Southern Cross road rally, April 07

[shafty]

My bike is serviced, checked, new tyres fitted, Panniers and rear bag loaded, and I'll be on my way at 8:30 in the morning. Looking forward to meeting you all.

Have a good ride up Jantar, be good to meet ya, maybe at breakfast.

Geez the bike shops (And Ferries) must do well out of these events!
New tyres (straight off the shelf, phew), tiedowns, topbox, electric gizmo's, radar brackets etc etc! - don't look at the bottom line, just sign the chit!

With the changing of the route each SX too, it's cool that some Guys start out like you this week, while others of us will be wandering home after the big km's.

I HOPE to pickup from Taupo tommorrow a top box I ordered I a month + ago - the actual top box was no problem, but I've been waiting for a slow boat from Italy with the required custom ST plate! Cutting it a bit fine, but worse case scenario, I'll just ditch the extra champagne and caviar from my packing list.

The weather forecast looks fab so far too. CAn't wait to get crackin!

[Highlander]

Tis promising to be a good week.

Quite looking forward to it in a "not quite sure what to expect" sort of way.

Service, new chain and two new tyres yesterday. Packing tomorrow afternoon.

Guess I'll have to Scrub the tyres on the way to New Plymouth Sunday arvo.

[Krusti]

Will be looking forward to your write up Shafty on how the ST went.

Have fun guys...

[ducatijim]

Or you could join Jantar and I (and anyone else who shows up) at Okato (between New Plymouth and the start) for breakfast 0945 ish Monday. Our bikes are in our profile picks

OK, Shafty an me is travellin togeather ( at least that far!!) an we will see wot wez can do abouts brekki !

[shafty]

COOL! Top box arrived..............(Shafty disappears into the garage with a focussed smirk)

[RichardC]

Okato 09:45 Monday it is then, See you all there, safe travels.
Richard

[DesmoJohnny]

Excellent - have checked the bike over,all good.
New(ish) rear tyre,front will be ok (hopefully-at least until the trip home),cleaned the chain,got me some tie-downs and puncture repair kit.
Fitted the pack rack,tall screen and even got a decent 2lt fuel container!
Now just got to wait for Sunday to get the ferry....
Guess I better pack too

Safe trip everyone, see you for brekkie.
Johno

[ducatijim]

shafty;1021243]COOL! Top box arrived

Maaate...when u lives in Tga, WTF did you get your topbox from Taupo? Closest dealer?

[Jantar]

I arrived in Kaikoura tonight, exactly 8 hours after leaving Alexandra. It was a very pleasant and uneventful ride with almost no idiots in the many cages. I did get a suprise on the Christchurch Northern motorway, when I glanced down and saw that my radar detector was displaying a full alert on the laser band as I was approaching an overbridge, but there was no noise. Fortunately I wasn't exceeding the limit so no ticket. I did stop at the first rest area and make a temporary repair to a broken wire, so now its all working again.

Crossing tomorrow afternoon.

[banditrider]

Gidday, just joined this forum. Will probably meet some of you guys on the Southern Cross. It's my second one - can't wait.

http://banditrider.blogspot.com/

[MaxB]

Had the fairing off to fix a wiring harness mount under the tank. It failed and dropped a chocolate block into the radiator fan. No damage thankfully. All fixed. Better now than on the rally. Sailed through the warrant so the bike is all done.

Just the packing and the sheepskin to do on then I'm good to go.

I'll probably introduce myself on Monday at the cafe. My ZZR is a 2-tone grey model.

Ride Safe.

[shafty]

Maaate...when u lives in Tga, WTF did you get your topbox from Taupo? Closest dealer?

Good spotting....smarter than the average beer...........I won a $200 prize at the Four Points Rally, redeemable at Trike Works, so applied that to my Top Box purchase, meaning I only needed to leave one arm at the shop!

Don't worry, still got my throttle and drinking arm.

[ducatijim]

Bloody good to get somfin 4 nofin @ trikeworx! All installed now I guess?

[Highlander]

Gidday, just joined this forum. Will probably meet some of you guys on the Southern Cross. It's my second one - can't wait.

http://banditrider.blogspot.com/

Hey there Bandit Rider, Welcome to KiwiBiker. Joining us for Brekky Monday or just going to try and track down some of us at the Start?

I think I'm all packed. Just been to top up the tank and zero the trip meter. Now waiting for mid day tomorrow when Shafty and I will make our start.

See you on the way somewhere.

Ride safe.

[banditrider]

Hey there Bandit Rider, Welcome to KiwiBiker. Joining us for Brekky Monday or just going to try and track down some of us at the Start?

I think I'm all packed. Just been to top up the tank and zero the trip meter. Now waiting for mid day tomorrow when Shafty and I will make our start.

See you on the way somewhere.

Ride safe.

Hiya, staying in Hawera for the night Sunday. Will make our way quietly up to the start monday morning. Mate & I are both on blue Bandits, meeting some other guys at the start too. Big turnout this year - last I heard there was over 100 booked. Roll on monday!