Chch Wednesday Night Cruises 2009-10

**cruza** · 11th February 2010, 16:45

Originally Posted by Retroqueen

Love that new bike mr cruza!!!!!!

Yeah I'm in love too, Bit stiff on the bike last night , loosened up by old taitapu road, working the trust and confidence in it up , Going to be a hell of a weapon . very very smooth. You need a tyre for march hare? or you sorted?

**cruza** · 11th February 2010, 16:55

Originally Posted by helenoftroy

brp I love you! you let me ride your bike!

I apologize for any hoonish behaviour last night -I blame it all on the XR!!!

Well! -I enjoyed the ride,but Im sure no-one noticed....

Kinda nice to have a smaller group

Cruza - nice nice bike buddy

Yes great bikes the xr600 and xr650, Done alot of hoonish miles on both. There are a few xr650 aircooled bikes round HOT that had electric start, noticed your aerobatics on the foot cranker

And yes I sold mine.......... dumb move , but had just brought a 4wd at the time , and didn't get used much.

**E Ashmore** · 11th February 2010, 18:15

Originally Posted by KiwiPhoenix

Duvauchelles is good for me! I did promise a certain young lad that I would do this ride, so are you coming along Mr E??

No worries Gloplg, glad I could help. I just hope BikeeChick didn't mind my riding all over the place!!

Peetey, the guy on the Black BMW with the fancy wee lights??

Well done to BikeeChick and Pam for coming along and doing their first Wed night ride! Hope to see you ladies there next week!!??

well if your going to be going to duva then i guess il have to come, shall i follow your or you follow me?

as long as i can scrounge enough for a tank of petrol i'l be there

**Subike** · 11th February 2010, 18:18

Sonds like a plan for me too,
Now for the choice,
XSessive or Pocket Change
which beasty shall I bring
I promise to behave myself a little more on either one.....not

**KiwiPhoenix** · 11th February 2010, 18:32

Originally Posted by E Ashmore

well if your going to be going to duva then i guess il have to come, shall i follow your or you follow me?

as long as i can scrounge enough for a tank of petrol i'l be there

You can follow me from Little River, no way I'll keep up with you till then! Now be warned I'm still pretty crap on downhill corners!! So go easy on this young grasshopper!

**cruza** · 11th February 2010, 18:41

Originally Posted by Subike

Sonds like a plan for me too,
Now for the choice,
XSessive or Pocket Change
which beasty shall I bring
I promise to behave myself a little more on either one.....not

Both stand out....haven't seen ya custom one for a while

**cruza** · 11th February 2010, 18:43

Originally Posted by KiwiPhoenix

You can follow me from Little River, no way I'll keep up with you till then! Now be warned I'm still pretty crap on downhill corners!! So go easy on this young grasshopper!

You getting alot better KP ....practise practise practise

**KiwiPhoenix** · 11th February 2010, 18:45

Originally Posted by cruza

You getting alot better KP ....practise practise practise

Thank you for saying! I do feel more confident on the corners, but like you say will just have to keep practicing!

**Peeteey** · 11th February 2010, 19:06

Originally Posted by gloplg

Looks good Pete. The only part I take exception to is being a "cheeky bugger" you lot slowed down to 20k the speed limit was 50k what is a man to do?????

You're born to ride motox I reckon, most people slow down for the dirt stuff!

**Peeteey** · 11th February 2010, 19:11

Originally Posted by ScottChappell

We will have to try and get a camera going on mine for the Duvauchelles ride next week cause it's such a good one! How do your other cameras work? Mounted on the tank or...

They can clamp onto just about anything that sticks out a bit. I used to put them on the handlebars or mirror mount or some such. We'll just get creative

I have two cameras that people can mount. Sammcj, want the other?
Problem is I only have one SD card. It'll take up to a 2gb, no more. They're old hat!

**KiwiPhoenix** · 11th February 2010, 19:14

Gloplg, you are a cheeky bugger!!!

I slowed down as I hate gravel, I haven't had that much experience with it so was being pretty cautious!

**Flip** · 11th February 2010, 19:17

Hi

Peeteey thanks for posting the vids.

P_

**Subike** · 11th February 2010, 19:18

That little patch of loose shingle on the Scargill Valley rd last week was sort of a non event.
I know that Flip was wise to slow down because of his belt Drive,
But, well, umm, it was just shingle ............
I guess that riding road bikes on shingle roads is not something a lot of you guys get to do.
Just relax and enjoy the feel of your machine dancing under you,
Its sort of hard to put into words the way to ride on shingle or grass with street tyres on a heavy bike,
but once you get the confidence to do so, it can become a lot of fun,
its just a different style of riding you have to adapt to.
I;m sure there are some amoung us, like myself, who rode shingle roads many years ago before the advent of modern machinery that can only really perform on sealed surfaces.