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Who else is riding their whip to Nats? Lets get a roll call going on up in hurr!

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The greatest thing about this bike is that you feel like you are actively committing multiple crimes just puttling down the road for a test ride. Can't wait to experience this new found ability to break speed limits!

Perfect, cheers KK. Mid-feb looks promising

Gary you are right it will look better size wise with 27s but god they are horrible haha.

Those cheng shin tyres are poos they lasted one ride for me. Skidded right through to the canvas after ripping a sweet skid that wasn't even that long! They do smoke up pretty mean though. Then I tacoed my 27" araya rear because HUGE QUADZ. In hindsight It was probably a lost cause trying to rebuild with them because they were already a bit wonky. Get it true and the spoke tension varies heaps. Scratched head and hope for the best haha

Basically a weekend in Jan/Feb/Mar. The bosses are away in feb so that probably works better for us

Mean! Paint looks good. Ring-a-ding-ding

Building a wheelset using steel 27" rims is the worst idea ever, I'm sorry. They will be heavy as fuck, you can't get any good tyres for them anymore, rim brakes on steel sucks, even more so in the wet. Even a cheap 700c fixed ali wheelset will be miles better. You should be able to get a built 700c fixed/free hub rear wheel for $100 and a reasonable front from some upgrade happy roadie for like $50. Way cheaper & easier than trying to build a set. Leave that till you have some baller deep track shit to build up (Campag Atlanta '96's on Sheriff Stars (dreaming haha)).

Also, fuck single speed! Man up and ride fixed ya big blouse. 48:17 is magic ratio, even for wellington. I used to ride that ratio on my commuter all over AKL, no problems anywhere. Plus it looks cooler having a big chainring on the front. Or use the big ring off some road cranks and roll 52:19, also legit. Its all about maximising skid patches with fixed ratios. If that feels too big then go 42:17 but realise that your gear ratio directly relates to penis size. Old road cranks are sweet cos they are usually 52/42 which is way better than the 52/39 on most modern road cranks. Actual track cranks are 144bcd but this means that the smallest ring you can run is like a 45T.

Leave a front brake on it until you learn to skid properly (which will only take a few months tops) if you ride semi regularly. The you can throw that shit in the bin. Get some good pedals with cages too. MTB plastic double cages & fabric straps probably work the best but aren't as legit as old steel track/road cages and leather straps.

#knowledge

That's my backup plan

Righto so I rode this up to the Leadfoot cruise a few weekends ago. Richie took some sweet pics, thanks Richie!

IMG_2784 by SnoozinRichy, on Flickr

IMG_2821 by SnoozinRichy, on Flickr

Then on the way home about an hour from Taupo one of the exhaust headers decided that it didn't really like being attached anymore. The locknut clamping the header on decided to make a break for the tarseal, cue millions of decibels, farm animals running away and even worse fuel economy.

A full new set of decals has also just turned up so I'm going to whip of the fuel tank, oil tank and side cover and get them tidied up and repainted before throwing them on. Exciting stuff.

I'm about to go through this process with my Kawasaki so I'll let you know how it goes.

Tune by VMAX

Toms tohatsu twosmoke was also only revving to 4000rpm at 75kph. Still had another 1,200rpm to go before coming on pipe according to science. We still haven't seen the true potential of a big block 2smoke.

Get a rotor!

All I hear is the sound of 10 propellors not turning

That weekend is my bday, and the bridge is opening right around that date so will be super busy with work. Later/mid march no good?

Photos of trophy in a prominent domicile position and name inscribed uniquely on plaque please.

Yeah apologies to all the unprotected eardrums for the LSR Dragster megaphone. There was a reason we packed 2 pairs of Class 5 earmuffs and earplugs

I'm considering building a muffler/baffles so it's possible to ride to the pub without waking the dead.

After all the talk of steering geometry and such at DROMAGEDDON, this article makes for pretty good reading on the subject.

http://www.dclxvi.org/chunk/tech/trail/

Ram-air shroud over motor that exits into a ground effect under-frame exhaust accelerated venturi.

Or just a water mist sprayer.

The bike bug has bitten hard. We need another meet to get the building motivation strong.

Beach drags would be awesome. I'm super keen to make a bikini fairing for the drag bike for aero lols

These photos make me so happy/sad.

My right arm/shoulder/back is pretty sore today from all that pullstarting haha. Luckily the crafty gentlemen have a plan to solve this pesky problem

Greatest meet ever?

There is still time, hop to it. Must be plenty of op-shops in whakatane/kawerau you can pillage?

Either is fine with me. It'll all eventually end up as blue smoke

Patches look super swish fellas