Is that my que?Originally Posted by banditrider
Well well well.
Spend the day getting my ego bashed.
Was good too see a good selection of bikes at mobil ashhurst this morning. It was planned that Mrs C and her brother would drive the kids out to castlepoint and I would 2up her home. Somehow, Mrs C has forgotten what Manawatu rides are and expected us to average over 40k/hr (ha ha ha)
In any case, Ashhurst have been shocking of late with running out of 95 fuel all the time and today was no exception so peeps decided to fuel at pahatua. Having a south island vistor on the ride (cheers Jwalker) it was compulsory to do the track so we headed off via o cows tree and hit the track it fine form. Being 1up it was playtime and made piahatua in time that Katman would defintely not approve of chasing 86 and dogs over the track. It was a solid run with a slight miscalulation and brushing my brow as I reached down to my reserve switch hoping that I wasnt already on reserve. Its not like I needed to be pushing the bike for the 5th time since I have owned it. It turned out well and made the fuel stop with plenty in reserve.
Was shocked to hear Bazza had a minor get off the bike early mid track but he being ok and very little damage we got treated to a little speech and carried on out Alferton way.
The impact of the speech having full effect on all riders till the 100km/hr sign and then it was back to normal riding sweeping the backroads through to Masterton/castlepoint road. Spent my time mixing it up with some pacey riding and some pootling. Was enjoying the sun and nice wide open spaces.
Improptu drag off the masterton turnoff with the 9 Vs Glenns RF900 resulted it the RF taking off in rapid fashion and the 9s front wheel point at the sky. I find it really hard to launch the 9 from and standing start and got lesson 1 from a suzuki for the day. Then feeling very confident on a rolling drag I wound on 6th to find myself seeing the tail end of the RF for the 2nd time in 5 minutes. Missed out on the prize money on that one and carried on to wait at the masterston/castlepoint road while some headed to town for fuel.
While we were waiting we hear of the demise of the Gpx so Glenn headed back for 2up duties.
After a few smokes and enjoying the sun we headed off to finish the castlepoint leg. Pootled behind Monie at what turned out to be a surprisingly (to me anyhow) pacey pace (nice work monie) before remembering that once I got to castlepoint I would be 2up so this was my last play for the day. Sneaked past and gave the 9 a bit of a workout for a while.
Briefly stopped to talk to Dogs who was waiting at an intersection and the mighty 14 and Yodmeister showed up so tucked in behind them for the rest of the ride. Seems Yod got some pace for christmas and ended up being a ripper of a run to the beach before catching a whole group of riders just before the beach.
Coming down the hill to the beach I thought I had the front tyre blow out on my with coming out of a corner the front did a big lets fuckoff sideways and I had to do a fair bit of convincing the bike that the fairings and road dont mix. I was a little confused about what was going on and slowed to walking pace to nurse it the km or so left to the beach. The steering was really really heavy and it was a real struggle to get the bike to go round a 85km corner at 15km/hr.
Pulled up for an inspection and found that a bolt had fallen out of my instrument panel and fallen on exactly the right angle to lock my steering. Not mint. Took a bit to get it out but once I did the bike was mint again.
Castlepoint was fucking hot! CJ showed up on a CBR250. We had seen him just before the track earlier in the day sitting on the side of the road but didnt know who he was but it was good to meet you out there.
Sat round and talked for a bit, caught up with Mrs and kids (who had already been there 2 hours) and relaxed in the sun.
The ride home 2up was interesting. Havent been 2up for what feels like an enternity and the road was really really hot now and the tar was melting under the bike. Pootled back to masterton on what felt like ice in some places letting everyone go past us and got plenty of complaints from the pillion about how slow the ride was. I was quickly losing confidence with the way the bike was handling at the ammount of grip availiable and the superlight front so it was err on the side of caution and caught up with everyone at masterton for an icecream and coke.
Main highwayed it back to mangamorie where following 86 and Meanie I was getting used to the difference in handling being 2up and getting some confidence back. Through mangamorie I was having trouble keeping the front planted on the ground so waved Ferris through and had a really good run through to the track. Back on familiar roads had a really good run and finally got a pacey ride in my pillion could enjoy (had to happen eventually). Everyone filtered off in all directions and the day had come to an end.
Hows that BR?
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). Couldn't take the Tiger as it's well overdue for it's 10K service so thought I'd wof and reg the Gixxer and give it a run. That done, hit Vinegar Hill at a hammering pace and promptly went onto reserve at 153 kms (normally about 180) about 20 kms north of Waioru! Bugger! Could see rain in the distance, didn't want to turn back so decided to chance it. Crept along the side of the road in the now pissing rain at 3000 rpm, coasted down all the hills hitting 77 kph on the big one 
finally getting into Turangi with less than a litre in the tank!
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Karma ... Justice catches up eventually !! 
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