Another great reason for being a member of Kiwi Biker

[vifferman]

LOL...I blame Viff cos he said it was okay to park there!!

True. As in 'true confessions' (see my previous post).
If we'd known Nod had the coffee on, we could've stopped in to see him.
Mind you, if he was more neighbourly, he would've brought it over, and saved us the trip.

[Blackbird]

Just send the ticket to me - it was my idea. Do I PM you my address for the ticket, or will you look it up from my rego plate? :spudwhat:

What is it with you and public confessions Ian??? Look mate, resign from the IT industry this very minute. I think you have a calling as a Jesuit priest. The self-flaggelation will be particularly appealing and NodMan will be satisfied that you have truly repented for parking in a BAD PLACE.

[vifferman]

What is it with you and public confessions Ian???

Hang on a minute - I think I was confused.

Ummmm...
Well, on Saturday, I was out for a ride, earlyish, before the traffic got too heavy and all the morons got up. Riding past the coffee place to the north end of the bridge, I saw what looked like a bike broken down, and some poor biker looking very sorrowful because he hadn't bought a VFR. So, being a most kindly and helpful sort of bloke, I stopped, lent him my hanky to cry into, while I fixed his bike. While doing this, I noticed the people at the coffee shop across the road were watching us via their CCTV, but seemed to be most reluctant to help us or bring us a heart-warming coffee to ward off the bone-numbing chill of the early-morning hours.

So, I helped my fellow traveller, who by chance I happened to actually know, to fix his stealthy black machine. It seemed that the hydrocillator had become dislodged from the jarring of the front wheel repeatedly dropping onto the road from a height of a metre or so, and had misaligned the muffler bearing and caused a leak in the blinker fluid reservoir.That done, we were soon on our way, being very careful to obserrve all the road rules, especially those regarding committing murder by exceeding the posted speed limits.

Is that betterer?

[Ixion]

LOL...I blame Viff cos he said it was okay to park there!!

Hm. Depending on where exactly you was, and if they ever updated the boundaries, it may actually have been. Little known fact is that the extreme edgey bit of that edgy bit is not actually part of the harbour bridge roady thing.

Years ago when the bridge and its roady bits was being built, someone objected cos there used to be a little beach down there. And cos the public wanted still to have access to the foreshore. Mum and Dad used to take me down there to paddle before the bridge was built. My grandmother lived across the road.

As a result the bridge roady bit did not include a little bit of land at the extreme edge, and there used to be (may be still, dunno , must go look) an underpass tunnel , which , although mainly used by the toll booth thingies, was legally a public right of way so that said public could get to the little edgy bit, and thus the foreshore . EDIT: It was possible to ride a trailbike through the tunnel, provided you could cope with the steps at the far end. We did too.

The little edgy bit seems now to have been sealed over, but I think it would be the bit behind the shed thingy.


When it was the Harbour Bridge Authority, they used to have a very good workshop there, and if you broke down on the bridge, you could coast all the way down and pull into it and they were very good about letting people use the workshop to fix their bikes!. Availed m'self of it several times.

I spent half an hour behind the shed fixing Li'l Ratty's electrics a few months back when he fizzeled his wotchmacallits. If I'd known Mr Nodman hung out there I'd have rousted him out to lend a hand. Public assistance and all that, good PR, dontcha know.

[Blackbird]

Is that betterer?

You're a star - well done. With all those porkies, you'd make a good politician, although you might still make it as a Catholic priest.

Now watch all those negative rep points start flying.

[Zed]

You're a star - well done. With all those porkies, you'd make a good politician, although you might still make it as a Catholic priest.

Now watch all those negative rep points start flying.

Hey guys, while we are on the subject of places not to park, did anyone notice that "N.P - For vehicles with trailers" sign erected right in front of our bike lineup in that pic I posted from Whitianga?

Here's the pic that Mac took from a similar angle, except there's an extra vehicle in the shot!

[Blackbird]

Hey guys, while we are on the subject of places not to park, did anyone notice that "N.P - For vehicles with trailers" sign erected right in front of our bike lineup in that pic I posted from Whitianga?

Here's the pic that Mac took from a similar angle, except there's an extra vehicle in the shot!

I chose to interpret it as vehicles with trailers were banned. It was a bit skinny unless you wanted the trailer sticking out in the road, and not big enough for more than a couple edge-on. Who cares anyway, Blackbird riders can do ANYTHING

[vifferman]

I think we'd best ask Mr NodMan what he thinks, and did he have a camera in the coffee place acrosss the road? We had several. Plus a member of the constabulary making sure we were well behaved and that sort of thing.

Come to think of it - I reckon it was BykeyCop's idea to park there...

[Blackbird]

Come to think of it - I reckon it was BykeyCop's idea to park there...

Way to go Viff - no sign of Mea Culpa and blaming the wrong person - love it!

Umm, you can blame it on that ignorant hick from Tokoroa if you really like, we don't even have traffic lights

[marty]

Yeah, they're not called Bluebirds are they, might have trouble selling even one of those.

imagaine how much fun it would be, riding a bluebird in tuxedo coloured leathers!!

[Blackbird]

Here you go Matthew - a dusk shot to complement your dawn one. I took this on the Kapiti Coast on the way to the Southern Cross (at a guess, only a few hundred metres from Mangell6's new house )

Geoff

[Zed]

Here you go Matthew - a dusk shot to complement your dawn one. I took this on the Kapiti Coast on the way to the Southern Cross...

Nice! No digital imagery or computer graphics can ever surpass the beauty of the natural sunrise or sunset!