Any Kiwis out there,
Im In Nelson, Any others on the forum?:fork

Oh yea

Oh yea

Hey Dude, I talked with you about some pipes for my R1 on the kiwi biker site me thinks:confused:

hey hey hey!
My first R1 (2002) just purchased and being delivered later next week all going well..just joined the KB site too. Just off to get the protection sorted i.e. full leathers :thumbup

Can hardly wait. North of Jafaland.

Must be lots of accessory website around for some further retail therapy?

add me to the list, just north of Auckland,Snells Beach.

nice adding to the collection

AK here.....

Hey espresso it sucks waiting a bike to turn up doesn't it.
Mine came up from Queenstown while i was away camping with the family,
had a hard time waiting to get back.My mind definately wasn't on camping.

Yeah Nallac, I'm just along the peninsula myself. Bought the R1 from South Island last week, getting it trucked up, 'should' be here end of next week...I'm impatient/ADD on a good day...but two weeks, that's more like a life sentence at the moment :cryin . Patients (patience) are for hospitals :lol

Then once it arrives no doubt a quick squirt, but really I'd like to do a full scrutineer on it, replace brake fluids, lube everything, check over everything, twice, oh and lots of Mothers polish :fork

So what colour is your one, and is she stock?.
seen your thread on KB awaiting pics...
Mind if i ask what ya payed for it?.

It's the blue 'n white R1 - had to be 'cos I couldn't have my blue helmet clash with a red one :) and the garage has much blue around, pretty much stock, got a Yoshi carbon muffler, 17000k's, power commander(?), I think polished rims..pretty much stock. But I do like shiny new things so no doubt bits and pieces to add for a bit of a personal touch. Paid $8250 for it which I'm happy with as this seems to be below market value (as long as it's in primo condition) when it arrives.

Mind you with knee surgery happening on Monday, by the time the bike does arrive later in the week I should be good to go ridin' (pffft to the surgeon who reckons it'll take weeks...yeah right). Right knee so I have all controls sorted except rear brake :thumbup

sounds good.

man is there some cheap lateish model bikes out there at the moment.
Doesn't do much for the resale value of my old 99..

hey hey hey!
My first R1 (2002) just purchased and being delivered later next week all going well..just joined the KB site too. Just off to get the protection sorted i.e. full leathers :thumbup

Can hardly wait. North of Jafaland.

Must be lots of accessory website around for some further retail therapy?

Welcome to the R1 Club Espresso:thumbup
I bought an 04 R1 from auckland a few years back, had to wait two weeks for delivery to nelson, it was agony waiting for it to show up:rant
Pics plaese when it arrives.:rock

ok lets sort this and catch up some time ....

Hey Dude, I talked with you about some pipes for my R1 on the kiwi biker site me thinks:confused:

Yep thats me. Did you get yr exhausts?

Yep thats me. Did you get yr exhausts?
Not Yet, Probably get a set of two brothers, wait till i get the first sevice out the way.

Aye well then Bardman, she arrived and it's like a major breath of fresh air riding the R1, actually more like a breath of NOS :D (or whatever that gas is that the ambulances have). It's fun, the riding that is. Today was classic...had a few hours to go enjoy a ride on some dry back roads, stuff all traffic. Work? Pffft.
No outrageous mind blowing speed thrills today really, just a blat around.
Parked up for a while to let the sun warm the skeleton with the R1 just shy of the salty stuff.

:tocoo: day

So came home, gave her the quick rub down with the white cotton cloth, bugs and road dust you understand. Very happy with correcting the tyre pressures, something I need a :chair: for not doing sooner..excitement got the better of good judgent, again..both tyres needed significant adjusment. The mornings oil and filter change (just 'cos now it's my bike and gets treats) and with this new Elf chain paste I got...well you just have to go bed things in right :sneaky

Put crash bungs on.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/FissionBrain/SaltyR15.jpg

there is some? went i first came to this forum i asked the same thing on a thread, and got "there was one once" after that figured i was the only one here.
what took ya all so long to get to this great site.

Aye well then Bardman, she arrived and it's like a major breath of fresh air riding the R1, actually more like a breath of NOS :D (or whatever that gas is that the ambulances have). It's fun, the riding that is. Today was classic...had a few hours to go enjoy a ride on some dry back roads, stuff all traffic. Work? Pffft.
No outrageous mind blowing speed thrills today really, just a blat around.
Parked up for a while to let the sun warm the skeleton with the R1 just shy of the salty stuff.

:tocoo: day

So came home, gave her the quick rub down with the white cotton cloth, bugs and road dust you understand. Very happy with correcting the tyre pressures, something I need a :chair: for not doing sooner..excitement got the better of good judgent, again..both tyres needed significant adjusment. The mornings oil and filter change (just 'cos now it's my bike and gets treats) and with this new Elf chain paste I got...well you just have to go bed things in right :sneaky

Put crash bungs on.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/FissionBrain/SaltyR15.jpg

Nice bike..! Ever thought about painting the rims white..? It really pops on the blue ones.

And you should probably wash your bike after being so close to the sea-water...

:hellobye

I feel like takin some time off work to ride sometimes too espresso.
Got out on saturday shot over the whangamoas just north of nelson, road was dry and not much grit.:thumbup
Got home to see 996km on odometer, better book in for first service.
Good to have you onboard blacknzr1, hope to see a few more kiwis on the forum

everyone else in here stoked with the weather lately!!!
got to hit puke last sat, track test days are the best!!
damn these things are quick out of the box.... had a blast, and we are getting close to hampton downs being finished as well!!!

cant wait!!!

Espresso ... where did you take that shot mang!???

yer great weather for burning around. so what year is your bike? finish ya profile man! lol

that better cuz???....

wtf is/are flying kiwis?????

:lol:lol You prolly don't wanna know :crash

^hahah now i kinda regret asking that question.... kinda afraid to google it as well, dont want any weird shit popping on my screen.

the kiwi is our countrys bird/symbol, like australias kangaroo. funny thing is it doesnt fly! i guess because where on r1's we do.
yer duno how we got that name on the forum, i wana be a bad ass dragon! the n.z squadron. lol
yer gee, now we can see who has what bike, when i started i was the only one from n.z spose i should change my location to b.o.p

might as well we will take over this place in due time....

hahaha sepos they crack me up,

this is a kiwi fellas

http://www.learnz.org.nz/trips06/images/big/b-kiwi-si-brown-doc.jpg

and this is a flying kiwi....lol

http://img2.photographersdirect.com/img/27690/wm/pd2243741.jpg

and this is a flying kiwi....lol

http://img2.photographersdirect.com/img/27690/wm/pd2243741.jpg

:hammer::hammer::hammer:

Heres another flying kiwi

is that stroudee in that one...??

damn fine bike the britton..

is that stroudee in that one...??

damn fine bike the britton..

Yup thats him, Bike show in Nelson this weekend and the Britten and Stroudy gunna be here for it.:ncont:

Andrew is a nice bloke, fast as fucck and smooth.
the britton sounds off the hook, not bad for a bike with little too no mapping below 3k rpm!!!

Harro another Kiwi here. Quite daft looking birds I might add, good thing we make up for them with our fast mouths and faster bikes :D
I'm from Auckland JAFA representing !

Yo ..gee.. that pic is at Muriwai, west Auckland, just down from the Cafe'...where back in the good 'ol days we'd take the MX bikes up the beach on trailers to the bombing range and go mental for a day, then beat the incoming tide to get back.

The thought of heading to Hampton Downs to watch (ride?) sounds good, will check out the open days. I'm a real squid on the bike so I'd be a danger to everything and everyone, might check out the ultimate 'stay away from noob' class and have a wobbly lap or two trying to learn how to ride properly.

Is there anything in particular I need to know for a first track day ever? I have a van...take the bike there or just ride it there?

Yo ..gee.. that pic is at Muriwai, west Auckland, just down from the Cafe'...where back in the good 'ol days we'd take the MX bikes up the beach on trailers to the bombing range and go mental for a day, then beat the incoming tide to get back.

The thought of heading to Hampton Downs to watch (ride?) sounds good, will check out the open days. I'm a real squid on the bike so I'd be a danger to everything and everyone, might check out the ultimate 'stay away from noob' class and have a wobbly lap or two trying to learn how to ride properly.

Is there anything in particular I need to know for a first track day ever? I have a van...take the bike there or just ride it there?

will you be leaving from auckland?/take the van, ull be tired.

Cheers blacknzr1, 'cos after a day on the MX bike, I'm absolutely knackered and on auto drive home, good point.
Geez reckon I should buy a lotto ticket, finally cleared my responsibilities late today, took the bike out to blow the weeds outta my head i.e. gave it a good strop here and there. Stopped at a fav. lookout and an awesome Nissan 300zx GTR rocked in, and while just getting chatting (the driver was also a biker with a stunning girlfriend.. and he knew his bikes, I was gobbing at his car etc too) two cop cars roll in. Shyte, I assumed they'd clocked me and were about to do a body cavity check :lhumper: . They got the Nissan guy, I must've been in front (not that I was speeding, just might've looked that way :bs ). Had a rather scenic and casual ride home.
Funny thing was though one cop was in a Nissan Maxima, it looked so lame and he'd been trying for ages to catch up and record the 300's speed - the dude had a flash radar detector and slowed each time it went off, but one. By the heat in the tyres as I was checking the 300 over, he was honking it alright, so sat back and kept quiet :corn

About time the All Blacks won last night.

yer these bikes are quick and easy to get in trouble, a good radar detector is handy, even tho, after about 140 youv got to think twice about stopping, but that might not allways be a possability.
and it seems the fuzz will nail you for just about anything these days just for the hell of it.
take it easy.

Anyone else keen to have a sticker, t shirt (small/large jacket patch...or are they banned now?) or whatever R1 'squadron' style? The Kiwi bird itself seems pretty lame, but the fernleaf, black and silver/white, R1 styalized kind of thing could look great. I guess this would be in very limited numbers though :)
Anyone got graphic talent, the inclination, permission needed etc?

Anyone else keen to have a sticker, t shirt (small/large jacket patch...or are they banned now?) or whatever R1 'squadron' style? The Kiwi bird itself seems pretty lame, but the fernleaf, black and silver/white, R1 styalized kind of thing could look great. I guess this would be in very limited numbers though :)
Anyone got graphic talent, the inclination, permission needed etc?

nice idea, i just dont think it would work, we dont have the numbers and would never get together for a ride, from what iv see auckland and nelson would have to come together, too far.

nice idea, i just dont think it would work, we dont have the numbers and would never get together for a ride, from what iv see auckland and nelson would have to come together, too far.

Yea lol I mean I could do the East Cape via Nelson and crash at yours :D

PS: I've got a silver fern R1. I think it looks pretty RAD.

OK i will have a crack at something tommorrow sticker wise

that silver fern on the tail looked mint cuz...

as for hampton downs cant wait to get my ass on that track gunna be sick , got a friday booked there on the 27th of NOV , so there should be heaps of rubber laid on it by then .. nothing worse than nude tarmac.... looking at something really simple and kiwi as...
anyone else like black on black sticker jobs!????

nice idea, i just dont think it would work, we dont have the numbers and would never get together for a ride, from what iv see auckland and nelson would have to come together, too far.

that sounds like the perfect plan...

lets book taupo and have a track day there

If you guys every do get down to Nelson let me know, will sort a ride out and get the bbq prepared:yesnod:cool::tocoo::fork

might be down that way just before christmas

Well, adjusting to a few changes 'round my little pond has meant I sold my beautiful R1. I still have all the riding gear but right now a few other priorities that must be taken care of. Got back what I paid for it so all in all, happy man.

One day I'll be back.

Enjoy your riding guys, stay safe.

did any of you get to the battle of the streets?