General Bike Ravings

I rode the whole White Ribbon Ride in November 2010. From Tauranga to Bream Bay. Add to that travel from Napier to get to Tauranga and back home from Bream Bay and you have 3,225 Km's.

You find it all at: http://petewhiteribbon2010.blogspot....e-by-pete.html with pictures, links and a daily recollection. (Sorry, as I have it all there I can not see the reson to add it all here)

I will be back for the 2011 White Ribbon Ride. Hope to see ...

This weekend I once again enjoyed one of my favorite annual rides, the Musclar Dystrophy (MDA) Run. The ride entails taking presents to children suffering with MD, from Wellington to Napier on Friday, across to Waitara on Saturday and back to Wellington on Sunday and there are several factors that contribute towards creating an epic adventure each year…
1. Firstly, we have Santa…or at least the world’s best facsimile…Red Fred! He eats, sleeps, Ho Ho’s and Hugs out his part, doling out ...

AMCC Round 3

I am so sore. It's been a while since I had so much fun on a motorbike so I'm not surprised I'm all aches and pains today.

This time we thought it'd be best to get to the track nice and early as things took quite a while to work through at round 1 so I picked up Michael just after 6:00am and we headed for Hampton Downs.

When we arrived we had a quick scout around to figure out where we could pit. Last time we were pitted between ...

Been setting about converting the original carbide gas headlite to a 12 volt system
Disemboweled a small jappa quartz halogen unit off a GSX-R & modified the old shells internals to suit
One of my sons works at Metro Glasstech & scored me some fluted obscure glass that will do very nicely for a period style lens
Also found a brass windscreen washer bottle off an old Brit sportscar that, once polished up, will fit the overall theme rather well

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As you'd expect, no self respecting Steampunk Adventurer & his trusty Velocipede would be without a gimball mounted brass compass/sundial combo....
Heres what I got of Tardme recently,looks like shit now but I expect this will polish up rather nicely! .....'TO THE MAN CAVE!!!'.....& several hours later emerge with the recreated treasure in the pic.......then its on to adapting the sundial to the now polished gimball mount for a truly quasi Victorian Satnav System

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Today's the big day. First time out on the track since doing the mods. Very exiting and nervous.

This poker run is being held by alocal West Auckland Tavern raising money for prostate cancer. We are not directly attached to any M.C. all bikes and all bikers welcome.We have a fantastic blues band from Palmy nth playing and entry fee includes a barbeque after prize giving. Hope to see as many as we can on the day.Lets help make someones xmas just a little bit better.
Check out the calander for details.
Call Bryan 021919351 for any info

The race exhaust turned up today. I was like a kid on christmas day opening it. It's so small and light in comparison to what I'm used to fitting. All I could keep saying to my wife was, "It's so cute."

As soon as I had demolished my dinner I was in the garage fitting it to the bike. And WOW the noise was unreal. it's very well made, snaking up through the swing arm next to the rear shock and then up to the exhaust hanging mounting point on the frame. Where the muffler/expansion chamber ...