Chch Weds Maintenance Evenings 2010

**KiwiPhoenix** · 2nd July 2010, 08:52

If only she knew!

**Kezz** · 3rd July 2010, 17:02

Hey all

Since I'm quite new to this whole two wheels thing, I may come along to the next night for some education on how not to kill my bike! Can we just roll on up, or do we need to know the password to whisper to the guard at the gate?

Cheers!

**KiwiPhoenix** · 3rd July 2010, 19:19

Originally Posted by Kezz

Hey all

Since I'm quite new to this whole two wheels thing, I may come along to the next night for some education on how not to kill my bike! Can we just roll on up, or do we need to know the password to whisper to the guard at the gate?

Cheers!

Just roll on up! Will be good to meet you!

**Peeteey** · 4th July 2010, 01:26

Originally Posted by Kezz

Hey all

Since I'm quite new to this whole two wheels thing, I may come along to the next night for some education on how not to kill my bike! Can we just roll on up, or do we need to know the password to whisper to the guard at the gate?

Cheers!

Yes, the password is "I've brought drinks and food for all!" to which the guard and everyone else with think you're the dog's bollocks and welcome you warmly. Alternatively you could just turn up and have a good chinwag like the rest of us.

**Peeteey** · 4th July 2010, 03:23

WOOP!

**helenoftroy** · 4th July 2010, 05:35

Originally Posted by Peeteey

WOOP!

Nice looking bike!

Look forward to seeing it in the flesh when we go riding this avo

**Shadowjack** · 4th July 2010, 09:35

Originally Posted by Peeteey

WOOP!

Um, attaching the photo kinda gives the answer to your question away.
But that looks to be the business, big tank(?) and all!
Lettuce snow how it goes!

**gloplg** · 4th July 2010, 20:13

Originally Posted by Peeteey

WOOP!

Hey Pete........................ How long before you can get it looking like a christmas tree??????

Nice looking bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**Transalper** · 4th July 2010, 21:08

Not sure about looking like a Christmas tree, but it turned a murky brown camouflage colour today.
Should have taken my camera along.

**Peeteey** · 4th July 2010, 22:46

Originally Posted by helenoftroy

Nice looking bike!

Look forward to seeing it in the flesh when we go riding this avo

That was good fun! I think the only thing that stopped the mud getting in my ears was all the sweat that got there first!

Hoo-ee I'm going to be sore tomorrow!

Hope Sam's doing OK, he seemed almost as nackered as me! He was going a bit of a red colour for a while there, poor bugger. Man his bike sounds delicious tho! Wow!

Originally Posted by Shadowjack

Um, attaching the photo kinda gives the answer to your question away.
But that looks to be the business, big tank(?) and all!
Lettuce snow how it goes!

When I saw that photo I thought it had a big tank too but no, it's just the angle. It has the standard 9L tank. That will however take it close to 190 before needing reserve (apparently but with the way I ride I can pretty much halve that!)
Speaking of Lettuces and snow, I did take it for a lap round the house yesterday and may have, inadvertently, gone thru the garden ...

Originally Posted by gloplg

Hey Pete........................ How long before you can get it looking like a christmas tree??????

Nice looking bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hee hee, my mind is already devising plans! Not really, just one small LED so I can see the speedo at night ... Then again, it doesn't really go fast enough to warrant having a speedo

Originally Posted by Transalper

Not sure about looking like a Christmas tree, but it turned a murky brown camouflage colour today.
Should have taken my camera along.

Yea, that would have been cool. However I think I got enough footage for all of us combined. It was rolling from when you got your bike out of the van until I got home! What's that, 3 hours-ish?

Not bad on battery power it seems!

I'm glad your bike had a light on it, sometimes it was the only way we could see where you had gone. What's the wee mythical creature, a small light that leads weary travellers off the path? That was you today, tho I don't think many old time travellers would have been quite as happy to follow

Thanks for waiting for us along the way and all your help and advice, I'm still grinning.

I was happy to feel that some of the old memories of how to ride off road were still there but man, absolutely none of the old muscles were there! Bit of a shock to the otherwise apathetic system

Holy crapballs, did I mention how sore I'm going to be tomorrow?

**helenoftroy** · 5th July 2010, 00:36

Originally Posted by Peeteey

That was good fun! I think the only thing that stopped the mud getting in my ears was all the sweat that got there first!

Hoo-ee I'm going to be sore tomorrow!

Hope Sam's doing OK, he seemed almost as nackered as me! He was going a bit of a red colour for a while there, poor bugger. Man his bike sounds delicious tho! Wow!
Thanks for waiting for us along the way and all your help and advice, I'm still grinning.
I was happy to feel that some of the old memories of how to ride off road were still there but man, absolutely none of the old muscles were there! Bit of a shock to the otherwise apathetic system

Holy crapballs, did I mention how sore I'm going to be tomorrow?

Transalper,Peetey,Sam & I spent a few hours out at McLeans Island Sunday avo

Awesome for me to be out riding 3rd day in a row...magic!Worked a night shift Saturday & back at work
now so only had 4 hrs sleep before we headed out,I left the guys to the more technical stuff....

Sams was absolutely stuffed!!

the 10-15 mins kicking the beast after he'd dropped her was the killer

Lots of happy smiley faces and muddy muddy bikes & riders

**Peeteey** · 5th July 2010, 03:05

Originally Posted by helenoftroy

Sams was absolutely stuffed!!

the 10-15 mins kicking the beast after he'd dropped her was the killer

Lots of happy smiley faces and muddy muddy bikes & riders

I bet he was! Poor bugger. I saw today why people said "for that kind of stuff, get an electric start!" and I agree too ...

At least we'll have very muscular right legs!

And yep, I'm still grinning tho some of that could be attributed to the lack of sleep

That was a cold, cold ride home afterwards.

Getting stuck in deep, cold, muddy water is not recommended before a long and quick road ride!

**Peeteey** · 5th July 2010, 03:09

Originally Posted by helenoftroy

Lots of happy smiley faces and muddy muddy bikes & riders

Video is on its way up ... should be there tomorrow after lunch ...

**helenoftroy** · 5th July 2010, 03:22

Originally Posted by Peeteey

I bet he was! Poor bugger. I saw today why people said "for that kind of stuff, get an electric start!" and I agree too ...

At least we'll have very muscular right legs!

And yep, I'm still grinning tho some of that could be attributed to the lack of sleep

That was a cold, cold ride home afterwards.

Getting stuck in deep, cold, muddy water is not recommended before a long and quick road ride!

I let Sam have first shower....

You were the wettest I think!

Originally Posted by Peeteey

Video is on its way up ... should be there tomorrow after lunch ...

Awesome!