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Ambling around

Hi! I'm currently living in Tokyo, where there are way more bikes around than in NZ. It's near impossible to do track days or offroad events etc, so I'll just be updating this blog with pretty 'ordinary' stuff. Hopefully some fellow bikers may find it interesting...
(Update: I am in Auckland now - Jan'08, but most of the blog is from stuff in Tokyo)

  1. Anti-bike propaganda

    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 ...