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    Nick's 1982 Honda XL250R Boomer ADV Adventures

    in Two Wheels

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    Long time no update. Because not much has happened with this thing. Its a 40 year old honda, it handles everything like a champ and is generally rad at being lush. The only grief it has given me has been a fried coil, which was easily sourced from Anaconda Honda.

    In June me Midge and Blizz went on a journey around the south island to get to the 40th Brass Monkey Rally. Blizz was on his Africa Twin and Lips on his tractor spec R80. This thing was no match for the big blocks on the highway, but on the gravel it really holds its own, it just braps through anything and besides having non existent brakes, it is quite predictable and 21" front wheel is lush for off road stz. 

    I left from Hastings and ticked up 3500kms over 10 days. Saw some amazing sights, rode some awesome roads. A lot of gravel. really made me miss the south island...

    Heres a pic before 

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    Some pics during

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    And heres a pic after. 

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    My 40L dry bag pretty much held all my shit, tent, sleeping bag and mattress, then clothes and other misc shit. Then i had my tank bag full of tools and spare oil. Cos it was cold as fuck i just wore my wet weather gear all the time. 

    This thing got an absolute hiding after 3500kms. Throughout the trip, my rear brakes gradually went from shit to horrifically shit, as i'd run out of adjustment and the drum arm was over rotating. On about day 7 of our mission, we took a journey on a rude looking back road between Cheviot and Hurunui, which quickly turned into a cow shit covered, rutted as fuck farm track. Channeling my inner Carmichael i tried to pick a dry line out of the mud, but was a bit shit and ended up getting cross rutted and low siding through some delicious resource consent and nitrogen leaching goodness. Front brake lever snapped clean off on impact and rear brake pedal bent up into the engine case. After some masterful cable tying and rock bashing i was able to get her rolling again, but was relying on mostly engine braking for the rest of the trip. 

    It also consumes oil at a somewhat? alarming pace. I managed to consume just over two litres during the trip. for a bike that holds 1.6 litres, that is a bit more than power sweats. Think its time to shout this thing its first top end in 40 years. 

    Some orders have been made for some engine and brake parts. The trip also highlighted some deficiencies in rider comfort and storage provisions. So Ive bought a few more ADV accessories like larger footpegs and a acerbis fender bag for additional storage on this rig.

    Will update with shiny new bits and more boomer ADV accessories. 

    You should all buy 250s, they are rad

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    DIY Kiwibuild

    in Other Projects

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    @nzstato might be a /ling but always puzzles me why driveway and landscaping aren’t part of CCC. Did your contract with the builders include lawn and a drive or did you agree to exclude these and do yourself?

    When we value shit off the plans it’s always tricky when we do completion reports to release all the funds and they have no lawn or pathways, and are still using a pallet as a front doorstep … house isn’t exactly “complete” 

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    Bike spam thread

    in General Bike Chat

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    3 hours ago, kicker said:

    I got this road legal recently, had to go the alternative docs route as it was an import with no documentation. Good fun

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    Wow. that is insanely lush. We deffs need you on board for more PPSC small bore trail activities!

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    Eastcapescapade 2021 November 12th, 13th, 14th

    in Upper North Island Region

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    Upon the walls of the waikaremoana mess hall I stumbled across a rare pic of The Hokianga Halfwits 3rd XV, colorised from 1917.
    Due to the war effort the team was reduced to three players that season. As opposed to defaulting, the men played each game with a 3 man side and amassed a world record point differential of -14,000 after 6 games.  
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    from left to right; Kamahl, Tom Selleck, and the villain from Lethal Weapon 2. 
    insert: the microwave from the Rawene Tea Rooms which served a whopping 400 roast dinners during the winter of 81. 

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    Eastcapescapade 2021 November 12th, 13th, 14th

    in Upper North Island Region

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    41 minutes ago, Willdat? said:

    @Truenotch this is enough notice to start the grovelling. I need to do some sums - East of Masterton is basically uncharted terrain so the pine is real.

    that would be a bloody good mish for you guys from nelson/marlborough! few spicy roads between there and palmy to make the trip a bit more interesting/off the highway. PPSC will start planning the route north shortly. 

    Would highly recommend camping for anyone looking to spice up their trip. Camping at the gizzy holiday park is pretty rad popping open your tent to crashing waves and a sweet view. Can imagine up the coast gets even cooler

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    Te Urewera Undertaking, 2020 Nov 27th, 28th, 29th.

    in Upper North Island Region

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    9 hours ago, MopedNZ said:

    Sounds like all the PPSC boys are too soft for small bikes and will bring big blocks also. You’ll fit right in. 

    Years of tv radiation have left our genitals withered and useless so now we ride slightly larger motorcycles to compensate. 

    will ride from palmy and hopefully make it 1500km ish journey. Hey @tortron come down to palmy and bend valves the long way to east cape 

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    Bike spam thread

    in General Bike Chat

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    42 minutes ago, HighLUX said:

    Would a ct110 frame with all

    the good bits from a pitbike be eligible for farmbike champs?

    probably, would be slow as fuck though. 

    Had some sweet ideas of running a "trail class" at VMX so i spoke to my old man who is on the organising committee. He said they tried a AG100 class in VMX years ago and cunts got carried away with porting heads and welding YZ125 chambers on them they quickly canned it and made them ride in the race classes. 

    This is already happening in Farm Bike racing. Give cunts a class of motorsport and they will keep making gainz til its not fun anymore 

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