Should have rung first...

[clmintie]

Been looking for a 'good' XR or CRF100 for my eleven year old daughter and this afternoon I was looking on TM thinking if I'm going to pay the $$ most are trying to get for them, I might as well get a new one and be done with it.... Saw that Wild West Honda had a new CRF100 2008 auction listed, didn't notice the end date of 16th November (and it shouldn't matter anyway). So in a moment of weakness I said "come on Grace, lets go and buy a nice shiny new one for the weekend". You can imagine the size of her smile. Got there to find none in stock and apparently none in the country for another month :mad::mad::mad: I thought auctions had to be for something that was available. :Oi: One really let down little girl and a Dad who nearly bought his first Honda. Dreadful day that should have been very, very cool..........

[sunhuntin]

yep, items have to be in hand. report em to trademe

[rijekaz]

Those small bore honda 4's are pretty good by all accounts.

Well it will be worth the wait I guess, sort of have to buy her a new one after today.

[civil]

Go for it, I did the same for my daughter earlier this year and got a new one as I could not find a 2nd hand one for much less than new. You will not regret it, and they will love it too.

[cheese]

Man that really sucks, maybe look at the little Kawa 125?

[young1]

My sons second bike after a DS80 was a DR125 big wheel, great little bike

[B0000M]

Man that really sucks, maybe look at the little Kawa 125?

that was out of character!

[clmintie]

Cyclespot to the rescue..... Bought CRF100 this afternoon... Big grins.....

[A&R]

My daughter has the CRF100 brilliant little bike. :2thumbsup Goes on and on with little maintenance 'cept the usual stuff, chain, oil petrol!
Guess you'll be taking it to woodhill for the power adventures family weekend on the 28th Oct
If so my whole crew will be turning up so she might like to ride with them - all girls. :banana:

[clmintie]

Cheers A&R, but we will be away next weekend. Would like to meet up with your girls though, Grace would like that.....

[Pierce]

Lucky girl! Can't go wrong with Honda's either mate ;-)

[T-Thunder13]

your a good man. glad you got the honda!

[DaveHonda]

Mudt be the season for it. I just bought my 9yr old son a new CRF80 (ahem, also had to buy m,yself a new CRF230 at the same time). We are having a ball.. takes me back to my long lost youth!

[clmintie]

I just heard the event I was going to in Hastings at the weekend (model flying) has been canceled due the foul weather they're having in sunny Hawkes Bay... Will take Grace and CRF up to the Sandpit Saturday afternoon and then to Power ride Sunday, We will be in a red Previa with silver/brown trailer, green and red missiles on the back....... :woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:

[clmintie]

Welcome to KB, DaveHonda. There's a whole lot of us experiencing the same emotions around the country and this is a great place to share... (OMG, my wife could have written that..:rolleyes: )
Have fun with your son, they grow up too fast......

[cheese]

Hey you will probably know my Dad if you are inot the RC planes thing. Garry from the HB club.

[clmintie]

Probably, I'm good at faces, bad at names.......

[cheese]

What are you competing in? he is big on the gliding and electric recently. Some of those planes are crazy. 3k for a glider!!!!! WTF!

[clmintie]

I was competing in control line aerobatics this weekend as part of the annual SIG fun fly, but I also have large electric models and gliders. My passion however is for a class called Free Flight (no radio control) and in particular F1C. Best described as the "MX1" of Free Flight. The models (designed and built by little 'ol me) have wing spans between 2 and 3m, are made of carbon, kevlar, 25micron hard ali sheet (think cooking foil you can't bend) and a little balsa wood. They weigh 750 grams and are powered by 2.5cc glow plug motors running about 32000rpm on methanol/caster oil mix. The goal is to get as high as you can in <5 seconds of power run, then glide for 3mins, seven times, with fly-offs for ties. I've represented NZ on many occasions both here and overseas, with some pretty good results. Launch pic below......

[cheese]

Those wee motors are they the high compression 0.49 ones or something. I think that I had some low compression ones called a baby bee or something like that. Thinking about getting a new plane but the auckland clubs are pretty shit.

Never was a big fan of control lines. Like trying to play in a washing machine.

Dad is big on the spot landing gliding. He used to be the president of the HB club a few years back.

[clmintie]

The motors I use are hand made (USA) Nelsons 0.15 cu. inch (2.5cc) 2.5hp jewels and cost more than some of the bikes around here..... I used to fly gliders and electric a lot with Aucklandsoar at Ambury Park, but riding dirt bikes has taken over again and now that I have a keen daughter to ride with the models can take a break.