Low personal B.M.E.P.
You own an MZ and a Trabant - and live in Wellington. Damm lucky not have been expelled as an undeclared Russian agent....
Are there any "mens sheds" in a suburb handy to you ? If the wife has her way, that's probably what i'll be reduced to in a few years....
Bored Room
Check out the Vintage Car Club in Wellington. The Auckland one has a workshop with a sheet metal folder and other useful tools. I can go there once a F/N when its open, probably could get key if I needed it.......and......and...they have a bar with beer for just over cost, however not of the standard of the Te Aro valley
I restored a 1959 Triumph T110 in a conservatory in Clapham London in the early 90's, had to dress up in ex Nato gear to keep warm.
Its sitting on shelves in the shed now
I recall in my 1990 elefantreffen trip I rode my BMW sidecar up to what was then Karl Marx Stadt to stay at a guys place I met in Hungary.
There were MZ's, Trabbies and other weird and wonderful stuff everywhere. The place ran on coal and gas and was like being on the set of WW2 movie. It was freezing and the BMW would not start, he got his mate to tow start it with a Trabant, rode back to Blighty in the snow and never went on winter rally ever again.....other than the 1993 Brass Monkey and the cold kiwi where my mate who was learning to ride the outfit ran it off the road on the Rarimu Spiral.
In a fit of Austalgia I bought a ETZ 250 that would not select 3rd, got it running for a test ride, did the numbers and put on TM.
Good luck.
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L-Plate Rider
Looks like I might be sorted, found a place on oldschool.co.nz....
you do ready seem to want to push this extreme option of moving house at huge expense... and all I want is to find a garage to do some work in....Originally Posted by sidecar bob
Also I like those artsy types and drinking expensive beers in the company of others....
Trust me the russians wouldn't want to be seen dead driving a Trabant... they left those horrible cars for the east germans to make and drive... MZ's are actually not bad though...
Hahaha awesome.. thanks for that I'll have to check them out...Check out the Vintage Car Club in Wellington. The Auckland one has a workshop with a sheet metal folder and other useful tools. I can go there once a F/N when its open, probably could get key if I needed it.......and......and...they have a bar with beer for just over cost, however not of the standard of the Te Aro valley
I restored a 1959 Triumph T110 in a conservatory in Clapham London in the early 90's, had to dress up in ex Nato gear to keep warm.
Its sitting on shelves in the shed now
I recall in my 1990 elefantreffen trip I rode my BMW sidecar up to what was then Karl Marx Stadt to stay at a guys place I met in Hungary.
There were MZ's, Trabbies and other weird and wonderful stuff everywhere. The place ran on coal and gas and was like being on the set of WW2 movie. It was freezing and the BMW would not start, he got his mate to tow start it with a Trabant, rode back to Blighty in the snow and never went on winter rally ever again.....other than the 1993 Brass Monkey and the cold kiwi where my mate who was learning to ride the outfit ran it off the road on the Rarimu Spiral.
In a fit of Austalgia I bought a ETZ 250 that would not select 3rd, got it running for a test ride, did the numbers and put on TM.
Good luck.
Forum whore
Rent a house, if you can call a place with nowhere to work on a bike a house, rent further premises far away from comfort of own place, spouse & comforts of home to perform hobby.
Add two rents together, plus inconvenience of not being able to nip out to the shed for a quick tinker, add fuel to & fro second premise, add another insurance policy, add another power bill. Factor in lack of security, or a monitored alarm because not having said toys under your roof at night. Yeah nah, you're right. Far cheaper your way.
Bored Room
Rent a house in Wellington..... you make it sound so easy as in the olden days.
Don't forget to add, by forgoing smashed avocado on toast, flat whites, $12-14 a glass Hopped Sour beer and Sky TV he could have his own house paid off in no time.....
DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.
Forum whore
Don't you start. I had the misfortune of parking on your awesome "motorway" for over an hour each way from Barry's Point Rd in the beating hot sun on a bike yesterday.Rent a house in Wellington..... you make it sound so easy as in the olden days.
Don't forget to add, by forgoing smashed avocado on toast, flat whites, $12-14 a glass Hopped Sour beer and Sky TV he could have his own house paid off in no time.....
Cool carpark bro.
Bored Room
Why would you do that to yourself.
They are trying to make it better but the previous govt left the door wide open and no one goes to AU any more.
The pub at the Viaduct where I sometimes work from has over 15 craft beers on tap, and great restaurants so reluctant to move just yet.
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Forum whore
So everyone can sit around wistfully discussing the fruity hint of oats that have been through the horse, with the slightest aftertaste human fecal coliforms?
It's a bit like the story of the king who had no clothes. The sooner someone fronts up & says it tastes like shit, out loud, the sooner they can get back to stocking Heineken.
Forum whore
fuck i thought you were gonna say steinlager, or as it's known as here, bulimia in a bottle
Forum whore
if thats what turns you on thats fine but i like having the choice of different brews.Sometimes i enjoy a heineken too.
Bored Room
On one trip to Munich in 1992 in the trusty BMW sidecar went around Spaten, Hacker-Pschorr, Hofbrauhaus, Paulaner and lowenbrau. I have a great set of beer glasses, much like you now get here.
Lowenbrau put on a tour and a spread in the boardroom afterwards.
Beerfest is a good event to go to once in your life.
Passed on going to the Heineken Factory ( would hardly call it a brewery) in Amsterdam.
Wellington has some great brew pubs, you should call in and try one, you probably don't need a Puns N Goses
But as the guy at one winery once said, " If your happy with $5 wine thats good too"
DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.
L-Plate Rider
München beer tour on a BMW, sounds perfect...though I would rather be in the sidecar drinking then having to be in control and missing out on drinking lots of everything..On one trip to Munich in 1992 in the trusty BMW sidecar went around Spaten, Hacker-Pschorr, Hofbrauhaus, Paulaner and lowenbrau. I have a great set of beer glasses, much like you now get here.
Lowenbrau put on a tour and a spread in the boardroom afterwards.
Beerfest is a good event to go to once in your life.
Passed on going to the Heineken Factory ( would hardly call it a brewery) in Amsterdam.
Wellington has some great brew pubs, you should call in and try one, you probably don't need a Puns N Goses
But as the guy at one winery once said, " If your happy with $5 wine thats good too"
Puns N Goses... good choice, had one on Monday at F&B... Not that F&B is my favourite brewer or bar, but it is my closest (approx 20m door to door)
Forum whore
Hmm I am quite partial to the craft beer or less mainstream brewers. I'll have a Panhead Supercharger over one of the global greats any day. There is a local brewery that makes some really good beer - and they will fill up a rigger
Bored Room
The BMW was parked up, Munich has great public transport.
DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.
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Huh????????????????????
There's no such thing as "sitting in traffic" on a bike.
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