The Forgotten Highway (25 November)

[NZsarge]

You need a concours seat mate

Yeah mate, probably. That M109R I rode on friday was reasonably comfy but if I bought one of those straight line is all that i'd be doing so they would want to be comfortable.

[Meanie]

Well what a bloody magic day The roads were awesome, company was great and the weather was nothing short of brilliant
Thanks andrew for your organising the ride and thanks Janno and Racey for your culenry efforts with the BBQ and i,m pleased that you recieved a little more in donations than what it cost. I swear i will never drive that road in a cage, it would be shear agony
Managed to chew out the rest of my tyres so its new Avon storms all round today for the concours. Scrub in tonight i rekon
Realy good to meet some new faces and to catch up with a few others i havnt seen for a while. Riding rocks eh

[Meanie]

Yeah mate, probably. That M109R I rode on friday was reasonably comfy but if I bought one of those straight line is all that i'd be doing so they would want to be comfortable.

You rode the M109 Yea you bloody ripper, i like them they are a nice bike, pity about the front light though
I rekon you would be able to swing one of those around quite comfotably Sarge. I had the meanie right over all the time no problem and was never too far behind the rest of the guys Thats you mate, they are farkin cool, go buy it, then youll be able to join us on the long rides where we have all the fun

[NZsarge]

You rode the M109 Yea you bloody ripper, i like them they are a nice bike, pity about the front light though
I rekon you would be able to swing one of those around quite comfotably Sarge. I had the meanie right over all the time no problem and was never too far behind the rest of the guys Thats you mate, they are farkin cool, go buy it, then youll be able to join us on the long rides where we have all the fun

Well, without getting into a huge speil about it lets just say driving it half way through the gorge was more than enough for me, taking into consideration it was obviously going to have limitations it was shocking, it would be far to easy for me to get myself into serious trouble corning on that bike.
It really upset the bike when you grounded the pegs too.
I think the Concours was wise choice.

Edit: Long rides are'nt a problem, long stints in the seat at one time is the problem. Can do 7-800k without to many probs if there are plenty of "ciggie" breaks

[manwithav8]

Check this out. What a mess! Thanks to Bonez it should be a relatively easy fix now

That is a mess AL. Looks like the pins have dissapeared allowing the pad to fall out, then with every brake application, the caliper has been forced against the disc. Old age could be the suspect. It is ratgher messy though.

Will see what I can do for pads

[manwithav8]

Funny you should bring that up.....
I dont personally think it's helped one iotta, it's weird coz everyone else seems to be getting varying degrees of success out of have a sheep skin on but Nooo not me!

hhmm maybe next port of call would be a gel seat... There was a Ducati ST3 on the ride and the seat on that was luxurious.... Would be pricy but!!!

[NZsarge]

hhmm maybe next port of call would be a gel seat... There was a Ducati ST3 on the ride and the seat on that was luxurious.... Would be pricy but!!!

Will look into reshaping the seat at some point but i've got far to many thing I need to spend money on and I dont know where to start plus xmas

[Boob Johnson]

I bet.. Would be like a followling a mobile landing strip lol

Baa ha ha ha nice one

Well impressed with the 14, right up there with the pack through the twisties, Kawasaki got it bang on with that bike, she is a great all rounder.

Well all i gotta say is we have to do this again really really good

You must have been feeling more confident on ya new bike by the end of the trip Chris? Nothing like a long ride to sort that out aye

I was thinking on the way home yesterday (wishing like hell I could ride my bike more than a 100 clicks without getting a sore backside) I was right in not doing the FH ride cosidering the planned distances between stops.

Ended up being more stops than planned so you probably would have been ok. If I can make it with a busted hip then you can

[HornetBoy]

You must have been feeling more confident on ya new bike by the end of the trip Chris? Nothing like a long ride to sort that out aye

hell yeh after trying to play catch up ....LOL leaving the stop in turangi till taihape i was in the zone with the Katana ,made m like the bike even more ,well suited me that bike very forgiving ,couldnt believe it when you tore past me and bones after the wairou lookout even tho we had like a 10 minute headstart

[Boob Johnson]

Couldnt believe it when you tore past me and bones after the wairou lookout even tho we had like a 10 minute headstart

Gee you guys must have been going slow cause I wasn't doing more than 100

[HornetBoy]

Gee you guys must have been going slow cause I wasn't doing more than 100

Yea rite ,i was impressed every time you tore past me ,remembering that u also had a pillion lol which kinda made me thnk i was crawling along

[Bonez]

Gee you guys must have been going slow cause I wasn't doing more than 100

Canadian speedo?

[Meanie]

Yea rite ,i was impressed every time you tore past me ,remembering that u also had a pillion lol which kinda made me thnk i was crawling along

That was Yod that passed you with a pillion mate The moungrel does that to me all the time. He only has a pillion to give the back tyre some traction anyway

[banditrider]

You need a concours seat mate

Yeah, you'll have a spare one soon won't ya?

Baa ha ha ha nice one

Well impressed with the 14, right up there with the pack through the twisties, Kawasaki got it bang on with that bike, she is a great all rounder.

Damn straight! They go alright but I had a few issues on the hot tar, I think you were up my date when a had a good squiggle at one stage and then after you passed I took it a bit more easy. Don't like the idea of trying to pull the bike out of a fence...

[Bonez]

That is a mess AL. Looks like the pins have dissapeared allowing the pad to fall out, then with every brake application, the caliper has been forced against the disc. Old age could be the suspect. It is ratgher messy though.

Will see what I can do for pads

That type of calilper doesn't have pins Lee. The pads have protrutions which sit on the top of the caliper mount with a raised piece in the centre of the backing plate. Like item -3547 and -3546 on this page-

http://www.oldbikebarn.com/motorcycl...rsal=Universal

-3546 is also for the CX front disk caliper I gave Sarah. Basicly similar calipers but the breed nipple and bango bolt positions are reversed.

Manawatu m/cs in Josaph Street stock them. Just take in the left over one to compare with. Also I've got a couple of well worn examples if needed.