Recent content by Motu

Crocs or Jandals all year round here...but prefer Crocs in the rain as you don't slip out of them.

I did that once, just the frame of a rare bike I had known and ridden 30 years before, just a bid to keep track of the sale. I still have it, a project bike if I had time and money.

I'm not a new rider, but coming back to a bike after a few years not riding, and a more modern one than I have used before. I bought the padded underwear before I got the bicycle - I got them for my motorcycle. After a long ride the other day I had a pretty sore butt...I just used to ride...

Just testing up and down the road.

I used to commute on my old Avanti 12 speed, and bash around our local tracks, but then worked further away and stopped riding. Over Covid I though I should get the bike out again, but it has a bent rear wheel, and I'm not going to fix an old worn out bike. I got another station wagon last year...

New Zealand banned single use shopping bags in 2019. At the time one of my daughters started a small business making shopping bags, and a friend of hers was marketing them...made out of scraps of material she had collected over the years. Covid put an end to that. You can buy reusable bags at...

It happens to the Japanese utes in Australia too - they overload them, and then high speeds on outback roads snaps them. Not so common in NZ, we load them just as much, but off the beaten track is much slower going here and they hold out better.

Did you adjust the valve clearances ? My wife's Stream has an R20, and we also have L13 and L15 engines in the family, all with valve adjustment. I don't want to go in there for no reason, but I do want to check those clearances. I check my motorcycle valves every year...17 years without a look...

Motorcycles have had alloy crankcases forever...and have been going off for as long. They don't crack a case going through a puddle.

One of my daughters has been staunchly anti auto, and will only own a manual, but now there are 3 Honda CVT's in the family, she says her next car will be CVT. Early Hondas with the start clutch (like mine) could give problems, but later ones were sorted. Very popular in Japan, and NZ is similar...

I woke up in the morning, and Dad had already gone to work....I went to bed at night, and Dad hadn't come home from work yet. He died before he got to 40. Absent fathers.

Yeah, it's great that Mercedes have a converter drain, I wish they all did.

My wife's 3 step brothers were alcoholics, the oldest and longest on the booze has been clean for years, but still a real PIA, and haven't seen him for a few years. The other 2 we just let die - they were both found in their armchairs several days after the event. The latest didn't even get a...

All the small Japanese diesels will have pre com chambers...they were prone to smoking, so it won't get any better.