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  1. Scotties (Trotsky) South Island Ride Blog Part II

    Day 9 – Te Anau to Wanaka

    By Day 9 the good weather seemed here to stay and the thermals were stowed away and the mesh jackets and gloves came out. We stopped at Kingston for coffee and then it was a easy cruise along the banks of Lake Wakatipu to Queenstown. This is a breath-taking lakeside ride and one we would love to do again - nice views and good twisty corners. We stopped at the wharf in Queenstown just in tine to see the Ernslaw steamship berth – cameras got a good hammering ...
  2. Scotties (Trotsky) South Island Trip Blog Part I

    Scotties South Island Blog

    This is my blog of our trip around the South Island. In all 6 cruisers from Auckland when on the trip: Scottie (Trostsky) and Helen, Kevin and Kathy, Terry and Sue, John and Janine, Dave and Kirsty and Johnny and Lo.

    Day 1 – Auckland to Wellington

    Are we there yet, are we there yet, are we there yet, are we there yet, are we there yet.

    Hey what happened to Cliff? Oh dear there is smoke coming out the back of ...
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  3. Places to stay...

    Hey, I'm thinking of doing a tour round coromandel... does anyone know good places to stay.... or wana join me & my hubby, probably around end of march for a thurs nite thru till sun nite leaving from auckland.
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  4. Steampunk inspired veteran replica

    Well, as you can see now Ive got a veteran Triumph frame off TardMe
    Lets now see about modifying it to fit the fire extinguisher petrol tank & then sort out the fork options
    Springers? Girders? Rigid? Hmmmmmmm
    Am leaning towards making a set of springers at the moment
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  5. Paeroa street races

    Had an amazing ride with my mate through the Queen Charlotte Sounds to the ferry ....lots of road works and campervans, but took it nice and easy as I was sad to be leaving the South Island anyways. Staged with lovely kiwis on my way up to the Paeroa street races...they helped nurse me back to health after a nasty wasp incident. A wasp flew up under my hemlet as i was riding and I had to let the little bugger sting the hell out of me as my hands were very occupied...within 5 minutes the entire ...
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  6. Wellington Motorcycle - Service - Update 26/02/10 Great News

    Hi Team,

    I have received an email from the co-owner of Wellington Motorcycles. Pasted below is a direct copy of that email... Today (26/02/10) I received a refund cheque for $247.58. To Steve and Wellington Motorcycles thank you for admitting fault and rectifying this.

    I have however decline the next service at Wellington Mototcycles.

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    Hi Kenneth; after reviewing your service work it has come to my attention, that you have had the ...
  7. AMCC Round 4

    Hi everyone, AMCC is always looking for marshals to help out so if you are interested in learning how to marshal and get in for free, just turn up at the Pukekohe Park race track 8.15am and meet up with Ange at the Jennien Homes Building when the meetings are happening... other meetings we help out at are Paeroa Battle of the Streets, Hampton Downs.
  8. Hmmm, interesting ...

    Well I took her out for her first outing this evening and it was very interesting.

    The batteries haven't been holding their charge so I've had to constantly charge them. The best was showing 13.6v so I threw that in, bolted her up and cranked her over. She didn't start right away, which surprised me and made me a bit nervous, but after a couple of goes she fired and sounded very happy just burbling away at idle. I let her warm up while I climbed into my gear.

    I hate ...