Sketchy_Racer
30th March 2008, 11:16
On thursday night I decided that I wanted to go for a ride, so I msn'ed Quallman1234 and asked him if he wanted to go to napier. He was keen so it was set. Two RG150s were going to do the trip to napier and back.
To make the trip interesting, I meet up with him after work on friday and meet at pauatanui Challenge at 3:00PM. We then headed over Paikakariki Hill to my house in paraparaumu, I needed to buy a new battery so might lights would work, and get changed etc.
So at about 6 in the evening we departed from my house. We decided that going back Over paikakariki hill would be more fun then over haywards to the hutt then over the Rumitakas. Just to make the ride interesting.
We stopped for fuel at Caltex just before Rumitakas. I decided I would check the water in my radiator... Hello, where's my radiator cap! Luckily most the water was still in there, and they had one that would fit my bike for sale!
So we head over Rumitakas which was awesome, Empty road to play around on the 150s. Kyle was stoaked he got his peg down! and I managed the peg and a bit of the cordua on my knee :rolleyes:
after here it was a bit boring. all striaght ish road. My bike developed a problem with my high beam. every time i put it on high beam it would kill the whole bike... Low beam it is then sir!
Stop for fuel in dannivirk, then head over to napier. Went to Speights_Buds house who were staying with that night, dropped all our gear had some food then headed to his mates flat were the Jagermeister was busted out and fun started..
Night goes on, we get drunk ish.. and go back to Speights_Buds for some sleep. We were heading back the next day!
after chilling out we left napier at around 2:00pm on sat afternoon.
We rode down SH2 untill the Piatuah track turn off.. Dunno if it was because I was tired or something, but that road wasn't as much fun as people had seemed to make it out to be...
We got to levin then Quallman1234 and I went separate ways. I was stopping in at a friends and he had some people to see.
It started raining in levin, so i was glad i bought the wet weather gear. I was very very quickly reminded how damn slippery the risen tar on the road is. That shit is leathal!
So back to pram, with nearly 800kms ridden in 24 hours. Not bad on a 150!
The only thing I can fault, is the fucken seat on the RG.. im gonna be walkin funny for a while.. ! I might get a sheep skin for the next mission!
anyway, if you have a little bike, do some half decent rides on it. Oh and my 150 runs 20x better after a good ride like that than it ever has!
-Glen
To make the trip interesting, I meet up with him after work on friday and meet at pauatanui Challenge at 3:00PM. We then headed over Paikakariki Hill to my house in paraparaumu, I needed to buy a new battery so might lights would work, and get changed etc.
So at about 6 in the evening we departed from my house. We decided that going back Over paikakariki hill would be more fun then over haywards to the hutt then over the Rumitakas. Just to make the ride interesting.
We stopped for fuel at Caltex just before Rumitakas. I decided I would check the water in my radiator... Hello, where's my radiator cap! Luckily most the water was still in there, and they had one that would fit my bike for sale!
So we head over Rumitakas which was awesome, Empty road to play around on the 150s. Kyle was stoaked he got his peg down! and I managed the peg and a bit of the cordua on my knee :rolleyes:
after here it was a bit boring. all striaght ish road. My bike developed a problem with my high beam. every time i put it on high beam it would kill the whole bike... Low beam it is then sir!
Stop for fuel in dannivirk, then head over to napier. Went to Speights_Buds house who were staying with that night, dropped all our gear had some food then headed to his mates flat were the Jagermeister was busted out and fun started..
Night goes on, we get drunk ish.. and go back to Speights_Buds for some sleep. We were heading back the next day!
after chilling out we left napier at around 2:00pm on sat afternoon.
We rode down SH2 untill the Piatuah track turn off.. Dunno if it was because I was tired or something, but that road wasn't as much fun as people had seemed to make it out to be...
We got to levin then Quallman1234 and I went separate ways. I was stopping in at a friends and he had some people to see.
It started raining in levin, so i was glad i bought the wet weather gear. I was very very quickly reminded how damn slippery the risen tar on the road is. That shit is leathal!
So back to pram, with nearly 800kms ridden in 24 hours. Not bad on a 150!
The only thing I can fault, is the fucken seat on the RG.. im gonna be walkin funny for a while.. ! I might get a sheep skin for the next mission!
anyway, if you have a little bike, do some half decent rides on it. Oh and my 150 runs 20x better after a good ride like that than it ever has!
-Glen