Kiwi Mostly On Topic - Off Topic Chat Thread.

[Padmei]

Originally Posted by innathyzit

Wow, you already know what you are doing next christmas?

Yep. Unfortunately I have to go up to Auckland & catch up with the whanau. When my oldest girl exclaimed the other nite that she didn't know I had a brother (I have three) I realised I should really catch up with them. It would be better if they came down - I hate going to Auckland

[ztaj]

Originally Posted by Padmei

Yep. Unfortunately I have to go up to Auckland & catch up with the whanau. When my oldest girl exclaimed the other nite that she didn't know I had a brother (I have three) I realised I should really catch up with them. It would be better if they came down - I hate going to Auckland

I think I'd rather go to Aucktown to see the family.....at least then you can bugger off at will when you get sick of them I think I'll be heading up end of the month via East Cape and Cape Rienga. It's been a while since the last visit

[warewolf]

Originally Posted by Voltaire

Any of you Nelson guys go to the street racing? I didn't even realise it was on. is it run down in the Port?

Yeah, I spent the day flagging at turn 5 'cos they had some no-shows... best seat in the house, almost. The day prior I got to poke & prod half the bikes while scrutineering. You get a better look then than while getting whiplash standing on the front straight . The bikes overall were much better presented this year, with fewer fails and for less significant issues. Last year we had a couple of people that should've known better, and a couple of bikes that had never been prepped for racing previously so were quite lacking in the basic race safety items.

The racing seemed a little subdued this year, but then again I never saw turn 1 which is always action-packed. Even the dicing for position round turns 4-5-6, the bikes were one or two lengths apart at best, usually further.

A couple of interesting modern bikes were an F650CS with lots of foreign parts and a fair bit of custom fabrication, and a pair of Honda CR500-based motards with proprietary 600cc big-bore kits ex-USA. One chap said his was doing 93rwhp and 205km/h down the straight at one of the bigger circuits. That's a lotta ponies and a lotta hanging on to a motocrosser!! That raw power didn't help them much on the short tight Nelson circuit: they were circulating around 5th place or further down the order.

You must be new in town; it's been run for 27 years.

[Voltaire]

Originally Posted by warewolf

You must be new in town; it's been run for 27 years.

um....thats Jaffas for ya......27 years....hmmm don't recall it when I lived in Belgrove in 93-95......mind you all my time was spent renovating...grrrr.
Thanks for the report.

[Mark_S]

I've discovered what I want for my birthday

[innathyzit]

Originally Posted by Mark_S

I've discovered what I want for my birthday

In that colour scheme??????

[gsd4me]

It certainly does explain why I went arse up last year.



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[NordieBoy]

Nah, we use 'proper' 21" fronts here.



After struggling this evening with a pair of fronts, I wonder how many bead failure tyre problems are self installed?

[gsd4me]

I'm wondering how much carnage was caused before they realised something was wrong with them?

[Shaggie]

looking for an app for my phone...

i use RunMaker to record my running/hill walks and share this on FB

Was thinking today as my son and I cruised on the bike that it would be quite cool if there was a similar app for recording rides and then sharing them on FB too - anyone?

Just a quick n easy way of sharing wee day trips that dont warrant a full daytrip RR.......




S

[NordieBoy]

Originally Posted by Shaggie

looking for an app for my phone...

i use RunMaker to record my running/hill walks and share this on FB

Was thinking today as my son and I cruised on the bike that it would be quite cool if there was a similar app for recording rides and then sharing them on FB too - anyone?

Just a quick n easy way of sharing wee day trips that dont warrant a full daytrip RR.......




S

Droid or iDevice?

I use SportyPal which has a driving option.

[Padmei]

I always liked Sportyspice best...

BTW it's good to see that the NZ forum has had a bit more use from others than us airhead rock gods.


Went to the docs the other day - I always said I'll diet & get serious about getting fit again when I reached 90kgs (racing weight was about 81-82kgs. I weighed in at 90.4kg - bugger.
Had to go again this morning - Ha! I said - i've eaten heaps & haven't done any exercise for a week - I must be lighter - I weighed in at 91kg.

Fcuk


As you were.

[Box'a'bits]

Originally Posted by Padmei

I weighed in at 91kg.

A comparative lightweight then.
105kgs

[bart-nz]

I had the same deal. I said when I reached 100kg I'd do something about. The choice was give up beer or start exercising. After thinking about it long and hard, I started running when I hit 103. Been running for a few weeks. It's pretty ugly, but I've finally got to 5km without stopping. Now I weigh in at 99kg, I can stop worrying about it. Back to being a slouch.

But seriously, my goal weight is your fat weight.

[cooneyr]

Bah - you lot are a bunch of lightweights. I worked 65 hour weeks, did no exercise and ate too much last year - 116kg at the moment. Awesome result - NOT. 110kgs was always my must do something weight - Opps guess I blew past that one!

Went to the quacks the other day about other matters and got told I should be about 86kgs. I've not been that since I was about 15. Rugby, alpine climbing and cycling meant I put on weight not lost it.

Started cycling over the holidays around Nelson. Been for two quick spins down here to try and keep it going.