Mobil garage Glenavy: Thanks mate
While heading off for a 5 day Triumph Owners tour of the North Otago area and attending an overnighter at the Beaumont Hotel, during the trip down last Friday my mate on an 03 Bonneville had a spoke snap and punch a huge hole in his inner tube. Worst still the spoke connector was completly gone at the rim leaving a huge hole that no emergency tyre pando had a hope of hell fixing. We decided to push the bike the 800 metres back to Mobil garage at Glenavy in the hope the garage could help us. The garage owner was very obliging but had no 18" tubes so I hop onto my bike head off the 23km to Oamaru for a spare and return. It is then while fixing the tyre we find out the garage owner has 25 Triumphs off all vintage along with a few Harleys. He finds the shattered spoke inside the tyre and rim and re-screws the spoke connector back in place and refits the tyre in quick time and we are back on the road again only having lost an hour.
Its guys like this that make bike riders like us appreciative that they are willing to down tools and help riders in need. OH yeah the tour went well with the highlights being the Tuapeka barge ride across the Clutha river, the road between Rees junction and Gore. We also took in the Catlins staying at Kaka point the night then back through Beaumont to Wanaka via the Crown range then the weather in Haast packed up so we came back through the pig route and onto Christchurch after a night in Oamaru.
Cheers Corky
Christchurch, New Zealand
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Originally Posted by skidmark
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