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Well yesterday I fitted swing-arm bobbins

Latest mod. Bobbins: http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee120/s197uk/SurreyMustang/IMG_20150815_171326_zpsb5s8zxpp.jpg http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee120/s197uk/SurreyMustang/IMG_20150815_173429_zpseipzhqhc.jpg http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee120/s197uk/SurreyMustang/IMG_20150815_173510_z...

Playing doctors and nurses with the wife in the bedroom last night didn't go very well.
Especially when I diagnosed her as clinically obese

A girl came skipping home from school one day. "Mommy, Mommy," she yelled, "we were counting today, and all the other kids could only count to four, but I counted to 10. See? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!" "Very good," said her mother. "Is it because I'm blonde?&q...

I'm in Auckland, NZ.
I can't see the map but I guess I'm at the bottom of it.
Look at Auckland on Google earth and I'll wave

HEL brake and clutch lines now fitted and bled with nice clean fluid. I went for gold brake lines as the Yellow ones clash a bit too much :eek2 and they match the gold calipers quite well. Also went for full length front hoses rather than the original split lines. Clutch: http://i230.photobucket.com...

Yellow is good.
Welcome to another Australasian jaundice sufferer!

Bloody shiny pipes lasted about 30 seconds. They now have a nice bluey tinge!

Make mental note - don't ride the bike, it makes it dirty......

Cadbury64 wrote:Welcome to a fellow Howick resident.


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Should meet up for a beer sometime

NZSpokes wrote: One day we should have a NZ ride.

Damn fine idea.
There's another VTR here in Howick (Cadbury64). Would be good to put faces to names/drink beer/ride somewhere

NZSpokes wrote:
Where did you get the HEL lines? I need some braided lines for my partners Hornet.

HEL lines from GSS Performance in Penrose. While-you-wait service and very helpful.
http://www.gssperformance.co.nz

I've had this a few weeks now. http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee120/s197uk/SurreyMustang/DSC02237_zpsofvz28r0.jpg First mod was to remove the hideous back-rack and fit some shorty levers: http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee120/s197uk/SurreyMustang/DSC02234_zps9fqfccbs.jpg Then a whole day in m...

chric wrote:Nice slow though that year and been yellow even slower

Ah, but it's red underneath

NZSpokes wrote:Hi!

What part of Aucks are you in?

Howick

Hi from an expat brit, now residing in Auckland NZ. After selling my bikes (Fireblade, Ducati S4 and Triumph 955 Daytona) before moving out here I decide that it's about time I had another two wheeled toy, and after seeing a few possibilities I settled on a VTR. It's a 1999, and without doubt the be...