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Gidday to you too!
Yep, got a lardy-arse Ultra-glide Classic lurking in the garage with a buggered back tyre, need to organise a new one to get a WOF - then the painful part - rego, probably dearer than the tyre and fitting!
Good to see so many 'faces' on this thread.
Winding up drongos, foil hat wearers and over sensitive KBers for over 14,000 posts...........
" Life is not a rehearsal, it's as happy or miserable as you want to make it"
The dynamic has changed generally in motorcycling. The "safe spaces", hi-viz wearing PC Brigade has taken root.
Nail your colours to the mast that all may look upon them and know who you are.
It takes a big man to cry...and an even bigger man to laugh at that man.
7 pages and no mention of rego hikes? I remember a newspaper article a couple years after the rego went up stating new motorcycle registrations had dropped by over 50%.
I highly doubt if FB has anything to do with the lack of activity on this site. I joined a few groups trying to replicate what KBs "Meeting and events' forum was 10 years ago. Go back 10 years to that forum, there's 2-4 new threads a DAY organising events etc. Now? Nothing.
I think what really killed it is the ridiculous rego hikes which shooed away a lot of people who would've bought small displacement / LAMs (had it existed back then) bikes to use as a means of transportation and gotten into the hobby that way. >$400 for a small bike and close to $600 for >600 cc for a year? That's crazy money.
Edit: Really bums me out the way things have panned out when I think about all the kind souls I met over the years getting into riding.
I went to a KB dinner once. Fuck that noise!
Organising stuff on bookface is way better.
When I joined in 2006, I had never heard of Kiwibiker. I googled the bike I had/was interested in and someone from here replied.
Since then I've made many good friends, mainly but not all, through the KB South Island rallies, all of which I attended except the first one, starting at the
Coachman? in North Canty through to the Nelson one just before I left NZ to live in the Philippines. I also went to most other S. I. rallies; sadly never made it
to Woodstock, although it's one of my son's favourites.
Most of the bikes here are scooters or underbones; anything over 400cc is called a 'big bike'. My personal transport is a Suzuki Smash... 115cc, but I seldom
venture out of the city, so it suits me fine. Horses for courses and all that.
"Statistics are used as a drunk uses lampposts - for support, not illumination."
TOP QUOTE: “The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”
...i'm sure I didn't...?...
Mmm Curry.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
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