Wellington commuter (joehannaa)

[joehannaa]

Hi,

First post. Pretty recent to riding road bikes, up until about 4 months ago was commuting to Wellington from Pram every day via Train, this got real boring real fast. Finally had a great excuse to buy a motorbike. I first purchased an 89 Kawasaki ZXR from trade me but on my first ride after buying it the water pump blew and the clutch started slipping. The bike spent a good 2 months at mechanic while I tried to get my money back from the dude I bought the bike from..... Any way, I fixed the bike and sold it myself for a loss.

While the ZXR was in the shop I had already purchased my GPX which is a fantastic little bike, very comfortable to ride. Great bike to ride into Wellington everyday.

Have been very keen to get out there on a good road trip with a few other bikers.

Have attached a pic of the 2 bikes

[TRAINING WHEELS]

Gutted about your ZXR but good on you for trying to get your money back hope you recovered it? Any way welcome to the site its a great place everyone here is helpfull in one way or another...

[Zuki Bandit]

Welcome to the site dude, nice bikes you got there too!!!

[Wasp]

hey man, what time do you travel?

i leave newlands at 7:30 and travel to paraparumu - pretty sure ive seen you a few times

me:

[Skunk]

Good pic Wasp

Welcome joehannaa. See you at the elephant pond on Wednesday nights maybe (the TCWNR).

[joehannaa]

Whats the elephant pond. I heard Twin cam have rides on Sundays?? Always keen on a nice cold beer

[Shadows]

Whats the elephant pond. I heard Twin cam have rides on Sundays?? Always keen on a nice cold beer

Avalon Park, just off Kennedy Good Bridge linking SH2 with Avalon.
The carpark next to the duckpond.

[Sparky Bills]

Welcome dude.
May see you on the Kapiti roads some time.

[Nasty]

Welcome aboard ... always nice to meet another Wellyrider

[Grub]

Whats the elephant pond. I heard Twin cam have rides on Sundays?? Always keen on a nice cold beer

We have a couple of "cruisy" rides as regular calendar events where you just turn up and the team decides where to go. So ...

Until daylight saving begins it's the Sunday Morning Rides. When daylight saving kicks in, the Sunday rides will probably stop and the Wednesday evening ones take over.

Sunday Mornings (until 30 September)
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=48572

Wednesday Evenings (Starting 3 October)
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=35335

[Sparky Mark]

hey man, what time do you travel?

i leave newlands at 7:30 and travel to paraparumu - pretty sure ive seen you a few times

me:

Ahhh... Wasp... I see you most mornings going the other way and sometimes on the way back as well. You always wave...

Joehannaa, welcome to the site. I'll keep an eye out for you. I normally leave Pram around 7 - 7.15 ish. I often meet Babelfish so you might see a couple of black bikes together on the way through.

[dino3310]

trademe's got the good the bad and the ugly,i've got burned once on there learned my lesson and since bought 2 good ones of there,good thing about the KB site is where everywhere, theres knowlege and experiences aplenty,
theres always some one around to check out your next purchase with you if you need a hand or give advice on a particular models
this is a great community welcome aboard

[Paul in NZ]

Another kapiti rider - sweet... Quite a collection of types of bike up the coast...

[joehannaa]

Yeah I leave pram at about 7, well I try to depends on what time i go to bed the night before

I found this site after I purchased the bike unfortunately, deffinately know for next time.

[Meanie]

Yeah I leave pram at about 7, well I try to depends on what time i go to bed the night before

I found this site after I purchased the bike unfortunately, deffinately know for next time.

Tried to tell ya didnt i, but wouldnt listen to uncle Meanie Welcome to KB mate Ill catch up with you next time im down pram
Hows that tui beanbag, anyone tried to steal it lately