For some, customizing your scooter is just as cool as customizing a bike. This one has been done up quite a bit, have to admit I liked the brake discs. Usually these will have a loud muffler on them - since the engine cannot be revved at will for 'look-at-me' attention like a real bike, they need to make up the difference somehow. It's kind of annoying actually because with the way the clutch works, these things are deafeningly loud even when ...
I see bikes like this fairly regularly around Tokyo. As far as I can tell it's a TW200 with a lot of modifications to make it look as bare as possible, and then the swingarm has been changed to a longer one. I've seen hotted up bikes in the US with long swingarms (stupid looking imho), dunno if this is anything to do with that. Only reason I can think of to have a long swingarm like this (apart from trying to look different) would be to help ...
Quick trip through to Dunners in Mary's CRV. Few bikes on the road. Noted a cruiser coming off the Sthn motorway at Green Island with the wind blowing up his trousers! Shoes, not boots. With the bent leg seating position a fair bit of skin was exposed. Wouldn't like to travel that way myself. Very sunny, but cold and promising a frost by 3.30pm! Cheers.
I've been a bit weary this week. A combination of late nights and early mornings and just haven't recovered from the Gathering in Turangi, which we both enjoyed very much. The weather is also decidedly colder and winter is finally upon us.....I was expecting 4 degrees last week on the Central Plateau, but not today whilst riding through the Manawatu. We went to Grub & Nasty's this morning for breakfast, and to meet inlinefour (IL4) who stopped over in Wellington on his way home to ...
I stopped by the Shinonome Ricoland today, my wife was picking up some frame sliders for the SV. Ricoland, standing for 'riders community land' is a chain of stores selling all kinds of stuff for bikes. They sell all kinds of clothing, boots, helmets, accessories (covers, locks, GPS gizmos, intercoms etc), commonly upgraded things (mufflers, suspension, brakes, lights etc), and of course consumable like ...
After the mild, wet Brass Monkey last weekend the Vstrom's sulking in the garge and the snows only half melted off the deck. No riding today, didn't even ride the scooter to work yesterday. Snow and black ice makes this one of the four days on average I don't ride to work! With three weeks before I head of for two weeks of work related riding in Aussie I'm washing the riding gear and stocking up the yunka to get things dried. Hiring a Trans Alp in Sydney and enjoying the process of planning what ...
Ahh, the cub. These bikes are all over the place here. Not quite so common for pizza delivery (those 3 wheel 'bikes' are mostly used for that) but for anything else it's often a cub - mail, newspapers, ramen, sushi... this is one that I snapped on my way to get my lunch (no, not sushi) today. It's looking particularly rusty in the carry-rack area but still does the job. Actually now that I think about it, it's odd that cubs are barely used ...
I bought a bike on yahoo auctions last week. This is the first time I have bought without seeing and test-riding first, so I hope it's a good deal. It should be alright though because valuation of vehicles is much fussier here than it is in NZ. Even small blemishes are often considered big issues, and the idea that some part of the vehicle would be missing or not working is a foreign concept. eg. in NZ if you are advertising a bike and the rev counter ...
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