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  1. Revolting teachers!

    Well, that was a fine how do you do... went with Captain Banzai and parked up outside Auckland Pubic Libararyry, we trudged up to the rotunda in Albert park and hobnobbed amongst a gathering of filthy treachery types - I was in my best Spartan armour and everyone was in fashionable black.

    Usual windage about treacher's rights and wrongs and boo-hoos, stood there in the shade like a muppet for a hour waiting for the muster.

    Desultory cheers, jeers and speeches, plenty ...
  2. New Buell 1190RS

    The 1190RS will be the new street bike from Erik Buell Racing! The design is currently in the pre-production / testing stage and is not yet available for public sale. Show your support and be the very first to get your new 1190RS and new EBR logo merchandise! Check back here Tuesday, September 14th for the 1190RS "teaser" video featuring music from Wratchet Head the new project from Michael Wilton of Queensryche!


    http://www.ratpakrecordsamerica.com/erikbuell.cfm
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  3. Project B33

    For over 30 years my father has had a BSA B33 sitting under a sheet in a partially restored condition. It hasn't run since at least 1987 (the date on the newspaper that was taped over the petrol tank) but was in the process of being restored before that so it wouldn't have run for a fair while before then. So, unfortunately, this bike has spent the vast majority of it's life in a partially disassembled state.

    The history of this bike is that it was originally owned by my fathers ...
  4. Run for the Son 2010 Charity Ride

    Run for the Son 2010 Charity Ride

    When; 02 October 2010
    Meet ay BP Papakura Autobahn from 8:30am

    Where: Scenic Ride to Te Kauwhata Domain

    Cost: $10 Pre-Registration
    www.cmanz.org
    $ 15 on the Day

    What you get when registered:
    Venue entry, a sausage sizzle and a soft drink

    Alcohol and Drug Free
    At the venue; music, food stalls, trade stalls, coffee, ...
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  5. RD350LC-RGV250 electrical merge

    I have fitted a RD-LC flywheel and stator with two pickups from an RGV VJ21.
    I'm planning on using the stator to supply power to to the CDI.

    My question is how to wire this up.

    My guess is to run the three stator wires to the Rectifier. There are two wires out - Red and Black/White. Red I'm guessing is + and the Black/White is (-).

    On the CDI I've sorted out the coil wires. What's left is a Black/Yellow (tacho), Black/White (-), and Orange/Black. ...
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  6. I give my due to the biking gods

    So now that you have read all the good bits, I expect that I am not extrapolating the last of my ride to an empty room … oh look, a tumbleweed just went by … and the chirp of a grasshopper … verily well, I shall still potter on about the last bit of the trip in my own interminable fashion then!

    Out to Waiouru again, all was good, the carpet of snow showed just how much fell quickly – I was now caught in a logjam of vehicles that were trying to push through the adverse driving ...
  7. Dodging dogged dogs at Ashhurst unsuccessfully

    And now my intrepid audience (all two of you, and the cat reading over your shoulder), I shall delve into the horror that is known as Ashhurst …

    It was a dark and stormy night … er wait, it was a sullen night, with a churlish moon hanging low in the dark sky, it was near the time of 5am when I turned into the town of Ashhurst .. and I was trying to find the road that was a nice bit of twisty (Colyton Rd I do believe). Well I made a turn and ended up in a very rough muddy and ...
  8. Winding down at Wellywood with a burger

    Before we continue on with my errant stream of consciousness, some facts about my dear Cindi, or CB1000R Predator – they say that it was conceived on the drawing table at Honda, when there was a lapdancing good time girl jiggling her bits at the chief engineer or another apocryphal story goes that a CBR1000RR got it on with a 900F Hornet. But, we all just know it as the CB1000R Predator.

    Now DONOR did post in his “Scrubbing in New Tyres” thread that I would be down at BK on ...