Well after completing a 1600km journey down the east coast to wellington and then back up the other side, the Voyager is proving everything the manufacturers claimed. A great Vtwin motor that purrs along at open road speeds with such ease its just brilliant and it handles far better than any cruiser ive run, Truely built for the road, it aint a poser bike, (though it is striking) The weight, while noticable when stopped, just dissappears once mobile, very very responsive, blows corners more comfortably than a sporty and PDQ when asked to After spending 1600kms ( a long run in period) just easing it around the bottom half of its rev range, this trip was to open her up a bit and get a feel for her pace. well, it didnt fall short, the six gear (overdrive) still has great pull, but drop her down a tooth or two and its damn quick, and having such a great fairing you hardly notice, it is just so aero dynamic. Fuel consumption went up a little (probably a bare 300kms per tank when stepping up) but well in excess when controlling the wrist
Luggage / storage is brilliant tho I still want to find a top box rack for it to carry my sheepskin for the really long hauls. Read the rest of this entry »

It been a long time since Ive owned a new car but we finally replaced one of the last ones. AND added a lttle LF250 Cruiser for commuting to work, and replaced the boulevard with a Vulcan VN1700BAF-Kact Voyager for the serious touring. Read the rest of this entry »

Another big tour of the north and south island is now complete, 5600 odd kilometers in 14 days and some of the best touring Ive done anywhere.
We started on the 12th Feburary, the plan being that all riders would meet at nights at fixed overnight stops, make their own changes to routes to suit themselves, dive off here, join up there, whatever,  if they wished to visit specific places, or to travel as a group, riders choice,  Id made requests during the year for any specific spots people wanted included, without a lot of response I might add, so I set a basic route seemed popular. I had assumed other riders would at least load the route into thier satelite navigations or at least take a map, but it seems only some did. So off we set riding from the north shore to our over night stop in Wellington.  Two routes in mind, depending on the weather either a straight SH1 run or basically zig zagging down the western side of the north island, no particular destinations in mind but rather to catch some roads I havent done for some time. its the ride thats important rather than the destination as they say  We stopped every 160 odd kms for fuel and Taumaranui for a refuel of riders and headed on to National Park and Ohakune, on to Waiouru.

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Once again within a month, one of our old aged pensioners, a woman (could have been your or my mother) was Attacked, Kidnapped in her own car, robbed and then finally dumped.
Im ashamed to say, the parents and freinds of these dirt bags (less than animals) know and have seen the pictures on the TV and havent yet got the guts to turn them in. These aint little childrenm but teenagers who should have been taught right and wrong, as well as respect for others.
I say pick up these peices of dirt, and give em a few weeks in the town square, locked in the “Stocks” of old. maybe they will learn when all their freinds see them for what they are , gutless peices of dirt.
After which they can work off the damage they have done in the community where they committed this crime,
Times like this Im ashamed to be considered a Kiwi

Read this on a forum tonight, seems I read something like this every week..
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Thought what a nice day take the bike to the shop pick up some milk.on the way enjoying the sunshine look in the mirrior blonde in a blue corolla comming up fast no worries intersection of candia rd and swanson rd comming up stop for traffic yes folks thats right corolla straight into the back of me shunted out into path of on comming traffic lucky on comming had time to swing wide and its motorcycles getting hit with acc rises unreal.so off to doctor whiplash and back strain twisted knee off work.well dumb bitch sits in her car leaning out window yelling sorry didnt see that you had stopped. she had only been behind me for at least 2 k/m.brand new c90t (bike) with less than a 1000 k/m on the clock f##k im fuming put off work for a couple of nights use my sick leave as well .better go lay down before my blood pressure pops as well.
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And tthey want to put up BIKERS ACC ???

Reported today, Bronz “Les Mason” sold out the bikers big time.. now he says ” the hikes are livable” what a sell out, hes just agreed to what the govt had in mind all along, rumour a big hike, come back with a smaller one and the dipsticks will swallow it. Tui Les

The protest ride on the New Zealand parliament went off without a hitch, strong feelings regarding the intention to fleece the NZ motorcyclist with a 400% increase ensured Read the rest of this entry »

Well, another well supported gathering at the Northern Autobann, bikes rolled in from 8:30am to 10an and we rolled south to the city, out via the north western motorway to collect the westeners, then back out to SH1 and Papakarua to collect th e southern fellas, back up SH1 and onto the domain. 130km trip around the city motorways.

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Interesting isnt it how Statistcs get twisted to suit the occassion by our government wombles when it suits, they come out with statements like, (From Ministry of Transport own site).

Motorcyclists cost $XXmillion but we only collect X, or statements like M/c are 16 times more likely to be in accident, or Motorists subsidise M/c by X$ , well so they should its Motor car drivers who cause much of it. Or how about the statement its older riders fault, Read the rest of this entry »

Isnt that just typical, John Keys National Government introduces ACC Levys (read TAXES) on a small group in the community just because they ride large motorcycles, ie, they charge by the cc. ridiculas really when u think that they will collect maybe 5 million which they could save by cutting the exorbitant salaries they pay ACC staff (totally incompetent Managers) and the ACC bludgers that keep them in existence.

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