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    Quote Originally Posted by danchop View Post
    thurs at about 5pm i set off from auckland airport on my 125cc scooter down to te awamutu and then across to taupo and back up to auckland,got home at about 3am,596km all up
    give us an insight into your most rediculous ride
    You must be keen. I found 45 minutes on my UZ125 was as much as my arse could handle.
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    Quote Originally Posted by awa355 View Post
    You must be keen. I found 45 minutes on my UZ125 was as much as my arse could handle.
    really i find them comfortable as and ive got a skinny ass..
    i rode all day on it doing my normal courier work then at 5pm they ask if i could do these fonterra deliveries to 3 farmers,thought about going home to swap bikes but thought id try it on the uz,wasnt too bad actually,got 3 hours sleep before restarting work on friday

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    Sorry guys- great stories - but Carver has Pwned you yet again.....


    Retired- just some guy with a few bikes......

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    Quote Originally Posted by cave weta View Post
    Sorry guys- great stories - but Carver has Pwned you yet again.....


    who the fuck tries to compete with that nutter?

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    Quote Originally Posted by MSTRS View Post
    A year or three back, 2 madmen from Orks went to ChCh and rode an old Suzuki A100 (I think) back to Orks. There a thread on here somewhere in the form of a diary...
    This might be the one? http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...use-of-couches


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    Quote Originally Posted by Squiggles View Post
    Yep, I followed this as they posted and it was indeed epic. Riding two up to Wellington on that bike, pulling wheelies through road works.

    If you have a chance the thread in this last post is worth a read.

    They could have published a book.
    A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single motorcycle

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    Another EPIC are the boys from Whakatane riding across Africa, from bottom to top then to London. No electronic navigation gear, crappy bikes, 250 trail bike and two other old bikes. Anyone whose ridden these sorts of bikes for a few hours would know this journey was epic.

    They even made the journey into a movie.
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    I remember about 10 years ago i use to go to the parachute music festival in matamata one guy had come on his nifty fifty from wellington

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    I rode to work on a Hyosung. Does that count?

    Fanny.

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    Quote Originally Posted by auntfanny View Post
    I rode to work on a Hyosung. Does that count?

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    Just to divert a little. 600k's on a Jog is a major effort, but at least he's sitting down with the engine doing the work.

    I wonder sometimes at the cyclists with loaded up front panniers, a handlebar luggage bin, two rear panniers loaded up and hittings the Parapara's in a head wind, and having to pedal ! Are they REAL men or just plain dumb??

    Think I'll take the 50cc anyday,
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    Quote Originally Posted by danchop View Post
    i rode all day on it doing my normal courier work then at 5pm they ask if i could do these fonterra deliveries to 3 farmers,thought about going home to swap bikes but thought id try it on the uz,wasnt too bad actually,got 3 hours sleep before restarting work on friday
    You get paid to ride!!!!! sweet!!! didnt know there was scooter couriers.
    Theres no such thing as right or wrong , just popular opinion.

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