Redwoods Trail Ride South Waikato, Queen's Birthday weekend! Who's going?

[Leyton]

What's it like ?

http://www.silver-bullet.co.nz/event.php?id=8538

I have heard it is Forrest, ash pumice with a few tunnels ? It is closer to where I live 50mins, so I am tempted to go along :)

[dave hamilton]

yip heading there going with brother and a few mates with our kids looks like a good ride as been pretty quiet in the waikato for trial rides with all the rides getting cancelled so looking forward to this :scooter:

[flyingcr250]

if they use the tunnel tracks it should be pretty good, done this ride quite a few times

[J langz]

yeea im going cant w8 for this weekend!!

i heard that its worth taking a camera?
and do you need a light for the tunnels?
:shit:

[dave hamilton]

dooh i dont have a headlight but will just follow the leader and hope lol :scooter:

[flyingcr250]

from memory there were 2 tunnels, one of them had a funny rut in the middle which steered you into the wall, falling off in the tunnels isnt nice hahaha:facepalm:

[J langz]

true that lol

[Leyton]

yip heading there going with brother and a few mates with our kids looks like a good ride as been pretty quiet in the waikato for trial rides with all the rides getting cancelled so looking forward to this :scooter:

I cant wait :) I had 3 trail rides cancelled over the past few weeks, last one was Bugger the boss that I took time off for so I am sooOOOO looking forward to this one!!

I have a light on my bike that kinda and kinda does not work :P It is driving me nuts, poor bulb contacts that I am struggling to cure for some reason.

[Jay GTI]

I second the general opinion that the Redwoods rides are farking awesome. Done a few, trying to convince a bunch of town-dwelling mates that driving more than an hour for a ride is actually worth it, so hopefully will make a few more...

[J langz]

neva riden on pumice b4 for some reason,

is it much different from dirt?

[Leyton]

trying to convince a bunch of town-dwelling mates that driving more than an hour for a ride is actually worth it, so hopefully will make a few more...

Sounds like it will be quite the turn out :) I hope I get a chance to fit my bush guards tomorrow :) Nice shiny new red ones. Will be my first trail ride since over 10 years and first real ride on my newly rebuilt CRF230 :)

[Jay GTI]

neva riden on pumice b4 for some reason,

is it much different from dirt?

Not really, just tends to drain better than dirt, so bad weather isn't as much of an issue. Still can get pretty sloppy if it's really wet though.

Enjoy the ride Leyton!

[dave hamilton]

just a quick ask is his ride on pumice or clay or a mix just asking as taking kids to go riding and unsure on the type of forest track as this will be my first time at that ride cheers:scooter:

[flyingcr250]

just a quick ask is his ride on pumice or clay or a mix just asking as taking kids to go riding and unsure on the type of forest track as this will be my first time at that ride cheers:scooter:

from memory its mostly clay, but it all depends on what part of the forest hes useing, regardless of what track hes useing its going to be slippery

[Broomie]

two very different trails, plenty of mud, massive hill climbs. Plenty of traction

A bloody good ride and very well run, thanks to the guys from Trail Ride NZ

cant wait for Atamuri in November.

[Leyton]

Right.. I can answer my own question now :)
Clay, Lots of Mud, Ruts all a good challange for a n00b such as myself but I had a real good time :) Well organised ride, good people.

Now my poor lil engine needs new rings, it was smoking the trail on the downhills LOL :( Learnt heaps for next time :)

Cheers all!!!

Little photo, classic!. Looking out from a blackberry bush. I had to carefully drag myself out of that LOL!
http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/7696/lookingoutatbike.jpg

[dave hamilton]

lol good pic so the ride was good then? i didnt make it but went to taupo instead to the rangitekei loop oh sh5 20ks past taupo all pumice and was good free riding the forest with some locals

[flyingcr250]

anyone going this weekend??

[davem_nz]

Yep ... me and the boy will be there. I need to get him off the playstation ... this is a good chance to get him doing something a little more physically challenging !!

[flyingcr250]

that was cool, quite greasy in parts, huge long uphills, slippery downhills, managed 2 loops of the NO.1 track, and 3 loops of the NO.2 track. near the end of the day the ruts were causing some people a few headaches,