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Originally Posted by rspears

JB, A fresh haircut, a clean chambray shirt (rolled sleeves, of course), a ciggy hanging from your lip and a bus load of buxom NZ lassies laughing & squealing as you thrash gears through the countryside!

OOOOOoooo you devil you! rotflmao!!

Originally Posted by rspears

JB, thinking about your terrain on the North Island, you definitely put that GV unit through it's paces!! I don't hardly remember a dead level spot anywhere we went, except maybe in the towns. God's Own is hill after hill after hill in my memory! Bet you could make a great Gear Vendors commercial!! A fresh haircut, a clean chambray shirt (rolled sleeves, of course), a ciggy hanging from your lip and a bus load of buxom NZ lassies laughing & squealing as you thrash gears through the countryside!

Yep, the terrain does go up and down a bit. The reason for that is: because New Zealand is so small, and we've got so much land, we had to stand it on edge to get it all to fit.

And what's this nonsense about a hair cut? I don't need a hair cut!
I have one once a year whether I need it or not, in summer, when it tends to get a tad too hot.
The rest of the year it sure beats wearing a woolly hat to keep the head warm!


Sorry for hijacking your thread Charlie!

Don't spend $3000 for an overdrive when your gear ratios are already too high--you need a lower gear in the rear----------now don't forget that the term higher ratio is commonly looked at as a higher number where also lower speeds for rpm