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Originally Posted by GPXchick

G'day all, so today was my first official day from leaving my block and going to show my NEW 7 day old bike off to my inlaws. I pull into the drive and the bike just died.

Head light not turning on and the engine stalled. When trying to restart it just wouldn't click over, the headlight still not coming on. The dash board still lit!?!?!?!?

I called the AA assuming it was my battery. He jumped it it started and the headlight came on, within 3 mins of idle running it

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Hi fellow bikers im very new to the biking world i recently bought a 2010 Hyosung GV250 EFI cruiser. got a good deal only 280Ks on the clock but the previous owner was a small person and they adjusted the clutch, now with my big hands im having a great deal of trouble changing gear and putting the bike into neutral, im not able to ride the bike to the hyosung dealer because i dont have enough experience on the road to ride that far and cant practice riding because of my clutch problem. is there ...

Originally Posted by Billy

Hi Chris,

Thanks for coming on here and giving us your opinion,Im sure you have better things to do with your time as does Jim actually running MNZ and not just talking about it!!

Yes I was aware you had competed at the TT as I too am able to access "mylaps",
Im sure youve heard the expression "1 swallow does NOT make a summer"

Can you please explain too the rest of us,What if anything you have done in the past 2 years as a

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CREATURE is doing a study of the cause, symptoms and treatment of Bikers withdrawal. Bikers withdrawal is an acute condition that can affect all bikers, it is caused by the temporary inability to ride, reasons for this may be medical mechanical or heaven forbid legal; many other reasons do exist and CREATURE would be interested in knowing about them in as much detail as possible for his research. it should be noted that a permanent inability to ride is a chronic condition and leads to the grieving ...

Hi everyone, im CREATURE and im new to this site and still have training wheels on my new cruiser, im looking forward to getting them off and hitting the road big time with some measure of confidence ha ha. i would love to hear from anyone who still has or remembers there training wheels so perhaps they can help me roll on to my future adventure on the road.
CREATURE awaits your replies.

Extending an invitation to the rest of KB to venture into the anarchic chaos of the SMC forums to engage in a semi-serious debate on the similarities between pokemon, marilyn monroe, violent tendencies and various motorcycles.

Originally Posted by Hanne

Attention SMC members!

I have recently conducted some groundbreaking research that categorically PROVES that bikes do in fact have personalities. Now I am interested in hearing your stories.

What is awesome about your bike?

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So, heading back to Auckland from Tauranga.

Started off about 2:30pm, with the weather looking more promising than yesterday! It'd been lightly showering in the morning, with long periods of sun, so I was hoping it would stay that way - it didn't, more on that later.

I decided that I'd do the straight shot up State Highway 2, then State Highway 1. Nothing to it! says I, everyone will be going at a reasonable speed, I won't get lost, and I get to brave the Karangahake... ...

Having not had my BMW since early March, I'm getting withdrawal symptoms (most, if not all, the parts have arrived, now they just have to repair). To tide myself over this difficult period, I've taken to looking at what additional parts I should fit (coz I don't have nearly enough).

Sometime this afternoon, I downloaded the 2011 Twisted Throttle catalogue: http://www.twistedthrottle.com/article/static/211/1/5/ My memory is vague, but I appear to have lost several hours in the 236 ...