Britton Mohaka Adv ride pics

[Cary]

Just come back from a great weekend around Mohaka area.

Al (wrf2500) kindly offered to take Andy(anthrax) & I down in his car(Co gas:msn-wink:) so left Friday morning for the trip to Mohaka staying at the Mountain Valley Lodge about 80k down the Napier/Taupo road.

Once we got there Al didn't fancy bunking with 7 other guys so borrowed a mattress from the bunk room to put on the floor in out 2 bed A frame cabin.

Very cold down that way but after 15min riding it got very warm.

In brief, great terrain, well made route sheets, and marked tracks on the farm trails were pretty good. Meals were great & plenty of it. Recommended good sharp knobbys at 12psi and they were right! Quite lush & a lot of wet grass/farm trails, great ride. on to the pics..........

1 - Our cabin & Andy.........
2 - Big country, good wheelie
3 - Al down another lush grassy slope
4 - Andy same
5 - Mighty XR :yes:
6 - Al n Andy

[Cary]

1 - Al
2 - Gas up before lunch on Saturday
3 - Andy
4 - checking out some pics after Saturdays ride
5 - Al
6 - Andy n Al

[Crisis management]

Looks like a good ride, just out of interest where there many adventure bikes there or mainly enduro / trail bikes?

[Cary]

Looks like a good ride, just out of interest where there many adventure bikes there or mainly enduro / trail bikes?Yep it was and think we got our moneys worth, will be putting it on my ride calendar for next year.

Would say 95% enduro/trail, most were registered. One guy on an XR650R did it with his (not small)9yo son on the back.

[Cary]

The surface was pretty good but odd slippy section. I managed to be distracted by a fallen tree and missed a angled branch on the ground fell off and broke my clutch lever, had spare so quick change while I got laughed at and off we went.

Very little road riding, think the guys thought 50k out of the 240 we did on Sat so real value for money (120k Sunday) A real variety of tracks, farm, forrest, gravel and a little tricky clear fell.

Had it been much wetter I might have struggled on the odd bit.

1 - Andy on trail
2 - Andy 'off piste' picking up after a lil off
3 - The one time I asked him to do a wheelie for the camera.......
4 - Andy on some loamy farm track
5 - Scarying the trout
6 - Al on some virgin track

[Crisis management]

Thanks for that Cary...I just spotted Al was on the 300, I was wondering how he had coped on the 950!

[Cary]

I'm not known as the best navigator but the route sheets were quite good and when Andy's 'click clack' fell off, Al & I took over.

1 - Wheelie good view............ :laugh:
2 - Andy
3 - That XR again, she did good keeping the orange boys in sight :yes:
4 - Al in another 'Mohaka Happy Moment' :sunny:

[Cary]

All round great weekend. Cheers AL, Andy, Mr Britton & staff :niceone:

1 - Andy either an end of ride tired dismount or a real crude way to thank his 525 for a great trouble free weekends riding........ what you think!!
2 - 1..2..3.. HEAVE
3 - Al heading home. I drove the XR6 from Taupo home, nice to have a car with a bit of power :yes:

4 - And finally...........

[Taz]

Well it was really slippery there........ And photo may have been of me lying on the grass :lol:

[Taz]

Some pics of mine.

1. Loading up
2. Al on his way to his luxurious 1 star 8 bunk cabin.
3. Cary outside ourr upper class cabin :)
4. Riding the trails
5. Cary
6. Al

[Taz]

Some more.

1. Cary
2. Al
3,4,5. Cary doing running repairs after the BRP hit the deck.

[Taz]

And even more.

1,2,3. Definately no drought in the Mohaka River region.
4. The mighty Mohaka
5,6. Cary and Al on a very fishers track like section of the ride.

[Cary]

Nice shots mate, don't do it justice huh.

Couple things, 1. thanks for the 'suck it in' warning on post #10 pic 3 & 2. post #10 pic 5 i'd just like to say, the front susp is so compressed because i'd just dropped it down from a monster wheelie.......right :laugh:

[Dont Know]

]Hi Cray, looks like you took plenty of pictures of Andy & I, thanks for that.
He's a few of the photo's that I took including the white water rafters you couldn;t see.

[Dont Know]

More photos
1. Andy
2. Unknown rider
3. Cary, picking up the XR after a crash that broke the clutch lever
4. Mahaka River
5. Water Water rafters
6. Andy

[ZReX12]

I can vouch for the quality of the ride, a good of formed tracks and not so formed ones. Plenty of moderately difficulty bits to keep you awake.

A Wellingtonian did the ride on a DR650 that he rode there and back, frankly it was a bloody good effort on his behalf getting the bike around the route trouble free.

[bart]

I've done the rafting thing in there before. Looks like I'll have to try the riding thing next year.

Was it all grassy farm track, or was there a reasonable amount of gravel type stuff?

[Taz]

Was a minimum of gravel type stuff and a maximum of farm and forest type stuff. Was advertised as an adventure trail ride for registered enduro bikes on sharp knobby tyres. A credit to those who did it on bikes at the heavier end of the scale such as DR650 and Xchallenge etc as I was glad several times that I was on nothing heavier than a 525. There were some really knarly hills both up and down and an abundance of slippery stuff with some cloud riding thrown in also.

[Bazoftawa]

The ride was all good, great to have a friendly crew,

would the DR go better if it was Green or Orange
Bazoftawa

[dino3310]

A Wellingtonian did the ride on a DR650 that he rode there and back, frankly it was a bloody good effort on his behalf getting the bike around the route trouble free.

Good on ya Bazoftawa ...... Go the DRs

[dino3310]

Cooool photos guys looked like a bloody good weekend

[ZReX12]

The ride was all good, great to have a friendly crew,

would the DR go better if it was Green or Orange
Bazoftawa

The DR went damn well in blue, plenty of orange and some green behind it as I recall.

[Taz]

Bloody lucky it didn't end up with a big orange stripe down one side eh Al? :lol:

[Dont Know]

:shit:
Bloody lucky it didn't end up with a big orange stripe down one side eh Al? :lol:

Thanks Andy, i was thinking when i saw that photo if you or Cary would mention my little indiscresion. I appoligised to the man.
Then again blue & orange would make a nice colour scheme.:shit:

[Bazoftawa]

Yeah no use worrying about a near miss.
Is that why they make them Bright Orange ?