So New Zealand immigration stuffed things up again and let in a bunch of bike mad Aussies (including one Chillertek) and also let them loose on our roads on hire bikes!  Oh the humanity!

After visiting Geoff out on the Coro Loop they made their way around the various pie shops and pubs on the East Coast before finally arriving in beautiful Palmerston North on a pretty damn nice day.

I had been warned that there were coming and so on my way home from work I decided to cruise past where I thought they were staying.  While parked at a set of lights two of the gang rode straight across my bow while the other two got stuck at a light.  I quickly rode around the corner and leaped out of the car to flag them down.  I got a wave from one of them but they carried on not knowing who the mad idiot waving at them was...
A text to Chillertek brought a reply saying that they had bike trouble and were making for Supercheap.  I got back in the car and drove around to Supercheap to see four guys pulling a Triumph (figures eh) to bits...

Apparently the bike had been playing up for a while and even a new battery hadn't fixed it.  After some fiddling with different bits and bobs the bike started and I suggested that they bring it around to my place where there were tools.

I trundled off in the car and didn't even have time to warn the neighbours before the four horsemen of the apocalypse arrived and started tearing into "the Black Pearl".

The headl...