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Stuey
14th November 2004, 22:19
Found a new use for packracks whilst on the Waihi ride this wkend!! :laugh: Awesome ride by the way, finding new limits to the gixer each time i go out with the KBers :rockon: Packracks provide a sturdy alternative to the bikes fairing when you have to push the feckin thing for about a 100 meters!!(slight xageration mayb!) :Oops: Those TL's are'nt the lightest of bikes are they!! :laugh: I was still tryin to catch my breath whilst in the twisties towards Waihi :sweatdrop Have to give up smokin if i go on many more rides, thats if Dss3 comes along!! :laugh:

dss3
15th November 2004, 07:02
Haha, cheers for that man! Found the problem, kinda by fluke, when I got home. Seems there was a connecter not quite pushed in properly to the little black box/computer thingy. By chance I wriggled it around and now she's all good again.

Oh did I mention that the first few times you pushed me and it didn't start It could have been because I fogot I had the kill switch off?:whistle:......kidding

_daryl

inlinefour
15th November 2004, 09:42
Found a new use for packracks whilst on the Waihi ride this wkend!! :laugh: Awesome ride by the way, finding new limits to the gixer each time i go out with the KBers :rockon: Packracks provide a sturdy alternative to the bikes fairing when you have to push the feckin thing for about a 100 meters!!(slight xageration mayb!) :Oops: Those TL's are'nt the lightest of bikes are they!! :laugh: I was still tryin to catch my breath whilst in the twisties towards Waihi :sweatdrop Have to give up smokin if i go on many more rides, thats if Dss3 comes along!! :laugh:

I allways found that they made my bike handle like :sick: and slowed me down...

dss3
15th November 2004, 09:56
I allways found that they made my bike handle like :sick: and slowed me down...

Should point out that there weren't acutally any packracks on the bike... just the mounting brackets which worked as a good handle for pushing against. But yeah they do affect the handling of the bike, specially if youve got the packs chocka full of heavy shit, but beats wearing a bag or only being able to take a pair of boardies and a tin of baked beans away with you on holiday.