Iconic pub in the Taumarunui area?

[pritch]

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Still the same people.

Good people. They have some biker cred too; married in leathers on the Interisland ferry...

[tri boy]

Me n Kanny had the standard issue feed there today, (Whanga that is),. Ham, cheese, onion toasted sandwich's on brown bread, washed down with hot chocolate with TWO marshmallows.
Always a pleasure, and Kanny got her first Whanga T-shirt:-)

[boman]

This pic was taken Auckland Anniversary Weekend last year. On a charity ride called the Chateau to Plateau. It is being run again this year. Can thouroughly recommend it for a 3 day cruise over the Forgotten Highway. Approx 1100kms in the 3 days from Waiuku and back. Had a ball, as I am sure alot of others did too.

[denill]

Back yesterday after navigating a few thousand corners and changing gear a couple of thousand times. Travelled on some fabulous off the beaten track roads like the road from Waitomo to Kawhia. We have some great roads in NZ.............

The Gentle Annie was OK except that the road works were not very rider friendly, all was well though.

Wheras the gravel road bit to the Whangamomoana Pub was probably the best gravel I've ever ridden on a road bike.

[merv]

Nice one denill, sounds like a great trip - any photos?

[TerminalAddict]

@denill .. I'm curios about the gentle annie ... is there gravel on her?

Annie is a road I've been wanting to do for a long time

[denill]

Nothing spectacular Merv.

But here's a couple. The pub, that's been well photographed and Egmont, early in the morning.

The Pub..jpg

Egmont 1..jpg

[denill]

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@denill .. I'm curios about the gentle annie ... is there gravel on her?

Annie is a road I've been wanting to do for a long time

Yep, there's gravel but a lot less than there was. Someone said 38ks and that seems about right. But hey, it's doable. We did it on an ST1100, two up with the kitchen sink on the back. The road works were a bit tricky and would be a bit of a lottery. Weekends when they're not working may be a bit more predictable.

But hey, you MUST ride the Annie.

[soundbeltfarm]

were you there with couple others.
we were staying at the camp ground and some people walked past and one of the guys with us thought he seen a kiwibiker shirt on one of the guys there.
i never saw it or would introduced myself.
we had 3 days of awesome trail riding out there with awesome conditions.

[denill]

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were you there with couple others.
we were staying at the camp ground and some people walked past and one of the guys with us thought he seen a kiwibiker shirt on one of the guys there.
i never saw it or would introduced myself.
we had 3 days of awesome trail riding out there with awesome conditions.

No, it was just us on the ST. Stayed at the Whanga on Fri 26 Feb.

Where were you guys trail riding?

[soundbeltfarm]

through whanga rd and then through aotuhia station and a few trails that come off the station.

[ynot slow]

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through whanga rd and then through aotuhia station and a few trails that come off the station.

Thread drege but did the route you guys take get you to the Wanganui river via track from Aotuhia,or did you go along the route to start of walkway,we did that by bike years ago,before the walkway had parking and the area around Aotuhia was an old dray track type road.

[soundbeltfarm]

I'm not to sure ,
we just went down the whanga road and went over bridge to somewhere and through aotuhia station past the old truck and digger then back down the metal road and end up just on the tamuranui side of Marco school.
but we go off quite a few tracks on the whanga rd and through the station.