South Auckland Street Skills

[Big Dog]

It wasn't white and silver-ish (grey)?

If that was who waved at the bearded dude with a nearly one year old. Hard to tell with the sun behind.

When the group was approaching I instinctively nodded then had a good laugh at that. Meanwhile miss started jumping up and down on my hip and waving.
When the biker waved back she giggled like a looney. Miss 2 was waving frantically from inside the car.

Night made.


Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.

[samgab]

If that was who waved at the bearded dude with a nearly one year old. Hard to tell with the sun behind.

When the group was approaching I instinctively nodded then had a good laugh at that. Meanwhile miss started jumping up and down on my hip and waving.
When the biker waved back she giggled like a looney. Miss 2 was waving frantically from inside the car.

Night made.

Ha! The kids are into motorcycles already!

[Big Dog]

Ha! The kids are into motorcycles already!

Yes, massive fans.

Miss 2 yells excitedly every time she sees a bike IRL.


Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.

[eldog]

Has anyone done this lately. Thinking of doing it with the pillion week after next

Doing it it after going to Wanganui for NO part 2. Then New Plymouth then FH
would be keen to go with another rider. Granda if you want to wait till date below.

currently plan to go March 28/29 weather dependant.

if anyone else was keen that would be ok.

[eldog]

Im gunna skite.

Just realized nobody overtook me at the track day.

everyone was lagging behind avoiding the bits of rubber coming off the rear tyre

[samgab]

Tyres that look good sometimes are old and hard. You can date the build time of your tyres. If you buy a second hand bike you dont know how old the tyres are.

Pro Tip, the build date is written on the tyre. Tell me when yours were made....

Okay, so I checked my tyres. Turns out both were manufactured in week 40 of 2014.

[samgab]

Here are some interesting (or possibly, depending on your point of view, mind-numbingly boring and pointless) stats about last Tuesday's ride:

Distances: My home to Z Takanini: 31Kms. Z Takanini to where we stopped at Mercer: 52Kms. Mercer to Broncos, Manukau: 58Kms. Broncos to (my) home: 24Kms.
Total Kms ridden: 165. (The ride took my odo from 93Kms when I started up to 258Kms when I got home.)

Fuel: From filling up at Z Takanini to filling up at Z Mt Albert at the end of the ride: 6.18Ltrs consumed to do 134Kms trip, which equates to 4.61L/100Kms.

[nzspokes]

Here are some interesting (or possibly, depending on your point of view, mind-numbingly boring and pointless) stats about last Tuesday's ride:

Distances: My home to Z Takanini: 31Kms. Z Takanini to where we stopped at Mercer: 52Kms. Mercer to Broncos, Manukau: 58Kms. Broncos to (my) home: 24Kms.
Total Kms ridden: 165. (The ride took my odo from 93Kms when I started up to 258Kms when I got home.)

Fuel: From filling up at Z Takanini to filling up at Z Mt Albert at the end of the ride: 6.18Ltrs consumed to do 134Kms trip, which equates to 4.61L/100Kms.

That will change. For the worse.

[Sis]

Here are some interesting (or possibly, depending on your point of view, mind-numbingly boring and pointless) stats about last Tuesday's ride:

Distances: My home to Z Takanini: 31Kms. Z Takanini to where we stopped at Mercer: 52Kms. Mercer to Broncos, Manukau: 58Kms. Broncos to (my) home: 24Kms.
Total Kms ridden: 165. (The ride took my odo from 93Kms when I started up to 258Kms when I got home.)

Fuel: From filling up at Z Takanini to filling up at Z Mt Albert at the end of the ride: 6.18Ltrs consumed to do 134Kms trip, which equates to 4.61L/100Kms.

I thought that when I wasn't there you did bigger rides. Apparently this is not so.
I can fill at the beginning (put my mileage to zero) and when we get to Broncos (often missing the carpark) it is reading just over 100 kms. This is when we do Waiuku Tuakau Karaka loop

You guys need to toughen up and do a big ride when you say you're going to.

I can see a challenge here......

[granda]

Doing it it after going to Wanganui for NO part 2. Then New Plymouth then FH
would be keen to go with another rider. Granda if you want to wait till date below.

currently plan to go March 28/29 weather dependant.

if anyone else was keen that would be ok.

Date wrong. Got to go back to that dreaded four letter work to appease the creditors. Were thinking next week or weekafter but weather starting to look like mush. Never mind it aint going away.
Spent most of day riding. Out on the GSX round waiaua pa this morning(roadworks by 7 day cafe n vege place. Note for tuesday ride). Then after some home chores out to Clevedon on the VL. Cant waste these great days.

[nzspokes]

Date wrong. Got to go back to that dreaded four letter work to appease the creditors. Were thinking next week or weekafter but weather starting to look like mush. Never mind it aint going away.
Spent most of day riding. Out on the GSX round waiaua pa this morning(roadworks by 7 day cafe n vege place. Note for tuesday ride). Then after some home chores out to Clevedon on the VL. Cant waste these great days.

Go better with suspension sorted?

[eldog]

I thought that when I wasn't there you did bigger rides. Apparently this is not so.
I can fill at the beginning (put my mileage to zero) and when we get to Broncos (often missing the carpark) it is reading just over 100 kms. This is when we do Waiuku Tuakau Karaka loop

You guys need to toughen up and do a big ride when you say you're going to.

I can see a challenge here......

last week I did the tues night ride

i did did the same run Thursday and included the end of the waiuku run, grandas favourite
made it home just in time for curfew. Unlike Tuesday when we got talking.

i have already done a big ride recently, it wasn't a challenge. It was a great boogie out in the middle of the island. It was a great unplanned trip. No balls no car parks. Just me and the road, and the odd other road user, who were very nice. The roads were on the whole much better than Sth all tar bleed crap.

pity more SASS members weren't on the ride.

i passed Yes I PASSED about 20 other bikers who were pooling along on their Harley's.
very gratious they were too true story

CHALLENGE

maybe we should do a 300 k run no fuel stops that would be a challenge

[eldog]

Date wrong. Got to go back to that dreaded four letter work to appease the creditors. Were thinking next week or weekafter but weather starting to look like mush. Never mind it aint going away.
Spent most of day riding. Out on the GSX round waiaua pa this morning(roadworks by 7 day cafe n vege place. Note for tuesday ride). Then after some home chores out to Clevedon on the VL. Cant waste these great days.

know the feeling, I did that at last week at SASS. The rocks are this week

spent half the day sorting my bike stuff

[nzspokes]

I thought that when I wasn't there you did bigger rides. Apparently this is not so.
I can fill at the beginning (put my mileage to zero) and when we get to Broncos (often missing the carpark) it is reading just over 100 kms. This is when we do Waiuku Tuakau Karaka loop

You guys need to toughen up and do a big ride when you say you're going to.

I can see a challenge here......

My current big rides tend to be round and round in circles.

Thats about to change.

Tuesdays if Im picking up Sharry are in the 200 to 250k range.

[eldog]

My current big rides tend to be round and round in circles.

Thats about to change.

Tuesdays if Im picking up Sharry are in the 200 to 250k range.

You do one hell off a lot of riding, even putting up with us, that's challenge enough.

i am going to do more longer rides in the next month or two. To see if that's what I want to do.