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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    Considering the traditional recipe for cooking pukeko you could count yourself lucky.

    For the benefit of city dwellers:
    Place the pukeko in a pot with water and a large rock.
    Boil for sevearl hours then throw away the pukeko and eat the rock.
    You can also keep the water, and add some soil and gravel to make a tasty sauce to go along with it.

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    None on test rides, but:

    - stones to shoulders (the soft fleshy area before the shoulder armour) from oncoming vehicles and mates ahead of me
    - stones to knees/thighs
    - pukeko to front of bike, broke indicator and thumped into headlight, solid buggers but headlight took it (indicator still taped up several years later)
    - bee somehow got down my collar, that stung (har har)
    - rabbit to foot which bent my sunburnt foot under the peg (inside the boot obviously)... that friggen hurt, the little bastard (and I'd tried to avoid)
    - some bird flew across in front of me, feathers of wing suddenly in the bottom of my helmet, then slid off to the side. Mate following said he saw bird fly in and then *poof* an explosion of feathers.
    - duck waddled out into the road, when I was pillioning an injured mate on his own sportsbike. I was doing 30-40kph, I swore the duck would move... it didn't. I ran it over doing about 10kph, and my mate swore we were going to crash. We didn't, but there was a feather or two stuck between the rim and tyre
    - hit countless rabbits one night in rural Otago, as they were all over the road, running in every direction. Oh, also hares. I'd started aiming for them (because I was hitting so many) but upon sighting the first hare promised I was trying to avoid them. Then I hit one (not sure what it was, happened too fast) while cornering on a left hander, which sent me into the oncoming from the bounce...

    Ah... wildlife
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swoop View Post
    Nice work! How did you cook it?
    On the basis that revenge is a dish best served with a white wine sauce, I went looking for it on the way back out from the beach, but it'd bounced into the undergrowth, never to be seen again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gremlin View Post
    None on test rides, but: Ah... wildlife
    Well, ah.. technically, they're ferals.. regarding which..

    A ride with a few mates on a particularly nadgery bit of farm service road the other day..
    a bloody stupid golden lab came out to play.. & pursued the rider in front of me..
    .. I just missed.. putting my right boot fairly.. into his fat arse.. by mere cm, since he dodged out of the way at the last moment..
    ..he still went A-over-T into the ditch at a good clip though, that'll bloody teach the bitch.. to play silly buggers like that..

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldrider View Post
    When they say Italian steeds pull the birds - I think they mean something else - you need to work on that a bit I think!
    Hmmmmm - it did have very long legs!

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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    Considering the traditional recipe for cooking pukeko you could count yourself lucky.

    For the benefit of city dwellers:
    Place the pukeko in a pot with water and a large rock.
    Boil for sevearl hours then throw away the pukeko and eat the rock.
    Actually ... Stewed Pukeko (I shit you not!)

    Ingedients: bacon - thinly sliced, pukeko cut into pieces, chopped onion, thyme, salt and pepper, 2 cups of water, grated rind and juice of 1/2 a lemon.

    Method Put bacon in casserole. Add pukeko, onion, thyme, salt and pepper and the water. Slowly cook for several hours. Take out the bird, thicken the gravy a little and add lemon rind and juice. Serve with mashed potatoes.

    This recipe is from the Aunt Daisy Cookbook. For the benefit of yunguns (and immigrants) she lived from 1879 to 1963. Apart from her cookbook, she was famous for her welcome on her radio show "good morning, good morning, good morning" but particularly famous for one morning adding to her usual " good morning, good morning, good morning " - "what a wonderful morning it is this morning, the sun is shining right up my back passage".
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    Bacon makes everything better. I shall carry a packet of Bacon on my next test ride - life will be better.

    The rawness of the Italian one surprised me - after the sophistication of the IL4 Honda, it felt somewhat untamed waiting to be released (alas the Pukeko stopped that!). Now this is not a bad thing as I am looking for a change. Even the starting process turned over slower than the instant varoom I am used to. Good, Bad? just different from the past eight years utter instant fully guaranteed reliability.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AllanB View Post
    Bacon makes everything better. I shall carry a packet of Bacon on my next test ride - life will be better.
    True!

    Quote Originally Posted by AllanB View Post
    The rawness of the Italian one surprised me ... it felt somewhat untamed waiting to be released (alas the Pukeko stopped that!). .
    You sure the truth isn't that the bike attacked and killed the pukeko?
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    Quote Originally Posted by AllanB View Post

    The rawness of the Italian one surprised me - after the sophistication of the IL4 Honda, it felt somewhat untamed waiting to be released (alas the Pukeko stopped that!). Now this is not a bad thing as I am looking for a change. Even the starting process turned over slower than the instant varoom I am used to. Good, Bad? just different from the past eight years utter instant fully guaranteed reliability.
    Hey.. you aint really writing "Ashley Maddison" - in code here - are ya fella? Nah, nah, course not, that'd never happen.. would it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oakie View Post
    True!

    You sure the truth isn't that the bike attacked and killed the pukeko?
    Good point. Chances are the Pukeko's family are on some NZ Bird forum this evening telling stories of horror of this beast attacking their loved one.

    They do not appear to have any spacial awareness - they are common around here and roam the edges of the road - WTF there are paddocks only a few meters away. Birds - like their human namesakes cannot be understood!

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    Quote Originally Posted by J.A.W. View Post
    Hey.. you aint really writing "Ashley Maddison" - in code here - are ya fella? Nah, nah, course not, that'd never happen.. would it?
    I'm looking for a new career as well as motorcycle - creative writing or advertising blurbs maybe?

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    Quote Originally Posted by AllanB View Post
    Good point. Chances are the Pukeko's family are on some NZ Bird forum this evening telling stories of horror of this beast attacking their loved one.

    They do not appear to have any spacial awareness - they are common around here and roam the edges of the road - WTF there are paddocks only a few meters away. Birds - like their human namesakes cannot be understood!
    True. I'm always keeping an eye out on my commute (top part of ANZAC Drive) but they do seem to keep just of the road most of the time.
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    I would almost bet that very few here have ever collected a Mynah (bird that is, not the car). They have the meanest sidestep of any bird.
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    awa raise ya 2 blackbirds and a kamakazie duck left for the locals to eat
    and a cockroach appeared on my face during one ride LOL

    only thing broke on the bike was the chrome got a little discoloured.

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