Ride TODAY Wed 17th early afternoon

[Pancakes]

Anyone keen for a wee roll from the shore maybe the old road to Silverdale and a coffee/hot chocolate in Helensville then down that way or something simalar. Normal open road speeds. Enjoying the sun etc. I'll be picking my bike up from the Shore about 1 and am pretty flexible with speeds/time etc if any noobs are up for it. Can also text me 027 438 2742 if it's closer to the time and I'm not online.

[Disco Dan]

im keen, just need to be back on the shore by 4pm for an appointment.

What time to start are you thinking?

[Pancakes]

Just gonna pick the bike up by 1:30 latest. More like 12:30-1ish and get the mirrors back where I like them etc then a coffee ride NW area. back by 4 easy. Out for maybe 2 hrs max?

[Disco Dan]

meeting where? Sounds good

[Pancakes]

The bikes at Spectrum, Barry's Point Rd. Where are you coming from? West?

[Disco Dan]

yep, west. sweet as. i'll be there.

[Pancakes]

Meet in Albany or something? Post up or PM me your number and I'll text when I'm leaving here and how long I'll be till I'm in Albany. Meet at the gas station next to the mini-golf place just off the motorway on Otheha Valley Rd?

[fireball]

any one want to take a pillion? im bored and well my bike can not do open road speeds....

[Disco Dan]

any one want to take a pillion? im bored and well my bike can not do open road speeds....

If you can get to the meet point with ya gear I could take you?

[fireball]

If you can get to the meet point with ya gear I could take you?
can meet you out west if that works....

[Disco Dan]

can meet you out west if that works....

PM sent

Disco

[EJK]

Fark I missed it!

[Pancakes]

It was good to be back on the bike after just more than 3 months! It was a bit sluggish for the ride and the controls felt funny. Used up all the old gas in it and a tank of 98 sorted out the motor. Seems like even though a shop has made a ton of money off you things go astray at motorbike shops. I had all the insurance work done and a full service, the works while it was in. Seems they've drilled the holes to locate the switch boxes at odd angles. (I had the broken bars replaced with Renthal supermoto bars which feel nice!). Neither of them sit how they should/used to (with the indicator on the left and the lights on the right one heading straight back towards me and the flat bases heading down). Now the kill-switch heads for the sky, the light control is uncomfortably high and on the other side the indictors are way low which in turn means I can't lower the clutch lever past flat or the mirror high enough. I could understand if both were low/high but they're all cocked up. Also the rear brake shaft is bent which I only found after I noticed the nut holding the brake shaft was only on one turn! Tried to tighten it and it wouldn't cos it must have been bent in the crash (all the other brake stuff in the area was smashed). Pass switch doesn't go now and neither the tail-light or brake light work. Nice........ so I'll be on the phone to them tomorrow. I don't want to be an asshole but I don't think Renthal bars are cheap and they can't be drilled twice either, I think I know how they can be sorted with out redrilling and will put that to them.

Good to meet you Dan and Firball! I thought when people said Dan always gets lost they were joking?

[Disco Dan]

Good to meet you Dan and Firball! I thought when people said Dan always gets lost they were joking?

Good to meet you both. Yep I noticed your lack of brakelight! Nice cruisy ride with good company. My thoughts were elswhere all day today which had an anoying effect on my riding but all in all it was still enjoyable.

Couple of times I thought i'd lost fireball off the back... but alas... she held on ;)