New, but old - both me and my bike

[vifferman]

Hope they were freakin' big shiny gold ones. ANd lots of em.
Oh - that's right - you don't ride a VTR (has a thirst like an Ozzie in the Outback, y'know).

Built me a kitchen on our house in Tauranga: ripped out a wall, the H/W cylinder, and all the cupboards, sink, the whole shebang. Then rebuilt the whole thing from the floor up (well, had to fix the floor too...)
Did everything meself, apart from the gas plumbing. A very satisfying project, and very nice outcome.

Shame we sold the house afterwards.
And that I had to repeat much of the exercise when we moved to D'Auckland.... :disapint:

[jrandom]

Actually it's not just the net neighborhood, I'm also in Te Atatu

Me too.

Back up to three KBers in Tatters, eh. Bluninja would be proud. Are you in the norf or sarf?

[Dr Bob]

Me too.

Back up to three KBers in Tatters, eh. Bluninja would be proud. Are you in the norf or sarf?

I think the norf? If I knew what three KBers were.

[jrandom]

I think the norf? If I knew what three KBers were.

Three KBers would be three, er, Kiwi Biker forum members. As in "Three shall be the number of the counting, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, and neither count thou two, excepting that thou then goest on to three."

You get the idea.

And you're in the norf if you're norf of the bridge that goes over the NW motorway. You're in the sarf if there's no easily-defensible chokepoint between you and the wilds of Henderson.

[Big Dog]

Actually it's not just the net neighborhood, I'm also in Te Atatu

O I C Said the blind man to the deaf man.

[Big Dog]

Me too.

Back up to three KBers in Tatters, eh. Bluninja would be proud. Are you in the norf or sarf?

I think there be more than three.

There be Training Wheels.
There Be Me
There Be J Random.
There be A south african female can't remember her tag.
There Be Dr Bob
There be a pommy dude on a old gsxr 750 or thou, can't remember his tag either..

[FROSTY:Me]

A big picture is on my public profile. The bike is relatively original with 83000 k's, although I suffered a large rock through the headlight at one stage and had to replace it with whatever I could get - I think the casing etc. is from an XS400. The windage is a Givi that I cut down with a jigsaw and re-edged. My biggest issue is the front brakes and forks, if anyone knows of a replacement option please contact me.

I hope the advise helped.
dang that is one origonal looking xj750
dont ruin it by fitting a 4 into one --they run real bad if ya do

[MikeL]

It would be, that is natural. But having just finished a PhD and renovating two houses I would say it is only a matter of time.

Welcome, Dr Bob.

House renovations: My sympathies. Did up a 4 brm bung in Mt Eden in the early 80s. It was fun (sort of). Ten years later stupidly accepted the challenge of an 1890s kauri villa in 4 flats described cheerfully by the real estate as "not for the faint hearted". At each stage it's an even bet whether you run out of money or enthusiasm first... the latest (bathroom) has taken 2 and a half years - it's almost done (only about another 6 weekends plus my two-week holiday coming up...)

PhD: a future ambition of mine (for when I run out of things to do to the house). What was your thesis on?
(Please, please say "A critical analysis of contemporary Old and New Testament exegesis with particular reference to socio-psychological aspects of extreme fundamentalist/literalist beliefs". Not that it would impress Zed but it might stop him going on about "authority" for a little while...)

[Dr Bob]

Welcome, Dr Bob.

House renovations: My sympathies. Did up a 4 brm bung in Mt Eden in the early 80s. It was fun (sort of). Ten years later stupidly accepted the challenge of an 1890s kauri villa in 4 flats described cheerfully by the real estate as "not for the faint hearted". At each stage it's an even bet whether you run out of money or enthusiasm first... the latest (bathroom) has taken 2 and a half years - it's almost done (only about another 6 weekends plus my two-week holiday coming up...)

PhD: a future ambition of mine (for when I run out of things to do to the house). What was your thesis on?
........

"Asynchronous communication technology: An organisatioal perspective of efficacy and use" Pretty much what we are doing here. And I am sorry to boast but we have been in our house for 2 1/2 years and I've done the landscaping, bathroom, lounge, dining, hall, and kitchen. Our current house is easy, it is 1955 brick and tile, our first house was an 1880's villa in Kihikihi, entirely made of kauri, matai, and filler.