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Ok, so at least one person wanted more buggy stuff...How\'s about this slideshow I made up for the chaps at the work - pics and just a few video snips ...
On Sunday I had the chance to tag along for just a wee bit (500 or so km) of yet another IBA ride that Chris and Stella were attempting. Not happy ...
Ok, I should be writing up a wee ride from two weeks ago - but, I\'ve been busy.Colin and I are about three weeks back from another South Island adven ...
It felt like it\'d been ages since I\'d ridden a bike and when I threw a leg over the T7 on Good Friday and hit the gravel I was decidedly wobbly for ...
Popped over to the folks for a visit and took a slightly longer route home. Tried out Sport mode, think I like it... ...
You\'ll never guess but I\'ve actually finished the write-up! Record time eh"Here it be: ...
Yeah, it\'s all about the TT2000 at the moment. And as far as I\'m concerned that\'s just great!I thought that having just finished teh \'24 event ...
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The weekend before last, Colin and I kicked off a decent bit of motorcycle therapy by taking on the New Zealand Distance Riders North Island 800 (800k ...
One of the reasons why we\'d had such a rapid 1,600km trip around the island is that we had plans for Friday - Tim was taking a cheeky day off to take ...
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So, yesterday it was raining in Colin\'s neck of the woods but it wasn\'t here and I didn\'t care anyway so decided to zip up to Taihape to catch up w ...
 ...is the best!With that extensive maintenance and farkling complete, Sunday was the day to put the T7 through her paces. As per usual Colin h ...
Ok, it\'s been a while since the first NI800 Post and there\'s a reason for this.Following our burgers we climbed back into our wet gear and headed ba ...
Time off must be put to good use. This means riding!Prior to Christmas, Colin and I had been kinda planning out which rides we might want to tick ...
 A few weekends ago I was somehow persuaded to accompany Colin on another outing in his side-by-side. He\'d already taken me for a run on the b ...
Maybe I should start blogging the odd ride again...Yeah, I have been riding quite a bit lately and not posting a heck of a lot so let\'s see if I can ...
 Yesterday was the Bush Riders Xmas Trail ride. Today I am sore...Totally worth it!The ride was just 40mins ute drive from my place and by the ...
The Thursday phone call often starts with "it\'s ages since we went for a ride". Well, this time it was doubly true as the phone call was on Wedne ...
After a not so nice trip in the dark (and before a big trip) on the Super Ten I decided that she needed some more watts pointing up road. Previous ...
No riding on Saturday and a later start on Sunday saw me finally deciding to get out and take in a little ride around 11 in the morning.We\'d had some ...
 While the new Trumpy was getting its first service I had a few hours to kill. And the bike shop gave me just thing to go for a short pootle.Th ...
Yeah, I know, I\'ve been lazy with my posting. Maybe after I get this wee one done...Yesterday was maintenance/farkle time for the T7. I start ...
So, as per normal, Colin and I needed to go for a ride on Sunday. And I was very keen to get out the yellow bike and see if I could still ride it. ...
... to 2023A couple of days after Christmas and still getting used to this holidaying lark, a ride was needed. And there just happened to be a loc ...
Well, this is the ride I\'ve been waiting for ever since I bought the RMX.  The Glen Orua trail ride was the first trail ride that Colin and I d ...
The other night I ended my post with the below picture:The bloke in the picture is Chris and Chris has an Iron Butt - he even has the paperwork to pro ...
Yesterday was Anzac Day, the day Kiwis and Ozzies remember our veterans and war casualties. It is a public holiday but a greater and greater numbe ...
So where was I" Oh, that\'s right, we\'d just popped out of tunnel 2 or 4 and it was time to head for Whangamomona for a late lunch. But first ...
Over the past month or so I\'d been closely watching a ...
Unfortunately no matter how good tyres are they still tend to wear out after a while and it\'s a bit of an inconvenience to this particular motorbicyc ...
Long weekends rock! Especially when you get some nice weather to go out and play in.On Sunday it was the Connies turn to get some loving and after ...
So after thunderstorms on Saturday, yesterday turned out to be an absolutely cracker. I ended up abandoning some of my plans and riding over to th ...
On Sunday, fresh from finishing his first TT, Colin invited me along on a road ride and with my sore butt pretty well recovered, how could I say no"On ...
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Day 9" What happened to Day 8"Well...My plans had included a trip over to Golden Bay to explore a bit more gravel. But that friendly little cy ...
Day 7 was another decent sized run of about 600km from Christchurch to my sister\'s place in Richmond via a few little deteours here and there.I left ...
The weather in Christchurch on Monday morning wasn\'t particularly inviting (wet and a little chilly) and after by little 2,300km ride over the weeken ...
Day two of my trip was to get me down to Christchurch where the TT was starting. I had deliberately crossed the straits the day before to give me ...
Ok, so now that I\'m home I better get a bit more serious with my posts...Day one of this year\'s TT assault was a short ride to the ferry, across ...
Yep, I got home last night and have been reunited with my little brown dog and a decent computer. But, I have a lot of editing to do before any de ...
Today I had to ignore my sore butt and start heading Northwards by first heading West...Somewhere near Arthur PassFurther up the road I stopped by a g ...
Today the weather was a little bit average (rain and a brisk, cold wind) so I didn\'t quite do all the riding I had planned. I still managed to do ...
Yep, back in Christchurch after 2,300+km of tickee-touring a chunk of the Southern end of the South Island. No rain, no tickets and only a few GPS ...
Another quick blog from the road...Today I met up with Al in Blenheim to tackle the Molesworth again. He must have been a little keen as he was ea ...
It had been a while since the Connie had a decent run and with her going to be ignored for a few more days I decided to take her for a quick run on Sa ...
I was mucking around looking at some of my pictures online and when I right-clicking in Google Photos I decided to check out the highlighted option be ...
True story...Picture pinched from an Advrider post that had pinched it from ...
Yes, today was a public holiday so no excuse not to go for a ride eh"Â Well, I left it a bit late...I mucked around all day doing other things and ...
...eventually. And I\'m not complaining...On Friday night I finally replaced the rear E-07 Dakar on the Tenere. To say that the Dakar version ...
Today I\'d decided to support a local charity ride benefiting kids with Down Syndrome - a nice idea and I was happy to give them my $20. But thing ...
Yep, I slipped on the left mouse button while browsing Trade Me...There had been a number of emails from GoPro offering deals on cameras and I got a l ...
On Saturday morning I got a phone call from Colin F who asked me if I was keen for a little ride over in Hawkes Bay on Sunday. I\'m not good at co ...
Crikey! What a hot day today!But, it was New Year\'s Day and that normally involves a ride. I hadn\'t any major plans on where I wanted to rid ...
...with a little gravel fix...With a bit of time off over the Christmas/New Year period I had a little plan up my sleeve. The plan involved a day ...
Well, glad I didn\'t go riding yesterday - it was a stinkin\' hot, 30 degrees plus. But, I needed to go for a ride so hatched a plan for today...I ...
Saturday was the annual Coast to Coast ride which is run by the Woodville Lions to raise funds for our local rescue helicopter. It\'s a run that I ...
The other day I was telling someone my Emu story and it occurred to me that I seem to have reasonably frequent run-ins with critters while out and abo ...
So apparently the silly season is upon us and everyone is supposedly under pressure, tired out and in need of a break. Meanwhile our road toll has ...
So after a beautiful sunny week in which I rode the Tenere to work 4/5 times (would have been 5/5 but I needed the car on Monday) the weekend has disa ...
Righto, so yesterday I was complaining about taking the wrong camera and getting crap pictures again as a result so maybe I need to start looking agai ...
Yesterday I\'d been wondering about my next gravel excursion and decided that I wanted to return to the "Badlands" and to also check out another grave ...
Yesterday was the running of this year\'s NZDR 1KC. Another great excuse for getting up early and riding all day with like minded maniacs...The we ...
So there\'s a thread about loud Harley\'s on a FB group and I\'ve been holding back...need to release...This is a great old joke and may have even pos ...
Yesterday was the day I picked for some two wheeled fun. I started off by taking the dog for a run beside my mountain bike - just 3km for her rath ...
It was a very nice evening on Thursday so I decided to go for a bit of tag hunting on the S10. "Burnie"had put up the below tag and it looked easy ...
My next farkle... ...
Okey dokey, here\'s the link to my write-up on this years NI1600:Â ...
Shock, horror - the sun was out today and it wasn\'t raining!I also have the week off! Yes, there was stuff to do at home but come on - it wasn\'t ...
Well, it seemed like forever since the poor old Tenere has been let off its leash and taken for a decent gravel ride so today was the day to fix that. ...
So apparently I\'m getting old. Â Well, at least that is what one other Concours owner (who may or may not live in Ashhurst) said when I told him I\ ...
I am not a mechanic. Â I understand how some mechanical things work and have just enough knowledge (knowledge skills) to be dangerous. Â But I\'m ...
As is pretty usual for me when I\'m "on tour" I awoke far too early (5am) but rather than hit the road early I lazed around waiting for the sun to com ...
So the Connie\'s big birthday kind of snuck up on me. Â The first reminder I got was the bill for its registration - yay! Â But I had to do more t ...
Well, slightly high...Sunday was another pretty nice winter\'s day - blue skies, sunny and fairly calm - so I needed to get out and try the new levers ...
Yep, another package arrived on Friday...I\'d kinda had my eye on those cheap aftermarket levers for a while and finally pulled the plug on a set for ...
...PR4GT chew toys...Talk about a demanding test...hopefully it lasts longer than 5 minutes... ...
Yes, we interrupt the current lull in blogging to bring news of the arrival of farkles...well, the first of possibly more than one...On Saturday the n ...
A few weeks ago I stumbled upon an event on Facebook that immediately caught my attention as it had the words "adventure" in the title and there were ...
...but not today!Definitely not, she was a cracker! Â And so, crackers need using in an appropriate manner - namely, the exercising of two-wheeled m ...
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With Monday being a public holiday (the Queen is good for something) and it not being a bad day, it seemed rude not to head out for another pootle - t ...
Sunday was fairly cold here - not a lot of sun, grey clouds and a definite nip in the air. Â But...I needed to get a ride in.I was keen to pop over ...
It seems like forever since the Connie had any decent sort of exercise and today I thought that it was time to take her for a small skid to top up the ...
All that pressure from the Long Distance and Adventure riders finally overcame my prejudices, misgivings and sense of taste - I bought a BMW...Pannier ...
Yay, this afternoon I got to get in just a little gravel fix with a trip across some favourite gravel roads to Apiti and return. Â But first...It wa ...
Hmmm...Well, maybe not...Meet Honey who moved in a week or so ago and has yet to decide if she likes bikes...She does love kids though:StruttingThat s ...
Yeah, nearly a month without blogging! Â I guess there\'s been a bit of other stuff going on...I actually did take the Connie for a run the other da ...
