Bung Bung is my hero!

[Ms Piggy]

I just wanted to say a HUGE thanks to Bung Bung for helping a damsal in distress today. I was with the later group that left the Caltex Rimutaka at 11ish.

We headed directly to the Flying Fish (we being: Bung Bung & Mrs Bunng Bung, Her_B4, Sels1 and a couple of other non KBers Vicki & Craig). A very congested road but good to get over the hill all the same. Once there we were greeted by Stonechucker (I'll let him tell his own story), Mr & Mrs Hitcher and Mark Dunn was also there.

A latte and some delicious fruit short cake later I decided I'd head back. Sels1 had decided to ride back with me. Start her up and go to pull away and "Clunk" she stalls - oh fuck! Another broken clutch cable!! This is the 3rd in around 4 months. Grrrrrrrrrr!!

Lots of discussion about riding her back with no clutch, I wasn't too keen though b/c she is a kick start it would just be a big hassel. I even had an offer of being able to ride a Ducati back over the hill and have another rioder take my bike! Jaysus Mary & Joseph - if I wasn't such a novice rider I would have been keen as a keen thing! Also had 2 very kind offers of people coming over to pick me & the bitch up with a trailer but, Bung Bung suggested we try & find a cable somewhere - like the Warehouse. So off he went, he rode all the way back to Carterton and battled through the shoppers to get a cable, went to his mates palce on got some tools and another little bit and rode all the way back to where Mrs Bung Bung and I had been sitting in the sun with Stonechucker. Then he fixed it! Yaaaaaaaay! So I was able to ride back over the hill - no worries.

Thanks Bung Bung for fixing my bike & Mrs Bung Bung for waiting with me :2thumbsup

[sels1]

Good to see you back ok CSL. Nice to see the rest of you guys. Bad luck Stonechucker, for getting a stone (chucked?) thru yr radiator. Heres a few snaps of the bikes at Martinborough Square, including Mr Hicthers new Honda, with MD sitting on it. And the last one is a shot from the top of the Pie - Kock hill as I came home (for those who havnt been there...)

[MD]

Today summed up why KiwiBiker rocks. To arrive at a cafe and be able to wander around every table to chat to riders you now know. Wouldn't have happened a couple of years ago. Big thanks to ....SpankeMe I guess or whoever else helped set up KB.
Hitcher, welcome to the world of Honda. Choice machine, so well balanced and thought out. You'll never regret a spontaneous purchase and you meet the nicest people on a Honda- too true, look at Mikey, he rides one between Court appearances.
Even Stonechucker's bike was dribbling when I parked the Blade next to it.
Tomorrow it's the Triumph's turn for a trip to the Flying Fish. Summer is HERE!

ps- CSL, how the hell does someone fix a clutch cable after a trip to Carterton (and where in the Warehouse is the bike parts section??) Give BungBung a medal :niceone:
MD

[Hitcher]

Indeed today was an excellent example of the brother/sisterhood of KBers! What a first-rate bunch of fullahs youse all are!

I hope Stonechucker managed to get his dribbly R1 back to civilisation (a tragic, yet strangely ironic tale that one).

Oh yeah. I've got a new bike. It's big and very red. It goes like a going thing. It will go even better with some Metzeler Roadtecs on it (in about 2,000km).

And don't those assorted yellow rides look tasty parked square-side.

Ahhh, summer days, the call of the road, catching up with your mates, dining al fresco at the Fish. And the ride. It's all about the ride!

[Paul in NZ]

ps- CSL, how the hell does someone fix a clutch cable after a trip to Carterton (and where in the Warehouse is the bike parts section??) Give BungBung a medal :niceone:
MD

Exactly! This deserves a medal!

And

An explanation... I need to know how you did this... Sounds very cool! I assume you used a push bike cable?

Paul N

[merv]

Welcome to the world of Honda Hitcher. I was tied up today and couldn't do another ride but you probably saw my earlier posts that yesterday and a few days before that we were at the Fish. Yesterday being wet me and my Bro' were the only silly bikers out there except the lone Guzzi rider that I never recognised, nor did he stop. Can't have liked seeing just Suzukis at the Fish as I was on Mrs Merv's bike.

As for radiators puncturing can't you just squeeze the damaged bit a little bit with pliers and then put a bit of radiator stop leak in it which you should be able to buy at the gas station. I am surprised to hear they puncture so easily is there no sort of guard on at all? VFR has a plastic guard that will stop big stones hitting the radiator core, it just lets bugs and small stones through.

[Paul in NZ]

Yesterday being wet me and my Bro' were the only silly bikers out there except the lone Guzzi rider that I never recognised, nor did he stop.

Guzzi riders often ride alone and usually hate stopping...

[Kickaha]

Guzzi riders often ride alone and usually hate stopping...


They're probably scared there bikes wont start again! ;)

[Ms Piggy]

Exactly! This deserves a medal!

And

An explanation... I need to know how you did this... Sounds very cool! I assume you used a push bike cable?

Paul N
Yes sorry - it was a bicycle brake cable. Lotsa + rep for Bung Bung I say!

[Paul in NZ]

Yes sorry - it was a bicycle brake cable. Lotsa + rep for Bung Bung I say!

Then WELL DONE that man!

Um CSL..... How about you buy a new cable and leave the other one under the seat as they seem like an essential spare.

Paul N

[Paul in NZ]

They're probably scared there bikes wont start again! ;)


Nah! It's just the thought of all the tired old jokes from all the non Guzzi riders..... Oh! That and the women throwing themselves on the pillion.

Paul N

[Ms Piggy]

Then WELL DONE that man!

Um CSL..... How about you buy a new cable and leave the other one under the seat as they seem like an essential spare.

Paul N
Yes I believe I will do that, however Bung Bung actually believes it's caused by a small kink being caused where the outer and the lever meet. I guess b/c it's an old bike and I'm a poor student my bike shop have never really thought to fully investigate why it's happened.

When I had to get the 2nd replacement after 6 weeks they just said it was b/c I leave her outside and what do I know, I'm not at all mechanically minded. So I'll get them to have a good investigation b/c it's getting ridiculous!

[Paul in NZ]

Also check that some daft beggar has not replaced the clutch lever with the wrong one.

Let me know If I can help.

Paul N

[Ms Piggy]

Also check that some daft beggar has not replaced the clutch lever with the wrong one.

Let me know If I can help.

Paul N
Yeah well that has been a suggestion also b/c the lever itself is very sloppy.

Thanks :)

[toads]

I just wanted to say a HUGE thanks to Bung Bung for helping a damsal in distress today. I was with the later group that left the Caltex Rimutaka at 11ish.

We headed directly to the Flying Fish (we being: Bung Bung & Mrs Bunng Bung, Her_B4, Sels1 and a couple of other non KBers Vicki & Craig). A very congested road but good to get over the hill all the same. Once there we were greeted by Stonechucker (I'll let him tell his own story), Mr & Mrs Hitcher and Mark Dunn was also there.

A latte and some delicious fruit short cake later I decided I'd head back. Sels1 had decided to ride back with me. Start her up and go to pull away and "Clunk" she stalls - oh fuck! Another broken clutch cable!! This is the 3rd in around 4 months. Grrrrrrrrrr!!

Lots of discussion about riding her back with no clutch, I wasn't too keen though b/c she is a kick start it would just be a big hassel. I even had an offer of being able to ride a Ducati back over the hill and have another rioder take my bike! Jaysus Mary & Joseph - if I wasn't such a novice rider I would have been keen as a keen thing! Also had 2 very kind offers of people coming over to pick me & the bitch up with a trailer but, Bung Bung suggested we try & find a cable somewhere - like the Warehouse. So off he went, he rode all the way back to Carterton and battled through the shoppers to get a cable, went to his mates palce on got some tools and another little bit and rode all the way back to where Mrs Bung Bung and I had been sitting in the sun with Stonechucker. Then he fixed it! Yaaaaaaaay! So I was able to ride back over the hill - no worries.

Thanks Bung Bung for fixing my bike & Mrs Bung Bung for waiting with me :2thumbsup


this is so cool Cathy, glad you got your bitchin mobile sorted,

[ajturbo]

i feel for ya matey!..
broke my clutch cable on the cb 350/4 in rush hr traffic, in a wet welly winter night,... from the middle of the city to johnsonville...........
made it, some how....