris. Will miss you on our rides for sure.

BRAVE move giving bike to KK for safe keeping though. You sure you want duck tape and number 8 wire to replace all the bits that worked when you left it :no:

[Kwaka-Kid]

hey hey hey! :(
Anyways the bikes WICKED! Yeehaw, havnt even had a chance to go show off to mates on it really yet :( But ah well! testing day tomorrow so unfortunatly no riding the ZX, back on another Honda... Cheers again chris, oh and im gunna throw them ferodo platinum brake pads at it, and some 5.1 fluid, then we will have some stoppie action for yah!

[scumdog]

Any KB'ers down Queenstown way feel free to pm me for a beer or something as i'll be Billy no mates when i get there.
Seeya
Work at Q'town during the week and come down here for the week-end it's the only way you'll not blow your hard-earned wages.
Give me a p.m. and I'll give you my address if you want to look around.

Auckland is that busy compared to Q'town that you'll wonder what to do once you get 100 metres away from the steamer wharf - unless you have a scoot. :spudwhat:

[6Chris6]

Cheers Mongoose and Scumdog, i'll definately be giving both of you a pm sometime in the near future.
Trip update

Well i'm here now, and a very interesting trip down it was to :drinknsin
Stopped in Napier with a good mate of mine there on the first night, had a couple of quiet drinks at his place then hit the town :spudbooge with him and his son but got kixked out when his son fell asleep in the last club, which in hindsight was probably a good thing as got to sleep at a reasonable hour (4am).
Then onto Welly and a two hour wait in the infamous Welly weather for the ferry :angry2: bloody thing got stuck in the straight, Welly was the only place where the sun wasn't shining on the whole trip (sh*t effort Welly!)
Stayed the second night in Blenheim (sp?) 2 beers then bed for me :whistle:
On to road to Christchurch (relatively) early in the morning and get there about 3:30pm. Tried to get a couple of Chrstchr KB'ers out for a beer but no go, but not being put of easily, and as i was staying the night in a local pub went down and had a few with the locals and then gettin dragged into some clubs for more :drinknsin .
Anyway had to make a quick exit from Chritchr as the beer goggles had worn off and what i saw next to me in the morning was quite scary :crazy:
But we'll put that one down to a few too many of Mr Beams wonderful pre-mixed products and a bit of out of town sindrome!

[Mongoose]

Cheers Mongoose and Scumdog, i'll definately be giving both of you a pm sometime in the near future.
Trip update
Anyway had to make a quick exit from Chritchr as the beer goggles had worn off and what i saw next to me in the morning was quite scary :crazy:
But we'll put that one down to a few too many of Mr Beams wonderful pre-mixed products and a bit of out of town sindrome!
By crickey Chris, setting yourself up for a good time in Q'town, be broke at the end of it but you sure will have fn while it lasts :scooter:

[6Chris6]

Trip update continued

So day 4 and after 3hrs sleep (see last post) head on down to Queenstown.
What a spectacular drive this was (fueled by at least 2 cases of V).
I'd never been to the South Island before but South of Timaru is just mind blowing (the rest is bloody good to) but there's no way I'll be riding the bike down till summer as there was a lot of ice/ frost etc on the roads.
So arrived in QT at about 5pm Saturday made a phonecall and met my new boss at my new house :cold: :banana:
This is a 5 bedroom place on the side of a mountain in Frankton (6km from QT) overlooking Lake Whakatipu (sp?) and the mountains :love2:
And fecking spectacular it is to!!!!
There is only 1 other guy there full time and two others during the week.
So to re-cap:-
I'm being payed top dollar to work in QT
I pay no rent
I pay no power!! (first thing i did once i got settled in and had a chat with my flat-mate was to buy a heater which will only get turned off in spring)

This is the best move i've made since coming to NZ and i haven't even been out and experienced the night life yet (look out QT'ers Muhahahaha)
Chris
:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

[Mongoose]

Trip update continued

This is the best move i've made since coming to NZ and i haven't even been out and experienced the night life yet (look out QT'ers Muhahahaha)
Chris
:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

Yup, they gonna get your pay for sure ;) And there will probabley be some :puke: days put in, Mid you, in the cold itdoes ot take so ong to feel weller :shifty:

Dang, i will have to learn to fly this thing better, sorry for the double up folks

[Mongoose]

Trip update continued

This is the best move i've made since coming to NZ and i haven't even been out and experienced the night life yet (look out QT'ers Muhahahaha)
Chris
:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

Yup, they gonna get your pay for sure ;) And there will probabley be some :puke: days put in, Mind you, in the cold it does ot take so long to feel weller :shifty:

[Posh Tourer :P]

Then onto Welly and a two hour wait in the infamous Welly weather for the ferry :angry2: bloody thing got stuck in the straight, Welly was the only place where the sun wasn't shining on the whole trip (sh*t effort Welly!)
Stayed the second night in Blenheim (sp?) 2 beers then bed for me :whistle:
On to road to Christchurch (relatively) early in the morning and get there about 3:30pm. Tried to get a couple of Chrstchr KB'ers out for a beer but no go, but not being put of easily, and as i was staying the night in a local pub went down and had a few with the locals and then gettin dragged into some clubs for more :drinknsin .
Anyway had to make a quick exit from Chritchr

1)Strait
2)Spelt impeccably
3)Chch.

Sounds like you are having a great time.. :) And any rumours about a blue kwaka at Pukekohe yesterday are completely untrue :D

[MikeL]

Told you you'd love it! When do you hit the ski slopes?
Hmmm... 5 bedroom house and only 3 occupants...
Let me just check the Akl-Queenstown airfares.
Damn, it's much cheaper to go to Aussie. Water skiing at Surfers instead, then...

J/k. Keep us posted, eh? But try not to make us too envious...

[Kwaka-Kid]

Wicked Chris! Sounds like your really enjoying it man! Pitty about the luck with woman... i can honestly only say the 6R has helped out beyond my initial expected stds! Ahhh... keeping it clean! and YEEHAW! New ferodo pads and fluid thrown at it (had the fluid EVER been changed?!) and feck me it actually has some feel to the front brakes now! (still a touch spongey for my liking but nothing short of braided lines will fix that - and id race on the current brakes anyways, still really awesome)

[danb]

Man is there going to be anyone left in Auckland???

You are going and so are 1000 NZ’ers going to Australia every week according to some stats I saw somewhere.

But then again there are plenty of people to replace the loot buggering off elsewhere...

[duckman]

Chris - I've got a mate who moved to QT about a year ago. If you want somone to take out on the razz just let me know and I'll PM you his celly.

Take care and have fun!!! :Punk: