Woodhill Trail Ride Sunday July 19

[billaroo]

Looks like we have have a 29k big loop plus the usual kids tracks and shorter loops.....

[chop]

be there with bells on.... and clothes!!! haha

[SpikedPunch]

Me and the krad will most likely be along :sunny: Last one was good!

[ArcherWC]

see yas there

[4stroke]

if i dont go to toupo ill be there, can we make it riverhead tho billaroo?? lol

[billaroo]

if i dont go to toupo ill be there, can we make it riverhead tho billaroo?? lol

Mid winter Riverhead ride (pussypounder) will be August 30, don't think it will be dry somehow....

[vazza]

Will probably go to this, will be good pre-training for the 2man =D

[flyingcr250]

Will probably go to this, will be good pre-training for the 2man =D

were abouts is this?? is it sorta like the jolly roosta??

[Rupe]

were abouts is this?? is it sorta like the jolly roosta??

Muriwai...and yes sorta like it. Same forest anyway.

[noobi]

turn left a bit after kumeu, muriwai beach road i think its called, and head out towards the coast

[tommorth]

Mid winter Riverhead ride (pussypounder) will be August 30, don't think it will be dry somehow....

lookin forward to this

[flyingcr250]

looks like ill be hitting this one by myself:2guns:

[4stroke]

Mid winter Riverhead ride (pussypounder) will be August 30, don't think it will be dry somehow....

mint ill have to oranise my days off the farm.

[xen]

lookin forward to this

hell yea! ground & pound!

[noobi]

we'll be there, or at the Puke track with the other toy, or at the sandpit the day before.:blink:
real organised ae:Punk:

[LittleJohn]

we'll be there, or at the Puke track with the other toy, or at the sandpit the day before.:blink:
real organised ae:Punk:

Let me know when you get more organized, we are either going to this or the sandpit on Sunday.

[oldskool]

Let me know when you get more organized, we are either going to this or the sandpit on Sunday.
me too but at this stage more likely to go to sandpit as known tracks for the kids to improve their confidence...plus $25 cheaper, but who knows...could be convinced otherwise

[krad_nz]

Hey anyone know if this is the same track as their last ride?

[LittleJohn]

me too but at this stage more likely to go to sandpit as known tracks for the kids to improve their confidence...plus $25 cheaper, but who knows...could be convinced otherwise

We are a bit the same, $30 cheaper. Also not sure of the tracks for the kids.

[noobi]

We are a bit the same, $30 cheaper. Also not sure of the tracks for the kids.

if its in the same place as last time, then the kids tracks will be very similar to what they were last time. Brooklyn and Atlanta would be fine i would think, a couple of cool kids tracks there at the last one

[LittleJohn]

if its in the same place as last time, then the kids tracks will be very similar to what they were last time. Brooklyn and Atlanta would be fine i would think, a couple of cool kids tracks there at the last one

When you deciding if you riding or not??? Not sure how many rides I have left before going and never seem to have a chance to go for a ride with you.

[Crisis management]

I may be there, if I'm not working, recovering from the flu, can find the bike and remember how to start it.

Looks like a possibly maybe then.....

[jt119]

I may be there, if I'm not working, recovering from the flu, can find the bike and remember how to start it.

Looks like a possibly maybe then.....watch out for trees

[Crisis management]

watch out for trees

Humphh, more like watch out for video wearing Honda riders....


Anyway, I told you I'm using those grassy tussocky things for crashing now, I've improved my technique. :blink:

[jt119]

Humphh, more like watch out for video wearing Honda riders....


Anyway, I told you I'm using those grassy tussocky things for crashing now, I've improved my technique. :blink:lol last sunday i found the sand softer didnt feel to good having the bike on me thow

[D dub]

We are a bit the same, $30 cheaper. Also not sure of the tracks for the kids.

It is a family oriented trail ride with a lot of options for the Kids to choose from!

[flyingcr250]

who else is going tommorrow??

im going, meeting vazza there

[vazza]

I think noobi's goin to =D chop is aswell

[REDRIDER]

I think noobi's goin to =D chop is aswell

me, leehoon and boosted will be there

[vazza]

aye sick! lets make a group! :D haha

[Ktmboy]

aye sick! lets make a group! :D haha

Queer fish... I'm in!!:drool:

[REDRIDER]

Queer fish... I'm in!!:drool:

gonna meet at the BP just before kumeu 8.30 if ya keen

[flyingcr250]

hopefully i dont get lost again :blank:

[SpikedPunch]

hopefully i dont get lost again :blank:

Did you get lost at the last one? I did! Should be a good one tomorrow,we'll be there, all three bikes on the trailer...:sunny:

[flyingcr250]

Did you get lost at the last one? I did! Should be a good one tomorrow,we'll be there, all three bikes on the trailer...:sunny:

didnt get lost at the ride, got lost trying to find the way there, i always seem to end up taking the port exit off the motor way, EVERY TIME!!!! ha ha ha

[Rupe]

Anyone know what time they will shut the main loop???

I see on the ad it states the gate will shut at 4pm, but when will they shut the main loop?

[flyingcr250]

Anyone know what time they will shut the main loop???

I see on the ad it states the gate will shut at 4pm, but when will they shut the main loop?

once they recover me and my bike:baby:

can you give me a tow again ktmboy?? ha ha ha

[flyingcr250]

mint ride today, weather stayed away, the track was tight as in places but opened up a little, nothing really challenging though.

vazza can sure get around those tight parts pretty quick, me and noobie were struggling to keep up with him ha ha ha

[BM-GS]

Great ride, guys.

Took the family, and everyone had a ball. Mr 6 went round the 5km loop 4 times on his 50, Mr 4 even went on the quad once, and my good wife even got to go around too!

Just got to train them to work the hose & brushes when we get home...

More!!

[camchain]

mint ride today, weather stayed away, the track was tight as in places but opened up a little, nothing really challenging though.

vazza can sure get around those tight parts pretty quick, me and noobie were struggling to keep up with him ha ha ha
Was good to meet Noobi today (albeit breifly) and put a face to a name, FlyingCR, was that you and Vazza riding with Noobi at the start? Found the right fork in track for full loop second time round but we weren't sure you guys went the same way.

looked like a big turn out today, anyone know how many? For some reason course seemed strangely empty of riders though (main loop anyway).

[flyingcr250]

Was good to meet Noobi today (albeit breifly) and put a face to a name, FlyingCR, was that you and Vazza riding with Noobi at the start? Found the right fork in track for full loop second time round but we weren't sure you guys went the same way.

looked like a big turn out today, anyone know how many? For some reason course seemed strangely empty of riders though (main loop anyway).

might have been, i caught up to noobi on my second lap, and did another with him too.

[noobi]

Was good to meet Noobi today (albeit breifly) and put a face to a name, FlyingCR, was that you and Vazza riding with Noobi at the start? Found the right fork in track for full loop second time round but we weren't sure you guys went the same way.


was good to meet you too, the other two, on the 4/ ktm and yamaha, they both went the wrong way the second time so i had to go off and get them and by that time you were long gone. next time maybe. its a nice light clutch ae??? lol

yea i know what you mean about few people, flyinktm and i sat and waited for vazza for about 15 minutes and had 2 or 3 people go past us :blank:

was a good day though, apart from my highside and landing on my wrist, its quite sore now, not broken though.

looking forward to the 2man

[vazza]

Was an epic ride today.. had so much fun. Those tracks were so fast, couldnt get enough of them! Some of those big as downhills were sick, was tempted to try ride back up them haha =P

Was good meeting flyingCR & noobi, good dudes :D!

Yeh reason for that noobi was because that chick on the RM80 was stuck, noone even helped her! you guys just took off, me being the good samiritan helped her out, didnt end up getting her bike going though. I did see her getting towed along the main carpark so she must have made it ok.

[SpikedPunch]

Was an epic ride today.. had so much fun. Those tracks were so fast, couldnt get enough of them! Some of those big as downhills were sick, was tempted to try ride back up them haha =P

Was good meeting flyingCR & noobi, good dudes :D!

Yeh reason for that noobi was because that chick on the RM80 was stuck, noone even helped her! you guys just took off, me being the good samiritan helped her out, didnt end up getting her bike going though. I did see her getting towed along the main carpark so she must have made it ok.

Eh? Was that me you're on about? So those were KBers that passed, ooooh bad karma!!;) Good karma for you though :)
OH! LIVE ACTION! Krad just kicked it over YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Been working on it since we got back haha! :banana:

[vazza]

Eh? Was that me you're on about? So those were KBers that passed, ooooh bad karma!!;) Good karma for you though :)
OH! LIVE ACTION! Krad just kicked it over YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Been working on it since we got back haha! :banana:

:O! Ahh I thought it may have been you, I recalled the funky graphics haha.

What was the problem with it? You seriously gotta sort out that kickstarter.. was so hard to kick lol.

[SpikedPunch]

:O! Ahh I thought it may have been you, I recalled the funky graphics haha.

What was the problem with it? You seriously gotta sort out that kickstarter.. was so hard to kick lol.

Small world eh :)! Thanks heaps for the help!! Same goes to the organisers, jerry rigging a tow rope out of that ktm caution tape was genius! I will pack tow rope and wire cutters in the future, thought I kept a pretty thorough camelback until today, haha. I'll let krad come on here and theorise about why what happened happened, got some theories but nothing solid. Compressions sweet and it was sparking so who knows for sure.
Kickstarter is the bane of my existance...But it's normally easy to start:bleh: And to everyone who mentioned it today, yeah it's getting a new chain and spockets this week GEEZ ;)
It was a cool ride, nice and flowy, I was having a good time until the bike died! So glad it's going now, was freaking out/packing a sad about having to miss two man :sweatdrop

[flyingcr250]

Eh? Was that me you're on about? So those were KBers that passed, ooooh bad karma!!;) Good karma for you though :)
OH! LIVE ACTION! Krad just kicked it over YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Been working on it since we got back haha! :banana:

ooooops!! usulally i do stop to help people, but it didnt really look like you were in trouble, oh well next time you see me in trouble you can brease past and cover me in roost ha ha ha :blank:

[jt119]

ooooops!! usulally i do stop to help people, but it didnt really look like you were in trouble, oh well next time you see me in trouble you can brease past and cover me in roost ha ha ha :blank:lol last time you stopped for me it was only to laugh

[clmintie]

Thanks to A&R for giving us a lift, Grace and Sophie had a cool ride today while I hung round watching. Either the tracks are getting tamer or the riders are getting better cause the St Johns looked bored......

Not riding sucks..... :crybaby::crybaby::crybaby:

Roll on next Sunday for the two man............

[Ktmboy]

Thanks to A&R for giving us a lift, Grace and Sophie had a cool ride today while I hung round watching. Either the tracks are getting tamer or the riders are getting better cause the St Johns looked bored......

Not riding sucks..... :crybaby::crybaby::crybaby:

Roll on next Sunday for the two man............

Jeez I hear you...you sort of looked like the little lost sole:weep:

Felt for you mate. Girls looked happy tho!! if thats any consolation?

[SpikedPunch]

ooooops!! usulally i do stop to help people, but it didnt really look like you were in trouble, oh well next time you see me in trouble you can brease past and cover me in roost ha ha ha :blank:

Hehe, maybe at two man when you're all tired from ironmanning it ;) Bring it oooon!:headbang: (I am SO nervous!)

[clmintie]

Jeez I hear you...you sort of looked like the little lost sole:weep:

Felt for you mate. Girls looked happy tho!! if thats any consolation?

Yeah and it really sucks not to be able to play with the camera either.. Double whammy......... :no:

The girls are really getting into the riding and have been around the tracks long enough now to feel part of the crowd. It's so cool to see them catching up with riding mates and not needing Dad with them all the time.. I guess they're growing up... :cool:

They got stuck in to cleaning the bikes as soon as they got home and are on a motorcycling high.... Don't let anyone ever tell you this isn't a great family activity..... :headbang:

[noobi]

Don't let anyone ever tell you this isn't a great family activity..... :headbang:

maybe those people who ride their horses on the tracks by the road into the forest. :Pokey: very bad people dirt bikers, they scare our horseies and ruin our precious beaches. PC PC PC

:banana:

[krad_nz]

Theory behind SpikedPunch's bike dying is....

First and foremost apparently she punted into stump and fell over as a result. From this point onwards no one could get the bike going. She changed the plug in field all by herself (impressed, I must have done something right) thinking it was fouled. Usually you know when you foul a plug, it sort of dribbles to a halt, wheezing and spluttering. In this case a sharp bump had caused it cut out suddenly apparently.

When we got it back on the trailer noobie and I had a go at checking for spark and fiddling with the HT lead. Didn't seem to make any spark, and the HT lead seemed ok. Noobie noticed that both her spark plugs didn't have the end caps on them that seat into the end of the HT lead. I suspect this was the problem all along. It must have been a marginal connection from the start and an unlucky off must have shook it loose. When I removed the new plug she had put in I noticed it was fairly loose resulting in reduced compression perhaps which wouldn't have helped things.

Was just about the pull the carbi out and clean things out when I tried mashing the HT lead onto the threaded spark plug end one more time. Worked!

New plugs at $7-8/each WITH end caps = priceless.

Hope your wrist is sweet noobi, sounded like a you had a bad off. Thanks Vassa for helping Sacha out!

Good ride over all. Didn't enjoy the slow technical bit in the middle of the 25k loop though. Usually I like that stuff not this time though. Fell off a few times which is unusual for me. Normally I stay on two wheels. I think I was used to the sand slowing me down, but I had to remember that I need to use the brakes now :)

[camchain]

Hey Noobi. Mmmm, that featherlight clutch was a pleasure to fondle. Katoom has a hydraulic clutch but it's a long way off being a genuine one finger job. Think I'll take a look at it.
I figured you guys must have taken the left fork. Nice to be able to jump on KB to debrief/square things up and hopefully avoid looking like a rude R-Sole! With my sense of direction I'm surprised I found the long way round second time. When I ride I'm in tunnel vision mode focussing 100% on the track & I often miss arrows/options - usually crossed arrows lol/ouch.

I enjoyed the extra tighter stuff added this course, especially through the toi-toi. A good challenge variation trying to keep a good pace as well as read course direction through that. Krad, I noticed the underside (white) of toi-toi leaves on the ground looked a lot like the white tree roots...

[L Rider]

Small world eh :)! Thanks heaps for the help!! Same goes to the organisers, jerry rigging a tow rope out of that ktm caution tape was genius! I will pack tow rope and wire cutters in the future, thought I kept a pretty thorough camelback until today, haha. I'll let krad come on here and theorise about why what happened happened, got some theories but nothing solid. Compressions sweet and it was sparking so who knows for sure.
Kickstarter is the bane of my existance...But it's normally easy to start:bleh: And to everyone who mentioned it today, yeah it's getting a new chain and spockets this week GEEZ ;)
It was a cool ride, nice and flowy, I was having a good time until the bike died! So glad it's going now, was freaking out/packing a sad about having to miss two man :sweatdrop


You're not having the best of luck lately. Glad to hear you got it sorted

[IIIRII]

Sorry It took me 5 minutes to remember your name Sash's
:)
I am pretty old you know.

[A&R]

Great ride. Did anyone get caught out on the "expert only" bit at the 10k marker?
Seen the little sandy hill,thought yep looks no probs., got over the top and ::gob::shit::eek::dodge::eek5: ........ landed in a heap with bike carrying on without me got up nothing broken just a couple bruises - so ok for the 2 man next week:sweatdrop :crazy:. It was just a 8 foot hill with a peak but vertical drop on the down side caught me out a cropper.
Next time someone posts one of these on a ride I'll have a look over the hill before I ride over it. I guess someone had some some fun marking this one up! (Billaroo?:bash::laugh:)
I bet there was more than one pile up there too. Would have been a good place to catch some camera footage.

[SpikedPunch]

Great ride. Did anyone get caught out on the "expert only" bit at the 10k marker?

Heaps of people were getting stuck on that one! Bit of a backlog happened. Pleased to say I got over sweet:woohoo:.... and then dug a series of big holes on the next hill in, doh :scooter:


Sorry It took me 5 minutes to remember your name Sash's

I am pretty old you know.

Haha, no worries, before you took your helmet off I was running thru my mental checklist of KBers who ride ktms :sweatdrop

[billaroo]

Great ride. Did anyone get caught out on the "expert only" bit at the 10k marker?
Seen the little sandy hill,thought yep looks no probs., got over the top and ::gob::shit::eek::dodge::eek5: ........ landed in a heap with bike carrying on without me got up nothing broken just a couple bruises - so ok for the 2 man next week:sweatdrop :crazy:. It was just a 8 foot hill with a peak but vertical drop on the down side caught me out a cropper.
Next time someone posts one of these on a ride I'll have a look over the hill before I ride over it. I guess someone had some some fun marking this one up! (Billaroo?:bash::laugh:)
I bet there was more than one pile up there too. Would have been a good place to catch some camera footage.

Guilty as charged- I like technical little bits like that- although there were a few that had issues it got easier as the day went on.

[Reckless]

Was just about the pull the carbi out and clean things out when I tried mashing the HT lead onto the threaded spark plug end one more time.

Sounds like the HT wires inside the lead are a bit stuffed. IF you have enough lead, cut 10mm or so off the end then gently rescrew the cap into the Ht lead so you have newer wires for a good connection around the threaded screw in the cap or it may fail again!

[clmintie]

Sounds like the HT wires inside the lead are a bit stuffed. IF you have enough lead, cut 10mm or so off the end then gently rescrew the cap into the Ht lead so you have newer wires for a good connection around the threaded screw in the cap or it may fail again!

I think the problem was a lack of terminal post on the top of the plug...

[SpikedPunch]

I think the problem was a lack of terminal post on the top of the plug...

yup, Bingo :)

[L Rider]

yup, Bingo :)

Jst outta interest why was yours missing not only on the plug in there but also your spare? I have to remove it off mine so it fits my bike but they're done up bloody tight - need plyers to undo it.

[SpikedPunch]

Jst outta interest why was yours missing not only on the plug in there but also your spare? I have to remove it off mine so it fits my bike but they're done up bloody tight - need plyers to undo it.

Spare came with bike, you'd have to ask the fulla who had it before me... I'd taken the sparky out and cleaned it before, but not having an intimate knowledge of the things had no idea there was something missing!:pinch:
Edit: On the positive side, owning second hand bikes with things constantly going kaboom on them has been a great crash course in motorcycle knowledge. I can do all sorts of things I had no idea about before :laugh:

[L Rider]

Why's it been going all this time then????
lol alot of questions i know haha. Not sure on the RM80 Rachel had but on both my bike & her bike we hafta remove that tip thingee.

[SpikedPunch]

Why's it been going all this time then????
lol alot of questions i know haha. Not sure on the RM80 Rachel had but on both my bike & her bike we hafta remove that tip thingee.

Probably was touching just enough to be okay. I might have done it up a bit loose or whatnot last time it came out (when we did top end) and smacking the stump was just the right force to knock it loose.

[L Rider]

Probably was touching just enough to be okay. I might have done it up a bit loose or whatnot last time it came out (when we did top end) and smacking the stump was just the right force to knock it loose.

Least its all going now thats the main thing

[green machine]

I think the problem was a lack of terminal post on the top of the plug...
Are they different for 4 strokes cause my plug is like the one on the left....even my replacement plug is the same

[krad_nz]

I would be surprised if you were meant to run them like that on a new kx250f. I suspect you should probably find some terminal posts. :)

[green machine]

I would be surprised if you were meant to run them like that on a new kx250f. I suspect you should probably find some terminal posts. :)

Just checked and the post is in the spark plug cap....took the plug out and it was rusty.....and there's a bit of moisture down there.....is this normal,gonna get a new plug tomorrow....i have been guilty of not running the bike up to temperature after washing......

[vazza]

Probably was touching just enough to be okay. I might have done it up a bit loose or whatnot last time it came out (when we did top end) and smacking the stump was just the right force to knock it loose.

I knew I should have checked the spark plug after you had tightened it! Haha, you gotta make sure they're really tight huh. =)

[SpikedPunch]

I knew I should have checked the spark plug after you had tightened it! Haha, you gotta make sure they're really tight huh. =)
lol, I blame my shitty adjustable cresent :o :bleh:

[krad_nz]

Just checked and the post is in the spark plug cap....took the plug out and it was rusty.....and there's a bit of moisture down there.....is this normal,gonna get a new plug tomorrow....i have been guilty of not running the bike up to temperature after washing......

I've had the end come off too. It was on an old as Honda though and god only knows how long the plug had been in there for. :)