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    Quote Originally Posted by Maffoo View Post
    id rather be bourgeoisie than proletariat
    besides, that gazebo cost me nearly .... 80 bux!!
    i just cant stand it
    hehe, you're all right.

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    I rode home from work (lower hutt to upper hutt) at around seven o'clock this evening. It seemed to have died done quite a bit by then.
    The wind was nothing compared to what happened to me this morning to me in the Tiata gorge. As I'm riding through I see this movement out of the corner of my eye and then next thing I know, this fucken great rock/boulder comes bowling down the hill and then across the road only a couple of meters ahead of me.
    While you sit there liking things just cos' everyone else does, I'll be standing up here keeping it real.

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    Didn't reckon it was that bad today really. Half asleep drivers - first week back at work - were a lot worse.

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    Meh, the whole thing was a storm in a b cup!
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    It was pretty windy yesterday, my daughter & I came out of Countdown in Johnsonville at about 2pm and got to see a trolley full of bread baskets get blown across the car park at a pretty good rate of knots and smash into a parked Commodore with the owner inside, she was none to pleased.

    Have to say I'm glad it hit a car and not a person as it had built up quite a speed!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Drum View Post
    Didn't reckon it was that bad today really.
    Yeah well I'm going to show I must be a soft cock and say I struggled to keep the 750 upright on Kent Terrace after leaving Wellington Motorcycles yesterday (new M3's, I like).

    At the first set of lights (which decided to turn red when they saw me approaching, love you Murphy), it took every ounce of determination I had to keep the 750 from falling to the left. Just a bad part though, as I didn't have any problems after that.

    I actually like riding in the wind. It spices things up a bit

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    If you kept it upright, then you're not a softcock.

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    I did the welly - Upper Hutt thing about 5.30 last night and my little baby (FXR150) only got blown into the other lane once. Not bad, most days in wind like that it happens a couple of times.

    Today was a pain though - nice steady resistance wind that knocked a good 10km off my average speed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sweetp View Post
    I did the welly - Upper Hutt thing about 5.30 last night and my little baby (FXR150) only got blown into the other lane once. Not bad, most days in wind like that it happens a couple of times.

    Today was a pain though - nice steady resistance wind that knocked a good 10km off my average speed.
    You should have taken the SV.

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