Beach at Papamoa, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand
Karangahake Gorge

I fell foul of the mileage thing the first time I drove across the Canterbury plain, famous last words "that won't take long" :pinch:
cheers Spud ;)

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Yeah I've got a small spare tank from a postie bike on the rack that holds a couple of litres
and am working on tracking down a ...

I think I may buy in Auckland and simply leave it there and may be just may be it might be of use to someone else for a small fee ie a full service, cheers Spud ;)

Ahem. . . .I live in Auckland and am just two minutes away from all the main dealers and their service facilities ;)

The plan is to ...

Keep us up to date please as I am looking to buy a Bike in NZ in the near future, any tips appreciated cost wise etc cheers Spud ;)

The only advice I could give is bring lots of money, bikes are expensive down here.
Have a look on www.trademe.co.nz for prices. a word of warning, when I first ...

Have had a bit of a bugger about getting this ready for the road again after
buying it a few months ago but its finally ready for my trip round New zealands
South Island
oopps having problem with photos

fantastic, looks like just what I needed
cheers

Looking into a south america trip and thought I'd ask for any do's, don'ts
must see's or places to avoid.

jamie92j wrote: XRs are a beast to start up again after a drop!!

I've heard this said lots of times but I have to say I never once
had a problem with mine and believe me I dropped it a lot :unsure:

sounds like its going to a great trip but it sounds like your
going to be riding past a lot of stuff in order to collect mileage.
just on the journey for the first day your missing some beautiful
Belgium medieval towns, pretty much all the historic first world war
sites (I'd recommend everyone ...

I had a kawasaki kr1 twin cylinder 2 stroke (basically 2 kdx125 cylinders)sports bike
and traveled just under 1100 miles on it in a weekend.
The bike performed faultlessly, I was bloody knackered though as it was like riding a
250 GP bike for hours on end