knot 2 bad a day 4 a ride

**Firefight** · 23rd August 2008, 14:38

despite a bit of overcast cloud and such like,

it was good to see a few riders out on 22 today

Due to my ESL (enrish second lanugage) I missed meeting up with two FC brothers, but despite that and the bike I have been loaned(spazookishita) had a great thrash on my old fav road again...

suprising not to see many out today, those I passsed I hope you thought i was passing carefully

.. (given all the talk on kb on this matter lately I have tried to keep that in mind when passing others)

Nice to talk to the guy on the red and white R1, sorry I don't recall your name or if you were a kber.. your pace was good for someone who has not been on 22 before.. if you are reading this, just remember ride at your own pace, and pm me if you want to go over that road again,I will be more than happy to show you the road again (and a few others) I have this loaner till the end of the month, hopefully we will get one more fine day before then,.

hope others had a good day if they rode ...

Peace

F/F

**jrandom** · 23rd August 2008, 14:57

Yup. Surprisingly good day today. Perfect conditions.

My evil twin from a parallel universe (who doesn't have a licence either) took a large black crayon out along Old North/Peak/16/Woodcocks and back again.

I figure it must have been a crayon he made the stripes on the road with, not a GSX1400, because he'd never break the law and ride while disqualified.

He knows I'd disapprove of that.

**marty** · 23rd August 2008, 16:59

oooohh what a naughty boy that twin is.......

**Firefight** · 23rd August 2008, 17:04

Originally Posted by jrandom

Yup. Surprisingly good day today. Perfect conditions.

My evil twin from a parallel universe (who doesn't have a licence either)

He knows I'd disapprove of that.

very clever as always,

can't rep you atm Dan,

hope your evil twin had as much fun as I did today

F/F

**Grahameeboy** · 23rd August 2008, 17:09

Originally Posted by jrandom

Yup. Surprisingly good day today. Perfect conditions.

My evil twin from a parallel universe (who doesn't have a licence either) took a large black crayon out along Old North/Peak/16/Woodcocks and back again.

I figure it must have been a crayon he made the stripes on the road with, not a GSX1400, because he'd never break the law and ride while disqualified.

He knows I'd disapprove of that.

Naughty Boy...

**Kiwi Graham:Me** · 23rd August 2008, 18:20

Originally Posted by jrandom

Yup. Surprisingly good day today. Perfect conditions.

My evil twin from a parallel universe (who doesn't have a licence either) took a large black crayon out along Old North/Peak/16/Woodcocks and back again.

I figure it must have been a crayon he made the stripes on the road with, not a GSX1400, because he'd never break the law and ride while disqualified.

He knows I'd disapprove of that.

It's amazing!! the more you play with crayons the more foooked your tyres look!!! go figure ay!

**erik** · 24th August 2008, 01:02

Firefight, good to hear you were out on 22 as well.

I took the sv650s out on SH22 today for the first time. Metvuw.com showed it was going to start raining by lunchtime, but I ddin't see any rain. I left papakura around 9:20, went down ridge road to tuakau, SH22, Heatherington rd, waikokowai rd, rotowaro rd back to waingaro rd then to ngaruawahia, then back up waingaro rd/SH22, turned into hetherington rd again, saw a cruiser being put onto the back of a trailer (iirc, it might've been a ute), then rotongaro rd, glen murray rd back to SH22 and back through tuakau and ridge road to auckland.

On the way back, the roads had pretty much dried out, it was good. I didn't see many other bikes out either, aside from the cruiser I remember seeing an R6 and another sports bike I think that I'd seen in ngaruawahia and then saw them again when I was heading up SH22 and they were coming back down it.

I had a good ride, getting to know the sv and also testing a clutch modification I'd done on friday night to stop my hand getting sore, it seems to have worked, so hopefully I'll be good to go for the trackday at taupo on friday and a bit more up-to-speed after having done another road ride on the sv.

**SeppoDave** · 24th August 2008, 08:07

Yeah, not too bad yesterday. Way better than today!! I rode to work (in Orewa) then rode north to Woodcocks Rd, SH16, Peak Rd, Old North etc. Captured a little video with my new ATC3k. Watch me go wide!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHZ4ShvpYQ8

Erik - I'll be there on Friday as well, I'll come and say g'day. It will be my first track day with the new KTM. I can't wait! You'll love your SV650. I had a 2001 SV, it was a great track bike as long as the straights weren't too long. Here's a photo of me at a track in Queensland. It's Darlington Park before it got closed down. Bummer.

**Taz** · 24th August 2008, 08:38

would be better seppo if you could hear the bike rather than music......

**SeppoDave** · 24th August 2008, 08:40

Yeah, unfortunately the mic on the camera is shit. There are mods for it though, like taping it up, cracking it open and jamming felt around it etc. I'll get it sorted soon.

**Taz** · 24th August 2008, 08:50

Wasn't really a criticism(sp) I just like to hear the bikes

**erik** · 24th August 2008, 10:22

Originally Posted by SeppoDave

Yeah, not too bad yesterday. Way better than today!! I rode to work (in Orewa) then rode north to Woodcocks Rd, SH16, Peak Rd, Old North etc. Captured a little video with my new ATC3k. Watch me go wide!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHZ4ShvpYQ8

Erik - I'll be there on Friday as well, I'll come and say g'day. It will be my first track day with the new KTM. I can't wait! You'll love your SV650. I had a 2001 SV, it was a great track bike as long as the straights weren't too long. Here's a photo of me at a track in Queensland. It's Darlington Park before it got closed down. Bummer.

Woodcocks road/West Coast Road is a good one. Got to watch out for cops on it though, I guess they use it to get from warkworth to SH16.
Lucky you didn't meet any oncoming traffic when you went wide. Better to stay wide going into the corner, then tip in when you can see the exit (late apexing).

I've got to sort out a camera mount for the sv today for taupo.

See you there.

**Firefight** · 24th August 2008, 13:07

Originally Posted by erik

Firefight, good to hear you were out on 22 as well.

I took the sv650s out on SH22 today for the first time. Metvuw.com showed it was going to start raining by lunchtime, but I ddin't see any rain. I left papakura around 9:20, went down ridge road to tuakau, SH22, Heatherington

On the way back, the roads had pretty much dried out, it was good. I didn't see many other bikes out either, aside from the cruiser I remember seeing an R6 and another sports bike I think that I'd seen in ngaruawahia and then saw them again when I was heading up SH22 and they were coming back down it.

.

hey Erik, long time no see/hear from etc,

would have been good to hook up,

I rode down and meet up with a guy on a R1, left him at hetherington intersection and tried to get hold of Rendy and Rino, saw the R6 and the other bike when I was heading back (north), they looked like they were having a good ride, I was on a calf shit yellow gixxer 600 (like Cajuns)

.. how is your sv . am still suprised at the lack of bikes given how shit the weather has been lately..

good ;luck for Taupo mate

F/F

**sinfull** · 24th August 2008, 13:31

Originally Posted by SeppoDave

Captured a little video with my new ATC3k. Watch me go wide!

Tis great to see others vids of their rides (particuly at the mo, though it's no where near the real thing)
But was i the only one tilting my head up and trying to look further around the corners ? Could be just camera angle, but as ya speed came up so did ya head !
Road looks really rough and i started thinking just prior to yr little *wide*
that it looked like you were focusing on what your tyres were gonna run through rather than where you wanted to be !
(hope you don't mind constructive blah blah) Know i am guilty of it myself and yeah track days sure help with it !

**smoky** · 24th August 2008, 13:49

Originally Posted by Firefight

...
it was good to see a few riders out on 22 today

Due to my ESL (enrish second lanugage) I missed meeting up with two FC brothers, but despite that and the bike I have been loaned(spazookishita) had a great thrash on my old fav road again...

suprising not to see many out today, those I passsed I hope you thought i was passing carefully

.. (given all the talk on kb on this matter lately I have tried to keep that in mind when passing others)

Nice to talk to the guy on the red and white R1, sorry I don't recall your name or if you were a kber.. your pace was good for someone who has not been on 22 before.. if you are reading this, just remember ride at your own pace, and pm me if you want to go over that road again,I will be more than happy to show you the road again (and a few others) ....

It’s all in the way you say it, imagine if some others on KB had posted it, the kind of people everyone loves to jump all over and criticise;

“Thrashed someone else’s bike along 22, lots of slow riders that I went passed
Hey guy on the R1 you don’t have a shit show of going as fast as me cause I know the road, pm me if you want your arse kicked again (that goes for anyone else that thinks they’re good enough)……”