Well, it's that time of the year again where bikies and bikers of all shapes and sizes riding bikes of all shapes and sizes get together and ride around town collecting and donating toys for the under privialaged kids.
There were about 200 bikes, not bad for Wagga - however -this year, for the first time in recent memory, it rained - not much but enough to make the roads nice and slippery.
Fortunately, only one bike went down, and it was a slow speed fall on grass.
The thing that gets me with these type of events is it attracts ALL motorcyclists - even the pharkwits that have no idea whatsoever about riding in a small pack let alone a large one.
The organisers did the best they could. Gave out written instructions and directions and gave a brief prior to the start, but that didn't stop the 'boy racers' and the 'young bucks' on the dirt bikes being complete dicks. The other thing that annoys me is the arrive at a pre-designated stop in formation but everyone seems to want to leave at precisely the same time.
Overall, not a bad day, 'The Eldest' did well. Had his L's for just over a week and was a bit nervous, but did really well. He didn't run into anyone and no one ran in to him.
The Treasurer was not happy with some of the 'boy racers', a couple of them got close enough to nudge her mirrors - not happy Jan - they're just lucky she couldn't be bothered, otherwise it may have been nasty.
Sorry I don't have any pics, as my digital camera is still on the blink.
Oh, while I remember. I've previously given praise to Frontline - one of the local bike shops. I'm now retracting the recommendation. I asked them to check the KLR over properly before I bought it. They gave it a clean bill of health saying "Good buy, put a deposit on it now before he sells it to someone else".
Well since putting the motard rims on we've discovered that the steering head bearings are not healthy, the front left axle nut has obviously seen the tarmac up close and personnel. During the Toy Run it became real obvious that the thermostat is either the wrong one, set wrong or just plain dead. The poor KLR started to overheat and there was no sign of the fan comming on. Then after the toy run we noticed that one of the two throttle cables was snapped - closer inspection showed that both are not healthy. Not at all happy, and 'The Eldest' is really pissed because I've told him he's not to ride it until we can get the Thermostat and throttle cables fixed.
Topic: WAGGA TOY RUN (Read 1968 times)