Two Bananas on 22

[Firefight]

after a dam good wetting :cold: last night getting home from work, imagine my surprise to find a lovely sunny morning waiting for me today, what better way to dry your leathers than a bit of a blat on :ride: the bike.

Shot out Awhitu for a quick blat, then down to the Auto bahn to meet with Cajun, from there the two :banana: :banana: men rode down to Drury, OLd GSR, ramarama, bombay, harrsiville, Tuakau, and down 22 ,quick stop for gas at Nargwhia and back the same way for me, Cajun into Hams and back to The Mt. No cops spotted on 22, did see a red holden mufti thingy at Te hihi on the way back from Awhitu but he had a cage bailed up, great day, now my back tyre is totally fucked ,Jimmy will call you in the morning.

thanks for your company Neal, catch you next week.

F/F :crazy:

[Two Smoker]

Lucky for some people that dont have too work and get to ride :( will have to do the same sometime soon Dave, ill bring the 400 so i can keep up (or the 600 when i get it :wacko: )

[Firefight]

Lucky for some people that dont have too work and get to ride

At work now, will be here 14 hours ! :crybaby:

F/F

[MikeL]

At work now, will be here 14 hours ! :crybaby:

F/F

Yes but 14 hours of "work" is not the same as 8 hours of WORK.

Anyway, starting 1 Dec I'll be able to ride any time I like, coz I'm probably going to be unemployed.

Yeehaaaaa!!!!

[jrandom]

Anyway, starting 1 Dec I'll be able to ride any time I like, coz I'm probably going to be unemployed.

How's that PhD scholarship looking, then?


Yeehaaaaa!!!!

Well, you're obviously not terribly *depressed* about it all :p

[toads]

after a dam good wetting :cold: last night getting home from work, imagine my surprise to find a lovely sunny morning waiting for me today, what better way to dry your leathers than a bit of a blat on :ride: the bike.

Shot out Awhitu for a quick blat, then down to the Auto bahn to meet with Cajun, from there the two :banana: :banana: men rode down to Drury, OLd GSR, ramarama, bombay, harrsiville, Tuakau, and down 22 ,quick stop for gas at Nargwhia and back the same way for me, Cajun into Hams and back to The Mt. No cops spotted on 22, did see a red holden mufti thingy at Te hihi on the way back from Awhitu but he had a cage bailed up, great day, now my back tyre is totally fucked ,Jimmy will call you in the morning.

thanks for your company Neal, catch you next week.

F/F :crazy:

nice write up, glad you had a good ride, I posted your gloves a couple of days ago btw, I hope they get there ok, cheers L

[Lord Pac]

Anyway, starting 1 Dec I'll be able to ride any time I like, coz I'm probably going to be unemployed.

Yeehaaaaa!!!!I shall be in a similar situation- will be on leave for 3-4 months starting december!
looking forward to increasing my odo numbers! ::ride:

[NC]

He didn't spilt and leave you behind then, FF?

[FROSTY]

bugger-I was going to join you guys but I got tied up sorting out the back shock for the zxr400 -it aint so simple swapping shocks :bash:

[Cajun]

after a dam good wetting :cold: last night getting home from work, imagine my surprise to find a lovely sunny morning waiting for me today, what better way to dry your leathers than a bit of a blat on :ride: the bike.

Shot out Awhitu for a quick blat, then down to the Auto bahn to meet with Cajun, from there the two :banana: :banana: men rode down to Drury, OLd GSR, ramarama, bombay, harrsiville, Tuakau, and down 22 ,quick stop for gas at Nargwhia and back the same way for me, Cajun into Hams and back to The Mt. No cops spotted on 22, did see a red holden mufti thingy at Te hihi on the way back from Awhitu but he had a cage bailed up, great day, now my back tyre is totally fucked ,Jimmy will call you in the morning.

thanks for your company Neal, catch you next week.

F/F :crazy:

Whats even better i get paid to ride my bike, its a hard life sucking up all Daves share dollars dc:<

Hopeful i wasn't holding ya up to much old man, they are your roads and i never riden on them, but did pretty well i think, had unventful trip home a few :Police: around hams way, and a rather quick pace set from the tauranga turn off home, since i had to get back to tauranga to look at a house, had an awsome trip up the kamiais, had some old fullla in a brand new hsv ss trying dragging me off up it, he didn't last long, i love riding on these hew michelins over the pirellis i had, i the pirellis never felt stable mid corner, where this michelins do, and they feel like they roll in to corners better, guess they just suit my riding better than the supercorsas

Cheers dave, i catch ya next week and we will repeat about ride dc:< its looking like it be a wesnday avo again, but won't really know until next week

[FROSTY]

Hey Cajun --I was hopeing to thank ya personallly like for the hand warmers--i haven't seen em yet but theyll be cool :spudbooge

[jrandom]

theyll be cool

Well, you'd hope they'd be *warm*, actually, wouldn't you?

[Hitcher]

Well, you'd hope they'd be *warm*, actually, wouldn't you?
Almost recovered from that head injury!

[Coldkiwi]

i love riding on these hew michelins over the pirellis i had, i the pirellis never felt stable mid corner, where this michelins do, and they feel like they roll in to corners better, guess they just suit my riding better than the supercorsas

good on ya for ignoring people obsessed with race grade tyres like me mate! I love the pirelli's but its great that you've found something else that suits your riding. The supercorsas do really sharpen the bike steering up a lot wirh the profile so thats probably what made it feel unstable to you.

[Cajun]

good on ya for ignoring people obsessed with race grade tyres like me mate! I love the pirelli's but its great that you've found something else that suits your riding. The supercorsas do really sharpen the bike steering up a lot wirh the profile so thats probably what made it feel unstable to you.

as since i am not riding at full lean angels which the supercorsa i think is made more for/designed, but the strange thing is the michelins feel like the tip in a little bit quick from straight line, but from there they are more linear where the supercorsas once over they just wanted to keep cracking over i mean. I mean it must just been me cause MR is not having any problems with the supercorsas i have taken off mine and given to him.

Race grade tires are a bit of a waste for me due to tons of communting, i mean i am about to push 10k km's and had it little over 6 months now, i mean i done welly and back(1800kms) and i normal only go for 1 good ride a month or there abouts.

[MikeL]

good on ya for ignoring people obsessed with race grade tyres like me mate! I love the pirelli's but its great that you've found something else that suits your riding. The supercorsas do really sharpen the bike steering up a lot wirh the profile so thats probably what made it feel unstable to you.

Interesting. I've just put Pirellis on to replace Metzelers and found a definite improvement - quicker turning and more stable. But then in the last couple of days with the Metzelers I increased the pressures (why does Yamaha recommend 36 psi for both front and rear???) and that improved them considerably. So much depends on individual settings for pressure, suspension and so on.

[MikeL]

How's that PhD scholarship looking, then?

Well, you're obviously not terribly *depressed* about it all :p

PhD will have to wait another couple of years. Gotta do a postgraduate diploma first.

As for being depressed about redundancy... a few years ago I would have freaked out. Now I look on it as an opportunity.

Not saying that bike-riding hasn't sneaked into the equation somewhere...

[jrandom]

PhD will have to wait another couple of years. Gotta do a postgraduate diploma first.

Join the boat.

If you don't mind a walk up the road and being seen with someone from the geek zone, we can drink bad coffee and commiserate together at the student cafe next year.

[vifferman]

But then in the last couple of days with the Metzelers I increased the pressures (why does Yamaha recommend 36 psi for both front and rear???) and that improved them considerably. So much depends on individual settings for pressure, suspension and so on.
So your not one of those tossers who thinks he's a racer wannabee and runs low pressures to prove his street cred? Good on ya, Dude!
That and dicks who run race tyres on the street are two of my pet peeves.
While the gap between race tyres and road tyres has narrowed alot, if your riding hard enough on the street to really use the extra stick of race tyres then your being bloody dangerous. Plus race tyres have fewer heat cycles in them anyway, so unless your wearing them ourt real quick (see my previous point!) then they're f*cked before they've run out of tread.