Epic Adventure Part 3: Brown Fury heads to the BIKOI

**motorbyclist** · 20th November 2009, 01:15

home!

yep - brown fury isn't feeling too good at the moment; Big thanks to all those that helped (especially paul at Action Suzuki) and the rescue mission preparations are already underway!

Danae and/or myself will probably retrospectively do the 5 day write up shortly, including what went wrong and the plan from here (it involves a .5mm bore out and a little honda that just wouldn't give up!)

**Danae** · 20th November 2009, 07:49

+ photos!

**Slyer** · 20th November 2009, 07:50

More like a Honda rider who won't give up!
You can never ever accuse me of wasting money again.

**PirateJafa** · 20th November 2009, 07:51

Fuck me, we're getting good at this.

**motorbyclist** · 20th November 2009, 15:23

Originally Posted by Slyer

More like a Honda rider who won't give up!
You can never ever accuse me of wasting money again.

what? This isn't a waste of money any more than petrol or an oil change is - I consider a $200 top end rebuild every 2000km part of the running costs

(seriously; this was actually budgeted for and is all part of the fun)

**Slyer** · 20th November 2009, 15:30

Exactly.

All part of the fun.

**retro asian** · 20th November 2009, 16:40

Looking forward to your write up.

Toto and I did Auckland-Napier via the East Cape (opposite side to you fullas). 900kms, 16 hours of riding on day one, too many twisties to count, weather was perfect, tired grins from ear to ear...

**PirateJafa** · 20th November 2009, 22:18

Originally Posted by Slyer

Exactly.

All part of the fun.

Oh snap. Motorbyclist KO'd. Slyer wins this round!

**motorbyclist** · 21st November 2009, 14:21

Originally Posted by retro asian

Looking forward to your write up.

Toto and I did Auckland-Napier via the East Cape (opposite side to you fullas). 900kms, 16 hours of riding on day one, too many twisties to count, weather was perfect, tired grins from ear to ear...

psssh me and jafa did that mid winter (epic adventure part1) - Christchurch-Neslon-east cape-Auckland sticking to the coast the whole way.

over 2000km and ten days

Originally Posted by PirateJafa

Oh snap. Motorbyclist KO'd. Slyer wins this round!

hey, I never bought brown fury with the stated plan of "spending a bit of money to make a $300 bike as good as a $3k"

I bought a $1k bike with the stated goal of keeping her value and touring until selling, and then being lucky to break even on the cost of getting her to auckland

**Slyer** · 21st November 2009, 15:27

Originally Posted by motorbyclist

psssh me and jafa did that mid winter (epic adventure part1) - Christchurch-Neslon-east cape-Auckland sticking to the coast the whole way.

over 2000km and ten days

hey, I never bought brown fury with the stated plan of "spending a bit of money to make a $300 bike as good as a $3k"

I bought a $1k bike with the stated goal of keeping her value and touring until selling, and then being lucky to break even on the cost of getting her to auckland

You paid a grand for that! Ha!

**motorbyclist** · 22nd November 2009, 00:14

Originally Posted by Slyer

You paid a grand for that! Ha!

and how much have you spent on yours, considering they're both worth about $1k?

**Slyer** · 22nd November 2009, 00:50

Originally Posted by motorbyclist

and how much have you spent on yours, considering they're both worth about $1k?

Yet again you greatly underestimate the GPX.

**Ixion** · 22nd November 2009, 17:53

Stop arguing. Won't someone think of the poor little two smoker, so cruelly abused.

What do you people DO to them

And how we going to get the poor little fellow home, to be lovingly nursed back to health by Dr Block and Nurse Mallet.