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    Don't mind the shit weather we've been having. Looked at the bike in the garage and put the battery minder on.
    Be a little while yet for a ride ,running in a new hip now (after a knee a year ago).
    Getting out of a chair while watching the bloody All Blacks three weeks ago, popped the hip out. Trip to Palmy Hosp by ambo and lots of waiting.
    Got nice drugs and they popped it back in...

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    Great view up there Bmwst.
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    See? Rugby is bad for you.

    Back yesterday afternoon from a Berm Buster in Taupo forest. Bit stiff but happy.

    Drive home in van was a bit white knuckle with hideous winds manuwatu Horowhenua and welly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by F5 Dave View Post

    Drive home in van was a bit white knuckle with hideous winds manuwatu Horowhenua and welly.
    I had to tie my bike to the fence at the ferry terminal to stop it being blown over
    "If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."


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    Quote Originally Posted by Kickaha View Post
    I had to tie my bike to the fence at the ferry terminal to stop it being blown over
    did you have an interesting ferry trip? Which ferry was it? In my experience(mostly interislander) the Kaitaki and Aratere hardly roll at all regardless of the conditions which I attribute to active stabilizers. Just my understanding of things. I have been on the ferries many many times and all of the sailings were fine even though as a kid I was prone to sea sickness.

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    I remember watching that i am Legend movie and the ferry was going forward and aft so it made it like your head was nodding following the screen from ceiling to floor even though you were sitting. Like being on a swing at the park.

    Another we strapped the bikes on centrestands (RZ still had one back then) with a strop unceremoniously tighten over the seat as they did while we rode the Vomit Comet (Fastcat thingy). We sat upstairs as the ceiling tiles banged furiously, and I was planning how I'd go get the van to pick up the remains of the bike back when we got to Wellington. I was relieved to find the bike still upright.

    Took my own tie downs after that, however.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BMWST? View Post
    did you have an interesting ferry trip? Which ferry was it? In my experience(mostly interislander) the Kaitaki and Aratere hardly roll at all regardless of the conditions which I attribute to active stabilizers. Just my understanding of things. I have been on the ferries many many times and all of the sailings were fine even though as a kid I was prone to sea sickness.
    Nah, Slept through it, Livia or something, I always get a cabin now and just go to bed, it went the long way into Picton and I wasn't home till 11.42am because it was late into Welly and late leaving Welly
    "If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."


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    Quote Originally Posted by Kickaha View Post
    Nah, Slept through it, Livia or something, I always get a cabin now and just go to bed, it went the long way into Picton and I wasn't home till 11.42am because it was late into Welly and late leaving Welly
    Very Well Done

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    Well the wiff said yesterday that it looked like the best day so better get out for a ride. So I did.

    Weirdly it was windier at either end of the tukas than on the actual hill.
    But great day in the rapa. Love the 765.

    Sorry no photo just riding and pie.

    But today looks OK too.

    Get out there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by F5 Dave View Post
    Well the wiff said yesterday that it looked like the best day so better get out for a ride. So I did.

    Weirdly it was windier at either end of the tukas than on the actual hill.
    But great day in the rapa. Love the 765.

    Sorry no photo just riding and pie.

    But today looks OK too.

    Get out there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by F5 Dave View Post
    Well the wiff said yesterday that it looked like the best day so better get out for a ride. So I did.

    Weirdly it was windier at either end of the tukas than on the actual hill.
    .
    the tukas is odd, I've been blown off a bike twice in the last ten years on it, once there was not a breath of qind at the summit but methamfeatherston it was howling.
    there's a couple of real bad corners, and they are real slow so when the wind gets you there's no momentum to try and fight it.

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    We were going over the hill years back. We're going to take the bike but weather turned so decided to take the wife's car.
    Following car and one of those outside corners going down in wet the car ahead, well it looked like God lifted the rear almost off the ground and tossed it like rolling a dice. They spun so the were facing us on wrong side of the road with ashen faces.
    He's a right prick sometimes.

    Hill closed on return so went via manuwatu with roaring winds over the roof blowing us around.
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