Moar Bikes

**motorbyclist** · 13th October 2008, 12:25

apparently security guards and the SMC really don't get along

**motorbyclist** · 13th October 2008, 12:30

damn mowers!

go the honda!

"caution, diggers swinging out over road despite passing traffic"

**Slyer** · 13th October 2008, 12:31

Here is an approximate route.
1200km woot!
http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?f=d&sa...2&ie=UTF8&z=10

**motorbyclist** · 13th October 2008, 12:44

loading bikes without wheels onto trailers:

pull out the axle before lying on the side the axle pulls out from
always check that the left hand cover is present before laying it onto the left hand side

long story short, we had to make a wee stop by placemakers to see ross about getting some sand in the trailer

now while jafa and i did prove very effective at talking our way out of trouble while the others pull the beer bottles down from the windows, we still had a bit to learn about avoiding police:

don't drive a station wagon full of people, with a trailer, aimlessly around suburbs at 1am without your headlights on
check that the trailer has a current wof before you leave
having a traffic cone in the back apparently distracts the fun police from technical breach of driver's licence conditions
don't let a westie drive a celica in west auckland late on a saturday night

navigation:

westie knows better than maps
maps from 1986 aren't that accurate anymore
asking at shell stations for directions just leads you to another shell station

budgeting:

we had to get from the hauraki plains to auckland on just $17.60.... sure am glad i didn't buy that ice cream at the previous stop!

automoblies:

oil pressure guages on holdens fail when things get too hot
service records run to 115000km, only service recorded, however, was at 15000km
when, "the odo stopped working at 230,000km", perhaps you should look at another vehicle... maybe even one with air conditioning

**Clivoris** · 13th October 2008, 13:49

Epic journey. If I see any bucket sidecars for sale in Dunedin I will let you know.

**Phurrball** · 13th October 2008, 14:15

That's the best road-trip pictoral sequence ever! [even if the sequence is odd...]

Hurrah for the SMC road trip! A great tradition has begun...

Please tell me that these partial bikes are not joining Squiggles bursting garage... There'll be no room for SMC fix its before long...

Originally Posted by motorbyclist

(snipppy)
long story short, we had to make a wee stop by placemakers to see ross about getting some sand in the trailer

Not to mention that D shackle for the safety chain! Than feck you had that, or the friendly orrificer might not have been so nice to y'all with your dodgy trailer!

Originally Posted by motorbyclist

now while jafa and i did prove very effective at talking our way out of trouble while the others pull the beer bottles down from the windows, we still had a bit to learn about avoiding police:

don't drive a station wagon full of people, with a trailer, aimlessly around suburbs at 1am without your headlights on
check that the trailer has a current wof before you leave
having a traffic cone in the back apparently distracts the fun police from technical breach of driver's licence conditions
don't let a westie drive a celica in west auckland after midnight

(snippy more )

My addition - Police don't like a toot and a friendly wave when they're parked up at night with all their lights off sending radar pulses at suspiciously swift looking cars.

In fact, if you do it twice (soley because your passenger egged you on, of course) they follow you for a while to freak you out and then pull you over to check everything over while claiming you were 'trying to get their attention'

(Disclaimer - All of which I completely deserved for being so cheeky...and it was a few years back, before I became 'old and sensible'™

)

**Squiggles** · 13th October 2008, 16:48

Oh, and we became an honorary truck on the way down to palmy too. Over the desert road we noticed our super speedy guide truck kept winking with the right indicator at all the other trucks. So we decided to try it too. Not sure what the final count was, but I reckon we got at least 30 winks back by the time we reached our destination (and had passed the truck depot 3 times. LOST!)

Oh, and did oyu know that once you tee off a golf ball you hand over ownership of it to the green? So you can't go into the bushes and take the 4 balls you find because that is theft? I woke up on the Hauraki plains to some guy in blue leaning in the window giving us the learn on golfball ownership and eyeing up Conelius. Thay can't take him! No! He is like a child!

**Hanne** · 13th October 2008, 16:49

Oh, and we became an honorary truck on the way down to palmy too. Over the desert road we noticed our super speedy guide truck kept winking with the right indicator at all the other trucks. So we decided to try it too. Not sure what the final count was, but I reckon we got at least 30 winks back by the time we reached our destination (and had passed the truck depot 3 times. LOST!)

Oh, and did oyu know that once you tee off a golf ball you hand over ownership of it to the green? So you can't go into the bushes and take the 4 balls you find because that is theft? I woke up on the Hauraki plains to some guy in blue leaning in the window giving us the learn on golfball ownership and eyeing up Conelius. Thay can't take him! No! He is like a child!

**Hanne** · 13th October 2008, 16:53

Originally Posted by motorbyclist

after another successful trailer through drive thru manuevuer, we went for our midnight playground trip.

it would appear hanne got stuck.... let's all stand there and watch rather than help her down

meanies!