General Bike Ravings

I went for a ride from the North Shore of Auckland out to Port Waikato today, for no other reason than I haven't been to Port Waikato before.
Port Waikato is at the head of the Waikato river in the Franklin district on the West Coast.

Although a little cool the weather was perfect. The initial trip out on the motorway was your normal motorway trip (yawn).

However the fun starts at Pokeno. The road, while not maintained to the same degree as city roads, was ...

Well, after the debacle with the trademe feedback I was a bit worried. I needed to have the letter from the previous owner in order to re-register the bike - or else get the police to declare that they had no interest in the bike.

So of course I'm spewing. It looks like this bloke's not happy about his bike being sold by his missus and he may yet decide to not write the letter - or worse - declare the bike stolen, in which case I'd be rather fucked.

So, after a week ...

Bull dropped off a battery for me yesterday.

Oh - thanks to James Deuce too. Turns out it was one that he'd given to Bull.

Thanks heaps guys!

Battery was charged up last night. And it turns over the bike this morning, so at least the starter works...

dolphin13 (106 ) 20 Jul 2009sgotlieb was the buyer(#225869448) Thanks for taking my bike for $1. My Mrs sold this behind my back! F'n Bitch!

LOL. Really? Funny thing is, there's a lovely response to my feeback on trademe. Sounds like the guy got home to find out his wife has finally cleared out his garage after 12 years of nagging.

Let this be a lesson ...

Looks like my favourite tyre manufacture has the tyres I need, given it seems to have a slabbie gixxer rear end on it.

The Avon Roadrider looks the go.

I must start reading up on these tyres. I wonder if anyone else is using them?

edit. Checked out the Continental Sport Classic which looks kinda nice too:

http://www.conti-online.com/generato...kv1112_en.html

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This bike has no mirrors and they look to be damn hard (or extremely expensive) to replace.

So anyway Bull was around this arvo to look at the $1 wonder and he suggests I look into streetfightering the bike.

Now I'm not too keen on removing the front end cause I kinda like the Katana look, but there's another possibility.

The clip-ons are located with a bolt for each that are in the exact place that bar mounts can go on.




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It's got an 18 x 3.0 inch on the rear of this bike.

They're supposed to have a 17 incher. Must have a gixxer slabside rear wheel on it.

So I will need to find a 100/90-16 front and a 130/80-18 rear.

What bloody tyres are available in this combo?



Did I get ripped off with the bike? LOL. For a dollar, you can't expect perfection...

My spark plug sockets won't fit.

Must be some weird size.

Oh well, I'll just leave them alone. There's plenty of other things to do at the moment.