Kiwi Biker forums - Blogs - EatOrBeEaten https://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/blog.php/19675-EatOrBeEaten Kiwi Biker - New Zealand motorcycle community en Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:50:05 GMT vBulletin 20 https://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/images/BP-Brown/misc/rss.jpg Kiwi Biker forums - Blogs - EatOrBeEaten https://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/blog.php/19675-EatOrBeEaten The Great ZZR Makeover: Pt. 1 https://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/entry.php/677-The-Great-ZZR-Makeover-Pt-1 Sun, 01 Mar 2009 07:13:35 GMT Well, she's back. After weeks of wrangling, sleepless nights, abuse on here and lots and lots of support and help from some brilliant people, Tox is back in my possession. She looks a bit different to say the least, but I like it. The fairings are repaired but need repainted, but after a lot of thought I'm going to keep her naked. She's going to need a lot of work but I think she'll be a really unique-looking machine when she's finished, and I think a project like this will really improve my knowledge of bikes and how to take them apart and put them back together again :D

Current list of jobs needed runs like this:

- Sand off and treat the rust that was hidden by the fairing
- Sort out suspension properly
- Buy and fit new clocks
- Reconsider paint job (lots of scratches on the tank, but I like the colours)

More as I think of it, have added photos. Feel free to add advice, thoughts, abuse, or (not so) subtle suggestions that I'm a whore if that's your thing...
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]]> EatOrBeEaten https://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/entry.php/677-The-Great-ZZR-Makeover-Pt-1 Nine Inch Nails, Vector Arena, 17/02/09 https://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/entry.php/638-Nine-Inch-Nails-Vector-Arena-17-02-09 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:58:49 GMT Nine Inch Nails. The kind of band that, for a certain age group at least, carries a heavy weight of expectation. I was 15 when I got my hands on a copy of The Downward Spiral, and like so many other mopey teenagers in eyeliner it became the soundtrack to my teenage angst and late-night... Nine Inch Nails. The kind of band that, for a certain age group at least, carries a heavy weight of expectation. I was 15 when I got my hands on a copy of The Downward Spiral, and like so many other mopey teenagers in eyeliner it became the soundtrack to my teenage angst and late-night poetry-writing. It’s been a decade but they’re still my go-to group when I want to hear that someone is feeling more whiny than me. Despite their reputation as being more of a tribute band of themselves these days, I was incredibly excited to get some tickets for this gig, thinking it would be an incredibly popular sell-out.

Hmm.

The Vector Arena is one of those soulless McVenues, but what crowd there was made an effort to look the part and make it feel slightly less than a corporate jolly. Their effort in dressing up matched their enthusiasm when the band let rip with 1,000,000, Letting You and Discipline, making some otherwise lacklustre songs sound positively violent. The band sounded tight and like they were enjoying being up there, despite Trent’s assertion that the band “didn’t know what the heck it was doing”. Some timely instrumental interludes from The Fragile gave those of us with a desire to sweat and jump around a much-needed breather at regular intervals. What this says about me and the age of Nine Inch Nails fans that we need such breaks is debatable.

The band played some tracks from earlier albums, which got those us who remember albums like Broken and Pretty Hate Machine good reason to shake off our old age torpor. Terrible Lie in particular set the crowd on fire, and tracks like Burn sounded vital and new. Even Hurt, a track I have always considered to be horribly overrated, sounded good, though I had to smile at lines like “I wear my crown of shit/upon my liar’s chair” turned into something you’d hear on football terraces as it was yelled out by thousands of emoting Gen Xers.

Trent’s admission that this would “probably” be their last ever gig in NZ (he’s since announced that NiN will be on indefinite hiatus- also known as System of a down Syndrome) did not go down well with the crowd, and neither did their lack of an encore. Iconoclast that I am, I can live without hearing Closer or Starfuckers Inc. but I felt that With Teeth was under-represented, and despite Head Like a Hole turning into a fist-pumping, screaming advert for raging against the machine, it wasn’t enough.

I’m glad I saw them live at least once, and I’ve never been to a gig where I knew every song played, but I felt slightly short-changed. Not by much, but a little. ]]> EatOrBeEaten https://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/entry.php/638-Nine-Inch-Nails-Vector-Arena-17-02-09 Kiwibiker, how do I love you? https://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/entry.php/633-Kiwibiker-how-do-I-love-you Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:15:25 GMT In a multitude of ways it seems.

The Good: The flood of offers to help fix up the Kwaka after my spill. Lots of guys all wanting to help out, lots of advice on dealing with insurance companies and the like. I'm not one of those cynical twats who thinks that it's by virtue of my feminine nature that's made people want to help out, I am genuinely thrilled at how people here are so keen on bikes and getting people on them :)

The Bad: I'm not sure how it's gone on here in the past but there seems to have been some amount of debate around these parts about who'll I'll end up with, what with being a solvent 20-something female who rides bikes and doesn't have a partner at present. What always amuses me/hacks me off in equal measure is that people I might genuinely be interested in meeting all seem to be the quiet types, and the, erm, not so suitable (for that read young enough to be my students/illiterate/desperate) are all over me (in a figurative sense). To be fair, this is how real life works too, but it's causing a mixture of :argh: , :bash: and :gob: . For the record, I am NOT a hooker (rugby or street), have no interest in becoming one, and I'm not going to have sex with you, at least not without a decent couple of dates and a drink or two.

The Ugly: What's with all the homophobia? I'm not a mega-PC-up-my-own-pomposity type, but come on people, it's 2009. Gay guys probably don't want to fuck you anyway, as they have some level of standards... ]]> EatOrBeEaten https://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/entry.php/633-Kiwibiker-how-do-I-love-you