General Bike Ravings

Gravel, roadworks, wind and sun - you're not my friend!

Went on a nice trip in the weekend North Shore to work in Central Auckland on Friday, left work and stayed the night at a friends in Cambridge to help break up the trip a little from Taupo to Hastings the next day. Left Cambridge after a lovely bacon and egg mc muffin brekky and headed to Taupo to meet Grashopper on Saturday morning, few spots of roadworks, some road ripped up really bad on the way there, but somehow I survived... ...

It was the Cambridge to Hamilton Child cancer toy run this morning. I offered to take a friend of mine with me. She has a brain tumor and we never know if she has weeks or months left. She was VERY excited about having her first ride on a motorbike. As I went to leave to collect her the clutch cable on my bike snapped. No shops open etc.... I was just about in tears (don't tell anyone that) with disappointment for her. I made a comment on FB about it and next thing a friend turns up (from Eureka) ...

It was apparent that the most overlooked part of basic set up was ergonomics. As such, being comfortable on your bike is not an option - it is mandatory. Let's run through each one in detail and if you have old injuries, respect them and adjust accordingly even if that means something isn't perfectly symmetrical.

Handle bars
Most stock bars have some adjustment. Not a lot at the triple clamp end but certainly a lot at the bar end, and that's the critical part. Do you know how ...

 


Friday morning I was off to Taupo for the Honda day. It turned out to be cheaper to do that, drive back home afterwards then head back down again on Sunday for the BRM Pacific Club Round 2. If I had've done Saturday/Sunday instead I would've had my wife with me so we'd have needed to get a decent motel room and food to keep her sweet about having to be at the race track 2 days in a row. I keep telling her Street Stock is perfect for her ...

Hey guys, thought I might start a blog documenting my experiences I have with biking i guess. Im not usually good at writing long,thought out pages but I will give it my best.

So bit about myself, am 18(19 in march) and a fulltime student at AUT akoranga studying Sport and Recreation. I am very much into my surfing and outdoor activities (hiking,mountainbiking,camping,rockclimbing,white water kayaking). So this means i like to travel and see parts of New zealand i have never been to ...

So, we went to go check out the Wellington Nitro Circus show on Saturday night. Awesome stuff!

Lots more pics, and and video of the final, epic train, at http://mymotocyclette.tumblr.com/post/42795495652

I've done little riding this month but I have been busy on bike related business and signed-up for this year's TT2000. ( http://www.tt2000.org )

The TT' is a great event and has evolved over the last 4 years, offering a broad spectrum of riding opportunities in that one could just do the basic 2,000Km in 48Hrs, or get really serious and up the ante to different levels to do up to 3,000'ish Km to achieve the various levels of awards, and along the way, those that were inclined could ...

Originally Posted by bosslady

Riding for 2.1 weeks now (not incl. the couple of lessons i had in a car park). This time last week the thought of going on a main road was unnerving, the motorway? unthinkable! Tackled the motorway Sunday just been, the harbour bridge yesterday and had a longish ride today. Been getting out almost any chance I can when its not been raining and/or I haven't had to work, not all of us get time off, slackers! (kidding!!)

Anyway first ride for 100km without getting my semi fat arse off

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