Auckland ride Tuesday 15th

**ktulu** · 15th March 2005, 12:29

haha, Man when I lived down on the farm down there the boundary of the farm was the runway pretty much, would have been pretty easy to do if you were that way inclined.

Of course you would have had to dodge firefight driving the big truck across the side of the hills.

The old man was on his farm bike next to the security fence by the runway one day and some security guys came along and asked him to leave, pretty tight

**Mr Skid** · 15th March 2005, 12:49

Originally Posted by bugjuice

lol.. my bro can show you the results of a CBR 250 RR on gravel..

Amateur.

He would have benefited from having the triple R version..

**bugjuice** · 15th March 2005, 13:08

Originally Posted by paparazzi

Amateur.

He would have benefited from having the triple R version..

lol.. I'll tell him that..
He was doing about 80 odd round a corner heading up to Goat Island, behind me, on the road. The cars had thrown all the gravel up to the edge of the road, and he took a corner a little wider than he should and hit the gravel. All went tits up from there.. broke his leg going thru a post, and broke the post. He's still waiting a second op, which is scheduled for Easter Friday..
Oh, and it was my cbr, not his..

**swanman** · 15th March 2005, 19:41

Well a bits and pieces ride. Scooterboy/Swanman/Dan/Bugjuice. Got together so we had a nice group of bikes R1S, zx10R, zx636 and GSXR1000. Headed off back of Kumeu and did a few kays of wheelies. Then settled down and Bujuice videoed us doing our stuff until we got moved on.

Then headed up to Kaukopakopa, where Bugjuice got a slow puncture repaired. On the way back Bugjuice took the lead and showed us his wheelie potential until his exhaust can decided to go loose. Mate you must be wheelieing so hard your bike is falling apart under you!

Dan is obviously a rolling stoppie guy, Mike is well up there with his monos and sparking knee sliders. Well looking forward to Bugjuice posting the video clips here soon as so we can all have a larf.

Surely this is what KB is all about, bikers getting together and riding bikes. Bring it on.

**justsomeguy** · 15th March 2005, 20:14

Originally Posted by ktulu

Haha, you took that photo from just outside my house. Well it was my house until about amonth ago when I shifted.... crack up

Really??? I love that bit of road...... great for testing your acceleration.

Not much of a place to ride as it's pretty short...... but a still a sweet bit of real estate :spudbooge

**justsomeguy** · 15th March 2005, 20:15

Originally Posted by swanman

Surely this is what KB is all about, bikers getting together and riding bikes. Bring it on.

You said it........ never a dull moment out here........and the best thing is 99.99% of you guys manage to do it all while remaining respectful to others

Keep it up

**bugjuice** · 15th March 2005, 20:19

R1S? What's that?

anyhoo, nice bunch of bikes, shame a) mine was the smallest (never thought that would happen after moving on from a 250!); b) I had a puncture (jinxed from talking about it earlier in a thread) and c) me can was fallin off!!

Managed to get a few in tho before the can let go completely, and starting to get more comfortable with it now, so just practice needed as always. The other guys... well, I'm a nothing in their shadow.. all of them just have the knack.. Even a high-speed front wheel rise over a crest from SBNZ on the ZX10 as he passed me cos I had to back off. Nicely up around 160 on onwards. Pretty impressive to say the least.

We got about 2 mins 30 of messin around, shame we didn't really find a place to carry on. Have to do it again some time. I'll download the footage at work tomorrow and post it, but might have to zip it first so I can attach it. Will try to keep the file size down!

now to get that tyre and exhaust fixed!

**sAsLEX** · 15th March 2005, 20:21

Originally Posted by bugjuice

We got about 2 mins 30 of messin around, shame we didn't really find a place to carry on. Have to do it again some time. I'll download the footage at work tomorrow and post it, but might have to zip it first so I can attach it. Will try to keep the file size down!

now to get that tyre and exhaust fixed!

might be better to set up a website somewhere to host it, as vids can be a bit hard to attach otherwise.

lookin forward to the vids, but not the test i have tomorrow!!

**bugjuice** · 15th March 2005, 20:25

Originally Posted by sAsLEX

might be better to set up a website somewhere to host it, as vids can be a bit hard to attach otherwise.

lookin forward to the vids, but not the test i have tomorrow!!

true.. any offers? I haven't got any space anywhere at the moment.. no idea on how big, can't see it being anywhere near 10mb, but I'll balance out the size for the quality..

**swanman** · 15th March 2005, 20:27

Originally Posted by bugjuice

R1S? What's that?

It's the latest model of R1 full alpha numeric is YZF-R1S

**scooterboynz** · 15th March 2005, 20:27

good little spin tonight ,, pity it got dark so quick ,, i could have gone for longer ,, keep practising bugjuice! i saw one good little wheelie from ya! pity bout your exhaust wobbling around. cant wait to see the video footage , can it be done on "slo mo"? might have to find somewere else a little further out next time

**Mr Skid** · 15th March 2005, 20:34

Originally Posted by bugjuice

lol.. I'll tell him that..
He was doing about 80 odd round a corner heading up to Goat Island, behind me, on the road. The cars had thrown all the gravel up to the edge of the road, and he took a corner a little wider than he should and hit the gravel. All went tits up from there.. broke his leg going thru a post, and broke the post. He's still waiting a second op, which is scheduled for Easter Friday..
Oh, and it was my cbr, not his..

Wouldn't have been a problem on the RRR spec.. The 21" front wheel means it glides serenely over gravel and undulations in the road surface.

**swanman** · 15th March 2005, 20:36

Originally Posted by scooterboynz

might have to find somewere else a little further out next time

Can anyone make a genuine call on where wheelie practice is totally cool. What we want is a deserted runway really, but failing that???

**justsomeguy** · 15th March 2005, 20:37

Originally Posted by bugjuice

lol.. I'll tell him that..
He was doing about 80 odd round a corner heading up to Goat Island, behind me, on the road. The cars had thrown all the gravel up to the edge of the road, and he took a corner a little wider than he should and hit the gravel. All went tits up from there.. broke his leg going thru a post, and broke the post. He's still waiting a second op, which is scheduled for Easter Friday..
Oh, and it was my cbr, not his..

I remember you telling us that story the other evening at that bar

........ good thing I'm not queasy

Any permanent damage??