Manawatu Rant n Rave

**HornetBoy** · 26th December 2007, 18:20

ah typical wanganui /manawatu weather ,sunny one minute raining and hail the next

stunner of a good day today was: bikes babes and and the smell of burning fossil fuel

(what more could a guy want

) ,but only made me want to be riding my bike not bloody watching them lol .

,,hope one day ill have a go at racing here

Anyone else come up to view the sights? post ya pictures if ya took any 2 please ,my camera wasn't charged the night before grrrrrr ,of all the days i forget to do it

**ynot slow** · 26th December 2007, 18:21

[QUOTE=chanceyy;1354783]kinda done it once or twice on a car (stock car) but never a motorbike .. apparently there is still a heap of pad but they can do with a scuff up as well

They don't have brakes or brains in stockcars lol.Well the one I helped on didn't have much brakes at club day years ago,so when mechanics race 1 ended and the driver used the light pole to fully stop,I said no thanks to race 2.

**chanceyy** · 26th December 2007, 20:43

Originally Posted by fridsy

I'm Going saturday night...got three days off...

... stay till tuesday nite, got a few places I can stay and got to make up for being sick Christmas day

...From 2 am onwards

..so stayed home and did NOTHING

Just about to organise a newbies, drag riders outta the woodwork ride for the 2nd .. will post a link in here soonish

Originally Posted by Hornet250Boy

ah typical wanganui /manawatu weather ,sunny one minute raining and hail the next

stunner of a good day today was: bikes babes and and the smell of burning fossil fuel

(what more could a guy want

) ,but only made me want to be riding my bike not bloody watching them lol .

,,hope one day ill have a go at racing here

Anyone else come up to view the sights? post ya pictures if ya took any 2 please ,my camera wasn't charged the night before grrrrrr ,of all the days i forget to do it

Yup great day racing/socialising feeling quite tired now .. no rain all day, just wind mostly on ride up

Originally Posted by ynot slow

Originally Posted by chanceyy

kinda done it once or twice on a car (stock car) but never a motorbike .. apparently there is still a heap of pad but they can do with a scuff up as well

They don't have brakes or brains in stockcars lol.Well the one I helped on didn't have much brakes at club day years ago,so when mechanics race 1 ended and the driver used the light pole to fully stop,I said no thanks to race 2.

**chanceyy** · 26th December 2007, 21:08

Ride on the 2nd Jan info here ..

**STUPY** · 28th December 2007, 13:38

i have to admite my first cemetry look and was very impressed, they only thing that let the day down was pissed teens not able to control themselves yet again!

the racing was fantastic, with the odd rider going for a slide.
my hat off the the group who organised it "well done"

wish i had gone up with a few of you guys thou, but was a last minute
desiction on my part.

i also heard there was a bike accident in feilding?? can anyone enlighten me on that????

**HornetBoy** · 28th December 2007, 14:11

Hey sarge,was askin bout ya bike at phil turnbulls (was in there looking at ma future gsxr ) and heard it might be done in like 1 weeks

,how is it all going ?

**NZsarge** · 28th December 2007, 17:13

Originally Posted by Hornet250Boy

Hey sarge,was askin bout ya bike at phil turnbulls (was in there looking at ma future gsxr ) and heard it might be done in like 1 weeks

,how is it all going ?

Just got the claim form faxed away about 2 hours ago, hmmm I got serious doubts as to wether it would be done in a week! Once they get the go ahead and they have all the parts I cant see it taking anymore than a day to actually fix it coz it's only cosmetic damage really apart from the radiator. Sugilite was round here the other day and were discussing it and he reckons it will go close to being written off. I would'nt be overly surprised if it were.
Tally it up radiator maybe $2000, headlight $400, fairing $2000, footpeg assembly $200, engine sidecover $200, rear footpeg hanger $100, handlebars and handlebar posts $250, brackets $150 plus labour maybe 8x $75.
That's $5900 as a very rough guess could well be much more than that...
Who knows, time will tell, if thay had all the parts in NZ which I also seriously doubt once it got approved to be fixed then yeah, a week from that point should'nt be that far out but if bits need to come from Japan the automatically puts another 2 weeks on to it

I am working on the assumption that half way mark of the value of the bike would be the write off point.

**HornetBoy** · 28th December 2007, 18:04

Originally Posted by NZsarge

Just got the claim form faxed away about 2 hours ago, hmmm I got serious doubts as to wether it would be done in a week! Once they get the go ahead and they have all the parts I cant see it taking anymore than a day to actually fix it coz it's only cosmetic damage really apart from the radiator. Sugilite was round here the other day and were discussing it and he reckons it will go close to being written off. I would'nt be overly surprised if it were.
Tally it up radiator maybe $2000, headlight $400, fairing $2000, footpeg assembly $200, engine sidecover $200, rear footpeg hanger $100, handlebars and handlebar posts $250, brackets $150 plus labour maybe 8x $75.
That's $5900 as a very rough guess could well be much more than that...
Who knows, time will tell, if thay had all the parts in NZ which I also seriously doubt once it got approved to be fixed then yeah, a week from that point should'nt be that far out but if bits need to come from Japan the automatically puts another 2 weeks on to it

I am working on the assumption that half way mark of the value of the bike would be the write off point.

jesus

yea thats very expensive ,well by the looks of it im guessing write off would be a better option wouldn't it ? as you might not get that bike back for many months to come if ya have to wait for all those parts from far and away places

only hope for your sake they pick an option sooner than later so your not going to miss all the great rides before its back to work

**NZsarge** · 28th December 2007, 18:09

Originally Posted by Hornet250Boy

jesus

yea thats very expensive ,well by the looks of it im guessing write off would be a better option wouldn't it ? as you might not ge that bike back for many months to come i ya have to wait for all those parts from far and away places

Meh...finacially it would probably be better if it was'nt coz as I said it's only cosmetic and if fixed PROPERLY you wont be able to tell it from new

but on the other hand there is a really nice lowish milage '04 R1 in candy red

down at TSS in the Hutt.

**HornetBoy** · 28th December 2007, 18:16

Originally Posted by NZsarge

Meh...finacially it would probably be better if it was'nt coz as I said it's only cosmetic and if fixed PROPERLY you wont be able to tell it from new

but on the other hand there is a really nice lowish milage '04 R1 in candy red

down at TSS in the Hutt.

haha yea i felt the same way after i brought my latest steed,next day surfing trademe and saw a yzf r6 with pipes and lots of other bling for $7500 ,it was like a superbike vs a budget range for the same price .i know which i wouldve picked if i had the money back

mind you i think i wouldve crashed that r6 if id have brought it before this ,probly wouldve been the dumbest choice of bike for a person my age IMO

**NZsarge** · 28th December 2007, 19:50

Originally Posted by Hornet250Boy

haha yea i felt the same way after i brought my latest steed,next day surfing trademe and saw a yzf r6 with pipes and lots of other bling for $7500 ,it was like a superbike vs a budget range for the same price .i know which i wouldve picked if i had the money back

mind you i think i wouldve crashed that r6 if id have brought it before this ,probly wouldve been the dumbest choice of bike for a person my age IMO

Oh don't get me wrong, I made the right choice in bike but those bloody red R1's look so nice.

**robertydog** · 28th December 2007, 21:07

Originally Posted by NZsarge

Oh don't get me wrong, I made the right choice in bike but those bloody red R1's look so nice.

And Black ones

**yod** · 28th December 2007, 21:19

Originally Posted by NZsarge

Meh...finacially it would probably be better if it was'nt coz as I said it's only cosmetic and if fixed PROPERLY you wont be able to tell it from new

but on the other hand there is a really nice lowish milage '04 R1 in candy red

down at TSS in the Hutt.

newsflash - there is a blue '02 R1 at Freedom Honda for $11.5k (i think thats right) but only 6900km on it....(apparently)

FINALLY getting a spin on the RF tomorrow - I asked the wife if she would kindly chauffeur my parents to Hawkes Bay whilst I ride up....can't wait....must be at least 2 weeks since I been on the bike!