Gentle ride this weekend lol (19-20 January)

[Cr1MiNaL]

Don't use shit tools you just end up rounding off nuts etc and use a torque wrench or you overtighten stuff! (Speaking from experience here). You can borrow my tools if ya want I have all the above-mentioned stuff.

Two tips for removing bitchass nuts/bolts:

1. Give them a wack with the hammer a couple of times before attempting to loosen.
2. Loosen off when engine is cold.

Anyway, back to the ride:

Hows about a rough ride as opposed to a gentle one? I got the KTM motard back tonight after its engine rebuild!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It does power wheelies in 3rd gear now!!!!!!!!

Meh meh Ill give ya a ride for ya money A ...

Hey Nish dude wtf man u lucky bastard been away holidaying at the fukin clubs, while I've been .... well I was gonna say sweating it out here, but the weathers been mean and guess what Im no longer a student so I actually can aford stuff for a change... let the good times roll.. give me a txt when u get back Nish well have a big house warming party here at my new place !

[bomma]

Hey Nish dude wtf man u lucky bastard been away holidaying at the fukin clubs, while I've been .... well I was gonna say sweating it out here, but the weathers been mean and guess what Im no longer a student so I actually can aford stuff for a change... let the good times roll.. give me a txt when u get back Nish well have a big house warming party here at my new place !

haha hey dude!!! not partyin much man but been chillin a whole fucking lot....had a mean azz time in goa wat with the night life and awesome seafood and cheap got a permanent souvenire drawn on my back while i was there too

sweet to hear bout the graduation man!!! congrats!!! ud beta be havin a graduation party when i get back!! lol about finally being able to afford shit...its sad how piss poor us students really are....all except isaac with a garage full of bikes and possibly a car (although ive never actually seen a car in isaac's shed so correct me if im wrong)

look forward to gettin back and checkin out your new place....hope i wont have to come out to bloody massey tho :P

ill catch ya real soon....u comin on this ride???

[bomma]

Yeah right, its north of whangarei.
Kawakawa bay on the other hand, is east, on the way to Kaiaua.

Go buy a map.

sweet fuckin woooot!!!! kick ass then if u guys r headin to kawakawa bay then ill tag along wit ya, hit kaiaua for lunch and then make my way down to whangamata and the township further south (cant rememba what the place is but i know it starts with "W")....

all are welcome to join me...hope the bloody holidayers dont pack up the roads tho

[ital916]

Haha i've never seen anyone so excited to ride...I'll go as far as the sharp rightie before kaiaua then peel off and turn around, not gonna push myself too far, i know my limits lol Thats if my fucking bike will start! Got up this morning, started the bike up, sweet deals. Rode it up my driveway and stopped cos i needed to close the garage door, the gearbox wouldn't shift into neutral. Fuck...so i stopped the engine in gear, went back and closed the door. Came back, clutch in, engine was warm so i kick it and..nothing.....another kick....nothing...........32 kicks later...nothing.....the engine wasn't flooded by 15kicks..maybe by 32 it was lol but it started first kick before!! SO yeah there i was twenty min late for work getting pushed down the road by good ol mum, starting the engine...it slowly and reluctantly crackled into life. If my bike could talk it would be saying "fuck you i don't want to start...just five more minutes" lol Anyway, i don't know whats going on aye, bloody gearbox is sticky now and the bike won't start and sigh..any diagnosis, i really wanna try fix it before the wekend. FUnniest thing was my mum coming down the drive way seeing as i hadn't ring a dinged off yet to find me cursing and swearing at the bike...man you'd think i was having a domestice or something. I said soime harsh things, but i told her i was sorry and that she's a great bike...must be that time of the month or something with her.

[Macstar]

possibly a car (although ive never actually seen a car in isaac's shed so correct me if im wrong)

I now partially own a cage too unfortunately. In fact, driving a cage in rush hour traffic the other day i got major road rage cause for 3 years on a motorbike I've been cutting through cars, using bus lanes etc and never waited in long stupid cage queues.

[klyong82]

Rough ride sounds tempting.....whoops someone is coming turning the PC off...

[DUCATI*HARD]

the dukestars will be out that way,keep an eye out for the black triple9 and the chrome monster,il most probably be on one wheelwe will be carving the kaiaua loop,then of to whangamata,waihi,pearoa,ohinewai and a little bit off sh22

[Ixion]

Haha i've never seen anyone so excited to ride...I'll go as far as the sharp rightie before kaiaua then peel off and turn around, not gonna push myself too far, i know my limits lol Thats if my fucking bike will start! Got up this morning, started the bike up, sweet deals. Rode it up my driveway and stopped cos i needed to close the garage door, the gearbox wouldn't shift into neutral. Fuck...so i stopped the engine in gear, went back and closed the door. Came back, clutch in, engine was warm so i kick it and..nothing.....another kick....nothing...........32 kicks later...nothing.....the engine wasn't flooded by 15kicks..maybe by 32 it was lol but it started first kick before!! SO yeah there i was twenty min late for work getting pushed down the road by good ol mum, starting the engine...it slowly and reluctantly crackled into life. If my bike could talk it would be saying "fuck you i don't want to start...just five more minutes" lol Anyway, i don't know whats going on aye, bloody gearbox is sticky now and the bike won't start and sigh..any diagnosis, i really wanna try fix it before the wekend. FUnniest thing was my mum coming down the drive way seeing as i hadn't ring a dinged off yet to find me cursing and swearing at the bike...man you'd think i was having a domestice or something. I said soime harsh things, but i told her i was sorry and that she's a great bike...must be that time of the month or something with her.

New spark plug.

[ital916]

PIcking up a new iridium spark plug today hopefully, will try install it tomorrow or on friday and hopefully have the bike up and running for the weekend. I plan on spending sat and sun riding lol With the oil it doesn't have a dipstick but does have a screw level, i will check the level today.

[bomma]

I now partially own a cage too unfortunately. In fact, driving a cage in rush hour traffic the other day i got major road rage cause for 3 years on a motorbike I've been cutting through cars, using bus lanes etc and never waited in long stupid cage queues.

been there.....ive finally accepted that cars are fat pieces of shit and the more you think ull get somewhere quick, the angrier you get so ive kinda made peace......in the rare event that i use the car i just sit there thinking of what i would be doing if i had my bike right now its most entertaining except when someone cuts you off and then its

btw hus keen on this ride and hus keen for a longer pootle??? as some may know i havent ridden for 2 months so im not gonna be amazingly confident getting back on so ill try and take it easy just so i dont harm myself or my bike so the longer pootle with me will be average pace

[Ragingrob]

Sup guys I could be keen for a ride on Sunday if I can join up somehow in the arvo if anyone's cruising for a while? Probably free from say 2pm 'till dark . Gimme a text cause I'm away from comp till Sunday anyway lol.

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[ital916]

who's keen to come over friday arvo and help me get the new spark plug in, i have a barbecue at six thirty to be at so prob start at three or something. I'm really keen to come on the ride on sun and i have one on sat too, so yeah SMC assemble *blows horn*, so yeah any help would be appreciate. *the bike is immobile at the mo and it's a pain job*....so yeah SOS lol. Sorry to be asking for help so much.

[Squiggles]

remove tank, use spark plug tool, swap plugs, then go for a ride, revving it like it wants to be revved

[Ixion]

Stupid design. Fancy having to take the tanks off. BTW buy 2 spark plugs, always carry at least one spare. And a plug spanner.

[motorbyclist]

New spark plug.

exactly what i thought

remove tank, use spark plug tool, swap plugs, then go for a ride, revving it like it wants to be revved

and that too - i did so myself after the last noob ride, but then thought i'd better give it a rest before the gearbox got worse

Stupid design. Fancy having to take the tanks off. BTW buy 2 spark plugs, always carry at least one spare. And a plug spanner.

you think taking the tank off is stupid? try the NC30 where you have to free the tail fairings, remove seat, tank, all the front fairings and then a radiator too! and then you need the tool or bore out and weld a socket into an existing tool only to find the original one a week later - in the bike toolkit under the seat)

got a mate with a zxr who also found the radiator needed to come off to get at the plugs

and my dirtbike has the sparkplug directly below the "spine" of the chassis, so you can't pull both the plug and socket out at the same time and have to do a tricky magnet/long nose plier combo



and as for having spare plugs - get them in bulk at sales; when the offroad honda shop in kumeu shut down i bought all their remaining stock of CR8E (which wasn't many by the time i got there) for my dirtbike and got them dirt cheap. saved me a few bucks plus i don't have to go to the shop for plugs all the time