Stop whinging, for goodness sake.

[James Deuce]

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Don't worry about what everyone is wearing. There are views and places you haven't seen yet.

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There was someone down in that valley fanging about on a big bore MX bike too.

[Usarka]

Or else.....

[Big Dave]

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[Magua]

Don't worry about what everyone is wearing. There are views and places you haven't seen yet.


There was someone down in that valley fanging about on a big bore MX bike too.

Nice. _b Where's that?

[James Deuce]

Out back of SH50.

[Goblin]

:ride:Open face helmet...fingerless gloves!?!? :shit:

[Usarka]

Open face helmet...fingerless gloves!?!? :shit:

Nice work :lol:

But he's also looking like hes enjoying himself. How'd you take that pic BD?

[martybabe]

Yes indeed, biff the bickering till next winter, paradise NZ has somewhere wonderful waiting, with your name on it! :yes:

[MarkH]

Open face helmet...fingerless gloves!?!? :shit:

I have to agree, I can't help but cringe when I see someone in an open faced helmet and gloves that don't protect their hands adequately. But it is his risk and it's not like I haven't done stupid & dangerous shit myself, so I'll just cringe and not throw stones. My advice to any motorcyclist would be to wear a full faced helmet and decent gloves, but you are all entitle to ignore that advice at your own peril - I wont be yelling at you from the roadside if you ride past without the good gear on.

If the regulations changed banning open faced helmets I would be fine with that, I never wear anything other than full faced anyway and I can flip up mine when stopped. But it isn't my head at risk when someone else wears an open faced helmet so, like, whatever dudes & dudettes.

[Big Dave]

How'd you take that pic BD?

Campbell took eeet.

[Big Dave]

Sorry Jim - not what this thread is about.

If you looked that cool you'd wear that hat :-p
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[Goblin]

I have to agree,...Ummm...it was a pisstake.:pinch:
Great photo BD!
Would be hypocritical of me to jump on the ATGATT bandwagon...or any bandwagon for that matter.

[merv]

J2 I presume that was you I waved at on the hill yesterday heading back when I was heading out on the DR650 on this ride http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=83780 with the boys. It was such a nice day I just wore my black jeans, couldn't be bothered putting my usual leather trou on, but then I started riding before full face helmets, cordura, kevlar, knee sliders and all that stuff was even on the market.

You're right about the whinging, and it makes me laugh every time I see a thread when one rider tries to tell another rider what they should be doing when a lot start out riding bikes to be different than driving the car for a different bit of enjoyment so they don't need being told what to do.

There are too many places to be ridden before we need to degenerate to whinging because we have nothing else to do.

I guess you figure I'm not insistent on ATGATT I'm more of a WWYFL kind of guy.

[zeocen]

I wholeheartedly agree!

[Big Dave]

I was actually trying to espouse the virtues of the more dirt road capable motorcycle prompted by the opening luffly shot.

And now I have to go to work shoting some vid day oh. Enjoy the rides kids.

[MarkH]

Ummm...it was a pisstake.:pinch:

I knew you weren't being serious. Just like I was saying - don't like seeing guys in the wrong gear - but I ain't their mother and I don't dress them! If you are old enough to have a bike license then you are old enough to dress yourself and live with the consequences! (no skin off my knuckles)

[James Deuce]

If you looked that cool you'd wear that hat :-p


This is true. However, in keeping with my general philosophy of "Do no harm", I have a gold mirrored visor and a full face helmet to protect those who may accidentally glance upon my visage, and to make sure that livestock do not stampede when I perchance to visit the wilderness.

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[FJRider]

This is true. However, in keeping with my general philosophy of "Do no harm", I have a gold mirrored visor and a full face helmet to protect those who may accidentally glance upon my visage, and to make sure that livestock do not stampede when I perchance to visit the wilderness.

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The high vis' bike should be enough....

Been here yet...???

[Bonez]

Open face helmet...fingerless gloves!?!? :shit:Fuck it'll be tassles next. Is there any hope...............................?

[Big Dave]

Fuck it'll be tassles next. Is there any hope...............................?

SSS - Saluting Scumdog Syndrome.

[Bonez]

SSS - Saluting Scumdog Syndrome.

:rockon::rockon::rockon:

[musicman]

Sorry Jim - not what this thread is about.

If you looked that cool you'd wear that hat :-p
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Sorry, off topic, but what's that helmet on the left?

[Big Dave]

Sorry, off topic, but what's that helmet on the left?

Arai Tour X with the peak taken off. Current favourite.

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[henry]

Don't have to go far either. Can't beat the Rimutakas at 7 in the evening.

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[merv]

Ride what you like and wear what you like :laugh:.

My mate turned up this afternoon on his old '52 500 Matchless. He parks it out on the street so it won't drip oil on my drive haha.

[Usarka]

Great thread.


Unfortunately have lost my shot of my bike overlooking the shore near gizzy (gisborne) with a peach nestled nicely on the tank.

Aint that a peach......

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[Big Dave]

Ride what you like and wear what you like :laugh:.

My mate turned up this afternoon on his old '52 500 Matchless. He parks it out on the street so it won't drip oil on my drive haha.

Bet he's got a nice trailer.

[merv]

Bet he's got a nice trailer.

Nah mate he rode the old thing around to my place and then he was on his way to Upper Hutt to drop off an old pommy bike oil line for another mate. You can see one end of the oil line sticking up in the top of the photo and his non-period piece helmet sitting on the lawn.

You can see he had just stopped because I raced out with the camera and caught it before the oil dripped on the ground.

[James Deuce]

Yeah that was me waving Merv - I thought I recognised your helmet.

[Hitcher]

Arai Tour X with the peak taken off. Current favourite.

I am your father, Luke. May the fourth be with you.

[merv]

Yeah that was me waving Merv - I thought I recognised your helmet.

Yeah that was with the blue GRex dirt job on not my red HJC road helmet.

[vifferman]

What about a whinge about not riding - is that allowed?

Didn't get to ride in the weekend again (GAaaaah!!) but was all set to ride this morning, till once again #2Son ambushed me again. Not only that, but he made me late for work ("Where's my pants? Dunno if I'll have breakfast or not... My car's not registered and I've got no money till Wednesday... I need to take a dump before I go...")

Pharking yooof... They blardy stay up all night and want to sleep all day...

Oh well, at least it's a sunny day, so I can enjoy the weather while I walk across to the Postal Orofice to pay his car licencing fee... :whistle:


Oh yeah - nice photos, RidingAroundPeoples. :niceone:

[marty]

I did a bit over 200k in the weekend - mostly around the central Waikato. Even wore my gimp suit! Heaps of bikes out - saw a couple parked having a smoke in the Walton Valley - managed to wave as I blasted past knee-down at 100km/h :) I even waved to the guy/girl on the GN250.......

[CookMySock]

Yeah, nuff bitching ffs.

Open face helmets ? I collected a stone on my cage windscreen from a truck tyre on saturday. The damn thing hit us like a really loud rifle shot. What a fright! and quite sobering thinking about being hit like that while on a bike. I'm all for wearing what we choose, but fuck knows how I would have defended against that little rock - plastic visor? Cordura jacket? I think not.

Steve

[MSTRS]

I even waved to the guy/girl on the GN250.......

Noooooo.....
Now they'll think they're real bikers.
Have you no sense of shame?

[henry]

I got nicked at the bottom of the Rimutakas on Saturday night. First one for a very long time and probably well overdue.

Very pleasant gentleman, obviously knew where I was headed and didn't want to hold me up any longer than necessary. Said he'd post the bill out to me.

Even that wasn't enough to ruin a brilliant evening.

[imdying]

I am your father, Luke. May the fourth be with you.

You think that's bad, google for the Craft RX6. I've a matt black one, it definitely changes cager driving habits :)

[sels1]

.
There are too many places to be ridden before we need to degenerate to whinging because we have nothing else to do.
I guess you figure I'm not insistent on ATGATT I'm more of a WWYFL kind of guy.

Yup, me too.


Been here yet...???

or what about here?

[merv]

or what about here?

Yippee Denniston, wouldn't want to let your bike fall over the edge eh Sels?

[fireball]

Noooooo.....
Now they'll think they're real bikers.
Have you no sense of shame?

am i a real biker now?

[James Deuce]

am i a real biker now?

Only if your helmet fell off the seat and you had to buy a new one.

[fireball]

Only if your helmet fell off the seat and you had to buy a new one.

it was tossed down the road a few months ago:Oops:

[martybabe]

And one from Today, Don't know where just followed my nose. I shall call it kingfisher bay.

[sels1]

Yippee Denniston, wouldn't want to let your bike fall over the edge eh Sels?

Well spotted Merv. Yes, its a long way down the Incline (whats left of it)
Its a great twisty road to the top of 'The Hill'.
I go up whenever I am in the area...birthplace of my father...have ancestors buried in the vicinity

[Big Dave]

Well spotted Merv.

I had a rock stuck in my tyre once and Merv told me what creek it came from.

[merv]

I had a rock stuck in my tyre once and Merv told me what creek it came from.

Hey as long as its not greenstone then our cuzzies would say you've got to put it back where you picked it up :laugh:.

[MIXONE]

Well spotted Merv. Yes, its a long way down the Incline (whats left of it)
Its a great twisty road to the top of 'The Hill'.
I go up whenever I am in the area...birthplace of my father...have ancestors buried in the vicinity

Absolutely love that piece of road.I thought the powers that be were going to change it?

[EJK]

So is this thread about going somewhere really random with an unsuitable bike?

[BuellBunny]

Noooooo.....
Now they'll think they're real bikers.
Have you no sense of shame?

Hey... leave them alone.... everyone starts somewhere and so what if its a GN250..... bike nazi....

[Bonez]

So is this thread about going somewhere really random with an unsuitable bike?I heard from a good authority on the weekend that some Wellington riders just go backwards and fwds over the Rimitakas and are too afraid of venturing further afeild. This was varified by a few Ashhurshians Sunday just gone.

I think thats the point James is trying to make.

Could be wrong, as usual, though.

[scumdog]

Open face helmet...fingerless gloves!?!? :shit:

Yeah, what was he thinking?:confused:

(Like ya never seen that before eh?:laugh:)

[jrandom]

am i a real biker now?

I think I recognise that location...

:laugh:

Te Atatu represent auw!

[Goblin]

Yeah, what was he thinking?:confused:

(Like ya never seen that before eh?:laugh:)Shocking innit?! On gravel too!!:shit:

[merv]

So is this thread about going somewhere really random with an unsuitable bike?

Nah, I think its about going anywhere on your bike, enjoy the ride, and stop whinging at others trying to tell them what to do and what not to do and what to wear etc for chrissake because there is too much fun to be had before we've even run out of places to go :scooter:

Example of whinging is this thread for example http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=83765

[Big Dave]

The thing I like about those harley gloves is I can operate a camera without taking them off.

[Big Dave]

Jims bike is fine for a gravel road anyway. all this 'you 'need a 21" is bunkum. If you want to go FAST on the gravel you need a big diameter front wheel. pootling along is fine on a 17"

[Bonez]

Jims bike is fine for a gravel road anyway. all this 'you 'need a 21" is bunkum. If you want to go FAST on the gravel you need a big diameter front wheel. pootling along is fine on a 17"Agreed. Having a wee sence of adventure and getting out of your comfort zone as it were. Just grab a map and go for it.

[MIXONE]

I've found the older I get the happier I am just to be able to get out of bed in the morning and be able to go for a ride.Bike/destination/company etc. WGAF just get out a do it.

[Big Dave]

I am your father, Luke. May the fourth be with you.

I've never been to Scotland, Tron.

[Krayy]

Why the heck does the gummint want you to swerve every time you get on a gravel road??

[vifferman]

Alrighty - I've stopped whinging.
Now what? Where's this goodness you were talking about?

[Bonez]

Why the heck does the gummint want you to swerve every time you get on a gravel road??To dodge the sheep, cattle, pigs, dogs and all of Gods other little creatures on them.

[Big Dave]

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[henry]

I heard from a good authority on the weekend that some Wellington riders just go backwards and fwds over the Rimitakas and are too afraid of venturing further afeild.

Worse than that. Most of them ride to the top. Stop and chat for a couple of hours and then ride down again. WTF?