Got a VFR but don't know if its worth bringing to NZ

[Wolf]

Born and bred in Cornwall and family goes back to when wolf's ancestors left.

I'm really a mining engineer even spent a time down the tin mines before they all closed up so went tunnelling instead and ended up in construction - life history - so your right i'm a celt and one in mining. Probably why wolf's ancestors left same problem tin price crashed!

Ah, "Ngati Keltoi". Dumnonii forever. And a miner to boot. My ancestors ran the smithy in Penpillick - I had to get the reaaaaallllly large-scale maps at the University to find it. Far enough inland that our family couldn't participate in that great Kermow tradition... shifting the lamps to lure ships onto the rocks.

My ancestor Josias died 6 months after he and his family arrived in NZ - drowned off the coast of Petone helping people escape a stricken ship. Trouble is, you say a Cornishman was helping people in a shipwreck and all you get is disbelieving stares or "Yeah, sure, helped them have one, you mean."

[James Deuce]

Good reply jim.

I appreciate what you say but I was surprised to get caught . :slap:

You say they do not 'run' speed cameras . What do you mean there aren't any or they just use car cameras? I didn't see many fixed cameras except on auckland bridge. or perhaps i'm just b

olleyes:

The speed cameras are run by private contractors on behalf of the Police. The Police use Laser and Radar technology from Highway Patrol vehicles. We corporatise facism here

There have been cases of collection agents being despatched to the UK to retrieve outstanding fines, though I think that's stopped now.

Looking forward to yet another "Brit" (sorry - best single word to describe the mix of races that inhabit such a small place) moving here.

[Zed]

Found it through google trying to find out bike prices in NZ

Shows internet marketing/advertising works!

No I don't want to straighten any roads - just mendim and possibly make some more

Oops, totally misunderstood you there mate, I thought you were being humourous?

buy something new in NZ for daily riding and a cheap crosser for the outback.

There are plenty of good bikes down here to choose from (as you have probably found out over the Net), but nothing like going into the shops and taking them for a test ride, which you can do easily in NZ!

Which NZ city/town are you coming to btw?

On a differnet note can you just grab a crosser/trials and wander off in to the outback out there or is there a lot of oposition from the greenies?
Are ther any enduro/trials stuff out there like our ' london to lands end trials' i.e timed trials bit of road work and the odd section ( hill climb etc)?

I believe you can. The best possible way of finding out specific details is to start a new thread in the "Off Road" forums! Sounds like fun though, I must get out and do it sometime. I've ridden off-road bikes through forrests before but never on a decent tour down country!

[Wolf]

Actually, if Mr ANDIES were descended from Coeur de Lion he wouldn't be English, he'd be one of they Norman bastidges.

I know, I was going all out to be as unCeltic as possible - from a Saxon territory and a Norman to boot. (We get to boot Normans? Where do I sign up?)

I've got LiasTZ's address if you wanna send that gunboat - he wants to remove the Southern Cross and go back to the Union Flag owng to the sun not setting on the "British" Empire...

Hell, I'll supply the shells - 40mm Bofors?

[Ixion]

I know, I was going all out to be as unCeltic as possible - from a Saxon territory and a Norman to boot. (We get to boot Normans? Where do I sign up?)

I've got LiasTZ's address if you wanna send that gunboat - he wants to remove the Southern Cross and go back to the Union Flag owng to the sun not setting on the "British" Empire...

Hell, I'll supply the shells - 40mm Bofors?

I'll sign up for that . And you can keep your dem'n Continental guns. Armstrongs will do for me.

[RiderInBlack]

I'm not up on VFR's but I do know theres some models that have issues and some that are very sought after.

It's hard to get a good VFR750 between 90 and 95 in NZ. They hold their price well but are not common here (so replacement fairrings are hard to come by). I could not find one to replace the 1990 VFR750 I trash last year (ended up with the CBR I've got now as they are must more common here).