I think I will be buying my next bike from Christchurch

[scumdog]

*waits for linch mob*

It's spelled 'lynch BD, 'lynch'

Still waiting for the mob...

[Donor]

Sure Mark can say and do somethings that a stupid and i'm sure that he'll agree with me but he is human and deserves to be treated as one. before you jump on me for defending him i've had my own personal spats with him in the past but the person i am i don't judge others for conditions they have or they way they are. He is trying slowly to sort his life out and doesn't need small minded ppl bringing him down further. I know what it is like to be bullied and its not nice aren't we all adults here on KB can we start acting like one after all lifes too short

Mark i hope you find your way in life but don't make it any harder by bring personal stuff to a public forum it not cool

Agreed.

Rather well said that man.

I too am no fan of Marks - but for the love of god, would someone kick the record player, it's stuck and getting bloody annoying!

Think what you like, hell I do - but just bite ya tongues/fingertips and leave the boy alone. It's like picking the proverbial scab - you're not helping at all...

[Big Dan]

Agreed.

Rather well said that man.

I too am no fan of Marks - but for the love of god, would someone kick the record player, it's stuck and getting bloody annoying!

Think what you like, hell I do - but just bite ya tongues/fingertips and leave the boy alone. It's like picking the proverbial scab - you're not helping at all...

Thank you Donor

[Usarka]

Dan you owe me for that blue square! i demand

[scumdog]

Buying your next bike from Christchurch eh?

How is the miracle of acquasition of finance to be achieved????????????

Well, never got a reply for THAT question, sadly I'm not surprised.

(bring in the pro-SM lynch mob now)

[jrandom]

So you think following someone who knows the road well will make you ride faster?

Only when the rider in front is consciously 'leading' you.

I don't bother trying to keep up with people who are riding at their fastest safe pace on roads that they know and I don't.

[Tank]

Get skrewed Tank. People like you are never going to hear anything other than what you already believe. Perhaps you might at least get past this limitation for your own family, if not anyone elses, then they might have a hope. Wake up and quit being an asshole.

DB

My family are doing fine (thanks for asking), they are all high achieving individuals and have managed to get by more than sufficiently regardless of my asshole factor.

You do get all prickly when someone gives you a little niggle don't ya?

[EJK]

Hows the road from Lyttleton Harbour to Diamond harbour?
I used to go there for fishing. Caught nothing but dogfishes lol but can't remember how the road went... I think I had carsick. Does that mean it has/had lots of corners?

[Tank]

Hows the road from Lyttleton Harbour to Diamond harbour?
I used to go there for fishing. Caught nothing but dogfishes lol but can't remember how the road went... I think I had carsick. Does that mean it has/had lots of corners?

Could have been that you didnt cook the fish well?

[Coldrider]

Yep. Still there. Good road for a short bit of fun. That damned hump still freaks me out when I hit the crown. No need to but it still does. The neat thing is that when you get to the end you just turn around and come back and it's like a completely different bit of road.

We used to have some goodtimes round there on trail bikes, full knobblies on the road and round to the waimak riverbed, every weekend, then a mad scramble to have homework done for school.

[Subike]

In CHCH are those 90deg corners between the airport and golf course still there, and the road to Mcleans island still sealed over the stopbank (long jump)?

Also round Darfield there is some secondary roads that cross fords without bridges, skill enough for ya at 150 in full flood.......

yes
yes
and yes

Get a ride and come and join us Skidsy,
Im sure that we can find enough twisty bits for you to enjoy.
You just have to wait till we get to the end of the straights.

you know, those dog leg corners in the middle of nowhere for no apparent reason..

Im sure there is an infamous one in south Cant somewhere.
Plenty of "skilled" riders have changed their undies because of it

[Coldrider]

Im sure there is an infamous one in south Cant somewhere.
Plenty of "skilled" riders have changed their undies because of it

Is that the one close to Tekapo that warns that it should be taken at a reduce liesurely 95kph.

[MIXONE]

Hows the road from Lyttleton Harbour to Diamond harbour?
I used to go there for fishing. Caught nothing but dogfishes lol but can't remember how the road went... I think I had carsick. Does that mean it has/had lots of corners?

Yes riding on that road on a sunny Sunday is a bit like the Taka's here in Wellington.Fucking bikes everywhere.You just have to be careful and watch for the pea gravel they put on the road to combat the ice.They call it grit.I call it shit.

I call it shit cause that's the first word that comes to mind when I find some halfway round a nice tight corner.

[skidMark]

So you think following someone who knows the road well will make you ride faster?

I tried that once when I was young and lowsided on a right hand, down hill, off camber 55 posted corner. I dont try and keep up with people who know the roads better than me now.

As i said not full tit but i would rqather have somebody to follow that knows the best roads and the nasty bends in them.

Because i know 2 corners on the way to kaiaua that if you were on your own up here they would catch you off even riding at a nana pace, i got caught by them the first time i did the road.

Things like that i would rather not be caught out by when over 1,000km's from home.

[skidMark]

Well, never got a reply for THAT question, sadly I'm not surprised.

(bring in the pro-SM lynch mob now)

Err it's just the thread header, i just meant because the bikes seem nana'd i was tipsy so meh.

I will not be doing my tour until next year anyways.