Hiace bike ramp

[pkplex]

Cheers for the help guys, I ended up getting the one from Repco.

I took two of the seats out ( leaving a swively solo one ), and used the from passenger seatbealt thing as a tiedown point ( around the bolt which protrudes out a bit ), and under the drivers seat rail gizmo.. it looked reasonably solid.

And at the back I used the bolts that held the rear seat on as tie down points to tie the back of the bike down. It seems quite solid, all be it a wee bit bodgy.

Almost got stuck pushing it up though, for some reason the rear wheel really did not want to come over the last part of the ramp, and that happened to be the awkward part where I needed to step into the van from off the ground, so a number of wobbly grunts were required

If it falls over during transit, then it's all your guy's fault, though.

Cheers

[Gremlin]

Some use two ramps, one for the bike and one for yourself. Otherwise, if the step up is a bit high for you, consider using some sort of step, upside down bucket etc

[Tazz]

If it falls over during transit, then it's all your guy's fault, though.

I'm dissolving KB of any liability by suggesting these

[pkplex]

No dramas during the trip.

I few thoughts / notes though;

I traveled behind a truck for about 100km. Even when I could pass him, l pulled over and hung behind him ( or the politically correct potential her ) and let all the other cars pass. It was quite relaxing, staying 50 to 100m behind the truck was quite cool, they set a pretty good pace, and you get to learn the roads a bit by watching how they take the corners. They are pretty good drivers. I will get around to installing an antenna into the van soon, so I can use the 26Mhz CB to listen to and talk to the trucks driving to and fro along the way ( I origionally planned on doing this for my bike as well ). Should be usefull for sussing out where the cops, traffic jams, etc are ahead of time.

On the ferry ride I was watching people walk while the boat was swaing around. Then I thought that perhaps sailors could drink more booze and remain upright because they are used to walking like a drunkard on unstable ships.

There was a truck driver driving from wellington who had a fetish for climbing right up the arse of the next vehicle. Like, a few meteres at 100km hr. I saw some tiny wee hatch back being dwarfed by the truck as I overtook them. Later on, said truck started doing the same thing to me, complete with outrageously high low beams. So then it turned into a try and escape the truck without breaking the speed limit, which was kind of cool.

My hiace's lights are _shit_. Very very dim, so much so that the previous owner should have given me a bag of carrots with the purchace. And also, Unsure if it was a dirty windscreen ( it was cleaned not a week prior ), or if its just the angle of the windscreen, but oncoming cars seemed to blind the shit out of me. Like, 'what the fuck, I can barely see the cats eyes and road markers let alone the actual road' type of deal. Perhaps some better lights will help this, but it was pretty outrageous.

Four wheels are fat. I have not driven four wheels for any reasonable distance for some time.. I kept on forgetting that I cant just slip through that gap, overtake that guy, drive straight through those particular twisties, etc.

[pkplex]

Oh, and motorbikes. I check my mirrors often, and do head checks when moving lanes, but fuck me, a couple of times a bike appeared from what seemed to be nowhere. Not while I was changing lanes, but what looked like a clear road behind me, on two occasions contained a motorbike, which only became apparent when I saw a light in my right hand mirror as they went to pass me.

Oh, and camper van assholes who never pull over despite ample opportunies to relieve the worlds longest queue behind them.. well, they are assholes.

[Tazz]

My hiace's lights are _shit_. Very very dim, so much so that the previous owner should have given me a bag of carrots with the purchace. And also, Unsure if it was a dirty windscreen ( it was cleaned not a week prior ), or if its just the angle of the windscreen, but oncoming cars seemed to blind the shit out of me. Like, 'what the fuck, I can barely see the cats eyes and road markers let alone the actual road' type of deal. Perhaps some better lights will help this, but it was pretty outrageous.

Pull em out, wash em out with some of that Dynamo stuff or anything that is non aggressive on the lens, dry em in the oven (not at 200 degrees ) and throw some better bulbs in em. If they are the mostly standard H4's you have heaps of options (I used to use truckstar ones but I don't know if they come in 12v).

In the unlikely scenario they are sealed units, bin em and get some semi sealed.

The only thing worse than having lights so shit that when you're dipped with traffic coming towards you the only part of the road you can navigate from is the white line to your left, is being on a narrow road with no white line in the same situation

Good luck!

[pkplex]

So i go to get a wof, and pow, quite a bad brake imbalance.

Go to pit stop to get them to have a geeze. And the bearing seal whatsit had shat it's self, and pissed oil into the brake drum.

So a bearing, a seal, a machine, new brake pads and what not, and $650 ish later, wof passed. And then RUC.. damn. $120 ish for the priviledge of moving 2000 km.

Fucking vehicles. I knew two extra wheels was a bad idea.

[Gremlin]

So a bearing, a seal, a machine, new brake pads and what not, and $650 ish later, wof passed. And then RUC.. damn. $120 ish for the priviledge of moving 2000 km.

Fucking vehicles. I knew two extra wheels was a bad idea.

Handy to move your bikes tho, or mates. Just had mine back from a customary service upon buying (you never know what the previous owners have done). $1500 later, and engine oil, both diff oils, transfer case, transmission flush, wheels rotated and aligned etc etc...

Then again, just got the Hornet back from service as well, new front discs, pads all round, chain and sprockets... $1400 later. Any number of wheels will cost...