Ride Sunday 26/6/05 up North - SLOW!!!!

**MagicMarker** · 26th June 2005, 15:47

The weather was great, and it was a great first ride for me although i didn't get to take my fzr250

but it was still great with the cb400

Thanks to feint for organising the ride and here are some photo's from today.

Lunch at macca's

At the scenic lookout

Nice scenery

More bikes

**MagicMarker** · 26th June 2005, 15:49

Posing: Feint, Mad guitarist, Fart, and ATYB

Super dave and gareth D

GSX-r 1000 and super black bird

Who had the yellow gsx-r 1,000 and the rossi replica 600? what are their usernames? NICE bikes! and nice 636's.

**FEINT** · 26th June 2005, 15:56

Originally Posted by MagicMarker

who had the yellow gsx-r 1,000 and the rossi replica 600? what are their usernames? NICE bikes! and nice 636's.

I don't know their usernames. It was nice meeting them though.

What happened to the others that were suppose to join us?

anyways, it was a good ride anyways.!

MOTO GP Tonight!! 11:45 on Channel 5!!!

**2_SL0** · 26th June 2005, 16:33

Feint, is that a new muffler I see. how does it sound?

**SuperDave** · 26th June 2005, 16:41

Awesome ride had a great fun along those twisty roads! Thanks Feint for organising it

I'm gonna give the little beast a nice clean now and then fit my ultra cool lights!

**steved** · 26th June 2005, 16:59

Originally Posted by FEINT

What happened to the others that were suppose to join us?

I've got a great excuse. My car was locked up by Tournament Parking last night and towed this morning. I didn't get home until 11:00am (with a lighter wallet

). Went for a blat out to Kaukapakapa anyway and felt better about things.
It is nice riding with a group. Next weekend Feint?

**bugjuice** · 26th June 2005, 17:06

Originally Posted by Kawagreen

Feint, is that a new muffler I see. how does it sound?

sounds fuckin awesome. I thought the 636s were too quiet. This fixes that. It's not a stupidly loud sound, it's a nice 'race bike' sound of grunt.. sounds nicer than my bike!!
Every 05 636 rider needs one of these cans.. Nice one Feint

**Zed** · 26th June 2005, 17:21

Originally Posted by Kawagreen

Feint, is that a new muffler I see. how does it sound?

Sounds great, but it is a Yoshi remember! Feint let me start his 636 and rev it up in front of the group at Kaukop...there were a few ooo's and aaah's. Excellent delivery time from the States too - a mere 5 days!

**Waylander** · 26th June 2005, 17:22

Nice pics.

Looks like y'all had a great ride and no one wrecked?

Frosty, somehow I always pictured you as looking older... go figure.
Edit: Duh could have just looked in your profile.

**Zed** · 26th June 2005, 17:43

The weather was just too good to miss this ride today so I promptly jumped out of bed this morning and straight onto the bike to meet the crew at Westgate. Was encouraging to see a good number turn up, about 15+ bikes I think?

I felt that everyone rode at 'their own pace' to Wellsford for brunch, with several short stops on the way to re-group at Kaukapakapa and the Kaipara Lookout. After spending about 30 mins eating and chatting we headed back to Auckland the same way we came up. Was good to get home safe & sound by 12.30 pm for an important engagement.

Highlights:
Blue skiies and dry roads!
Madguitarist on his flash new red Daytona!
Loosebruce on his new Gixxer wheelie machine.

Good catching up with you again Bruce.
Mr Cycletreads on his mighty fast ZX-12R. That reflective shark helmet was cool!

I thoroughly enjoyed the ride, and thanks to Feint for the organisation today, keep up the good work mate!

Zed

**Keystone19** · 26th June 2005, 18:16

Thanks for the ride today and for making a newbie feel welcome!

Really enjoyed it and it was great to put faces to names!

**WINJA** · 26th June 2005, 18:17

Originally Posted by tristank

WTF
They have a slow mode!

YUP , LEAVE THEM IN FIRST AND THEY ONLY DO 160 KMH

**MacD** · 26th June 2005, 18:23

Originally Posted by FEINT

Thanks to Crashe for turning up to see us off! MacD, pity you were only running on 3 cylinders.

The curse of the damp RF struck again. Lost cylinder 2 which runs off the lower output from the right-hand side coil. Usually it clears up once the engine is warm, but not this time.

Pulled the tank off, cleaned and dried the coils and associated leads and sure enough #2 fired up again.

I've decided the problem is that there is foam on the inside of the frame, and the coil rests against it. If the foam gets damp/wet then water runs onto the coil, the lowest point of which is where the lead to #2 comes out, shorting it out. The plug chambers were clean and dry.

Took the bike for a test ride up HW16 anyhow this afternoon. Nice weather but it got a bit chilly on the way back!

**v.ros`** · 26th June 2005, 18:25

Feint: Thanx for organising the ride. It was an amazing one and since it was my first - guess its the best one i ever had

MagicMarker: cbr600 was mine. Which bike was you in...?

LooseBruce: mate... those were some amazing wheelies man.....Respekt !! (you gotta teach me how to do those....)

Everyone else: thanx for the great ride....the ride wasnt THAT slow... i mean it was like everyone was going at their own pace... some were mighty fast..

Can someone tell me who was the one in the fxr150... damn that guy literally was raping his machine... nice riding mate. didnt know the 150 could go that much...

Cheers