Another Ride !!

[Shawn]

please arrange another ride. this satarday , even better Sunday (11-.4-04) ...PLS

[Motoracer]

Hi Shaun (or do you spell it like "Sean"?)

Anyway, I am going for a quick ride through the Waitakere ranges on Saturday afternoon. If you haven't got someone else to go on a ride with somewhere else, you are more than welcome to join me. I will be on my ol TZR 250 this time. others are welcome to join but its not going to be a proper fancy ride, just a quick blat through the bush (approx 150-200kms). If not, I like going solo aswell so either way its cool

MR

[Shawn]

when exactly on Satarday??...I have to work from 6...otherwise I would absolutely love to

and it's Shawn

[Motoracer]

I'll be ready to blast off at 15:00 hrs, we can be back by 17:00 hrs if we go for the approx 150km ride. That should leave you enough time to get back to work. I'll PM you to arrange for details. Again, if someone else comes up with a better ride, you are welcome to change your mind anytime. Its just that, I only have that time frame to work with this weekend.

Ciao

[Shawn]

yeap, sure...where is the meeting place?..u can text me too: 0274600700

[erik]

Anyway, I am going for a quick ride through the Waitakere ranges on Saturday afternoon. If you haven't got someone else to go on a ride with somewhere else, you are more than welcome to join me. I will be on my ol TZR 250 this time. others are welcome to join but its not going to be a proper fancy ride, just a quick blat through the bush (approx 150-200kms). If not, I like going solo aswell so either way its cool

MR

what roads are you going to be taking, motoracer?

[Two Smoker]

ofcouse this ride gets organised when i have a day off and when my bike has just gone into the shop

Have a great time guys and dont crash like i did........

[6Chris6]

please arrange another ride. this satarday , even better Sunday (11-.4-04) ...PLS

I'll be up for a ride if you guys want some more company. And i think Eric's keen to

What about tommorro to (friday)? Anyone up for it?

[Motoracer]

Oh crap, I completly forgot. As I was backing the TZR 250 from the driveway in the morning, it slipped out of my hands

No damage at all other than it cracked the gasket on the water pump cover. so the coolant leaked out. Thats me buggered for the easter weekend! Sorry guys, I'll try another time.

Oh and the GSXR has no chain and the ZXR is a track only bike and the TS185... well I hardly call it a motorcycle. Bro is away for the weekend but his bike has crapped out as well so can't even borrow that. I have 5 bikes in the garage right now and I can't use any of them on the road.

But I am really happy cause this gives me an excuse to finally save some money!

[erik]

Aww man, that's bad luck, motoracer.

But it is kinda funny that you've got so many bikes and none of them available to ride on the road

[Shawn]

Hey Chris,
As we talked on the phone...tomorrow on 10:30 from Titarangi

[6Chris6]

Hey Chris,
As we talked on the phone...tomorrow on 10:30 from Titarangi

Yeah bud, there's a cafe on the left called hardware cafe it has carpark behind will be there at 10.30

[erik]

See you guys there

[6Chris6]

Well........
It started out well enough, 5 KB'ers meet in Titarangi for a nice ride out West, the plan being to ride up scenic drive to Bethells, through Kumeu to Waimauku around the back onto old north road and on to Helensville for lunch.

Unfortunately just past the Piha turnoff one of our number had a little low side experience (saw it all in mirrors) just a little too wide hit loose gravel you know how these go, luckily he dropped bike as it ended up wedged under barrier and seems to have only minor cuts to hands (not wearing gloves ).
Anyway star of the ride eric rings friends/parents (sorry bud not sure) who drive out to take our mate to A&E and then goes home gets trailer to pick up bike to take back to our mates house Eric
Rest of our crew carry on bit sheepishly.
Crew were Eric, Wonko, Thomas, Speed Demon and myself, and no I'm not gonna say who binned it!
Or anything about those chicken strips... oh er

[Ranzer]

Is it the same bike? The same bin? Would've hoped so eh...

Same bloody corner. Same bike (well, make/model at least).

Not sure exactly, but around 13~14 months ago...

Sad thing is, I was on this ride too (yeah, that's my ZZR on the right, half hidden in the first pic 6Chris6 posted).

Personally I think two things contribute to this weird coincidence...

One - Scenic Drive is horrible. Don't get me wrong, I love riding it - but the moss on the road, the bumpy seal, the roadside gravel that can be hard to see where it starts, all mixed into a string of blind corners... I guess my point is, be very careful until you've been through it a few times and know which parts are likely to catch you out.

Two - as much as I love my bike (and I do), there's something about the way the ZZR 250 handles that (to quote a friend who had been broken in on an FZR 250) "scares the shit out of you". Ok, it's not that bad really, but it does have a certain reluctance to really drop into a corner.
As far as I can make out, it's some combination of that it's fairly heavy for a 250, and your head tends to be pretty high up when you're sitting on it. The head position seems to be the major factor, since if you try to move with the bike your head wags around too much and makes you feel disoriented. My best advise (and amazingly I only figured this out recently, even though I've had the bike about 13~14 months) is to keep your head and even your upper body upright when cornering, and just bank the bike down as low as it needs to go, bending yourself at the waist... I think this style is similar to what's used on dirt bikes? At any rate it seems to make cornering a lot easier/more comfortable on this bike.

Yargh... seems a little long for 2 cents worth, but there it is.

Other than the bin, it was a pretty good ride... but man I'm exhausted now.
Even after riding to and from Auckland Uni for the last 6 weeks, longer rides still seem to hit me hard :disapint:
Oh well, practice practice practice hehehe...

Ranzer