Shakotom

Anyone coming up from or via Feilding? who may have room for a small ish moped for me??

Update on details Raglan Ride Route, Parking and Meeting place. Parking at Raglan Airfield, the grassy area at the slip way is good if you have a trailer to turn. Pretty safe, wide open space. Put Raglan Holiday Park into your satnav. 5 minutes and one right turn (not crossing the bridge ) onto the main road from Rockit Cafe located 2/3 minutes away. Meeting place - Rockit Cafe 9am. This is on the edge of town, there is parking in a field nearby just past it on the right next to the Lets Grow Kindergarden. If your late try here. Route - Rockit depart 9ish- quick briefing - Head towards Raglan, turn first right onto Te Hutewai Road. This road turns to sweeping gravel at the top of the hill, and we follow it for a few km's, bearing left and not turning off the main route sharply at any point. Meet at the end of here where we hit tarmac again. - Turn Right onto Te Mata Road which turns into into Te Papatapu Rd and continue straight on, fast tarmac hills till we hit gravel again and meet at the bottom of the hill for a pit stop. No turn offs, just go straight on for a few km's. - From here we simply follow this road for about an hour till you hit tarmac, turn right onto Kawhia Rd, follow till you hit town, turn left to meet outside cafe/pub. Hangouts, food, shop, petrol station here. -Ride through Kawhia very discreetly onto the beach where we very slowly and quietly ride around till we are well out of town, we'll see what the weather is like before riding miles up the beach. No being a hoon in sight of town, its feral down there... -Return to Kawhia retracing our route, turning left onto Te Papatapu/Raglan Road, long gravel section - meet at the next right turn into Kawhia Rd. Chance to shorten route here if needed, fuel stop. - Head up the valley for a few km's, great gravel road with amazing views, valleys, lakes till we meet at the end in a carpark by the wind turbine track. - Head back to Te Mata, turning right at the end of the Bridal Veils fall Road before turning left onto Waimoari Rd and the gravel, following this for a short period turning right twice before we meet at the end, on Ruapuke Rd junction. - Turn Left towards Ruapuke and stay on this road for a long section of sweeping gravel road till a turning on your left to drop down a the hill to Ruapuke Beach. Meet here for final break, possibly adventures dependant on weather. - Leave, turn left onto Whaanga Rd, follow on towards Raglan, time dependant turn offs and off roading opportunities. Stop at Te Toto gorge carpark look out for a look out session. - Hit tarmac after about 30 minutes and follow till Whale Bay round about, turn right and follow back to Raglan/Rockit with no turn off's. I'll do a map too, but it might be worth screen shotting this and I made it just so I know where I'm going too.

What are plans for Saturday? Vauge time be leaving camp ect? trying to figure out aim for arrival time/departure from AKL

Perfect! Come!

After the MopedNZ Auckland ride was a success and in preparation for the adventure that is going to be East Cape Ride, MopedNZ/FOAMERS bring you yet another shitty scooter ride! https://www.facebook.com/events/480388522348480/?ti=icl What: Full day cruise from Raglan to Kawhia and back. When: Sunday 29th of October @ 9am. Bikes: A slow bike of some sort. As always, this isn’t for big bikes. Generally 250 and under. Ride whatever you’re comfortable using baring in mind a majority of this road is gravel. There will be old step throughs, new scoots, modified beasts, possibly a pit bike or old small dirt bikes. Probably at speeds of way under 50kmh This route is thanks to local Andrew Swinton, whom can usually be found roaming on his family of small bikes throughout the region. Gravel roads for a majority of the way! Beer exists at Kawhia, along with good beach riding. This ride will be an all day affair, with a likely start time of earlier rather than later. Say, 9am. Ride speeds won't be fast! Bring anything you like, the pack will be probably not far above 50kph for a lot of the trip. Note the distance, reliability is key. We probably won't have a support vehicle. Though, there may be a vehicle parked half way and loaded with a a bit of fuel/keys in case your bike suffers terminal failure and you need to drive it back. You wanna think about additional fuel and maybe a tube/patch kit for your tyre. Ride exclusive stickers will possibly be available on the day for a small amount of $$$$. Any questions? Not sure if your bike is suitable? -turn up anyway / Just ask. This will be fun as. Notes from Andrew: “Hey guys, this ride is a pretty slow speed ride to a degree, I do it on my 50cc scooter with fat tyres, hit about 50kph max on the gravel due to the windy road. Can be off the main road about 3 minutes from where we start, and there's nothing for miles, especially the po po Don't have to ride on the beach at the Kawhia end, but you can ride to a walk-in entrance down the road where we end up. Thinking of parking my van somewhere en route as a breakdown vehicle with the keys hidden underneath so anybody can use it if there are fatal breakdowns. The route on the way back can be made shorter easily if you're feeling it, but its probably the best bit!” Any Questions ask here or feel free to message myself ( @Shakotom ), Andrew (@GuyWithAviators)or Callum (@MopedNZ) UPDATE @15 OCT Raglan Ride Route, Parking and Meeting place. Parking at Raglan Airfield, the grassy area at the slip way is good if you have a trailer to turn. Pretty safe, wide open space. Put Raglan Holiday Park into your satnav. 5 minutes and one right turn (not crossing the bridge ) onto the main road from Rockit Cafe located 2/3 minutes away. Meeting place - Rockit Cafe 9am. This is on the edge of town, there is parking in a field nearby just past it on the right next to the Lets Grow Kindergarden. If your late try here. Route - Rockit depart 9ish- quick briefing - Head towards Raglan, turn first right onto Te Hutewai Road. This road turns to sweeping gravel at the top of the hill, and we follow it for a few km's, bearing left and not turning off the main route sharply at any point. Meet at the end of here where we hit tarmac again. - Turn Right onto Te Mata Road which turns into into Te Papatapu Rd and continue straight on, fast tarmac hills till we hit gravel again and meet at the bottom of the hill for a pit stop. No turn offs, just go straight on for a few km's. - From here we simply follow this road for about an hour till you hit tarmac, turn right onto Kawhia Rd, follow till you hit town, turn left to meet outside cafe/pub. Hangouts, food, shop, petrol station here. -Ride through Kawhia very discreetly onto the beach where we very slowly and quietly ride around till we are well out of town, we'll see what the weather is like before riding miles up the beach. No being a hoon in sight of town, its feral down there... -Return to Kawhia retracing our route, turning left onto Te Papatapu/Raglan Road, long gravel section - meet at the next right turn into Kawhia Rd. Chance to shorten route here if needed, fuel stop. - Head up the valley for a few km's, great gravel road with amazing views, valleys, lakes till we meet at the end in a carpark by the wind turbine track. - Head back to Te Mata, turning right at the end of the Bridal Veils fall Road before turning left onto Waimoari Rd and the gravel, following this for a short period turning right twice before we meet at the end, on Ruapuke Rd junction. - Turn Left towards Ruapuke and stay on this road for a long section of sweeping gravel road till a turning on your left to drop down a the hill to Ruapuke Beach. Meet here for final break, possibly adventures dependant on weather. - Leave, turn left onto Whaanga Rd, follow on towards Raglan, time dependant turn offs and off roading opportunities. Stop at Te Toto gorge carpark look out for a look out session. - Hit tarmac after about 30 minutes and follow till Whale Bay round about, turn right and follow back to Raglan/Rockit with no turn off's. I'll do a map too, but it might be worth screen shotting this and I made it just so I know where I'm going too.

Man that is so sweet! also mesh wheels are so good

Shit thats rad need

Me! unsure on accom @MopedNZ had booked something but location changed? I think?

Sweet as! Worth a try! Keen to see progress!

Pine. wouldnt happen to be interested in selling this? Or swapping for a rolling FR50 project??

I spy more mopeds in the back of it.

Intended to last night but ended up having beers with a mate instead will have a stab on weekend

Cannot tell if two guys/girls/one of each due to lack of body hair also where's the fourth leg?

Well there goes the theory that it had been loved haha

I think @GuyWithAviators and I are planning on cruising to Tauranga to stay with @MopedNZ then leave TGA early Friday am to meet up with you guys to start the ride./ will need somewhere to leave car/s I guess plz I also think is 3 are gonna build carriers and try and carry our shit on our bikes/ pack light/ wear the same pair of undies ect. also fizzing at the bungs. My tyres turned up. Cleaning up some spare wheels to chuck them on, have sorted a carrier rack to modify/ purchasing a crate of beer to have a crate. Aliexpressing some longer shocks/ can this be this weekend yet?

So shit late model scooters seem to attract other shit late model scooters. a SJ50qt. $100 Facebook deal that was 5 minutes from my work. Collected it within an hour of it being posted on facebook. Dude said it doesn't run. Fuel tanks bone dry. Motivate Battery has 4v, has good compression, appears to have a upgraded Mukuni crab and has a fancy looking NGK Sprak plug lead. So it may have been loved at some point. When I get 5 minutes gonna clean the carb/charge the battery and see how we go seriously. What am I doing with my life? At least it has rego on hold.

What's the diff like?

Also had my $5 Aliexpress Tachometer turn up so I mounted that this evening to assist with tuning/see how many RPM I'm pulling with this de restricted CDI/measure the tachyness of this plastic heap Sits just above to storage compartment in a spot that gives the least obstruction for access. also note Speed light that will come on above 40kmh. Ricey

New Variator barely fits in the casing, Need to give it a skim with a flap disc to give it a little bit more clearance. It clears as is by about a hair, it's definitely as big as you can go. To fit this I had to remove the electric starter as it fouls on this pulley which I'm a little bit disappointed about.

YAY PARTS! ended up with Aftermarket CDI, High speed variator pulley, a torsion controller,an assortment of torque springs/weights and an incorrect drive belt. there is a decent difference in size between the new variator and the old one. This should increase too end speed

Plenty of time to browse tardme and pick up something cheap and sketchy @RevDWC then ride it once and decide to tinker with it with the intention of sorting some niggles then decide the rides next week and it ran fine so it should be fine mate.

Wait..... wat

Leaves approved all terrain tyres purchased Keen

gonna use this as an excuse to get the knobblies and carrier racks I've been wanting for a while

Huge thanks to those of you who came along. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and I hope you did also. We managed to snap a fair few necks, make some ears bleed, add to the chaos in the CBD and even get approving nods from the 5-0 Watch out, there's new kids on the block.