So what's your plans over Christmas?

[Duke girl]

Just wondering what most of you are up to over the Christmas Holiday Period?.
My partner and l will be heading down Sth for 2 weeks leaving Boxing Day so l am really looking forward to my 1st bike trip down there.
We are hoping to do between 300-350 k's a day with heading off each day as soon as its daylight.
This will be my 1st year in missing out on Wanganui Street Races :( and also the Tri-Series so for those of you who are either competing in the Races or spectating Enjoy yourselves And a Merry Christmas to you all.
Stay Safe.

[marie_speeds]

Surviving the stress is probably my only plan :blink:
But hoping to get up to the rellies up north in the New Year :sunny:
Hope you have an awesome holiday!

[Devil]

Christmas in wellington/masterton, racing in wanganui, than back to wellington for the next two days, working that short week back in Auckland then down to Wellington again on New years eve, on the bike new years day and onto the ferry then two weeks down south. WHEEEEEEE :sunny:

[marty]

13 hour work days on both xmas and boxing day :(

Late shift new years eve.

water skiing and surfing most of my days off.

Got 2 weeks off at end of january to spend time at rowing camp at karapiro.

got some triathlons planned - one next weekend @ Tauranga, some MTB racing over the break, and the Tikitapu Tri with Lance in january - that will be my summer highlight i reckon - and watching my son back racing his BMX and daughter racing a single scull for the first time

[boman]

Riding to Wanganui on Christmas Day. Watching the racing Boxing Day. Home, probably Via Taupo on the 27th.

:scooter::woohoo:

[mashman]

Openin pressies with the kids and preparing for the arrival of her who who shall not be named :innocent:... Hopefully get a little ridin in too :)... joyeux noel to ya :)

[Juzz976]

Tour the South Island with a buddy with and his SV1000s maybe for a week.

Upon returning home I shall start drinking for 2 weeks then back to work.

[Toaster]

Yep, working Christmas Eve and Christmas Day on night shift. :blink::blink::blink::blink:

[hayd3n]

hopfully i can start putting my bike back togeather

[Bounce001]

Up north with rellies for Xmas and then home for partner to work.

While partner is working and I'm on holiday I will be riding to.... pretty much all over the place and sending him pxts/texts from the pubs I stop at!

[MisterD]

Down to Blenheim to the outlaws with a coupla days at the bach in the Sounds (hooray for zero cell phone coverage) thrown in for good measure...

[slofox]

I'll be waiting for Christmas to fuck off...

[Gremlin]

Down to Wanganui on Christmas Day, then the following week a nice tour of the upper North Island, 2 up with the gf on the back.

[SMOKEU]

Getting drunk and playing Call of Duty all day.

[Mudfart]

my brother is coming from the states the week before xmas, so we are going bush as much as possible.

[EJK]

I'll be as bored and lame as the Pointless Drivel thread.

If anyone got a job offering near Christchurch, I'm all ears.

[george formby]

I'll be waiting for Christmas to fuck off...

Yup, the on set of madness. I'm off Crimble day & thats it. Hopefully goin fishin somewhere nice, quiet & un decorated.
I should be more positive, by some miracle if Santa is real he might bring me a new tire.:woohoo:

[george formby]

I'll be as bored and lame as the Pointless Drivel thread.

If anyone got a job offering near Christchurch, I'm all ears.

I read of a position for a hearing aid tester...

Boom boom.

[SMOKEU]

I'll be as bored and lame as the Pointless Drivel thread.

If anyone got a job offering near Christchurch, I'm all ears.

Same here.

[Cheshire Cat]

I'm riding to wanganui with my family for the cemetery circuit! :woohoo::scooter: :drinkup:

now thats what i call christmas day!!!

[NighthawkNZ]

Day one: From Dunedin heafing to Central Otago Alexandra via Manuka gorge Roxburgh and into Alexandra.

Day two: Alexandra, Cromwell, Tarras Nighthawk shoots off way ahead of Xaria and over the Lindis, as Xaria approachs the Lindis pass, Nighthawk is now heading back through and passes Xaria going the other way, Xaria shaking her head as Nighthawk turns and ready to do the Lindis Pass one more time... over the Lindis in to Omarama, up past the lakes, small detour to Aoraki Mt Cook. Through Dovers Pass and Simons Pass continuing to Burkes Pass and in to Geraldine.

Day Three: From Gerladine, up to Mayfield and Methven on the old tate highway route 72 through the Rakaia Gorge on to SH73 into Springfield. Over Aurthurs Pass and continue to the Wet coast... following SH6 or Glacier Highway and down to Hokitika to Fox...

Day Four: Continue down the coast to Haast, and over the Haast Pass to Wanaka and back to Cromwell and Alexandra

Day Five: Back to Dunedin most likely Pig Route and then through Middlemarch, Outram 3 Mile Hill.

Not much really...

All this to avoid family over christmas... hehehehe :blink: :innocent::woohoo:

[Berries]

I'm going to bury my dog.

[Jantar]

13 hour work days on both xmas and boxing day :(

Late shift new years eve. ......
+1 But only 12 hour shifts and off on New years eve.


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We are hoping to do between 300-350 k's a day with heading off each day as soon as its daylight....
Daylight down here on boxing day is 04:42, with sunrise at 05:47. You may find the petrol stations don't open for a couple of hour after daylight. :yes:
On the plus side you'll manage those 300 - 350 kms before breakfast.

[Fatt Max]

Working through but hopefully get a ride up to the Coromandel where the outlaws live. Fuck the car, its bike time eh

[ellipsis]

.....when was crizmis, again...??..

[Ladydragon]

I'll be working on Christmas Eve in the kitchen then having Christmas day with just me and the cats.
I turned down a trip to Singapore which my brother would have paid for.

[LBD]

Work:angry:...work:angry:...and more work:angry:.....But don't mind me, you lot just toodle off and enjoy the festive season:bye:

[twinbruva]

Day one: From Dunedin heafing to Central Otago Alexandra via Manuka gorge Roxburgh and into Alexandra.

Day two: Alexandra, Cromwell, Tarras Nighthawk shoots off way ahead of Xaria and over the Lindis, as Xaria approachs the Lindis pass, Nighthawk is now heading back through and passes Xaria going the other, Xaria shaking her head as Nighthawk turns and ready to do the Lindis Pass one more time... over the Lindis in to Omarama, up past the lakes, small detour to Aoraki Mt Cook. Through Dovers Pass and Simons Pass continuing to Burkes Pass and in to Geraldine.

Day Three: From Gerladine, up to Mayfield and Methven on the old tate highway route 72 through the Rakaia Gorge on to SH73 into Springfield. Over Aurthurs Pass and continue to the Wet coast... following SH6 or Glacier Highway and down to Hokitika to Fox...

Day Four: Continue down the coast to Haast, and over the Haast Pass to Wanaka and back to Cromwell and Alexandra

Day Five: Back to Dunedin most likely Pig Route and then through Middlemarch, Outram 3 Mile Hill.

Not much really...

All this to avoid family of christmas... hehehehe :blink: :innocent::woohoo:

Pint at the Blue.......

[Headbanger]

Hopefully I'll be working, well apart from the stats, Its been feast or famine all year and we have had quite a few weeks with zero income.

So, make hay while the sun shines as they say.

That aside, The kids are starting to buzz about Christmas so that's a great thing to be part of. Getting excited by the xmas decorations apearing around town, been writing letters to Santa.

Its all good.

[Oakie]

No plans. Mrs Oakie working. No visitors coming apart from daughter, her partner and unborn grandchild for 4 days.
I'll probably take a sizeable chunk out of earthquakle repairs to the exterior of the house. I bought an angle grinder today to help knock cracked mortar from between the concrete blocks of the house and garage prior to re-mortaring and repainting the whole freaking lot. Merry Xmas Santa. Up yer bum! (unless you bring me a water-blaster)