Chch Wednesday Night Cruises 2009-10

**phoenixgtr** · 18th March 2010, 12:38

Originally Posted by helenoftroy

Didnt ride last night,did dessert,wine, & coffee with the girlfriends instead....the conversation was all about recycling bins,hot flushes & the latest dermal-fillers.... sat there soo wishing I was riding!!

Hmmm, well how...interesting

**been_there** · 18th March 2010, 13:00

Originally Posted by brp

Cheers to Mr Daytona for the extra light sitting in behind on the way home, one of those old school bicycle dynamo's would throw out as much light as the current set up

No probs, knew you had stuff all of a light...blast from the past.

Originally Posted by brp

Traffic officer last night ? Where was the wee ecilop ?

Remember you didnt have much light so u may of missed him..lol
not that we where speeding anyway

But I am sure glad we didn't get to see, talk or get alternative ride home a

**kerryhare** · 18th March 2010, 13:50

Originally Posted by Dave-

I work sundays. it's shit.

I agree, I get very few weekends off.

**Spuds1234** · 18th March 2010, 16:12

Originally Posted by kerryhare

I agree, I get very few weekends off.

Its not so much having both weekend days off (which is nice), its more having 2 days off in a row. Hell having Thursday and Friday off is often better to go shopping etc on because there are fewer people around.

**cruza** · 18th March 2010, 16:36

Originally Posted by helenoftroy

Didnt ride last night,did dessert,wine, & coffee with the girlfriends instead....the conversation was all about recycling bins,hot flushes & the latest dermal-fillers.... sat there soo wishing I was riding!!

Yeah after having a lovely dinner, a logburner roaring and a few amaretto's ,strangely the bike didn't look to appealing after that

be there for last ride of season.

**cruza** · 18th March 2010, 16:42

Originally Posted by kerryhare

I agree, I get very few weekends off.

Yeah working a roster can be hard at times, really have to look ahead and plan leave aye. think I end up with one full weekend every 3 mths , other than that its either sat or a sun off.

...But I have this sunday off..........hmmm maybe a pie run

**kerryhare** · 18th March 2010, 17:04

Originally Posted by cruza

...But I have this sunday off..........hmmm maybe a pie run

I am working sat and sun this week. So is Brent and i am sure he would like to go for a decent ride without having to worry about me.

**brp** · 18th March 2010, 18:35

Excellent deal on the motard set-up brp!

Cheers, yeah to good to pass up

So when will we see you out at the track with us racers chasing Budda ???

....come on!you know you want to!....

"Tell me more Helen"

- Won't you racers be winding up soon for winter ?

Would hot lady have site link please for info ?

Didnt ride last night,did dessert,wine, & coffee with the girlfriends instead....the conversation was all about recycling bins,hot flushes & the latest dermal-fillers.... sat there soo wishing I was riding!!

Your girlfreinds sound bikeless ?

Remember you didnt have much light so u may of missed him..lol

not that we where speeding anyway

But I am sure glad we didn't get to see, talk or get alternative ride home a

Could of been riding home as pillion of a fellow KB'er

**maxf** · 18th March 2010, 19:37

Hey all - slight follow-up from last night, bit of a replay of the puncture saga of last week...

Must have got it last night, but a carpet tack makes for a nice slow puncture - no problems last night, but 10psi this morning for work. So, out with the Innovations kit - and for those of you still looking to buy one:

- don't buy the one with the small cannisters. All 3 of my smalls barely got to 24PSI in the rear tyre, and that with some residual pressure already in there. The big ones FollowMe had (abt 5 inches long by 2 diameter) are probably the minimum for reasonable non-scooter bikes...
- check your set has some reasonable amount of glue ... mine was pitiful (even if it hadn't all dried up too - luckily the hole was tiny and the "rubber string" has really bedded in well, and even then if the whole string went I'd still only have a small original hole/slow rate of deflation)
- still think the old BMW OEM puncture kit had it right on the money with including a little fold-out razor blade for the plug and a piece of chalk to mark the hole - the one tonight was hard to see in daylight, let alone if it was darker/wet.

Anyway, will checkout the replacements tomorrow.

Probably can't make anything this weekend either - doing a big system migration at work, will be babysitting software off-&-on all weekend...

**dangerous** · 18th March 2010, 19:51

Originally Posted by brp

"Tell me more Helen"

- Won't you racers be winding up soon for winter ?

winter is just the start of our racing...

**helenoftroy** · 18th March 2010, 20:45

Originally Posted by brp

"Tell me more Helen"

- Won't you racers be winding up soon for winter ?

Would hot lady have site link please for info ?

Like Dangerous says - winter is for racing.There are meets at least every 4 wks,some months even more

Cant do a link sorry but there is a racing & a motard forum on here....theres a bunch of us that race...Im sure someone can tell you more

Oh & brp.....we all wear leathers at the track!!

**brp** · 19th March 2010, 07:24

Max "You jinked yourself with all that talk about puncture repair kits at the Gretea"

Cheers guys and gals

"Leathers" heard that was the word on the wire, was looking at getting some for the road anyway - as much as I'd like to see "Hot lady" in her nurse's uniform at burwood I'm not keen on the skin grafts

**maxf** · 19th March 2010, 09:24

Originally Posted by brp

Max "You jinked yourself with all that talk about puncture repair kits at the Gretea"

Yeah, guess so - just hope I didn't jinx a 1000km-old $300 tyre! So you finally got the XR started... is it demanding the TLC now winter is here?

**helenoftroy** · 19th March 2010, 10:44

Originally Posted by brp

"Leathers" heard that was the word on the wire, was looking at getting some for the road anyway - as much as I'd like to see "Hot lady" in her nurse's uniform at burwood I'm not keen on the skin grafts

Man your a cheeky sod!

Originally Posted by maxf

Yeah, guess so - just hope I didn't jinx a 1000km-old $300 tyre! So you finally got the XR started... is it demanding the TLC now winter is here?

maxf surely your puncture escapades are done for now!but all good tips - I will check my kits

So the XR was a bit of a tart to start!!Hope theyre not all like that.....

**brp** · 19th March 2010, 11:19

Matey turned my idle up day we discovered bit of water in the fuel - I turned it down to far - since ya not meant to have any throttle on when starting it took a few kicks till I gave the throttle a wee flick - if ya just relax with it - it starts well - easy said than done when 40 motorbikes are leaving you on Marshlands - the gentlemen on the beamer stopping to see if I was alright seemed to do the trick and up it fired. Cheers Max - you're a great wingman

(Great starting bikes - get it right on the money using the decomp and its like kicking over a 100

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