Hunua Ranges Loop, Saturday 5 January

[Mongolian]

Good evening Everyone, Hope everyone is having an awesome new years.
I am currently at work so gonna be partying with myself.

Anyway was thinking of doing the Coro loop this saturday as the weather looks good and traffic should not be too bad with most people more likely to come home on the sunday. Scratch this.


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I have Been given a good alternative by Jaffa Saffa for a good ride on saturday or sunday if people are interested.
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=212372095154319308132.0004d24c4d62e78b4aaf 9&msa=0

Say meet at 9:30am BP sola for 10am depart and see how the day progress's for where to stop for lunch as this would be a much shorter ride.


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Let me know if your keen, should be sweet for learners as long as your happy to do 100kph on the open sections you should be fine.

Times:
Meet 9:30am Caltex Bombay
Leave 10:00am

Gas and coffee at kopu 10:45-11:00am

Lunch corromandel say 12:30-1pm

then head home around the other side taking it easy, should try and be back in kopu for around 3-4pm depending on how we are all feeling and traffic etc.

This is the route i was thinking of taking.

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=212372095154319308132.0004d223f5ddcffa5aac 5&msa=0&ll=-37.07271,175.422821&spn=0.837119,2.110748

Looking forward to this and if anyone has some constructive comments or advise that would be much appreciated.

Kind regards

Jason

[Gremlin]

My advice is to stay the hell away from the Coromandel around Christmas / New Years. Far too many people, too many driving like crazy (in/on all forms of transport) and probably plenty of police and checkpoints is my guess.

[Damantis]

I think Gremlin is right though. I think late January or early February would be a better time to do this ( especially if you like to ride "enthusiastically" Better off looking for roads that aren't full of camper vans, drunks and the Highway Patrol at this time of the year.

That said, I may join you at Kopu if I feel like living dangerously on the day! :woohoo:

[Blackbird]

Well, it's insane here today and the holiday makers seem to have left what few brains they posess somewhere off the peninsula. I'd honestly recommend leaving it alone for another week. I'm a local and won't be getting the bike out until then.

[Mongolian]

Well it seems the consensus is that there is still too many holiday makers so i guess will put this idea on hold.

Anybody have some good roads they could recommend for a nice ride on Saturday south of Auckland?

[Mom]

My advice at this time of the year is to stay OFF the roads, particularly the popular ones. We live in Norfland paradise, but there is no way I would be riding out at the moment. Every idiot wanker in a tin top is out and about, though I did note a few idiots on two wheels yesterday as well :yes:

[PrincessBandit]

We'll be away down riding the beautiful South Island at that time. Anyone braving the Coro GP in Jan had better have their wits about them.

[Mongolian]

Updated first post with new details for a different route going around the Hunua ranges instead of the corro loop.

[Gremlin]

Updated first post with new details for a different route going around the Hunua ranges instead of the corro loop.
Made your title more suitable for you.

[Mongolian]

Made your title more suitable for you.


Cheers for that was thinking of asking someone to do that.

[Mongolian]

Gonna cancel this due too lack of interest and a broken radiator mount

[shonofear]

would of been keen but did an ankle in last week :(
def keen laters on in the month/Feb for the Cora route

[puddy]

Fixed the radiator yet? Or still cancelled?

[onelittlenurse]

Im keen for a ride on sunday... but working saturday...

[puddy]

How's sunday Mongolian?

[Mongolian]

I'm gonna try and fab something up today, just gotta get hold of some aluminium or some thin steel. if anyone know's of a good place to get some that would be great, just need to make up a small L bracket

[BigAl]

Try bunings.

[nzspokes]

Try bunings.

+1, Ive got some nice small bits from there for the track bike.

[Mongolian]

Cheers guys, gonna head down there now and have a look round.

[Mongolian]

sweet managed to make something up out of some galvanized steel, some sort of gib board reinforcement i think, but will do the trick.

So who is keen for tomorrow then, if the weather is anything like today should be an awesome day

[puddy]

I'd be keen for a bit of a ride. There's another thread "crossing the border into the waikato" with a ride tomorrow.

[Mongolian]

Thats certainly a tempting ride, if we can get more riders interested in doing that then im keen, better to run one larger group than 2 smaller rides i reckon.

What do you think puddy?

[puddy]

One slighter larger ride would be good. I'll be guided by you. Happy to do either.

[Katman]

Smaller groups are always better.

[puddy]

Smaller groups are always better.
True, but if it's just the two of us, and one bloke by himself doing the other one, I'm sure we'd be able to combine the two. I'm not imagining that we are going to get 20+ riders. Thought we'd be lucky to get half a dozen!

[Mongolian]

Smaller groups are always better.

True, i would rather ride with under 10 people, but from the looks of the replies on the threads we would probably only be looking at 2-3 people per ride max i think.