Enigma
Don't mind the shit weather we've been having. Looked at the bike in the garage and put the battery minder on.
Be a little while yet for a ride ,running in a new hip now (after a knee a year ago).
Getting out of a chair while watching the bloody All Blacks three weeks ago, popped the hip out. Trip to Palmy Hosp by ambo and lots of waiting.
Got nice drugs and they popped it back in...
Looking forward to a fang in time.. Ciao Gazman. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
You'd never go hungry with Nigella Gaz.
If it weren't for flashbacks...I'd have no memory at all..
No8 Wire Extraordinaire
Great view up there Bmwst.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
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See? Rugby is bad for you.
Back yesterday afternoon from a Berm Buster in Taupo forest. Bit stiff but happy.
Drive home in van was a bit white knuckle with hideous winds manuwatu Horowhenua and welly.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
In the riders seat
I had to tie my bike to the fence at the ferry terminal to stop it being blown overOriginally Posted by F5 Dave
"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."
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did you have an interesting ferry trip? Which ferry was it? In my experience(mostly interislander) the Kaitaki and Aratere hardly roll at all regardless of the conditions which I attribute to active stabilizers. Just my understanding of things. I have been on the ferries many many times and all of the sailings were fine even though as a kid I was prone to sea sickness.
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I remember watching that i am Legend movie and the ferry was going forward and aft so it made it like your head was nodding following the screen from ceiling to floor even though you were sitting. Like being on a swing at the park.
Another we strapped the bikes on centrestands (RZ still had one back then) with a strop unceremoniously tighten over the seat as they did while we rode the Vomit Comet (Fastcat thingy). We sat upstairs as the ceiling tiles banged furiously, and I was planning how I'd go get the van to pick up the remains of the bike back when we got to Wellington. I was relieved to find the bike still upright.
Took my own tie downs after that, however.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
In the riders seat
Nah, Slept through it, Livia or something, I always get a cabin now and just go to bed, it went the long way into Picton and I wasn't home till 11.42am because it was late into Welly and late leaving Welly
"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."
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Very Well Done
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Well the wiff said yesterday that it looked like the best day so better get out for a ride. So I did.
Weirdly it was windier at either end of the tukas than on the actual hill.
But great day in the rapa. Love the 765.
Sorry no photo just riding and pie.
But today looks OK too.
Get out there.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
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Cant...bodywork spread out all over the garage in attempt to remove the old GPS mount which is cable tied to every single peice of structure behind the plastics
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the tukas is odd, I've been blown off a bike twice in the last ten years on it, once there was not a breath of qind at the summit but methamfeatherston it was howling.
there's a couple of real bad corners, and they are real slow so when the wind gets you there's no momentum to try and fight it.
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We were going over the hill years back. We're going to take the bike but weather turned so decided to take the wife's car.
Following car and one of those outside corners going down in wet the car ahead, well it looked like God lifted the rear almost off the ground and tossed it like rolling a dice. They spun so the were facing us on wrong side of the road with ashen faces.
He's a right prick sometimes.
Hill closed on return so went via manuwatu with roaring winds over the roof blowing us around.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
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my first one was on a day we had had a 200mph run at the carterton sprints, 320kmh, can't do that in the wind, i stopped at a pub on the way home, asome chips ana pint and headed over the rimutakas, got to one corner a yound lad was parked to one side, i waved he waved back, went around an ess bend and there was drama in the corner, before i could figure it out i was in the air on my Bimota SB3, there were three bikes on the ground, i wnet back and he'd been bl;own off, but didn't think to warn me as he thought it was him being a novice,
i rang the coppers who said they would put something on the radio,
really? like bikes have radios, i suggested they stop each bike, dunno what became of that.
it's a tough road and if you do come into a corner and see a gale it's not so simple to stop and back up or turn around, but do it, as it's vital, as mentioned it's got me twice now.
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I had an incident very similar to that . It was really windy and raining. I think it was the first left right after coming down from the summit(from the rapa). As we approached the left you could see a line of water on the road being blasted by the wind.I turned wide and early so i was sorta head on to the wind as i came round the corner. I swear to this day that my CB900 stopped for an instant..My mate on his GSX1100 said the same.
At times it worse right at the top on this side since they straightened it out a bit than it used to be
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