weekday riding

[badlieutenant]

made it to within about 100mtrs of work and before anyone could spot me turned around. Too good a day not to be on the bike. Anyone else going riding ? Could possibly hook up, ill check here just before I leave in about half an hour.

[badlieutenant]

My apologies to anyone stuck at work who reads this and hates me. But if you were single, no mortgage and no children what would you do on a day like this?? thats a rhetorical question :apint:

[Devil]

I hate you.
I was just looking out the window before and it was so gorgeous :(

[sedge]

Heh heh... I guess I'll be leaving early today :), I need to dry myself out after the ride home last night !, round the inlet and over the hill we go... heh heh, for those of you stuck at work... nya nya... ;)

Evil Sedge.

[badlieutenant]

Heh heh... I guess I'll be leaving early today :), I need to dry myself out after the ride home last night !, round the inlet and over the hill we go... heh heh, for those of you stuck at work... nya nya... ;)

Evil Sedge.
LOL, and on that note im off :D :Punk: :scooter:

[ManDownUnder]

I can't do that - I have the mortgage and kids, but all I say is

ENJOY!

[jrandom]

I hate you too.

At least I got some mad filtering jollies this morning.

It's a good thing no responsible motorcyclists, particularly KBers, were in the area. Their opinion of my sanity might have dropped :whistle:

:eek:

[NC]

Eh I went to work for 30 mins this morning <_<

If I wasn't feeling like shit I would be off for a ride.


Enjoy your ride dude :)

[vifferman]

At least I got some mad filtering jollies this morning.Does that do it for you?
Strangely, I should have been rejoicing in the fine, sunny weather, and having a ball, but it was all a bit flat.:mellow:
Unlike Monday, where I had an absolute blast going to work.
Badlieutenant's got the right idea though, I reckon, given the scarcity of dry days lately (and in future short-term forecasts).

[badlieutenant]

off out to raglan to have a look at the ocean. Hope everyone have a seet day :D

[Blakamin]

grrrrrr :mad:

[Omega1]

I would have ridden today to work,but had to take out Subaru into the dealership because of a Recall (Groan!!!)

Nevermind.all sorted

Maybe I'll go for a fang after work......

[manuboy]

Hehehe, dropped the baby..er, bike off for it's first service at 9:30am, the shop called @ 11:15 and said it was all done...maybe i babied it so much they just wiped it with a rag and said "service done", but it means i have to pick it up at 12:00 and then decide whether to ride back to work, or ah.... not...

raglan sounds good, anybody know what time the ferry goes? kaikoura would probalby be looking okayish today... :eek:

[Blakamin]

made it to within about 100mtrs of work and before anyone could spot me turned around.
If I do that everyone rings me and asks where i am.... hate having the bloody keys!
and on the odd time the boss actually arrives at work before I do, HE rings me up and asks where I am...
dont even start me on what the mrs would do if I said I wasnt going to work.. :buggerd:

[Wenier]

yea i think ill have to go for a ride after lunch. Yay no work today its great, although i still have this stupid cough which is really annoying me.

[badlieutenant]

just got back, so thats nearly 9 hours riding. And what a day. Caught myself just staring at the sky and thinking "mint" and "wow". Rest of the time I was finding many lonely lovely corners. Initially went the back way to hamilton and cut thru to go out to raglan which is when i think I got carried away and missed a turn off. What fun:D Anyway was just leaving Ominaia (?????not sure) and thought "bugger me the winds a bit strong here" gave the bike a little flick "oh shit!!back tyre feels nearly flat".
With the day been so mint this didnt even phase me, found the local garage and asked the girl at the counter if she had a tyre pando. I know they wreak your tyres but I was just gona use it to get to hamiltron and replace the stuffed one, anyway she didnt know what I was talking about but did say "try the garage round the back". So I did. Im not a big porche fan but Im sure if I was then id have made a mess in my pants when I saw this garage. These guys had about 30, maybe more, porches in different states of repair. lots of racing chassis etc. Even I was impressed. 20mins later and 20$ for the repair and im off.
Raglan was going off too. Was there for about 2 hours just watching people surf.
One of those days you dont really want to end and the thought of aucks traffic didnt make me want to leave raglan either, sigh.

oh, and the ironic little twist (every day has one, you just have to look for it)
the puncture was caused by a pasload nailgun nail, and im a builder. Karmah???

[Madmax]

I did a bolt from work, found one other dude from work
was keen !!ZIP gone :crazy:

[badlieutenant]

I did a bolt from work, found one other dude from work
was keen !!ZIP gone :crazy:
where did you guys go ? I saw 4 bikes all day and only one of them was on the open road :(

[Madmax]

we went late,out east sort of (he got called back)
bummer <_<

[igor]

"oh shit!!back tyre feels nearly flat".
anyway she didnt know what I was talking about but did say "try the garage round the back". So I did. Im not a big porche fan but Im sure if I was then id have made a mess in my pants when I saw this garage. These guys had about 30, maybe more, porches in different states of repair. lots of racing chassis etc. Even I was impressed. 20mins later and 20$ for the repair and im off.
Karmah???

sounds like u went to the Porch fella in Pirongia

there was 1 place better than Raglan yesterday and that was the coromandel pennisula,

there was 3 BMW's and a Blackbird up there.
I did Thames Tapu Coroglen Matarangi, Coror Town Thames and home

broudy beautiful day

spoke to the fella on the Blackie and he had never been up there b4 (shisssssssssh)

:finger:

[badlieutenant]

sounds like u went to the Porch fella in Pirongia

there was 1 place better than Raglan yesterday and that was the coromandel pennisula,

there was 3 BMW's and a Blackbird up there.
I did Thames Tapu Coroglen Matarangi, Coror Town Thames and home

broudy beautiful day

spoke to the fella on the Blackie and he had never been up there b4 (shisssssssssh)

:finger:
ahh so thats where i was, Pirongia. I often dont take a map just to see where i end up.
Where I end up must be where I was ment to go. :D
kinda wish Id gone to coro now. those hills..... :yes:

[Madmax]

went out early, no HP out east at that hour
bloody ZX10R seems to want to kill me or anything around
and i am being nice to IT (sort of)
big slides/Etc
dont think i have got out of second gear in trafick
since :blink:

[badlieutenant]

went out early, no HP out east at that hour
bloody ZX10R seems to want to kill me or anything around
and i am being nice to IT (sort of)
big slides/Etc
dont think i have got out of second gear in trafick
since :blink:
shocks or semi-intentional ? :doobey: :banana:

[Jackrat]

made it to within about 100mtrs of work and before anyone could spot me turned around. Too good a day not to be on the bike. Anyone else going riding ? Could possibly hook up, ill check here just before I leave in about half an hour.

That reminds me of a time a few years back when I was coming into the company car park an saw one of the guys off my shift going out.
I thought it was a bit odd an that maybe he'd been called out for a night shift or something.that was until he rang in sick about an hour later.
I was team coordinator at the time and took the call,lucky he was a mate and it was me that picked up the phone,BLOODY BIKIES!!

[badlieutenant]

That reminds me of a time a few years back when I was coming into the company car park an saw one of the guys off my shift going out.
I thought it was a bit odd an that maybe he'd been called out for a night shift or something.that was until he rang in sick about an hour later.
I was team coordinator at the time and took the call,lucky he was a mate and it was me that picked up the phone,BLOODY BIKIES!!
sounds like you should have too. pulled a sick day. Responsible people dont tho, not team coordinators. But more money for you better bike etc :D

"The best way to avoid responsibilities is to claim that you have other responsibilities" <<<thats so me, which i suspect is a bad thing :whistle:

[Madmax]

just me being a dumb arse
should know better from riding old triples
they have the same bad habbits
but a bit less HP
:sick:

[badlieutenant]

Ive never riden a triple. What are they like power wise? Im assuming its a inline triple ? Im guessing they are linear ? with nice torque ?
**edit* just looked it up on the net. Fuaaar they would have been the shit in their day. Inline triple 2stroke..nice. So ill revise my guess and say bags of torque with tendency to snap out from under you as it decides to scream??

[Madmax]

kawasaki h1 500 two stroke triple
bloody good in there day
problem was they were to light on the front wheel
and going from a brit twin they had a habbit of
trying to turn themselfs inside out,
have tuned most of the probs out of mine though
some day you may have to have a go on my one
(no bining though parts are hard to find)
:eek5:

[badlieutenant]

thatd be awesome man. Id drive it like a nana though. For some strange reason when ever Ive riden someone elses bike I get real nervous and feel quilty. Mind you if Im on your bike then youd better ride my vifer. Same deal though, parts are hard to find :D
and what year is yours? The little bit I read about them says that the last one was detuned to meet new emission laws (restrictive breathing, smaller jets). But it also said it was probably the best handling as most of the issues had been ironed out by that stage.

[Madmax]

mine is a c series but i changed the front wheel from a 19inch
to an 18inch and droped the forks up in the clamps
the frame has been braced as well
the E/F series were detuned but had rubber mounted
motors (stops the rocking couple vibs from the crank)
good for a laugh and a stay in hospital :wacko:

[badlieutenant]

lol
dropping front increased the tendency to snap the back out ? is there much frame flex ?

[Madmax]

any bike from back then will have flex built in
(bracing helps) the bigest problem is ground
clearence (bloody pipes hit first)
you just have to have a different
mind set!! do not lean the bike just
leave it up and move your body
to move the centre of weight
:mellow:

[badlieutenant]

I gotten so used to the flex on the vfr, coming home when i lived in te atatu (jr will know this corner) and theres a sharp 35km (i think) bend, very shiny. I was aware of it and even then the back just slipped out, the front a little bit too but i was trying to load it up a bit. Casual as i did nothing and waited for the sliding to stop and im sure i could feel the frame flex help bring the bike back in line. Actually when i think about it Im sure I pushed the bike down a bit (motoX style) so that when or if the back did got out I could catch it. wouldnt work at higher speeds as well id imagine