a night to forget in Waiouru

[JohnBoy]

last friday (7/01/05) a mate and i left wellington at about 4:30PM to deliver his bike to Auckland for him to sell to another mate... this is where it starts to go wrong. (get comfortable cause this is one long saga)

we ride up SH2 and then over the Haywards hill, Paekakariki hill down SH1, bypass Levin to Palmy, SH3, SH54 to fielding.
at the BP servo in fielding, Dan (my mate) noticed a sulphur smell. didnt say anything, just thought it was nothing. ok filled with gas continue on SH54 over Vinegar Hill to SH1 where we stopped and discussed how it was such and awsome road and after meeting a nice bloke on a VFR750 we continued onto waiouru.

we stoped in waiouru and filled the bikes. as i went to pay for the gas dan called me over to his bike (VFR400 NC30) which was squeeling... kinda like when you watch the TV on the AV channel. Hmmmm, not cool. Now Dan has just finished a Motocycle Mech course last year so i orignally had no concerns. by this time the nice bloke on the VFR750 catches up with us at the servo, he lends us some of his tools so we can take the fairings off to have a gander. on closer inspection no fueses blown, battery red hot, Regulator/recitfier dead cold. hmmm, now we have lost all ignition lights and it wont turn over.... HMMMMMMMM! not cool. dan reckens that the reg?rec had packed up and melted the battery. oh, and i must say that this was at about 10:30PM on the friday.
right then... ring people and say that we were going to say the night and fix it in the morning. no problem right?? WRONG!!!! all motels and the pub booked out and no one would just let us sleep on thier couch, nothing!
ok... now getting really late it stood like this: 1 stuffed VFR400, and my single seater ZXR7RR!!!! ok, were stuffed.
after walking around a bit an seeing what was availible, we settled on a row of bushes at the intersection of SH1 and SH49 (Ohakune Road) by now it was about 1:00AM on the Saturday and woke about 6:30AM.

Ok, now what.... Dan had a mate in Wanaganui that would have the spare parts we needed. ok, mint. this might be still salvagable....
Dan rang his mate and sure enough he had the parts and as quick as said dan shot down to wangas on my Zed. now this is where you would think it starts to get better... just keep reading cause it gets WORSE!!

Dan just got outside of Mangaweka where he finds some of new zealands finest... the basted fined dan for 112 in 100. not too much damage... $80 and 20 points, but Dan already had 90. (loss of licence for 3 months upcoming :ar15: )
ok... now back on track out to wanganui got a new battery and reg/rec. ok... sweet. mean while i had been sitting at Caltex, Waiouru from 8:15AM to 12:30 PM.

After all this, dan finally arrived with the parts. sweet, i am now fully confident that we were on the way home.
we put the parts on and everything was back online again. but wait.. theres still more! hit the starter and it was like the battery was flat... not cool considering the new battery was full charged. hmmm... now what?
ok. ok, right crash start it. she will be right.... nope.
ok, whats the funny smell.... something like rotten eggs, oh. yeah.. the CDI has just fried its self :thud:. game over.

my girlfriends father came out from palmy with his van and picked up what was left of the VFR and took it back home. so after a near 20 hour ordeal, just before 4pm on sat afternoon i finally set off for Te Awamutu and got home at about 6:45PM.

so thats it... my hellesh trip home after my Xmas holidays in wellington. forevermore shall i hate waiouru and especailly the row of trees adjacent to the grass reserve where we sleept.

Many thanks to Jason Hulme of Wanganui for the parts, the helpfulness of the staff at Caltex waiouru and to John Rushworth for coming up from palmy to pick dan up. with out these people we would have been stuffed.

[Coyote]

Bugger. Why do all the bad things that could possible happen to you all take place on the one day?

[Blakamin]

any night in Waiouru would suck but that sux bad!!!!

reminds me of last (2003) new years party I went to... baby 6 weeks old, go to fielding.. leave early in the day coz mrs wasnt happy... hole develops in waterpump at sanson... everyone we know who could help is away... 8 hrs later, father-in-law arrives with trailer.... 2 hours later arrive in pram... unhappy

btw ... was a stinking hot day!!!

[MSTRS]

Course, back in my riding days, we had it tough.... :innocent:

[Storm]

Ah, another bunch of people with "fond" memories of the Jolly old hole that is Waiouru

[toads]

last friday (7/01/05) a mate and i left wellington at about 4:30PM to deliver his bike to Auckland for him to sell to another mate... this is where it starts to go wrong. (get comfortable cause this is one long saga)

we ride up SH2 and then over the Haywards hill, Paekakariki hill down SH1, bypass Levin to Palmy, SH3, SH54 to fielding.
at the BP servo in fielding, Dan (my mate) noticed a sulphur smell. didnt say anything, just thought it was nothing. ok filled with gas continue on SH54 over Vinegar Hill to SH1 where we stopped and discussed how it was such and awsome road and after meeting a nice bloke on a VFR750 we continued onto waiouru.

we stoped in waiouru and filled the bikes. as i went to pay for the gas dan called me over to his bike (VFR400 NC30) which was squeeling... kinda like when you watch the TV on the AV channel. Hmmmm, not cool. Now Dan has just finished a Motocycle Mech course last year so i orignally had no concerns. by this time the nice bloke on the VFR750 catches up with us at the servo, he lends us some of his tools so we can take the fairings off to have a gander. on closer inspection no fueses blown, battery red hot, Regulator/recitfier dead cold. hmmm, now we have lost all ignition lights and it wont turn over.... HMMMMMMMM! not cool. dan reckens that the reg?rec had packed up and melted the battery. oh, and i must say that this was at about 10:30PM on the friday.
right then... ring people and say that we were going to say the night and fix it in the morning. no problem right?? WRONG!!!! all motels and the pub booked out and no one would just let us sleep on thier couch, nothing!
ok... now getting really late it stood like this: 1 stuffed VFR400, and my single seater ZXR7RR!!!! ok, were stuffed.
after walking around a bit an seeing what was availible, we settled on a row of bushes at the intersection of SH1 and SH49 (Ohakune Road) by now it was about 1:00AM on the Saturday and woke about 6:30AM.

Ok, now what.... Dan had a mate in Wanaganui that would have the spare parts we needed. ok, mint. this might be still salvagable....
Dan rang his mate and sure enough he had the parts and as quick as said dan shot down to wangas on my Zed. now this is where you would think it starts to get better... just keep reading cause it gets WORSE!!

Dan just got outside of Mangaweka where he finds some of new zealands finest... the basted fined dan for 112 in 100. not too much damage... $80 and 20 points, but Dan already had 90. (loss of licence for 3 months upcoming :ar15: )
ok... now back on track out to wanganui got a new battery and reg/rec. ok... sweet. mean while i had been sitting at Caltex, Waiouru from 8:15AM to 12:30 PM.

After all this, dan finally arrived with the parts. sweet, i am now fully confident that we were on the way home.
we put the parts on and everything was back online again. but wait.. theres still more! hit the starter and it was like the battery was flat... not cool considering the new battery was full charged. hmmm... now what?
ok. ok, right crash start it. she will be right.... nope.
ok, whats the funny smell.... something like rotten eggs, oh. yeah.. the CDI has just fried its self :thud:. game over.

my girlfriends father came out from palmy with his van and picked up what was left of the VFR and took it back home. so after a near 20 hour ordeal, just before 4pm on sat afternoon i finally set off for Te Awamutu and got home at about 6:45PM.

so thats it... my hellesh trip home after my Xmas holidays in wellington. forevermore shall i hate waiouru and especailly the row of trees adjacent to the grass reserve where we sleept.

Many thanks to Jason Hulme of Wanganui for the parts, the helpfulness of the staff at Caltex waiouru and to John Rushworth for coming up from palmy to pick dan up. with out these people we would have been stuffed.

oh my goodness, we thought we were the only ones that went through crap like that, sorry you had such a bugger of a weekend, i can truly sympathise though, having had a few similar experiences like that with various vehicles over the years. Who would have thought a honda would do such a thing

[Roadrash]

Just as well you ride a kawasaki, otherwise that would of shit its undies too
:2thumbsup

[Mongoose]

And another legend developes to be told around the camp fire.
Shit trip but take solace that just about everywhere you go, some one at some time has a simular story.
They used to call it charactor building :2thumbsup

[wari]

WEll .. at least ya wont furgettit inna hurry ... :sunny: ... A story to tell da grand-chillens fur sure ... :yeah:

[Coyote]

At least your still alive :p

[Ghost Lemur]

Be thankful it wasn't august. :eek:

Had more experiences like that than I care to remember, so you've certainly got my sympathy.

[JohnBoy]

Be thankful it wasn't august. :eek:


i think they call that one the cold kiwi!! or is that october.. i can never remeber

[Bonez]

I guess the moral of the sory is don't buy an NC30 hah [Drops to the floor to avoid the flying hand bags]

[marty]

Course, back in my riding days, we had it tough.... :innocent:

you don't know the meaning of tough. in MY day, we had to push our bikes around, cause the engine hadn't been invented yet

[MSTRS]

you don't know the meaning of tough. in MY day, we had to push our bikes around, cause the engine hadn't been invented yet
Engines ?? Never heard of them. We had to catch our bikes first....none of those tame things that are everywhere these days :killingme

[Al]

What a crappy time, but looks like everyone survived!

Al

[Bonez]

Engines ?? Never heard of them. We had to catch our bikes first....none of those tame things that are everywhere these days :killingmeWell back in my day you couldn't catch them.They just roamed wild and were just quick enough to stay out of reach. We had walk every which way I tell ya. Them days were hard................

[MSTRS]

Well back in my day you couldn't catch them.They just roamed wild and were just quick enough to stay out of reach. We had walk every which way I tell ya. Them days were hard................
*sigh* and those tyre sandals, before they were made round eh?? :wavey:

[MSTRS]

And another legend developes to be told around the camp fire.
Shit trip but take solace that just about everywhere you go, some one at some time has a simular story.
They used to call it charactor building :2thumbsup
That's for sure. My saddest story would have to be trundling along Grays Rd, Pauatahanui (sp?) by the group of houses near to where the windsurfers (used to?) gather on my old 650 Saint when it shat itself, no power from the battery, gennie not working. Push the thing from there to the substation near the bridge. Stronger in the body, weaker in the head in those days!! :unsure: Guy there says he'll take a look for me. Bloody broken wire from genny to battery. Hooked it up & away it goes. Resolved to use eyes more, legs less :thud:

[Mongoose]

*sigh* and those tyre sandals, before they were made round eh?? :wavey:

Eeee lad, whats this wiff sandals? You musta come from flash neighbourhood, huh? :wacko: :whistle:

[MSTRS]

Eeee lad, whats this wiff sandals? You musta come from flash neighbourhood, huh? :wacko: :whistle:
oh yea....we were toffs

[avgas]

Engines ?? Never heard of them. We had to catch our bikes first....none of those tame things that are everywhere these days :killingme
I still wrestle mine today, unpredictable as a rabid goat

[MSTRS]

I still wrestle mine today, unpredictable as a rabid goat
:Oi: Belongs on the sheep shagger thread I'm afraid to say

[Sparky Bills]

MATE!!!
Now if you only had a pillion seat! You could have taken him up on the back and left the shitty old broken thing there! If he was lucky (by the sounds of things, he wasnt!!), The bike would have been stolen, and he could have claimed insurance!
Hard luck.
I have to say...
Im still laughing from when you told me on saturday morning! :laugh: :laugh: :lol:

[JohnBoy]

Im still laughing from when you told me on saturday morning! :laugh: :laugh: :lol:

Cheers mate, at least i can count on your sympathy. :killingme

[Sniper]

Be thankful it wasn't august. :eek:

Had more experiences like that than I care to remember, so you've certainly got my sympathy.

I second that, bloody hole of a place :cold:

[Sparky Bills]

Cheers mate, at least i can count on your sympathy. :killingme


You know the saying...
With friends like me, who needs enemies. :ar15: :2thumbsup :shake:

What are friends for??

[ALTRON]

Yet another reminder of how crap NC30/35 regulator/rectifier are. Replace it (the rec/reg) with something else and your in for years of trouble free riding :)

[vifferman]

Yeah, it's a sad story orright, but it could've been a lot worse.

No-one got hurt, and the bike's quite easily repairable. :ride:
In any case - it's invariably the experiences like this that are truly memorable and make life interesting.
The good things are generally much more quickly forgotten, rarely character-building, and nowhere near as interesting. :blink:

[inlinefour]

last friday (7/01/05) a mate and i left wellington at about 4:30PM to deliver his bike to Auckland for him to sell to another mate... this is where it starts to go wrong. (get comfortable cause this is one long saga)

we ride up SH2 and then over the Haywards hill, Paekakariki hill down SH1, bypass Levin to Palmy, SH3, SH54 to fielding.
at the BP servo in fielding, Dan (my mate) noticed a sulphur smell. didnt say anything, just thought it was nothing. ok filled with gas continue on SH54 over Vinegar Hill to SH1 where we stopped and discussed how it was such and awsome road and after meeting a nice bloke on a VFR750 we continued onto waiouru.

we stoped in waiouru and filled the bikes. as i went to pay for the gas dan called me over to his bike (VFR400 NC30) which was squeeling... kinda like when you watch the TV on the AV channel. Hmmmm, not cool. Now Dan has just finished a Motocycle Mech course last year so i orignally had no concerns. by this time the nice bloke on the VFR750 catches up with us at the servo, he lends us some of his tools so we can take the fairings off to have a gander. on closer inspection no fueses blown, battery red hot, Regulator/recitfier dead cold. hmmm, now we have lost all ignition lights and it wont turn over.... HMMMMMMMM! not cool. dan reckens that the reg?rec had packed up and melted the battery. oh, and i must say that this was at about 10:30PM on the friday.
right then... ring people and say that we were going to say the night and fix it in the morning. no problem right?? WRONG!!!! all motels and the pub booked out and no one would just let us sleep on thier couch, nothing!
ok... now getting really late it stood like this: 1 stuffed VFR400, and my single seater ZXR7RR!!!! ok, were stuffed.
after walking around a bit an seeing what was availible, we settled on a row of bushes at the intersection of SH1 and SH49 (Ohakune Road) by now it was about 1:00AM on the Saturday and woke about 6:30AM.

Ok, now what.... Dan had a mate in Wanaganui that would have the spare parts we needed. ok, mint. this might be still salvagable....
Dan rang his mate and sure enough he had the parts and as quick as said dan shot down to wangas on my Zed. now this is where you would think it starts to get better... just keep reading cause it gets WORSE!!

Dan just got outside of Mangaweka where he finds some of new zealands finest... the basted fined dan for 112 in 100. not too much damage... $80 and 20 points, but Dan already had 90. (loss of licence for 3 months upcoming :ar15: )
ok... now back on track out to wanganui got a new battery and reg/rec. ok... sweet. mean while i had been sitting at Caltex, Waiouru from 8:15AM to 12:30 PM.

After all this, dan finally arrived with the parts. sweet, i am now fully confident that we were on the way home.
we put the parts on and everything was back online again. but wait.. theres still more! hit the starter and it was like the battery was flat... not cool considering the new battery was full charged. hmmm... now what?
ok. ok, right crash start it. she will be right.... nope.
ok, whats the funny smell.... something like rotten eggs, oh. yeah.. the CDI has just fried its self :thud:. game over.

my girlfriends father came out from palmy with his van and picked up what was left of the VFR and took it back home. so after a near 20 hour ordeal, just before 4pm on sat afternoon i finally set off for Te Awamutu and got home at about 6:45PM.

so thats it... my hellesh trip home after my Xmas holidays in wellington. forevermore shall i hate waiouru and especailly the row of trees adjacent to the grass reserve where we sleept.

Many thanks to Jason Hulme of Wanganui for the parts, the helpfulness of the staff at Caltex waiouru and to John Rushworth for coming up from palmy to pick dan up. with out these people we would have been stuffed.

What a crap ordeal, hope its all sorted now...