Tales from the Emporium

[NordieBoy]

mate you looked like a geek god aboard your steed. All the women in a 10km radius simultaneously turned at the sound of that manly exhaust note and sighed as you rode into the sunset.

The manly exhaust is in the shed

Whilst taking off the exhaust yesterday I was reminded just how heavy the stocker is...

7.5kg vs 2.5kg supertrapp.

[Padmei]

whats a supertrapp worth?

[NordieBoy]

Worth? Bugger all.
Cost? About $300 new.

[NordieBoy]

homemade or what?

Homemade-ish...

High flow in that the air will now flow past it faster now it's shiny

[marks]

Homemade-ish...

High flow in that the air will now flow past it faster now it's shiny

wont it rust?

[NordieBoy]

wont it rust?

The stock header is stainless

[NordieBoy]

Right...
Just accidently (honest) did the Ben Nevis - Boundary Road loop today.
The loop itself is just over 11km but there's about 10km of gravel up the Wairoa Gorge from Brightwater to get to the start and another 4-5km of Pig Valley gravel out the other end into Wakefield as well.

http://photostorage.nelson.geek.nz/t...ry Rd Loop.kml

It's been added to my Google Earth TRAILS DATABASE as well.

Pretty much all forestry roads (public easement) with the odd challenge section if so inclined

You can spend all day up there if you wanted...

[marks]

whats Eighty Eight Valley Rd like?

[cooneyr]

whats Eighty Eight Valley Rd like?

Just recently about 1/3 of the gravel was sealed. Still it is better than the highway with all the other vehicles. Some fun open by winding sections for that "I'm a motard god" feeling.

Cheers R

[twotyred]

Right...

http://photostorage.nelson.geek.nz/t...ry Rd Loop.kml
...

I just get HTML gibberish when I open that page

Oh I see why now,it's a kml page.. as you were

[NordieBoy]

Just recently about 1/3 of the gravel was sealed. Still it is better than the highway with all the other vehicles. Some fun open by winding sections for that "I'm a motard god" feeling.

Cheers R

We were doing a classic mx about half way up 88 Valley once and my brother needed to zap around to Pig Valley to get some spares and took my Nordie.

When he got back the mirror had vibrated loose (from slightly excess speed) and he had this stupid grin on his face and said "man I'm glad I don't have one of them, I'd be in soooo much trouble".

[NordieBoy]

Time to do something to make it easier to stand without being so hunched over.

2.5cm down and 2.5cm back.
1cm thick steel...
It will hang down a bit but only as much as the shock linkages.
Any rock that gets in it's way will have the bruises to show for it.

[marks]

Time to do something to make it easier to stand without being so hunched over.

2.5cm down and 2.5cm back.
1cm thick steel...
It will hang down a bit but only as much as the shock linkages.
Any rock that gets in it's way will have the bruises to show for it.

whats wrong with bar risers?

[NordieBoy]

whats wrong with bar risers?

They is already rizzed pretty much as far as they can be with the stock cables...
That was Project IXV



Seated the bars are at the right height for me but standing I'm hunched over too much.
It's the peg to seat distance that needs tuning now.

[talbertnz]

i like the idea of putting the pegs lower as it will improve the seating position for those gifted with long legs. incl myself. feel its wee bit buched up at the moment, also i guess it will lower the center of gravity a bit too esp. when standing. Wats the reason you want to put the further back? would you have to mod the rr brake and shift lever?