well we are up and running

**darren** · 25th February 2004, 19:16

ok folks

let me get to know you guys and girls

the first meet as you know is at TSS Motorcycles in alice town lower hutt
this sunday at 9am ccoked breakfast thanks stew
and then at 10.00am off we go for a ride to lake ferry

we have around 20 people that have been contacted
and I also went around today in wellington putting some
flyers out on bikes.
so wha do you people want to do where do you want to go
what do you want to see in a 250cc club?

now is the time to put it down what about sending some pics in
to this forum and show people what ya got

**James Deuce** · 25th February 2004, 19:46

Would it be OK to pop down and say hello?

Can't go on the ride 'cos I'm on call this weekend, but wouldn't mind saying hello.

**darren** · 25th February 2004, 19:52

allways welcome

come on down

Darren

**darren** · 25th February 2004, 20:05

I hope ive done this right with the

pics

also a pic of the wife learning to ride my old VT250 cruiser
now owned by james
my brother

**James Deuce** · 25th February 2004, 20:17

That worked

**james** · 25th February 2004, 20:39

Originally Posted by darren

I hope ive done this right with the

pics

also a pic of the wife learning to ride my old VT250 cruiser
now owned by james
my brother

hey bro,just got the news on ride for sunday

i hope pips coming,photos look good but i do find it strange that all the photos of my bike there is always someone else on it lol lol
im gonna have to do something about this,see ya later.

**Ms Piggy** · 25th February 2004, 20:51

Hey Darren,
Good work!

Thanks for setting this up!

A suggestion/idea would be to find out how long different people have been riding and what sort of riding they have done ie. mainly town, mainly open road, confident or not, learner or seasoned. I'm guessing that most riders would be on a Learners or Restricted License if they have a 250 (I know this isn't always the case though!) and within that I'm sure there would be a wide range of capabilities and riding hours.

It would be good if newer riders felt it was ok for them to turn up - I dunno if that's what you're thinking or not. What sort of direction did you want this to take? Were thinking more just a social get together & a ride for riders of 250's? Or riding, socialising and information.

For me as a fairly new rider it's really good when other riders can give me riding and maintenance tips, so having the chance to do that would be good. Not sure how that would be done though.

Cheers Cathy

**darren** · 26th February 2004, 13:24

the whole idea was to let learners
and 250cc bike riders get together
and ride and talk.

its great to have a ride with bigger bikes
but we cannot keep up with them and from what I have sean
in the few months i have been riding
people on smaller bikes try to do this.

Im a learner and dont know that much about engines
and I geuss there are people out there the same.

I have got TSS Motorcycles behind the 250 idea
so they can help with all questions on repairs etc.

also at the moment they have a free sprocket and chain
check up, so we should all look at taking our bikes in for a check up.

we can talk about all these ideas on sunday
I look forward to it.

Darren

**Blink** · 26th February 2004, 13:39

well let's hope that this buggers off for sunday :

http://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/common/im...,139876,00.jpg

**darren** · 26th February 2004, 14:06

oh well we can have a good chat
and food anyway

lets hope for the best

Darren

**Ms Piggy** · 26th February 2004, 21:01

Originally Posted by darren

the whole idea was to let learners
and 250cc bike riders get together
and ride and talk.

its great to have a ride with bigger bikes
but we cannot keep up with them and from what I have sean
in the few months i have been riding
people on smaller bikes try to do this.

Im a learner and dont know that much about engines
and I geuss there are people out there the same.

I have got TSS Motorcycles behind the 250 idea
so they can help with all questions on repairs etc.

also at the moment they have a free sprocket and chain
check up, so we should all look at taking our bikes in for a check up.

we can talk about all these ideas on sunday
I look forward to it.

Darren

This all sounds great!

I definitely won't be able to make this Sunday sorry, my bike needs a new chain so I'd better not ride her too far until that happens.

Have fun & I hope Ivy is all out of gusto by the time she reaches here!