Planning an Epic Adventure - Will trade beer for use of couches

**motorbyclist** · 15th May 2009, 01:53

trip posts start around post 98

PirateJafa and myself are planning to embark on an "ambitious" ride up the country, spreading 2100 kilometres over 5 days, currently starting on the 1st of july.

What we need is somewhere to stay in Wellington, Napier, and somwhere near the east cape.
We might also need emergency mechanics, and forewarnings if fuel may be an issue.

The plan:

Day one, Wednesday, fly down to christchurch, pick up Jafa's 1970s Suzuki A80 and pillion to the nearest store to buy two decent sized fuel constainers, and then head up the east coast to nelson where I will pick up my 1986 Honda H100s. Then ride to picton, catch a ferry and hopefully disembark sober enough to ride to the nearest bottle shop and then to a kind KBer's house with the eventual aim of sleep.

Day two, keeping to the eastern roads, we make our way up to napier for more beer and maybe some sleep. Remember the A80 is topped out at 80kph so this may take some time....

Day three, continue our journey up to the east cape. visiting this at dusk seems kinda silly so maybe if we could sleep just south of it....

Day four, we head west along the coast to jafa's Aunt's place in Waihi.

Day five, Sunday, we stick to the coast and do a coro loop, probably with the SMC crew, and cruise via kaiauia up to auckland to summit one stump hill for victory photos!

We will be carrying cameras, fuel, oil, spark plugs and basic tools - maybe even some clean clothes, but tents and sleeping bags are kind of out of the question.... we really need to be as light as possible and are expecting shocking weather....

So, any volunteers to bed us for a night or offer mechanical assistance are much appreciated! Just PM with some details and we'll put you on our map

Cheers!

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**TOTO** · 15th May 2009, 01:56

all the best Andrew

**Danae** · 15th May 2009, 02:01

This is going to be epic. Would like to see lots of photos!

**EJK** · 15th May 2009, 02:04

Mind if I tag along? I dunno. Upto Cheviot/ Kaikoura? I can be the camera man. My bike's a similar 1987 Yamaha 125cc. Could suit nicely

**motorbyclist** · 15th May 2009, 02:12

is it a two stroke?

we must bring as much noise and pollution to the clean south island air as possible!

**EJK** · 15th May 2009, 02:13

Originally Posted by motorbyclist

is it a two stroke?

we must bring as much noise and pollution to the clean south island air as possible!

Ofcourse it's a 2 stroke

**motorbyclist** · 15th May 2009, 02:20

well then I don't see why not - in fact pillioning on that for the first third of the journey would allow us to move a bit faster; with pillion the A80 is unlikely to break 60kph

could also carry a tow rope

**EJK** · 15th May 2009, 02:22

Originally Posted by motorbyclist

well then I don't see why not - in fact pillioning on that for the first third of the journey would allow us to move a bit faster; with pillion the A80 is unlikely to break 60kph

could also carry a tow rope

Right! I was thinking the same thing lol I just couldn't imagine PJ and MB on a 80cc. Together.

I was dying for a ride.

**Danae** · 15th May 2009, 05:07

To any KBers in the South Island watching out for these guys: just look out for the large cloud of 2 stroke awesome smoke

**Trudes** · 15th May 2009, 07:42

Bed at ours here Welly if you want.

**CookMySock** · 15th May 2009, 08:00

If you get stuck in the eastern bay of plenty theres a skinny couch here you two can share.

Steve

**yungatart** · 15th May 2009, 08:08

We can put you up in Napier, but will be away for a few days starting July 3, so you have to be out of here by then.
We have spare beds and safe garaging.
PM me or Mstrs to confirm

**madbikeboy** · 15th May 2009, 08:32

Epic adventures. I'm not going to be around for the July trip - but I reckon we need to deck out the CBX with camera's to capture the next stupid idea...

**Crisis management** · 15th May 2009, 09:08

Good on ya, sounds like fun....but at the risk of being the fun police it does look a bit ambitous, you may want to allow a little more time for covering that sort of ground on those sorts of bikes.

At least be prepared with a plan B, something like puncture repair gear, spark plugs & tools, a sleeping bag and emergency thermal blanket (it can be cold out).

Enjoy!

**PirateJafa** · 15th May 2009, 09:13

Originally Posted by Crisis management

Good on ya, sounds like fun....but at the risk of being the fun police it does look a bit ambitous, you may want to allow a little more time for covering that sort of ground on those sorts of bikes.

At least be prepared with a plan B, something like puncture repair gear, spark plugs & tools, a sleeping bag and emergency thermal blanket (it can be cold out).

Shouldn't be too bad - our big nemesis is, of course, hills.

We'll have all of those except the sleeping bags. We really have to keep the amount we're carrying down to a bare minimum, which is why we can't take a tent.

Not even taking spare clothes, other than some extra pairs of socks! (Considering some changes of clothes ahead along the way

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