SMCTNR - SMC Thursday Night Ride

**Phurrball** · 14th May 2009, 22:44

Originally Posted by motorbyclist

was busy helping a certain viffer owner remove his header pipes, so that he could replace his cracked sump.

oil change fail!

What the...

And aye, that wee vid indeed puts the ARRRRRRR in Viffarrrrr

**motorbyclist** · 20th May 2009, 01:33

weather looks good!

of course, I won't be able to make it due to the 48film screening, but i'll be there in spirit!

**macros87** · 20th May 2009, 10:31

test at 6 and i just wouldnt be keen after a test anyway..

**motorbyclist** · 28th May 2009, 01:29

tonight we are most definitely riding

the weatehr is and has been mint, so i'll be leaving uni around 6:30 to head up to kumeu

see ya'll there!

**gavjn** · 28th May 2009, 10:53

so thats a 7pm leave from kumueu then?

**motorbyclist** · 28th May 2009, 11:17

yep!

i've got a rear tyre to finish off

**gavjn** · 28th May 2009, 16:55

is it at all posible for sum1 to bring sum chain lube? moved in2 town and dont have any

wud apreciate it heeeaaaps

**Slyer** · 28th May 2009, 18:01

I'll bring some.

**motorbyclist** · 28th May 2009, 19:54

right, I think we need to have a little talk with the petrol tap bandit who clearly hasn't considered that not all taps work the same:

for the SECOND time now, my tap has been left in a half way to off position. the result? reserve is left open. both times i checked it as the trip meter passed the usual 200km mark where reserve should kick in.

tonight, probably due to recent pillioning, reserve ran out unexpectedly short.

this could have been avoided if the trip meter was set at the correct time the tank met reserve.

end result: me and danae had a very long push along the motorway when we should have been at BP kumeu filling up the tank, which now has 3L of Mobil fuel that smells like varnish. we also had to bump start the bike (very difficult on empty carbs) as the battery went flat trying to keep us visible while in the emergency lane/offramp.

cheers, dickhead. next time check it is in the OFF position.

this also applies to the time my bike magically got onto reserve, luckily i found out soon enough.

**Ragingrob** · 28th May 2009, 19:58

I agree fuel taps shouldn't be played with. Last time mine was, my bike started cutting out when I was splitting between two lanes of traffic on the motorway on ramp, not a fun feeling having to try and cut across in between two cars and across a bloody truck lane with power rapidly dying.

**Danae** · 28th May 2009, 20:21

Lots of fun pushing the riffer to the sound of "Celebrate Good Times" playing at the petrol station. ]: Thankfully two kind samaritans helped and we got it started. I've never had so much exercise in such a short space of time, excluding dirtbiking cos that was actually fun.

No TNR for us arrghh!!

**motorbyclist** · 28th May 2009, 21:13

Originally Posted by Danae

I've never had so much exercise in such a short space of time, excluding dirtbiking cos that was actually fun.

to the pub!

**Real_Wolf** · 28th May 2009, 22:25

heh, I ran outta gas too. Some kind person went to a petrol station and came back with some gas, and jaffa and sam found me.

Got a bit of fuel in, started it up, and got to a petrol station, filled up, all good, went on the ride, all good, had fun, all good, coming back and wondering if we were taking tunnel or not, and ended up taking tunnel, all good, go to change down a gear in tunnel, wait, why am i not hitting my gear lever.

Look down by my left foot, its hanging off. Stop at next exit by orewa, and sure enough, the rod that goes from the gear lever to the actual gear um, whats the word, yeah, thats fallen off. And I'm in sixth (fifth after Baddog managed to make it change a gear). So we push it to the top, i do a bit of running adn clutch it in fifth. Luckily, its got some low down power so could keep it running fine all the way home. All lights were green.