Ambling around

Now this is just getting silly. My mouse button finger slipped again and I bought another bike through an online auction. Only this time it was more costly and will probably cause me to sell most of the other bikes, if not all of them. At least now I can settle on one bike to take back to NZ. It's also nice to finally have a 'good' bike. Every other bike (or car for that matter) I have bought has been at least 14 years old, which makes them cheap to ...

I shined up the VFR the other day to take some photos of it. After fussing around posing it and getting the sunlight direction right etc, lavishing all this attention on it, I noticed my other bike peeping into the corner of one of the photos. Well now, I thought, ...

Yes, the VFR does 170kmh! And up a slight incline too.

The photo here is of the back of a taxi. Almost every second taxi here has one of these stickers on the back, and they really piss me off. Roughly, it says:

(Caution) Motorcycles!
Two-wheeler accidents! Frequent/numerous

And that's it - no particular mention as to the purpose of the sticker or any basis to the claim it presents. It seems that ...

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Just a little vid I made the other night on my NC24. The speed through the tunnel at the end is from 100 - 155kph in fifth gear so in sixth gear I think it might even be able to do 170 - but its hard to find out with the roads I have available...
a daytime vid would have been much better for viewing, but a weeknight is the only time there is that little traffic around. I still need to figure out a better setup for the sound too, to reduce wind ...

Check out this neat little bike park I found in the underground car park of the new Yodobashi shop in Akihabara. It has its own ticket machine and gate etc. This was quite a welcome find because it was pissing with rain so it was nice to be able to get changed and go straight into the shop without getting soaked. I almost didn't get a photo because the nazi carpark attendant told me it was against copyright or some bullshit that he couldn't even ...

I came across this one parked near me in a supermarket bike-park. As well as having the typical outrageous muffler and various blingy bits, this one was another step above the rest. It had some kind of pneumatic system to raise and lower the whole swingarm. To park it he doesn't use the side-stand, instead the whole bike lowers right down and rests on a couple of small runner wheels underneath the body. You cant see those little wheels too well in ...

Actually this is a trike isnt it... spotted this guy on my way to pick up the VFR (yes its here!). I was intending to get a pic of the guy and his pile of stuff but when I pointed the camera all I got was a pile of stuff - I think his load is taller than he is himself.

Anyway enough about that, I have much more important things to discuss today. The VFR is finally here! So far I've only spent a grand total of 20km riding on it so I'll ...

Check out this guys mirror helmet. Bike couriers are pretty common here, not quite as common on scooters like this though, I think non-scooter bike couriers are probably slightly more numerous. By the way my wife told my why I hardly ever see bike couriers riding cubs, when cubs are so common for other types of delivery - bike couriers ride their own bike. So that explains it, a cub is ok if your employer is providing it, but not to have as your own ...