General Bike Ravings

Well my fine ladles and jellyspoons, it is with a mixture of trepidation and exhilaration that I actually post up something! This has been a long while due to the onerous exertions of reality (yah! boo! hiss! )

Anyhow the meat of the matter is that my friend Greentea has been pining for her own bike to call her own, to love, to throw hard earned cash and to call it by it's own name. The tale of this saga begins last Friday past (20th Aug) when she piped up she wanted a bike ...

Robert M. Pirsig's book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) was a paean celebrating motorcycling.
Pirsig contrasted the sense of connection experienced by motorcyclists with the isolation of drivers who are "always in a compartment", passively observing the passing landscape.

In contrast, Pirsig argues that a motorcyclist is "completely in contact with it all... in the scene." The process and experience of motorcycling forces the rider into the present. The environment ...

Finally saved my pennies to get a Power Commander for Zensen (CBR125). So last night stripped the bike back ready to install it, only to find out it'll be here in 2 weeks (Doh). So I started to look at repositioning the muffler so it doesn't stick out as far. Now I'm rebuilding the header pipe and have started getting things ready to line up.

I've also just got rid of all my GSXR400's and the NT650 is gone for sale and I now actually have space in and around my garage.
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Vic Club, Round 4, The Return of the Novel (Hear Frenchy Sigh)

I decided ages back that seeing as I'd gotten my hands on a very cheap race bike I'd have a stab at this racing lark and chose Round 4 to be the meeting at which I popped the cherry.

The lead up to Round 4 was going to be busy as there was lots to do, but I had a plan and it was all under control. Right up until I got knocked on my arse by one of the nasty flu bugs that've been going around. All of a sudden ...

Well its been a long while since my last blog in this serial which was mid May, since then me and my family have relocated out of wellington and moved up to rural Feilding. The whole Superstock question of whats going to be the bench mark for Nationals entry bikes has only now been formulated, agreed and published recently, so the R6 has been sitting out in the shed, infact ive only done 800kms on her giving the bike a good blast after the first 500kms. Very smooth super fast from 140kmh to over ...

Need a suitable helmet, so bought a new one off TardMe & set about aging it
Used a can of 'leather brown' vinyl spray but it still looked too new, so gave it a coat of black bumper wax & a light sand to knock the gloss back a bit
Now I need to make a nice pair of brass goggles, like the ones in the pic, to match
UPDATE: recently found & am lovin this cool copper helmet with 'exhaust pipes?' on the interwebs,reminiscent of that greek bloke Mercury & his winged helmet! thatll ...

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Got the wheels, a pair of rebuilt much modded 23"ers, back from the powder coaters today,resplendent in 'primrose' epoxy p/coat
now its onto rebearing them & a visit to Pitlanes for tyre fitting
Ill be using a pair of block pattern trials tyres
Also, as you can see, the flywheel has been shaved of its cooling fins,as it will be an exposed 'bacon slicer' style I didnt fancy it chewing on my leg!!

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Originally Posted by Skunk

It's about time I did a race report I think.

Battle of the Buckets and Pre 89 at Ruapuna B track.

Thanks to Dave Trustrum I was able to attend this meeting. It's always good (though the weather was crap last time I went. A little snow never hurt anyone did it?) Great meeting, good track, and some good people. Tony and Sue put us up for the two nights - Sue even arranged a banquet in our honour. Very nice to meet you both, as well as Holly and Polly.

Good

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