Brass Monkey - Auckland & Others KB Ride

**paturoa** · 12th May 2006, 19:59

I went to Motohause on the way home and got a tub of sno seal call me cheap. Time to get the mrs hair dryer out!

**paturoa** · 12th May 2006, 20:02

While I was chatting to Kerry (as u do) he said that he'd give a 10% discount on anything, to anyone who says that they read this here. Up to the Thursday b4.

My rear tyre is borderline for the a return trip and is shite in the wet, so I'm tossing up, new boots, new tyre, new boots, new tyre?

**Jantar** · 12th May 2006, 20:06

New Boots? New Tyre?

Both.

**paturoa** · 12th May 2006, 20:18

new boots & new tyre = new wife?

new boots and no new tyre = new husband for my wife?

**T.I.E** · 13th May 2006, 19:46

thats a hard choice to make. but keep some spare bags on the trip and go with new tread.
snow seal the boots, oven worked well for me. on a warm heat, don't want to cook them now. also the woman was not to impressed.
there was a post before you can pick up some over boots, they work kinda well a pain but they help keep the water off. save ya money and get some boots for another day.
go with safety.

**paturoa** · 13th May 2006, 23:13

then again I could get both!

**idb** · 15th May 2006, 10:39

OK, I'm booked in with two others at the Leviathan in Dunedin for the Friday night before the Monkey.
We're people of little imagination I'm afraid so our plan at this stage is to head into town and proceed to engage in activities of an inebriating nature.
It's a good and simple plan I think and unlikely to change.

**T.I.E** · 15th May 2006, 17:39

Originally Posted by paturoa

then again I could get both!

get both get both.

**paturoa** · 15th May 2006, 21:06

Spent about an hour in front of the idiot box last nite and drowned the old boots with sno seal. The missus gave me the "what the f#$% do you think you are doing with my hair dryer look". It probably also didn't help much that she was trying to watch something at the time!

I gave them a good scrubbing with hot soapy water on sat arvo and they spent the nite on the hot water cylinder. Anyway the boots just soaked up the sno seal, particularly into the stiching.

Our crap weather gave the boots a good test his morning on the way to work. All warm and dry.

Also got some polyprops (as suggested by Kerry at Motohaus - his 25th BM this year - silly bugger). Dam, I'm a good looking hunka man in those - not! My missus just lol.

**FlyingDutchMan** · 16th May 2006, 11:07

I got myself a neck warmer last year - it wasn't the best but it made a huge difference. I think I'll be getting a decent one this year + lots of polypro + PVC pants. Got decent water proof boots (they handled 7 hours of west coast rain and my feet stayed bone dry and toasty warm (the rest of me was soaking wet and cold).

**keza** · 16th May 2006, 16:58

hi all if anyone interested iw ill be doing a flying visit to brass leave friday 6.00pm to ferr cross early morning then to brass sie saturday then come home sunday if anyone wants to hook up look out for blue and white bmw

**T.I.E** · 16th May 2006, 19:45

Originally Posted by keza

hi all if anyone interested iw ill be doing a flying visit to brass leave friday 6.00pm to ferr cross early morning then to brass sie saturday then come home sunday if anyone wants to hook up look out for blue and white bmw

thats a flying run. and on a bmw not problem me thinks.
hope to see ya down there.

**Silage** · 16th May 2006, 20:37

Originally Posted by keza

hi all if anyone interested iw ill be doing a flying visit to brass leave friday 6.00pm to ferr cross early morning then to brass sie saturday then come home sunday if anyone wants to hook up look out for blue and white bmw

Hey Keza, unless you are from south Auckland, that is one hang of a long way in a cupla days. Take it easy.

**dangerous** · 16th May 2006, 20:49

Originally Posted by Jimmie

Hey Keza, unless you are from south Auckland, that is one hang of a long way in a cupla days. Take it easy.

thats a bloody mission at this time of the year and I expect on an older BMW, Keza, ya have balls man.

**T.W.R** · 16th May 2006, 21:12

Well some goodies for the bike arrived today (scored a set of oxford sports throw-over panniers and a sports tankbag) and its getting new rubber front & rear tomorrow (new generation Pirelli diablo strata S/Ts) got one blown forkseal to fix & make new mounts for the packframe and alls sweet.