Waikato: Kaiaua/Coromandel Loop on Saturday 20th [Archive]

R6_kid

18th August 2005, 22:49

alright its gonna have to be a late start... i just found out i have a 9am apointment in takapuna which im gonna be getting $40 fuel vouchers for

will meet the shore people at 'the pad' between the bike shops on barry's point, ready to go at 10AM(or when i arive)...

then we will stop in at papakura autobahn at around the 10.30 mark...

is that sweet? Probly stop in coromandel/whitianga for lunch before finishing the ride home.

hey people,

i know there is already some people going out to do 22 on saturday, as an alternative i will be doing either botany-kaiaua or coromandel loop or BOTH!!! all depends on whos keen and what for. Either way it will be moderate paced as im not too familiar with the roads out them ways.

So whos keen?

will post times etc when i know what people want to do.

awesker

18th August 2005, 22:52

Im in amigo!

XD~

18th August 2005, 22:54

i am there

mattt

19th August 2005, 11:15

Hey you guys should come along and do 22. It's a mint road for all types of bikes - we all there to have fun, not race. Or both :woohoo:
As they say - the more the merrier :ride:

crashe

19th August 2005, 11:32

Hey you guys should come along and do 22. It's a mint road for all types of bikes - we all there to have fun, not race. Or both :woohoo:
As they say - the more the merrier :ride:

Mattt - Have you not seen the washout section.... thats not gravel thats rocks... I won't be doing 22 until they fix up the road.

vifferman

19th August 2005, 11:34

Mattt - Have you not seen the washout section.... thats not gravel thats rocks... I won't be doing 22 until they fix up the road.
What kind of attitude is that, crashe? Where's your sense of adventure?
[Says Mr Dumbarse, who'll probably be sitting at home....]

crashe

19th August 2005, 11:53

What kind of attitude is that, crashe? Where's your sense of adventure?
[Says Mr Dumbarse, who'll probably be sitting at home....]

Cos when I went through there the last time ( a couple of weeks back)....
I was totally shattered afterwards.
I still have not built up my riding fitness after my operation.
And I also just about dropped my bike on those rocks...
The back wheel hit a rock on the wrong angle and the bike started to go over.

So sorry but, I won't be going down 22 until its fixed.

chickenfunkstar

19th August 2005, 12:13

I'd be keen for the Coromandel loop if you want to make a day of it.
The 22 is a cool road but was pretty rough the last time I went down it.

vifferman

19th August 2005, 12:15

Cos when I went through there the last time ( a couple of weeks back)....
I was totally shattered afterwards.
I still have not built up my riding fitness after my operation.
Oh - sorry, crashe - I'd forgotten about your op.
My bad.:no:

John

19th August 2005, 12:18

Damn sorry I cant come I just dont have money this time :(

crashe

19th August 2005, 12:19

Oh - sorry, crashe - I'd forgotten about your op.
My bad.:no:

Nah tis ok mate....

Its been 3 months since the op...
but I am having trouble getting my fitness level back up...
And I get real tired quite easily...
It will come back.... just taking time is all.

Firefight

19th August 2005, 12:25

So sorry but, I won't be going down 22 until its fixed.

I fully understand that crashe,what you say makes sense, sadly it won,t be getting fixed anytime soon, but for those not recovering from surgery, its only a section about 8m long that has the rocks, and each day its getting better, lots of milk tankers, stock trucks and loggers use it,which seem to be smoothing it out a bit, the other slight variations on the road surface on 22 are all just character building challanges.

F/F

Zapf

19th August 2005, 13:04

ermm the loop de loop sounds good...

justsomeguy

19th August 2005, 13:33

I also vote for the Loop. :not:Please:not: can we do the loop :not: :not: :not:

The Kaiaua rds are too straight and boring and I never liked them.

I'll do my BEST to try to find enough money to join you....:woohoo:

So what?? We meeting at the Dadakumara Motobarn?? At what time?? Bout 9am??

R6_kid

19th August 2005, 15:47

ok then, how about we make a day out of the loop then. I have only ever travelled as far as thames (thornton bay about 12km up the coast) on my bikes and its been years since i've been up past that way in a car.

Was hoping someone that had done it before would want to come and could show me the way.

JSG how long does it usually take? I've heard 4-5hours is usually the average?

justsomeguy

19th August 2005, 16:35

Umm - the last time we went we left around 9:30am and were back home by 4pm.

Can't wait - :banana:

I don't really know the way by heart - usually just keep riding and figure it out as we go - it's an easy road as we usually stick to the highway (SH25) all the way.

We usually meet at the Autobahn join SH1 turn back to Papakura go through the Hunuas and on to Miranda then to Kopu Mobil via SH2 then it's pretty much stick to the main road.

If Zapf and Chikenfunkstar are coming then hopefully between us we should be ok - :niceone:

Meeting time and place???

TLDV8

19th August 2005, 16:45

Just keep turning right once you hit the coast road :ride: ..i got 360 kms Manukau return ( 2 teeth up on the rear so the speedo would be reading a little high)...sure 4 or 5 hours sounds about right.... only roadworks i remember (and was also posted by someone else) was the hill down into Whitianga with new seal.

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mjvduc

19th August 2005, 17:05

I’ve just done a trip down to coromandel town; take the back roads and not SH1/2. I reckon whitford, clevedon, kawakawa bay, orere, wharekawa, Miranda, waitakaruru, thames…………the roads are good, ok standard kiwi but no loose stuff or major damages and it took me 2 hours and a bit from howick.

Have fun and maybe I will be able to join for the way back to AKL, either in thames or kopu! Here my mob number 021 1 566 500

mjvduc

mattt

19th August 2005, 17:06

Mattt - Have you not seen the washout section.... thats not gravel thats rocks... I won't be doing 22 until they fix up the road.

Yeh Nah that's ok, I've done the math.
8 meters travelled at 180kph gives you a time spent on the rocks of roughly 0.16sec. Your suspension won't even notice it :yawn:

HDTboy

19th August 2005, 17:19

I'll probly join youse fullas in Thames for the ride home, I'll give you my number on MSN Gareth

Zapf

19th August 2005, 17:27

Just hope for good weather and be prep for a long day :)

justsomeguy

19th August 2005, 19:54

The weather forecast is good.

We gonna decide on a meeting place and time or we just all gonna head in the general direction and try and run into each other along the way?

Zapf

19th August 2005, 20:01

The weather forecast is good.

We gonna decide on a meeting place and time or we just all gonna head in the general direction and try and run into each other along the way?

running into bikes is generally a bad idea.... specially cages :nono: :devil2:

justsomeguy

19th August 2005, 20:06

running into bikes is generally a bad idea.... specially cages :nono: :devil2:

I normally would reply with an equally witty comment you rotten font - but I'm on dial-up for the next few days so can't be bothered starting an eye poke session.

Meanwhile how bout meeting at the Autobahn at say 9:30am????

aff-man

19th August 2005, 20:20

running into bikes is generally a bad idea.... specially cages :nono: :devil2:

Fucking R1.

matchless

19th August 2005, 21:03

What time at Kopu Mobil
matchless

saul

19th August 2005, 21:05

Fucking R1.

aaaaa whats all that about then forgive and forget. It's not the R1's fault :rofl:

There is also a few of us doing the loop on Sunday. :woohoo:

Leaving from Tauranga @ 9:30 on Sunday from Barkes corner.

R6_kid

19th August 2005, 21:30

alright its gonna have to be a late start... i just found out i have a 9am apointment in takapuna which im gonna be getting $40 fuel vouchers for :woohoo:

will meet the shore people at 'the pad' between the bike shops on barry's point, ready to go at 10AM(or when i arive)...

then we will stop in at papakura autobahn at around the 10.30 mark...

is that sweet? Probly stop in coromandel/whitianga for lunch before finishing the ride home.

R6_kid

19th August 2005, 21:35

What time at Kopu Mobil
matchless

from memory time to kopu from the shore is around the 1hr 10 mark so we'll call it 11-11.30am ?

P.S for any urgent contact after this post until the morning it would pay to text me on 0272532246 (make sure u say your screen-name) and i will get in touch.

sorry for the late notice
:sherlock:

trev

19th August 2005, 22:12

Just got back from Whitianga. They are kicking off an annual 'scallop festival" tomorrow. There will be heaps of people there.
If I don't do 22 I will join you.

Zapf

19th August 2005, 23:10

Just got back from Whitianga. They are kicking off an annual 'scallop festival" tomorrow. There will be heaps of people there.
If I don't do 22 I will join you.

Sweet... maybe we can do lunch there instead :)

see u at 10:30

Zapf

19th August 2005, 23:12

I normally would reply with an equally witty comment you rotten font - but I'm on dial-up for the next few days so can't be bothered starting an eye poke session.

Meanwhile how bout meeting at the Autobahn at say 9:30am????

thats all right... I'll leave your throne to you :motu:

chickenfunkstar

19th August 2005, 23:14

Cool.
I'll see yous fullas tomorrow at 10.30 then.

Warr

19th August 2005, 23:23

May see you ....Will be heading up SH1 to AK. :sherlock: Boring I know. Going up to test ride a bike ..well hopefully

justsomeguy

20th August 2005, 16:51

chickenfunkstar

20th August 2005, 18:21

OK WHERE THE FARK DID EVERYBODY GO??

I reached the Autobahn just after 11. Realised I was too late and buggered off via the Hunuas, Miranda, SH2, Kopu.

Reached the Mobil and asked the lady at the counter who said a group of bikes had left towards Thames about 5 mins ago must have been bout 12ish - I guess.......

So took off did the loop and was back at Kopu at 2:40:oi-grr:

Did at least 3-4 laps of both Coromandle and Whitianga towns but no sign of you fellas stopped for lunch or anything???

Anyway- rode non-stop hoping to catch some of you idjits but :cry: NO BLAARDY SIGN OF ANYONE???????????????

Reached back home at 4:30

Where the hell did all of you go??:chase:

We saw you go past when we were at Thames BP.
Thought you would probably catch up to the front group before coromandel town.

Anyway,
Cool ride today guys, I love those hill climbs :ride:
Sorry I had to gap it early, had to get home before dark as my lights weren't going. Made it about 10 mins before sunset.

Cheers for organising it Gareth

HDTboy

20th August 2005, 19:06

Sorry I missed y'all, I tried to make it to kopu in time for the ride home but had too much on my plate

justsomeguy

20th August 2005, 19:09

Thames BP!!!!

That early?? Well did you others go hide behind a bush or something??

I passed a red VTR1000 num plate GASSY and another big bike and thats about all......

I guess the others must have stopped somewhere else........

WHERE DID YOU'LL STOP??

I'm curious nothing like riding 400kms looking for someone and passing them on the way :wait:

crashe

20th August 2005, 19:31

OK WHERE THE FARK DID EVERYBODY GO??

I reached the Autobahn just after 11. Realised I was too late and buggered off via the Hunuas, Miranda, SH2, Kopu.

Reached the Mobil and asked the lady at the counter who said a group of bikes had left towards Thames about 5 mins ago must have been bout 12ish - I guess.......

So took off did the loop and was back at Kopu at 2:40:oi-grr:

Did at least 3-4 laps of both Coromandle and Whitianga towns but no sign of you fellas stopped for lunch or anything???

Anyway- rode non-stop hoping to catch some of you idjits but :cry: NO BLAARDY SIGN OF ANYONE???????????????

Reached back home at 4:30

Where the hell did all of you go??:chase:

Well if you had of arrived on time....

and who are you calling a idjit??????????
No need for name calling.

We stopped at Cormandel main drag for lunch.

And some of us have only just gotten home from a very long day.
Yep I did the Coromandel loop - now totally shattered.

Oh and we didnt ride that fast either, as we had a new rider with us today.

HDTboy

20th August 2005, 19:49

How did I get home ahead of you? I went through kopu an hour after gareth texted me

Keystone19

20th August 2005, 21:05

HDT you probably went past us while we were having a wee tea break at Bombay...

Yep, we had a newbie with us today. She did great. First big ride and I take her around the Coro loop... :doh: Thanks to Trev for spending some time with her helping with lines and stuff. I was too busy being selfish and trying to make sure Gareth_D didn't get away from me :devil2:

A fantastic ride, great group, welcome to CaN and CaN2, great to have you along. First time around Coro for me on the bike, what a great road!

Zed

20th August 2005, 21:18

First time around Coro for me on the bike, what a great road!I've been saying it for months but I've gotta do that road soon, for the first time! Summer is coming. :sunny::banana: :sunny:

Glad you all had a goodun and that the noob enjoyed herself. It was good to meet up with you's this morning and have a chat before heading off in separate directions! :wavey:

Keystone19

20th August 2005, 21:20

[QUOTE=Zed]I've been saying it for months but I've gotta do that road soon, for the first time! Summer is coming. :sunny::banana: :sunny:
QUOTE]

Well I'm hooked Matt, so I'll take you down there anytime!!! :ride:

Zed

20th August 2005, 21:23

Well I'm hooked Matt, so I'll take you down there anytime!!! :ride:Shall we wait till you've upgraded Jill!! :woohoo:

I heard you like the look of them SV650's? :wait:

Keystone19

20th August 2005, 21:25

Shall we wait till you've upgraded Jill!! :woohoo:

I heard you like the look of them SV650's? :wait:

SV650S coming my way soon... :woohoo: (I hope)

Umm, yeah, maybe we should wait, I had trouble keeping up with those guys today... :wait:

crashe

20th August 2005, 21:35

SV650S coming my way soon... :woohoo: (I hope)

Umm, yeah, maybe we should wait, I had trouble keeping up with those guys today... :rofl: :rofl:

What ya talking about.... you kept overtaking them and leading the way... :chase: :chase:

Keystone19

20th August 2005, 21:38

What ya talking about.... you kept overtaking them and leading the way... :chase: :chase:

Yeah, I know but Zed doesn't. Besides, it's supposed to be a secret...

MacD

20th August 2005, 21:40

SV650S coming my way soon... :woohoo: (I hope)

Umm, yeah, maybe we should wait, I had trouble keeping up with those guys today... :wait:

Yeah right! Looked like it as you passed a GSXR750 and RF900 uphill! ;)

Great day/ride by the way, though I don't think my rear tyre enjoyed it that much. Thanks Gareth for organising the ride.

crashe

20th August 2005, 21:40

Yeah, I know but Zed doesn't. Besides, it's supposed to be a secret...

Oops ya forgot to tell me that.... :psst: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Zed

20th August 2005, 21:43

what the? You never done the Coro loop?? I'm sure you had.. you dont know what your missing Matt... Bring on March 16 I say. Then I can try that bird o yours... since you wanted a go on the TLYer Glen tis true, I've never done the Coro Loop. (hangs head in shame) :weep:

So are you keeping that beautiful TL now Ambo-man??

Zed

20th August 2005, 21:45

Yeah right! Looked like it as you passed a GSXR750 and RF900 uphill! ;)She did!! :rofl:

That trackday last week must have *transformed* you Keystone!

Zed

20th August 2005, 21:46

Well its not sold yet.. if someone buys it then its gone.. otherwise.. see you thereThat's a date then...well...you know wot I mean jellybean. :shifty:

Keystone19

20th August 2005, 22:03

She did!! :rofl:

That trackday last week must have *transformed* you Keystone!

Yeah, the old VTR250 got a bit of a thrashing today :devil2:

HDTboy

21st August 2005, 03:06

HDT you probably went past us while we were having a wee tea break at Bombay...
I thought about stoppin there, but that would've ruined my game of fuel range bingo (which I won incidentally). Did you guys hear me go past? Or this morning when you were all at the AB and I waved as I went past quietly?

Zapf

21st August 2005, 14:13

SV650S coming my way soon... :woohoo: (I hope)

Umm, yeah, maybe we should wait, I had trouble keeping up with those guys today... :wait:

yea... I got a big suprise at this VTR250 that passed a ZX9R, RF900, then me going up hill across the ranges towards Kopu :psst: :clap:

XD~

21st August 2005, 14:18

I thought about stoppin there, but that would've ruined my game of fuel range bingo (which I won incidentally). Did you guys hear me go past? Or this morning when you were all at the AB and I waved as I went past quietly?

dont you mean petrol station roulette?

ta for setting the ride up Gareth whens the next one :P?

justsomeguy

21st August 2005, 15:09

Well if you had of arrived on time....

and who are you calling a idjit??????????
No need for name calling.

We stopped at Cormandel main drag for lunch.

And some of us have only just gotten home from a very long day.
Yep I did the Coromandel loop - now totally shattered.

Oh and we didnt ride that fast either, as we had a new rider with us today.

Oh, yeah - I decided to change my oil as I woke up a bit early. Then needed to find a socket spanner as the bolt head was too rounded to come off with a regular spanner....... so got delayed.

Anyway now finding out you had a newbie I'm glad I didn't join up with you guys as I like to play around on those roads.

Kopu to Kopu took around 2:40 but there was a bit of time spent searching for you guys and stopping at petrol stations asking if they'd seen a bunch of bikes go past......

Hopefully next time I can do it in 2:30 or less.

EDIT: For the PC Brigade: When I say I'm glad I didn't join you with a newbie I mean I'll be less of a hazard with my unsafe riding skills and horrible lines and poor control and all those other things I need to straighten out.......... so I was better off by myself. I'm glad that you guys enjoyed yourselves out there.:ride:

justsomeguy

21st August 2005, 15:13

yea... I got a big suprise at this VTR250 that passed a ZX9R, RF900, then me going up hill across the ranges towards Kopu :psst: :clap:

What?? Surely you're joking

A newbie (3 months) on a VTR250 passed you on a Gixxer750??

I know :clap:Keystone:clap: is one of those naturally gifted, wretched, horrible people that we average folk envy/hate/get jealous of- but still........ :no:

Boy - if you don't find your lighter soon I'm gonna douse you in petrol and set fire to you.

justsomeguy

21st August 2005, 15:30

I've been saying it for months but I've gotta do that road soon, for the first time! Summer is coming. :sunny::banana: :sunny:

What you up to next week?? We can go via Thames first and then turn off towards the smaller loop and get some of those twisties in too.:ride:

That is if some of you guys don't organise a better ride.

Zed

21st August 2005, 16:10

What you up to next week?? We can go via Thames first and then turn off towards the smaller loop and get some of those twisties in too.:ride:

That is if some of you guys don't organise a better ride.We'll see JSG. Next weekend is a long time away at this point.

justsomeguy

21st August 2005, 16:57

We'll see JSG. Next weekend is a long time away at this point.

Why??

You got a trip up Mount Everest to plan in the mean time?? p/t

Yaa I'll probably be broke again and wont be able to make it.......hehehe

Keystone19

21st August 2005, 18:09

yea... I got a big suprise at this VTR250 that passed a ZX9R, RF900, then me going up hill across the ranges towards Kopu :psst: :clap:

Oh oh, sounds like I need to slow down a bit. Obviously a VTR250 isn't supposed to be ridden like that. Hope I didn't appear dangerous? :no:

justsomeguy

21st August 2005, 18:14

Oh oh, sounds like I need to slow down a bit. Obviously a VTR250 isn't supposed to be ridden like that. Hope I didn't appear dangerous? :no:

Grrr - now I'm even more pissed at having missed the ride - another 250 to play with...... oh well........ there's always next weekend.:devil2:

Keystone19

21st August 2005, 18:18

Grrr - now I'm even more pissed at having missed the ride - another 250 to play with...... oh well........ there's always next weekend.:devil2:

JSG, about half of us were on 250s. It was a great paced ride with everyone riding their own ride but still hanging as a group. Just really enjoyable. And I don't think anyone did anything stupid, I was just worried that maybe I had without realising it.

MacD

21st August 2005, 18:45

Hope I didn't appear dangerous?

Damn, and there I was thinking that was the whole point of riding bikes! :devil2:

Oh well, back to the watercolours then...

justsomeguy

21st August 2005, 19:14

JSG, about half of us were on 250s. It was a great paced ride with everyone riding their own ride but still hanging as a group. Just really enjoyable.

Stop rubbing it in:motu:

........... :) hehehe j/k

- I enjoyed myself too. Did some work on my lines and learnt to up shift and down shift a little better too. Still need to work on staying commited to my lines and consistently apexing at the right point, among the other million things a newbie needs to learn.

I guess all this talk about SV's means you aced your CBTA - :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: .

When do you get your full??

Keystone19

21st August 2005, 19:23

When do you get your full??

Another month and a bit hopefully! Booked in for the end of September, so if all goes according to plan, I should have a new bike for Christmas (just have to ask Santa nicely :devil2: ).

Zapf

21st August 2005, 20:52

Oh oh, sounds like I need to slow down a bit. Obviously a VTR250 isn't supposed to be ridden like that. Hope I didn't appear dangerous? :no:

you... dangrous? maybe you are... I'll comment when I know you better :)

R6_kid

22nd August 2005, 09:22

holey shit, its taken me two days to reply!

That ride was totally awesome...

big ups to keystone (as per usual) what i didnt tell you was that for a while on the bit before whitianga i actually slowed down on the straights (like 60-70kmh) because with all that traffic i wanted to make sure nothing had gone wrong. :rofl: But considering the power difference im sure the VTR did get a thrashing - i know my ZXR did :devil2:

not to be stink JSG, but me and keystong werent taking it easy by any means and the pace set by the sportier 250's was at times a bit faster than the bigger bikes. I know that its probably the fastest i've ever ridden (apart from when i let the bigger bikes through so testosterone didnt take hold)

victoria, hope you had an awesome day... always good to have new people getting into the game.

to the northcote boys, we gotta get out more on our two fiddy's that ride back was pretty crazy - lucky there were no cops :Punk:

cheers everyone for coming, i know i really enjoyed it :ride:

cheers for coming people

R6_kid

22nd August 2005, 09:27

you... dangrous? maybe you are... I'll comment when I know you better :)

dangerous.... maybe
dodgey... ALWAYS!!!

its why we love her so much :rofl:

Keystone19

22nd August 2005, 16:26

what i didnt tell you was that for a while on the bit before whitianga i actually slowed down on the straights (like 60-70kmh) because with all that traffic i wanted to make sure nothing had gone wrong. :rofl:

You would have been waiting a while Gareth, we stopped at the top of the hill for about 20 minutes and had a chat with a rider who had just come up the other way. Sorry about that, should have told you we were stopping. And I'm sure you didn't slow that much... :devil2:

R6_kid

22nd August 2005, 19:48

oh yup sure sure, im talking about the bit where i passed victoria and crashe then passed you... i wasnt really around you much before that (perhaps it was after whitianga) i passed you then blasted off at some mental ZXR pace and was pushing it a tad harder than you on the corners.

either way im pretty sure we were both near the limits of our bikes today, im not too keen on finding the edge of my front tyre as that tends to be the one that hurts if you screw it up :no:

SixPackBack

22nd August 2005, 20:07