Informal KB Chch ride - with pics!

[Bren_chch]

Yeah mate, found it a struggle alright. Maybe Sniper and JWalker can pass some of those high speed cornering tips. Bren, didn't J say that Sniper owned you around the outside of a corner at 180km/h? Or was that someone else?

na i think it was u lol!

[Sniper]

Really, I mean, yea, I did own him at 180kph, lol. Shit guys, I have a fair way to go before I hassel OAB. Bren was the easy part

[T.W.R]

T.W.R: Don't worry, if someone tells me to give it heaps but I'm not feeling comfortable with it, it won't happen. Besides, I didn't interpret nudemetalz as telling me to do anything silly, just that I shouldn't go too slowly around corners!

Got to maintain control after all!
When you finally manage to haul yourself into town, come for a ride with me.

Ha its a bit of a PT between NDMZ & me as we both used to hussle those roads around the same time years ago.
The biggest thing there is that it is a place that bites back hard if a screw-up is made, i've seen bikes plough straight into the side of the hill going through Gebbies & others shoot over banks around by Allandale it isn't pretty when it happens.
The ZXR won't be too far away from getting back on the road so, i'll rock on up & get out about with you on a few rides.
I'll be up in town this weekend taking care of some business so will give you a yell, i've got brand new fuel line here so i'll bring it with me & some other bits n pieces

[JWALKER]

Really, I mean, yea, I did own him at 180kph, lol. Shit guys, I have a fair way to go before I hassel OAB. Bren was the easy part

what rubbish, i know bren would of had you, cause bren keeps forgetting the public road is not his own race track,lol .

it was a really good ride though, even though i was on a 250cc, and didnt have my gixxer, man i missed that thing around the hills, oh well, soon i will get it back

[Deviant Esq]

The ZXR won't be too far away from getting back on the road so, i'll rock on up & get out about with you on a few rides.
I'll be up in town this weekend taking care of some business so will give you a yell, i've got brand new fuel line here so i'll bring it with me & some other bits n pieces

Sounds good to me! I finish work at 6pm Saturday night if that's the night you're in town, so send me a text. Can't remember if you've got my number, I know yours is in my phone...

Ooo, new fuel line would be good. Hopefully it's longer than the one that's on there atm, and we can clamp it down out of the way as well. I worry about disturbing it every time I put the choke in now!

Cheers mate!

[Bren_chch]

Sounds good to me! I finish work at 6pm Saturday night if that's the night you're in town, so send me a text. Can't remember if you've got my number, I know yours is in my phone...

Ooo, new fuel line would be good. Hopefully it's longer than the one that's on there atm, and we can clamp it down out of the way as well. I worry about disturbing it every time I put the choke in now!

Cheers mate!

i think u live down the road from me... are u off halswell road?

[T.W.R]

Sounds good to me! I finish work at 6pm Saturday night if that's the night you're in town, so send me a text. Can't remember if you've got my number, I know yours is in my phone...

Ooo, new fuel line would be good. Hopefully it's longer than the one that's on there atm, and we can clamp it down out of the way as well. I worry about disturbing it every time I put the choke in now!

Cheers mate!

yep sounds good, i'll be over beckenham way so its a short hop to st albans. i've got your ph # so no worries there.

Ha the F/line, 1m be enough ?

[far queue]

The biggest thing there is that it is a place that bites back hard if a screw-up is made, i've seen bikes plough straight into the side of the hill going through Gebbies & others shoot over banks around by Allandale it isn't pretty when it happens.

Been there done that. Back in 1980 with a relatively new licence on an RD250. Gebbies Pass - going for it - cattlestop on a corner - hit the brakes - went straight ahead and into the barrier - bike stoped and I shot over the top and rolled down the hill, stopping just short of a big drop off. I was OK, bike got a few scratches and a damaged headlight. I had to ride home leaning forward to hold the headlight in place. I got a big fright at the time, but learnt from it, and always remember it when I go through that corner - like yesterday.

Ah the good old days

[Rashika]

Been there done that. Back in 1980 with a relatively new licence on an RD250. Gebbies Pass - going for it - cattlestop on a corner - hit the brakes - went straight ahead and into the barrier - bike stoped and I shot over the top and rolled down the hill, stopping just short of a big drop off. I was OK, bike got a few scratches and a damaged headlight. I had to ride home leaning forward to hold the headlight in place. I got a big fright at the time, but learnt from it, and always remember it when I go through that corner - like yesterday.

Ah the good old days

gees you must be an old git then
oh wait...shit ...I remember the Rd250s too... damn hasn't time just got away on us?

[nudemetalz]

Yeah that fuel line was only supposed to have been a temporary one once I'de got the tank back from Crazefox. It was only when I was on my ride down to ChCh that I realised maybe I should have replaced it...

Hey, how did turning up the idle go ? Stop the tendency to cut out?

[far queue]

gees you must be an old git then
oh wait...shit ...I remember the Rd250s too... damn hasn't time just got away on us?

It's all relative. I'm probably an old git to some and a youngster to others. I damn sure don't feel old, although the body disagrees at times - usually Sunday mornings at rallies

[Deviant Esq]

Hey, how did turning up the idle go ? Stop the tendency to cut out?

I haven't actually touched the idle, haven't had any more trouble with it cutting out actually. Maybe because in the last couple of days I'm more used to tweaking the throttle on downchanges so it keeps the revs up enough now? I'm not sure, but it hasn't conked out on me much at all recently. I don't know. *Shrug*

Bren: Nah, I'm in St. Albans, just down the road from Sniper.

[T.W.R]

Been there done that. Back in 1980 with a relatively new licence on an RD250. Gebbies Pass - going for it - cattlestop on a corner - hit the brakes - went straight ahead and into the barrier - bike stoped and I shot over the top and rolled down the hill, stopping just short of a big drop off. I was OK, bike got a few scratches and a damaged headlight. I had to ride home leaning forward to hold the headlight in place. I got a big fright at the time, but learnt from it, and always remember it when I go through that corner - like yesterday.

Ah the good old days

ha yeah i know where your talking about fully, actually back a few years parts of that area used to be bad for damn sheep charging across the road, had a couple of close ones like that
the run up gebbies from the wheatsheaf just before where the summit rd come out, a bunch of us were giving it a hell ride up there & one fella on a GS1000s got airborne through a corner & ploughed the GS straight into the hill at over 100kmh what a f#@%$ mess that was! bike was rooted, he got a broken pelvis, arm & ankle. the marks where visible for years where he went in.

But all in all its a magic area once you know it, wouldn't mind a dollar for every Km i've clocked up around there

[nudemetalz]

I haven't actually touched the idle, haven't had any more trouble with it cutting out actually. Maybe because in the last couple of days I'm more used to tweaking the throttle on downchanges so it keeps the revs up enough now? I'm not sure, but it hasn't conked out on me much at all recently. I don't know. *Shrug*

I also found that the NZ is very sensitive to weather. That can make a difference as to how it runs down low. Must be the marginal jetting they have from the factory.

[imdying]

When I was a new rider, on a single 250, occasionally I would forget to turn the choke off. That made it stall at the lights when it got hot... maybe you were doing that when first getting used to the bike? Now you've had it a few days, maybe you're remembering to turn it off?