Smash Palace & QCR Dude Ranch Run Part 1

Just been away on the most amazing weekend ride ever – a scooter (or small bike!) run organised by Johnny from Smash Palace. I borrowed Aaron Beehre's CB100 for it and had pretty much the biggest fastest bike there (apart from Bad Evil's Yamaha). Apart from that mostly everyone else was on 50cc bikes, some of which were pretty fast, especially Horse's lil' red Yamaha RD. That could pull a good 100kph!

I have way too many photos from this run, but wanna put a bunch on here. There were just too many good times. I'll put more up soon... but basically this covers the meeting up at Smash Palace on the Saturday morning and then the ride out of town and into the mountains near Lake Coleridge.

More to come...

London Hell's Angels 1973

Stuart sent me a link to this a little while ago. It's pretty interesting when viewed in comparison with the NZ one made at roughly the same time (which I posted earlier here).

Good viewing as a precursor to 'Antarctic Angels and the Unknown Blues' which is showing tonight in Christchurch! 7.30pm at The Brewery in Woolston. See ya there...

Together with their biker mates the Antarctic Angels, Unknown Blues thrilled and terrorised Southland audiences in equal measure. Featuring all the Unknown Blues band members and members of the Antarctic Angels, Simon Ogston's 52-minute documentary tells the complete story of the band and the biker gang for the very first time.

Christchurch - Wednesday Sept 26 & 27, 7:30pm, Cassels Brewery (followed by Rumble & Bang"/"Gone With The Weird")

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Jimi's Trident back together

After the swap meet in Hororata me, Bad, and PZ went back to the band room where Jimi was finishing putting his T160 back together. It's been off the road since late January while he's been rebuilding his whole front end and also doing some work to the head. Anyway we fucked about while Jimi got her sorted, and then stood around watching while he tried to start it... no luck. I thought it was 'cause we were watching so suggested we all take off to the pub for lunch, and holy shit if he didn't get it started while we were there (he'd missed a terminal wire!). So after lunch at Pomeroy's me and Bad went back and met Jimi and took off over the hills to Governors Bay. The T160 went sweet as apart from an oil leak which pissed Jimi off, but compared to my Norton seemed about normal!? We played some table soccer at the pub in Governors Bay and then headed home. Was a pretty sweet day of riding, eating, drinking, and just generally fucking about.

Hororata Swap Meet (2012)

 

Went to the Hororata swap meet again this weekend, so it's exactly a year since I last rode the Norton! Was a beautiful day, bright sun, clear blue skies – made for riding bikes. We got up early and Jimi tried to get the Ducati he's borrowed going by cleaning up the plugs, but it didn't work so unfortunately he got left behind and me and Bad and PZ went headed out there at 8am. Met the Rumblers out there, and a bunch of other dudes from Bike Nights including Greg and Ramon (who took our stuff back for us). We were kinda late, but there was still heaps of cool shit around. Me and PZ bought some stuff, I got a headlight grill thing and some Triumph car badges I may or may not stick on the Thruxton. Bad mostly just ate hot dogs.