Tauranga Rant and Rave

**mark247** · 2nd August 2007, 18:14

Originally Posted by Cajun

You useless bugger! That's an hour's worth of work...

I told him the same thing...

What does a service involve? Oil, filter, look at the bike for a second, spray some silicon on it to make it look shiny... thats about it...

**hedgier1** · 3rd August 2007, 09:34

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**wybmadiity** · 3rd August 2007, 14:24

Originally Posted by MidnightMike

Ah well, looks like im not coming tonight, bikes in the shop getting serviced.

And hopefully new tyres next week!!!!

What sort of tyres are you looking at mike? .... I put a BT45 on the rear of 250 I used to ride and found it great... Dual compound, hard center, softer edges... I used to commute on it as well, and found it great in the rain, but it really gave me confidence in the corners when on a coro loop etc... Just a thought for you. Go see Blue at Honda GP, she will give you a good price too

**Cajun** · 3rd August 2007, 14:31

Yeah Oliva told mike to look at the bridgestone bt45s

i had them on my 250 many years ago, great tires

**MidnightMike** · 3rd August 2007, 17:38

Yeah im thinking a pair of those, any idea how much im looking at for them?

**Cajun** · 3rd August 2007, 17:50

Originally Posted by MidnightMike

Yeah im thinking a pair of those, any idea how much im looking at for them?

Go to Smiths, they're the best price for tires.

**MidnightMike** · 3rd August 2007, 19:14

Originally Posted by Cajun

Go to Smiths, they're the best price for tires.

Will see if their open on sat.

**Cajun** · 3rd August 2007, 19:37

Originally Posted by MidnightMike

Will see if their open on sat.

they are open tomorrow morning

**Matt_TG** · 3rd August 2007, 20:05

Originally Posted by Cajun

Go to Smiths, they're the best price for tires.

I agree

**Unit:Me** · 5th August 2007, 09:28

Back up here in Whangarei again this weekend, rode up Friday night and was a nice night for it. Looove my new heated handgrips, there the bomb. Had to go to Kaitaia yesterday for my sons soccer but I cheated and drove in the car. I think its another 200ks to Kaitaia from Whangarei so a lot of travelling for me this weekend. We drove up through the Maungamuka's on the way up. The road condition wasnt too bad, and Im now hanging out to ride that road, its an awesome piece of motorcycling road. One thing that I really noticed is the further north one heads, the rougher the roads are, you really have to be alert its not like the nice bling roads we get in the Bay of Plenty, but far less traffic around. Bring on summer

**emaN** · 5th August 2007, 10:24

Originally Posted by Unit

..drove up through the Maungamuka's on the way up. The road condition wasnt too bad, and Im now hanging out to ride that road, its an awesome piece of motorcycling road...

for sure!
went up there last year, in the van.. some pretty 'involving' bits of race track(

) up there!

**NUTBAR** · 5th August 2007, 19:43

Originally Posted by Unit

Back up here in Whangarei again this weekend, rode up Friday night and was a nice night for it. Looove my new heated handgrips, there the bomb. Had to go to Kaitaia yesterday for my sons soccer but I cheated and drove in the car. I think its another 200ks to Kaitaia from Whangarei so a lot of travelling for me this weekend. We drove up through the Maungamuka's on the way up. The road condition wasnt too bad, and Im now hanging out to ride that road, its an awesome piece of motorcycling road. One this that I really noticed is the further north one heads, the rougher the roads are, you really have to be alert its not like the nice bling roads we get in the Bay of Plenty, but far less traffic around. Bring on summer

good to hear your having fun. we have just come back from a good ride around some back roads to raglen, roads were clean and windy, will have to take you guys on it, will be good to ride it in the summer.