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in reply to: 1200GS Adventure #5461
Looks like one for you Dean, is Barbara keen?
in reply to: A Bouquet for Transit New Zealand #4963and so to continue:
I was up at 2am to check the Transit website and found that all 3 'ice sites' had the 'ICE' warning signs on with road and air temperatures below zero. There was now definitely no way I was going down the centre of the North Island so New Plymouth via the Awakino Gorge I went.
It was bloody freezing! The heated grips on the RT kept the palms of my hands warm but the tips of my fingers were so cold they hurt. My left thumb was freezing as the headlight dipswitch is not heated......where my thumb had to live.
Even though I was staying under the 'speeding' limit I could see the constabulary from a long way off. They had trucks pulled over and their disco lights hard at work at 4am.
For some of the trip the stars were out, not a cloud to be seen and not much traffic either. It was a great feeling! (Well, those bits that I could feel)
An errant contractor had set his 'bike trap' in the middle of the gorge. I was nearly caught out when blinded by a truck coming toward me and didnt see the roadworks signs and cones until nearly too late. I countersteered around the centreline cones just like they teach at RRRS Day, wrapped the throttle open to straighten up on the gravel and got back to the hard surface before the sphincter muscle had time to come into play.
Then the fog set in! It was crawling pace to Awakino itself then a quick run to NP down the coast, slowing again for the fog patches inland. I now have a clear visor with the 'pinlock' system to hopefully make life a little easier in these situations.
So, thanks Transit NZ, great warning system you have. now if we can only control the rogue contractors 😕in reply to: Ingel and Lesley. R1200 cl #5421That’s one impressive bike!
What the heck do you want a trailer for 🙂in reply to: Interislander and telelever front ends #5419First of all Bwucie, tell your pater to ignore the testers and ride the bike. He got to the Testing Station without crashing….. What are they going to do, lock him up? Free board and keep for a week? Saves on the pension yeah?
Second of all, when I brought the 'Funduro' North in January there were mainly Beemers on board, including an R1200GS and K1200LT. All were tied down in the conventional manner. i.e. using the side stand with a strop front and rear pulling the bike down onto the sidestand. The LT was a rental with no tiedowns and the riders borrowed bits of 'string' from the stevedors! Lucky it was a millpond out there! Enjoy your trip you lucky, lucky, man 😀in reply to: Touring NZ in Feb #5385You lucky, lucky…….. 😀
in reply to: Oil & Petrol #4974I have just done an analysis of my fuel consumption over the last 7500km and I get a little more km/$ when I use 98 octane fuel against 96 octane in the R1100RT! 😀
in reply to: How is this for a BMWral #4981It would be a real bitch to push though Alex 😕
in reply to: Coolant type… #4960Buy this from the larger Caltex stops.
Or come and get the bottle of BMW coolant that Neil should have sold you 🙄 I dont need it any more as I now have an oilhead.
I also have a Clymer F650 1994-2000 manual which I'll let go of for a small fee. Pulling the 650GS apart is easy and fun 😀
'COOLANT' is a 50/50 mix of de-ionised water (rainwater to you) and a chemical whose main job is to prevent corrosion inside the engine. It has an added benefit of lowering the freezing point and raising the boiling point of the coolant - not so important in Jafaland 😉
Most waterpump failures are caused by poor coolant maintenance, e.g. adding water instead of the 50/50 mix. Too little coolant will cause cavitation erosion (water pump suffers first ) and too much coolant causes the engine to run at higher temperatures as it tends to retain heat.
I wrote this a few years ago, along with the rest of the website.
http://www.yanmarhelp.com/s_coolant.htm
The problems shown here stopped once we started using Havoline ELC.
"Havoline Extended Life Anti-Freeze/Coolant keeps protecting for up to five years or 150,000 miles." Beat that.in reply to: Lunch Ride to Puhoi #4930I didnt know you wouldnt be there 😯
in reply to: Radar Detectors #4861Steve my man, I care! Your opinion is worth it’s weight in gold as you are the only one to answer the question!
How many times has your detector saved you?
R1100RT Chic pullerin reply to: Radar Detectors #4858I do enjoy a good discussion!
MrPlod and I play a game, he tries to catch me and I tried to avoid him. Sometimes he wins 😳 , but more often I win 🙂
I dont want a radar detector, it used to instill a false sense of security when I had one in the car.
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