Popular Post 64valiant Posted November 3, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 3, 2018 East cape ready. 9 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted November 4, 2018 Author Share Posted November 4, 2018 This sums up our ride for today. The head wind heading out to kawhia was a killer and the side wind was pretty hard at some times but a solid 50mph on our way out. A easy 60mph plus on the way home. Air temp dropped and the tail wind was great. Rode all packed for east cape see what the bike went like and what a trooper. Nothing changed at all. A great two hundred kms again. Only a few more days and I'll be on my way to Whakatane with @Zeubin in his bmw c1 via more back roads doing our extended east cape trip on small adventure bikes. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted November 6, 2018 Author Share Posted November 6, 2018 man so much excitement going on right now!!!! this is the trip i plan on achieving on the vespa over the next 5 days 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted November 6, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 6, 2018 Jack pot. I hit up mum to see if I was aloud my fathers pins from his years of riding and collecting. Pretty over the moon to be able to wearing these from now on. 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mop Head Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 That’s epic. Get these if you haven’t got any. Saves them ever coming loose. https://www.ebay.com/itm/60-Pin-Keepers-Pin-Badge-Locks-Locking-Pin-Backs-for-Enamel-Lapel-Hat-Pins/222656082213?hash=item33d7563125:g:ULMAAOSwrcBba7s9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted November 6, 2018 Author Share Posted November 6, 2018 These are the style of the pins. These locks are pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyfive Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 Would you consider going around the Northern side of Lake Rotorua? Or do you need to go Rotorua for fuel possibly? Theres some twisty bits and not much traffic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyfive Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 https://www.google.co.nz/maps/dir/Ohope/Hamilton/@-38.0605069,176.1234117,11z/data=!4m19!4m18!1m10!1m1!1s0x6d6fbb0136ce932d:0x500ef6143a2edc0!2m2!1d177.0456487!2d-37.9673447!3m4!1m2!1d176.1453576!2d-38.0340814!3s0x6d6c2edbd4e28171:0x1300ef6106995691!1m5!1m1!1s0x6d6d227487a63621:0x500ef6143a29903!2m2!1d175.279253!2d-37.7870012!3e0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted November 6, 2018 Author Share Posted November 6, 2018 @johnnyfive yea I didn't even think but probably will go north side of the lake. A hell of a lot cooler ride. (we drive it to lake Rotoiti) I havnt really planned fuel stops as such I got a range of about 160kms easy so will just go with the flow I think. Just need to double check with @Zeubin on Thursday morning if there is a preference with the route. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted November 12, 2018 Author Share Posted November 12, 2018 i think this is next years east cape set up 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted November 13, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 13, 2018 so i went on a bit of a ride over the weekend.... started with meeting @Zeubin at bp nga. next stop this big bottle waihi beach on our way to the mt there was a huge traffic jam and would have passed an easy 200 cars. thank god for small bikes had a beer with the qcr boys at the mt and then rode out to meet @HighLUX at his place we boosted from his up the back across a paper road and then he broke down, then he broke down again. the following day wast east cape day 1st day of east cape going through some fords i also stopped off and payed my respect to @Shakotoms corner got this sweet photo on my way down the last part of the motu road from here i missed the rock slide and assisted other people. but i then went for a swim and stood underneath a water fall so incredibly cool under it got a photo next to it also got one of @mark105 skip a few other cool photos and we made it to gizzy, stocked up on booze and head up the hill@chris r made an appearance after this. also @Archetype check out how flat your tire is here fun fact smash palace in gizzy has a plane in it got rather drank there and scooted home. next morning meet up point was wet again. then we had a car crash that blocked the road so couldn't go much from there. so i went for a little ride and found some sweet hill and a goat track we gave up waiting for the main road to open so took a back road @Truenotch getting in on this sweet photo me giving a helpful hand to @Chris.QCR then we hooned on back i stopped a few more times than everyone else and got some scenic photos patted some pigs and gave them some scratches then head to our accommodation at hicks bay and walked down the "short" track to the batch. dried out my shoes while getting toast. 3am i got to bed and back up around 630 ish as the light was way to bright. off to the light house i go even walked up the hill and took a photo up there i got this photo last year as well stopped in at where the movie boy was filmed also got this sweet photo famous ya know we hooned for ages from here and then i done some donuts in an abandoned building kaimais photo and i made it home photo my speedo recons i done 1345kms and done a rough caculation via the net and google says around the 1220kms so i think my speedo is pretty bang on tbh. i kinda hope i got a speeding ticket going down the kaimais on a fifty cc scooter haha thats all for now. my ass is destroyed. till next time. oh i also done some jumps rad 13 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archetype Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 39 minutes ago, 64valiant said: also @Archetype check out how flat your tire is her Probably <10psi at that stage. Slow(ish) leak meant I had to pump up my tyre every day, and it was at 4psi in the morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted November 15, 2018 Author Share Posted November 15, 2018 So I posted a little while back regarding exhaust on the vespa club page. Got a bunch of responses and the common one was to get a sip road. A guy also posted this link regarding a review of other exhaust and comparison. Found it quite interestinghttps://scooterlab.uk/vespa-big-box-exhaust-shootout-feature-2/?fbclid=IwAR12o3Kmr2bxp5JaoSpj0EfhnxKKFJz7PgaaZsDmqMMvfWDeyVXkw4aUobI the short of it is this. pretty sweet and easy to compare types and what not. retro scooter stock the SIP Road 2 in Auckland and i am going there tomorrow with @Geophy to drop a car off so i may end up getting one. although nz scootercarer can get a polini one. HHHHNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truenotch Posted November 18, 2018 Share Posted November 18, 2018 How's that new exhaust @64valiant? I've changed your thread title btw. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted November 18, 2018 Author Share Posted November 18, 2018 Thank you very much. New exhuast is good. But I managed to get a ride home in a chevy truck this afternoon. Vespa must be running same stuff oldschool.co.nz is running. Just stopped working. Used my tool kit and tried everything I could on the side of the road. Dan you reliable scooter not been reliable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaMpylobacter Posted November 18, 2018 Share Posted November 18, 2018 i used to run a sito plus or somethign on my px200. was mint. had a polini spanny for a bit but gear ratios were too wide and it made it a bastard in hill surburbs in welly so went back to sito. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted December 11, 2018 Author Share Posted December 11, 2018 I went drag racing and had a ball. Poo man's small 135 was so much faster than my 200. God dam I need to do some mods to this thing and make it come alive. 10 outa 10 was still heaps of fun. @Poo what did you mention when I was at retro scooter the other day. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poo Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 You need a long stroke crank, an upgear, short 4th gear, cylinder kit, etc etc. The guys at Retro know what cylinder kit will work best for you. They order from SIP every week or so. Yeah, drag day was good. my best was a 18.8 at 66mph. not bad considering my clutch was slipping. And the scoot had sat in the shed for a year. I didnt even put fresh gas in. lewl. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted April 25, 2019 Author Share Posted April 25, 2019 just came here to view what my last post was and all my east cape pics had gone, so back up now. have been riding this pretty much everywhere i get a chance to really. a few days ago i went for a ride with old mate @flyingbrick and this is how it kinda went. The earth is flat i tell ya! oh hello greg why have you stopped ohhhhh yeah got a flattie lets boost backwards to those guys see if we can get a hand, old guy that lived next to the boat ramp hand some tools and i was able to get the rim off and he offered to mow his lawns for us so we could pack my tire full of grass i ended up limping it back to cell phone reception and called the guys net to me at work (ntb motorcycles) and they came out and picked me up. they were about 20mins drive from my final resting point. ahhh this is also what happens when you cant be assed trying to find your tools or your spare tube you usually carry. it was a bloody good hoon thats for sure. our next stop was kawhia we also went for a hoon yesterday, out the back of mine and towards port waikato and back. some bloody beautiful country we have on our door step i tell ya! seems i took this photo with a potato but i took @Zeubins gas off him to give him less weight so he can go faster. wasnt long and we were on the gravel roads doing some sweet hoons old mate @Zeubin came off a little while after this, he got a little distracted by the bloody pheasant that flew in front of him. we then had to deal with a flooded bike that wasnt running well. few push starts here and there and alive it became. carried on out to the next stop which was Nikau Cave & Cafe had a quick bite there and avoided all the paper wasps. some more lovely gravel roads and a few shat pants from a giant tractor and we then done some vape clouds well richard did while reubin checked his bike cause well yeah still not running right.... few more gravel roads and what not, boom baby we got the coast. this section of gravel road was so god dam fun! but we kept on hooning and made it to the beach. old mate richard went for a hoon down the beach that we got to but yeah water was to high for my liking i did go for a hoon on the sand dunes though i also got a nice photo of @flyingbrick picking up his bike....... we continued to get our hoon on really good after this, some of us more than others. but as we got closer to tuakau reubins bike started to loose speed and not sound so great, we chucked more fuel in and we dropped some oil in it, seemed to have given it a bit more life, well not for long. he checked the spark plug that well wasnt happy at all. a phone call later and he had a car coming to pick him up and the bike. bit of a bummer, his dad recons the rings and broken, hopefully we see the modded small bike out again. all in all a great trip again. here is the map of this trip we done alos fun fact @GuyWithAviators got stuck in grass and a little bit of water in his 4x4 at the bottom of that trig road. (it may have been clay) but both maps great fun if your keen on some gravel road riding. i will be back to ride them again! the earth is flat nathan. 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingbrick Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 If the earth is flat then how did me and my bike nearly fall off that sand dune. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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