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/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl General Category >> The Cafe >> Great trip /cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1386228342 Message started by jcstokes on 12/04/13 at 23:25:42 |
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Title: Great trip Post by jcstokes on 12/04/13 at 23:25:42 Just back from the Burt Monroe, The Worlds Fastest Indian festival in Invercargill NZ. The group I was travelling with all had larger, better or more powerful bikes, Harley Sportster 1200, large 1400cc Harley cruiser, two 800 plus cc Triumph Daytona's, a 650cc Triumph modern twin thing and a 1986 Kawasaki 1000 cc cruiser. All these riders have significant years and miles under their belts, ranging from 1924 Harley J's, 1917 leather belt drive Triumphs, club circuit racers and so on. All were impressed with the S40's ability to keep up. Mind you no one was over 75 mph for long as the NZ legal limit is about 62 mph. I covered about 2187 miles and the longest day was about 435 miles, which even with an Airhawk cushion is enough on an S40 for a 64 year old. Met the Suzuki/Harley distributor in Dunedin, while I was looking at a superb display of antique to modern bikes in the Otago museum. He says that the new Harley 500 will be targeted, at among other things "people who buy Savage, LS650, S40". This gentleman is a highly respected and extremely knowlegeble member of the Vintage Car Club of NZ with many superb bike restorations under his belt, I had neither the courage or the skill to tell him where to put his 2014 Harley 500. During the trip I saw heaps of Harley's, Norton's to die for, Guzzi's to fart over. One Hesketh, Honda's Yammi's, Sawakaki's by the ton, and a one armed, one legged man who doesn't disgrace himself at beach, circuit, or hill climb racing. The love affair with my un bobbed, un modded stock S40 grows in .leaps and bounds. |
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Title: Re: Great trip Post by justin_o_guy2 on 12/05/13 at 00:26:15 Dude! Youre a tuff Old Dude,, Congrats on that trip. You sore? |
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Title: Re: Great trip Post by jcstokes on 12/05/13 at 02:45:18 Not sore just ass riveted on several days. |
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Title: Re: Great trip Post by Retired Rider on 12/05/13 at 04:52:10 A fantastic and inspiring post. Glad you had a great trip and happy to hear that your S40 performed well on the longer ride. Thanks for sharing. |
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Title: Re: Great trip Post by Dave on 12/05/13 at 06:05:49 Photos? ::) |
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Title: Re: Great trip Post by Serowbot on 12/05/13 at 07:44:09 NZ is lot bigger than I thought!... Sounds like you did a first rate job representing us... ;)... |
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Title: Re: Great trip Post by old_rider on 12/05/13 at 07:51:26 Awsome story! Great rep for the savage/s40! Hope we can do the same next summer on the mmr/dragon run for the motorcycle meet up there!. |
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Title: Re: Great trip Post by wambr on 12/05/13 at 08:12:43 Great story! here i read and envy a little bit-you have a spring now... :) great that you were able to cover such a big and important, interesting way. cool! |
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Title: Re: Great trip Post by verslagen1 on 12/05/13 at 08:31:47 Quote:
must be scitzo, and both sides of himself hate the other. Quote:
and here's the comeback... you'll have to get to them before they know any better. ;) |
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Title: Re: Great trip Post by Pine on 12/05/13 at 09:24:46 I just watched last years "Hobbit" movie. The one and only special after the show was nice long look at NZ and how beautiful it is. Like many I justa assumed it was all CGI in the movie, but they show how really CGI wasn't needed NZ just really is all that awesome. I could see making that my #1 place to see on my bucket list. Congratz on the ride! |
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Title: Re: Great trip Post by jcstokes on 12/05/13 at 18:25:49 Dave, I'll try and get photos of bikes up over the next few days, they will be antique thumpers of various sorts. Regrettably I didn't have any time for scenery shots. |
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Title: Re: Great trip Post by ZAR on 12/05/13 at 19:05:22 Glad you had a good trip JC! Just let them young whippersnappers try to out-do us old farts ;D! |
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Title: Re: Great trip Post by kimchris1 on 12/07/13 at 11:40:43 Way to go JC.... You showed those guys how a real bike performs. ;) Great story and sounds like you had a blast as well. We recently watched the story of Burt Monroe and his mc. Great movie by the way. And yes where are the pics? :) kim |
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Title: Re: Great trip Post by jcstokes on 12/07/13 at 12:05:16 Sorry about the lack of Pictures, heres one of an AJS thumper from a collection in a place called Rongotea. It's the nearest thing we have to a national motorcycle museum |
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