Nelson Rideouts - Where next?

[CrazyFrog]

Thinkin Porika/Matak/Tutak/Dryweather. Anyone else interested? Muzz.

You might struggle with Porika this weekend, but Mataki-Tutaki-Dry Weather rd should be okay.

Big snow at St Arnaud ranges last night.... see here http://www.tasman.govt.nz/tasman/web...arnaud-webcam/

Pic below was taken up the Porika after a similar snowfall back in Sept 2010
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[Muzz67]

Meybe a smaller afternoon stooge would be better.

[CrazyFrog]

I just had a look at Rainbow skifield snow report at 09:00am, they've had 50cm of new snow overnight, and more falling at present. That's a lot.

My guess is the Porika will be fully snowed in for a day or two. When I rode up there after the 2010 snowfall, progress on the bike was slow, the track was hard to read under all the snow with ruts/ hidden rocks etc, and at times the knobblies would clog with snow/ice and just wheelspin, so a bit of pushing was involved.
Hard work but mostly fun and worth it for the photos.

[Woodman]

Only have one motorcycle rideable at the moment, but its a 40 year old road bike so not a lot of use for the Porika. Hmmmm? yeah na.

[JATZ]

I came back through the lewis last night/this morning... it was snowing heavily on the lewis and light/moderate through kawatiri and over the glenhope. Some heavy rain too...

[CrazyFrog]

I came back through the lewis last night/this morning... it was snowing heavily on the lewis and light/moderate through kawatiri and over the glenhope. Some heavy rain too...

Brrrrrrr, and I thought my 10min ride to work at 5am was a tad chilly. Nice arriving to a preset heat pump and fresh coffee though

[Padmei]

Ok ride report from mtb ride with dog Branford park 930am to 11am.
Rainy, cold, no wind,no population to speak of.
Lost feeling to hands at turnaround point so brakes or gear changes on return trip.
Whose stupid idea was this.
Dog didn't seem to care

[NordieBoy]

Jenni was doing a course in Tahuna today, so I hitched a ride and took the rigid single speed in to have a shufti at Codgers.

Wow. First time I've seen it since the storm. Man it's had the shit kicked out of it.

Is like the Dun trail now, instead of riding along a track meandering through the trees with dappled light, pine scent, roots, pine needles and rocks, you're riding a groomed track tacked to the side of a hill.

Was also my first MTB ride without gears.
5min of dry retching at the Tantragee saddle and then it wasn't so bad after that. Tapped out at 17.5kph on the flats though...

[Padmei]

You should have headed on up to Turners & dug a bit of the climbing track with us this morning. Bloody amazing what a bunch of guys with a few grubbers & rakes can do to a few hundred metres of steep hillside in a few hours.
went for a ride round the moutere this avo too. I see that they have put in the cycle way thru Harley rd etc. Impressive amount of work but noone on it.
nelson was busy today- about a million people at founders & the rest either at mapua wharf or riding the motorbikes back from mot.

[Ally67]

Thought that was you along the inland padders

[Padmei]

Thought that was you along the inland padders

Were you on the yamaha or the KTM? Or sitting on your chuff at the Inn.

[Ally67]

I was in the car still got no bike

I was coming back from a puppy play date in Dovedale

[Muzz67]

http://2014.silverfernrally.co.nz/in...letter-july-14
Sunday 9th Nov.
Looks like some real good roads in our area with brilliant spectator points,,
would be great to leapfrog ahead and see them hoon past a few times.

[Padmei]

That looks fantastic. Sounds like a plan.

[NordieBoy]

Seems like NordieBro may have got 7th or so in the pro class at the NutBuster. All on an old RM125...