Sunday 26th July - Ride to Opononi for lunch

[Qkchk]

What: A day ride up to Opononi and back
When: This Sunday 26th July
Meet: Shell Westgate at 0900 for a 0930 departure (see HERE (http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=shell+massey+north&sll=-41.244772,172.617188&sspn=46.149469,79.013672&ie=UTF8&ll=-36.821619,174.610476&spn=0.024185,0.038581&z=15&iwloc=A) for directions)
Why: 'Cause the weather is mint for Sunday so why not get out for a ride?
Who: Open to anyone who can ride at 100kph on the open road, pillions welcome.
Pace: Sunday cruise. Valentino Rossis' need not apply.

Social ride to Opononi for lunch, returning to Auckland in the afternoon. Come out and enjoy the :sunny: while its here! Route will be explained during pre-ride briefing.

[DIN PELENDA]

Hi Chick, count me in :yes:.

[boomer]

bumma


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[Pumba]

Put me down for a maybe, but deffently better chance than not

[tide]

Put me down for a maybe, but deffently better chance than not

Likewise... lol... I think I still know how to ride... :)

[Maha]

I see how we're placed, we are going up to just south of Whangarei tomorrow, may even take the bikes? we are staying there the night so, see how we feel Sunday morning.

[OutForADuck]

Sounds like a recipe to me... All going well will present :gob:

[Morcs]

Im coming with handbrake :yes:

[NinjaNanna]

I'm supposed to go into work!!!!!!!! BUT the weather's so good - I'll see what my conscience says in the morning. I suspect the tender I'm supposed to work on is a lost cause anyway.

[Qkchk]

I know its a bit short notice (thanks to the winter weather) I understand if some of you cant make it........

Most of you will generally know which way we are going up and coming back. For those who have not been on any of my rides, I will explain in detail where we are going / whats happening before we leave Westgate.

[Korumba]

Count me in.... was going to do the Coro to try and learn the road, but I know these ones. See you there.

[DIN PELENDA]

Count me in.... was going to do the Coro to try and learn the road, but I know these ones. See you there.

Nice one bro, was just about to PM you to see if you like to come.:rockon:
Is Mike coming?

[Qkkid]

:scooter:Fuck you think the weather was great today:yes:
:wari:Wait for the weather for tomorrow:sunny::sunny::sunny::sunny:
Be nice to see Pumba, Ninjananna, Noel, Korumba, Morcsy, Mr Peliney, all on the ride tomorrow and of course anyone else who is keen:shifty:
All are welcome :gob:As long as you don't mind Red rep:shutup:

[Qkchk]

All are welcome :gob:As long as you don't mind Red rep:shutup:

Just ignore him, he's just grumpy after doing the vacuuming (like a good house bitch).


If you though todays weather was great, tomorrow is promised to be even better!


Today / tomorrow

Saturday
Max: 12 °C Min: 2 °C
(Day) (Overnight)
Fine. Southeast breeze.

Sunday
Max: 13 °C Min: 1 °C
(Day) (Overnight)
Fine and sunny. Morning frost patches. Light winds.

[Brett]

Yep, I think I might just do this one.

[hospitalfood]

if the misses is feeling better we will come on the old bmw, otherwise i will stay hm and spend time with her. spent most of today in the garage making brandy in the still.

[Qkchk]

Look at that beaut blue sky outside! Have fun punching at the keyboard - I know where I would rather be :yes:

[Qkkid]

Look at that beaut blue sky outside! Have fun punching at the keyboard - I know where I would rather be :yes:

:bye:Only shoitstirrers and tossers be on there keyboards today:sunny::sunny::yes:
How about we all go ride our bikes and have a punch up:love: at oponi pub:shit:

[Morcs]

Mint.

Ohh better leave soon... :gob:

[Qkkid]

Mint.

Ohh better leave soon... :gob:

Good man :shifty:

[Pumba]

Mint.

Ohh better leave soon... :gob:

Yea me toooooooooooooooooooo.

(Fucken frost on the ground mumble mumble)

[Qkkid]

Yea me toooooooooooooooooooo.

(Fucken frost on the ground mumble mumble)

Top man:wari:
Glad ya put your knitting needles down Carl:shit:

[hospitalfood]

waiting at home for you all to come by, hope i have not missed you lot.
i will be gutted.

[Morcs]

Was a good ride guys, hope all was mint after dargaville.

and hope fella with that tyre got home allright.

I used a full tank onto reserve to get to dargaville, and half a tank to get home. Lol. :Punk:

[Qkkid]

What a fucken day 641kms :love:of beaut roads
Thanks for coming everyone 17 bikes in total:Punk:
All the usual ratbags apart from SPB:laugh:
No tickets <_<

[DIN PELENDA]

Thanks Dawn for organizing ride and looking after us. What a good ride, nice day:sunny:, awesome company:shutup:. On the way back from Dargaville me and Morcs try to catch up to guy with white tire but he was gone, I hope you got bike home OK mite. Me and Morcs split up at Welsford where he introduce me to Ginger :Police:. Morcs gone 16 and I gone to follow Ginger to Puhoi pub, he is turn in to Puhoi village and pull over 500 m before pub, so I gone pass him, on way out, there he was pull over 6 bikes on they cruisers .WTF is his problem he hate bikers:2guns: !!!
Hope to do something like this:soon:

[hospitalfood]

sorry to all for the hold up due to my drive belt snapping, and a huge thanks to those who helped especially Shane for getting me Hm.

when you ride straight off the road on a corner ( no damage ) and do some off roading, then snap your drive belt 50 odd km down the road you have to wonder if you should have stayed hm, some days..........

[SixPackBack]

What a fucken day 641kms :love:of beaut roads
Thanks for coming everyone 17 bikes in total:Punk:
All the usual ratbags apart from SPB:laugh:
No tickets <_<

Glad you enjoyed it guys, always one of my favourite runs from Dargaville to Opo...
Sadly you will not see me on a group ride again:no:........two licence loses as a result of group riding will see this biker riding alone from now on.

[Pumba]

What a great ride today guys, just what I needed to blow the cobwebs out.

I hope all got home well.

And I guess if there a lessons to be learnt from today it is that if your tractor has a hole in the drive belt you should only wait 5 months not 6 before getting it replaced :Oops:

[OutForADuck]

What a great ride today guys, just what I needed to blow the cobwebs out.

I hope all got home well.

And I guess if there a lessons to be learnt from today it is that if your tractor has a hole in the drive belt you should only wait 5 months not 6 before getting it replaced :Oops:

Not to mention regular tyre changes before tackling those bumpy rough roads... Glad you all got home safe, it was a fantastic ride and I totally agree with Carl... just what the doctor ordered to put a smile on the dial.

Oh... and correct fitment of number plates would be good prep as well :shutup:

Thanks Dawn and Steve.. well worth the spin.

Now... off to the postoffice I go :mellow:

[Hinny]

No tickets <_<


Thanks Dawn for organizing ride and looking after us. What a good ride, nice day:sunny:, awesome company
It certainly was.

... he introduce me to Ginger :Police:. ... he was pull over 6 bikes
.WTF is his problem he hate bikers !!!

Little prick followed me south from around the tunnel - for ages.
Then he is along side or just in front - for ages. Then he takes off after the other guys who had a bit of a gap on me. No way to warn them but they were riding all safe and legal. He then pulls into the slow vehicle lane and waits until the Greville Rd. flyover before putting on his lights. I look in my mirrors and see lights on. Guy in front of me must have had a guilty conscious as he hits the picks. I nearly run up his arse as I'm looking behind me. So I'm not happy already and that made it worse. He didn't seem to want to follow my hand gestured instructions to feck off and leave me alone so I finally pull over.
Starts off wanting to know why I had taken so long to pull over.
"Well why the hell would I think you were wanting to pull me over? I wasn't doing anything wrong."
Then he reckons I had come tearing up behind him and only slowed down when I realised he was a cop. So of course I told him I thought he was full of shit. Takes my licence away to his car. Comes back and tells me I haven't got a WOF. So I point out the WOF on the bike. 'Well it's not on the system"
"Well that's not my fault" I reply.
"Well it's not my fault" he says.
The goes to write out a ticket and says I will have to take the test sheet in to ..... I Say "why don't you just look at it. You can see Where it was issued and the expiry date etc." as I had cleverly put it in the holder with all that info facing out.
"No I can't ", he says. Must be a bit shortsighted eh?
"Well look at this test sheet then", I say as I pull the sheet out of the glove box on my bike. I think he is unhappy to see that and also to see my radar detector and gps. I figure he can see I can prove I wasn't speeding so he has to drop his bullshit story.
"So why did you pull me over", I ask.
"Licence and Registration check " he replies.
"Oh for fucks sake", I grab my licence, jump on the bike and take off.

Cops stopping people on motorways for Reg and WOF checks. How ridiculous. Said he had just stopped another biker before me. Haszard County! He needs fat guts, sunglasses, jackboots and a gun on his hip to complete the stereotype. He definitely has the attitude already.

[Morcs]

Bugger. glad you outwitted the c*nt.

Looks like he was trying to do you for anything he could.

He mustve had a bad day on his quota. Cunts.

[Brett]

Little prick followed me south from around the tunnel - for ages.
Then he is along side or just in front - for ages. Then he takes off after the other guys who had a bit of a gap on me. No way to warn them but they were riding all safe and legal. He then pulls into the slow vehicle lane and waits until the Greville Rd. flyover before putting on his lights. I look in my mirrors and see lights on. Guy in front of me must have had a guilty conscious as he hits the picks. I nearly run up his arse as I'm looking behind me. So I'm not happy already and that made it worse. He didn't seem to want to follow my hand gestured instructions to feck off and leave me alone so I finally pull over.
Starts off wanting to know why I had taken so long to pull over.
"Well why the hell would I think you were wanting to pull me over? I wasn't doing anything wrong."
Then he reckons I had come tearing up behind him and only slowed down when I realised he was a cop. So of course I told him I thought he was full of shit. Takes my licence away to his car. Comes back and tells me I haven't got a WOF. So I point out the WOF on the bike. 'Well it's not on the system"
"Well that's not my fault" I reply.
"Well it's not my fault" he says.
The goes to write out a ticket and says I will have to take the test sheet in to ..... I Say "why don't you just look at it. You can see Where it was issued and the expiry date etc." as I had cleverly put it in the holder with all that info facing out.
"No I can't ", he says. Must be a bit shortsighted eh?
"Well look at this test sheet then", I say as I pull the sheet out of the glove box on my bike. I think he is unhappy to see that and also to see my radar detector and gps. I figure he can see I can prove I wasn't speeding so he has to drop his bullshit story.
"So why did you pull me over", I ask.
"Licence and Registration check " he replies.
"Oh for fucks sake", I grab my licence, jump on the bike and take off.

Cops stopping people on motorways for Reg and WOF checks. How ridiculous. Said he had just stopped another biker before me. Haszard County! He needs fat guts, sunglasses, jackboots and a gun on his hip to complete the stereotype. He definitely has the attitude already.

Man, that Ginja Ninja becomes more of a cock every day I reckon.

[Korumba]

Great day out people thank you all.
Hinny that mufti cop was pinging us on and off from the BP at Dairy Flat all the way to Albany, I saw the lights flashing from behind you when I was on the off ramp and wondered what was up.
I also noticed yesterday the cops we past used “instant on" the second they saw we were on bikes we were defiantly on the hit list all day.
Just as well you can carry your filing cabinet with you while riding the ST.

[Swoop]

:bye:Only shoitstirrers and tossers be on there keyboards today
And piggie-'flu victims.DAHMIK :brick::brick::brick:

Fuggin' fine weather for ridin'

[Hinny]

Just had a look at fuel consumption figs.
Westgate to Kaikohe. 26 litres 14.03kms/litre.
10th best fuel consumption in two years.
Must have been taking it easy.
Worst fuel consumption was the first part of Northern Exposure tour this year when Ginga harassed us for the first 140?kms of the trip. Cruising at 80kph - 100kph max. Off the power band? maybe in lower gears. Used a lot more fuel than normal.

[Kiwi Graham]

Hinny, might be the time for a new bike & helmet mate!

Old Ginga seems to be targeting you!

When I was young and reckless back in the 80's I had a distinctive GPZ750 Turbo :love: and bright red lid. I got a bad rep from the local cops for the way I rode it a few times and was for ever being stopped for 'spot checks' almost every day I was out on it even though I'd modified my behaviour.
It took a few weeks but I got the message that I was being targeted. Sold the bike and changed my helmet, GSXR750 slabby and a blue lid..........no more 'spot checks'.

[OutForADuck]

I managed a totally unharrassed ride home and to my surprise the replacement plate, rego and warrant cost me only $12!!! So value for money all told.

Glad I went left instead of right!!!!! :blink:

[Pumba]

Man that suck Keith, woundered why you wernt there when I looked behind.

I was woundering why I didnt pick up the cop on the other side of the road south of the tunnels and it was about that stage that I realised the plug had fallen out of the detector:shit:

Just as well I was being a good boy

[The Stranger]

Little prick followed me south from around the tunnel - for ages.


That's nothing short of harassment.
You should go to the PCA. He knows you and is just being an arsehole, you know it, he knows it.

[chrispy121]

same cop got one of my mates on sh16 saturday he had already radiod ahead and said to my mate he was dissaointed that he had not run from him.
141kms instant loss of licence

[Korumba]

same cop got one of my mates on sh16 saturday he had already radiod ahead and said to my mate he was dissaointed that he had not run from him.
141kms instant loss of licence

dissaointed???



Is that something a priest gets when the alter boy runs away from him????

[chrispy121]

si was I we had to wait around for some one to come and ride his bike home by that time it was dark and cold not much fun with a tinted visor

[Hinny]

I don't think it is just me. Din said he stopped six riders earlier in the day. He told me he had just finished harrassing another biker and he left me alone after tailing me for ages and took after the other guys I was riding with that had got a bit of a gap on me. They were on their best behaviour so he slowed down and waited for me.
I thought it was a rally dumb place he finally decided to stop me. On a bridge!
He's a keen little bastard. Are bikers an easier target or harder? Does he hope they will do a runner so he has an excuse for 'hot pursuit, hot pusuit'
He needs a dog to fulfill that Hazaed County archytype. What was that Sherriffs dog? A Beagle? A beagle for a muppet. Fitting.

[hospitalfood]

I think the best answer for an over zealous cop is an RPG.

[Qkchk]

sorry to all for the hold up due to my drive belt snapping, and a huge thanks to those who helped especially Shane for getting me Hm.


Typical Buell, passes everything except for a tow truck! :lol:

[Mrs Busa Pete]

Sorry guys we where going to come but was watching rugby and it didn't finish in time. Any way glad we didn't we are on 115 and with ginga on the prowl we could of been in trouble.

[Pumba]

we are on 115 and with ginga on the prowl we could of been in trouble.

Wow Wendy I didnt know you had 15 points on your licence:dodge:

[mnkyboy]

dissaointed???



Is that something a priest gets when the alter boy runs away from him????


You'd know:shifty:

Should go for a ride sometime fag - when i get a new bike (something a little less whale like):confused:

[NinjaNanna]

Did the guy on the CBR get home on his canvas?

Also after Hospital Food and I split off from Twin Bridges did you guys go straight down SH1, I waited at Paparoa for you lot cause Adam reckons you'd be coming through about the same time - but never saw you.

[Pumba]

Did the guy on the CBR get home on his canvas?

Also after Hospital Food and I split off from Twin Bridges did you guys go straight down SH1, I waited at Paparoa for you lot cause Adam reckons you'd be coming through about the same time - but never saw you.

Na mate we split straight down one. Everyone was pretty shagged by that stage and it was getting dark so it was a safer option.