Otago: Brass Monkey 2013 [Archive]

Subike

12th May 2013, 17:04

only about oh 50 from Christchurch, and thats a conservative number indeed.
If you do a search you may find several thread with info on who and when
also Facebook had an event for this ,,,,,about 8 riding together on the Friday to a motel they have booked.

paturoa

12th May 2013, 17:42

I haven't been for a few years and have sufficient domestic credits to attend this year!

Mr. Blonde

12th May 2013, 18:39

I have read up on past theads, to get info on the gear to take & best time to get there Etc.
Im heading of fri - to spend the nite in Timaru, at a rellies place.
Then head off Sat morning ,so I dont have rush to the site.
Been looking foward to it.

Flip

12th May 2013, 18:54

I will be there.

pete376403

12th May 2013, 19:46

Departing Wgtn Wednesday morning, slow meandering trip down the west coast, Wanaka friday night. Sunday/monday back up the centre by as many back gravel roads as we can find.
#18 for me

Flip

12th May 2013, 21:02

I will make the offer.....

If you are coming through Oamaru and you would like a bed for the night, give me a call.

Your bike will have to share the garage with my Harley and Oamaru on fire is Friday night. I will be shooting the 25 pounder there.

Erelyes

12th May 2013, 22:01

Hoping to leave DDN for it.. perhaps staying in Naseby, depending on leave

surveyorsteve

13th May 2013, 10:10

Is there anyone heading down from Auckland or there abouts that wants to ride together? Thinking about leaving Thursday returning Tuesday. Might check our Oamaru on Fire Friday night as inlaws live there. Then up via west coast to Nelson. #5 for me

Howie

18th May 2013, 16:23

Departing Wgtn Wednesday morning.
#18 for me

See you at the Ferry Peter. Think it's #5 or 6 for me, But haven't been to one since the Eighties.

Found this on Utube (1988 Rally) brought back a few memories of the gear and bikes used then.

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BMWST?

18th May 2013, 16:28

See you at the Ferry Peter. Think it's #5 or 6 for me, But haven't been to one since the Eighties.

Found this on Utube (1988 Rally) brought back a few memories of the gear and bikes used then.

i think i have a picture of that trip

woo hoo it was cold later!

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98tls

18th May 2013, 17:06

:niceone:Cheers for the video,awesome.I remember the welcoming sight of a 44 gallon drums complete with fire the last time i went many years ago,no sun just snow and rain.Great times though.Should go this year but like every other year of late:no:

Jantar

18th May 2013, 17:57

I think I'll miss it this year, but maybe I'll do a ride to somewhere warmer, like the coro loop. :devil2:

Howie

18th May 2013, 18:27

i think i have a picture of that trip

woo hoo it was cold later!

Yep but it was a good trip. Think my tent didn't even have a one piece floor in it back then.

kiwi cowboy

18th May 2013, 18:32

I will be there but wont be on the bike as will be serving you pissed cunts in the canteen probably so no cheek please:baby:.

Just a heads up if anyone has trouble at the site or there about's I have tools and may be able to help with witty suggestions as to what may be wrong while you fix it.

_Shrek_

18th May 2013, 19:04

may take a tent along with the hammock so if it rains got some where to stash the gear :rolleyes:

Coldrider

18th May 2013, 19:55

Getting down to Welly Thursday night, leave Picton friday morning before a sparrow fart, via West Coast to brass.
X20 for me.:bleh:

doc

18th May 2013, 20:54

may take a tent along with the hammock so if it rains got some where to stash the gear :rolleyes:

Yaaaawn.:moon: Is that rally still going ? Last time you did one of our great ones, they decided NEVER again

And don't try to blame on your prospects. Quentony

_Shrek_

18th May 2013, 23:06

Yaaaawn.:moon: Is that rally still going ? Last time you did one of our great ones, they decided NEVER again

that's coz they realised when we arrived & saw us :eek: they weren't up for the challenge & decided NEVER again will we :Oops:

don't try to blame on your prospects. Quentony

:gob: prospects you say :nono: way past that they're what you call prime suspects :cool:

festus

20th May 2013, 17:43

Yaaaawn.:moon: Is that rally still going ? Last time you did one of our great ones, they decided NEVER again

And don't try to blame on your prospects. Quentony

Doc how ya going..........?

A contingent from Wanganui will, as usual, be making the trip down, inc myself who has not done one for 6 years or so (work).........

Looking forward to it..........

paturoa

20th May 2013, 19:39

Doing solo this year, the plan is:

Leaving dorkland early Thursday, hauling thru to welly. Catch a late afternoon ferry, probably the 6pm and overnight in Picton or Blen.
Friday to Christchurch and do some work there and overnight in CH.
Sat thru to the site, hopefully do the Dansey's pass.
Drink and fall down sat night.
See how far I get norf on Sunday
Hop the ditch and back to dorkland for a big sleep.

Evo1132

21st May 2013, 18:57

33rd this year! Gunna go if the weather isn't too bad, 30th was the last brass I attended, really looking forward to it!!

Mr. Blonde

22nd May 2013, 17:25

Flip

22nd May 2013, 19:07

Its yours.

I have PMd you the address.

awayatc

22nd May 2013, 20:18

I have tools and may be able to help with witty suggestions

Don't think there will be a shortage of tools..............

awayatc

22nd May 2013, 20:18

may take a tent along with the hammock so if it rains got some where to stash the gear :rolleyes:

You going this year....?

kiwi cowboy

22nd May 2013, 20:29

Don't think there will be a shortage of tools..............

The TOOL your meaning is the only TOOL that's NOT available to be used so if that's the type of TOOL required apply elseware.

awayatc

22nd May 2013, 20:37

I could almost understand that.....

_Shrek_

22nd May 2013, 21:56

You going this year....?

:yes: :no: :yes: :no: :yes: :no: :yes: :rolleyes: :confused:

1billyboy

22nd May 2013, 22:11

I think I'll miss it this year, but maybe I'll do a ride to somewhere warmer, like the coro loop. :devil2:

Not the best time to go. Dorklanders- Long weekend:weird:

Me I am going to the 8th KB gathering at Tokaanui:drinknsin

Ghost_Bullet

24th May 2013, 16:29

Cant wait for this one, love it every year, always cool.

kiwi cowboy

24th May 2013, 17:30

:yes: :no: :yes: :no: :yes: :no: :yes: :rolleyes: :confused:

Now this is commitment right here folks:yes::yes:tui

doc

26th May 2013, 05:47

Doc how ya going..........?

A contingent from Wanganui will, as usual, be making the trip down, inc myself who has not done one for 6 years or so (work).........

Looking forward to it..........

nup not doin it again, maybe next year. Been sayin that for the last 3 years :baby:

kiwi cowboy

26th May 2013, 08:56

nup not doin it again, maybe next year. Been sayin that for the last 3 years :baby:

read previous post mate :killingme.

Mr. Blonde

26th May 2013, 21:08

Its yours.

I have PMd you the address.
Thanks Flip,

6 days to go, and I cant wait.
Started to pack my bag today -to see if it all fits(just)
Roll on Friday

paturoa

26th May 2013, 21:17

Got the bike sorted this afternoon and got a bunch of the stuff in a heap on the floor.

I've been brutal in cutting back the list of stuff to take too.

Edit; wtf with the forecast, warm northerlies with showers on the Saturday night. That sounds like dorkland!

_Shrek_

26th May 2013, 23:03

wtf with the forecast, warm northerlies with showers on the Saturday night. That sounds like dorkland!

just make sure you have enough to cover for the :cold: should it turn to shyte

edit: is now snowing so bring a woollies :laugh:

Ghost_Bullet

27th May 2013, 18:08

just make sure you have enough to cover for the :cold: should it turn to shyte

edit: is now snowing so bring a woollies :laugh:

Awesome.... happy with snow, as long as the roads are in good nic. Fingers crossed

_Shrek_

27th May 2013, 20:32

Awesome.... happy with snow, as long as the roads are in good nic. Fingers crossed

roads will be in good nic & we will have a blast :headbang:

Coldrider

27th May 2013, 20:37

We're still enjoying 21 deg days, will feel naked without packing shorts, jandals and sunblock. :cool:

idb

27th May 2013, 20:49

Friday night in QTown for me...feel sorry for myself...not quite able to get a cooked breakfast down...on to Oturehua...repeat...
Same ol', same ol'.

kiwi cowboy

28th May 2013, 12:58

its snoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooowed last night.:cool:

doc

28th May 2013, 18:15

its snoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooowed last night.:cool:

We have snow on Mt Tarawera now it's a good covering too.
Looks like I really can't do the Brass now. Don't want the frost to get tthe passionfruit while we would be away :nono:

paturoa

28th May 2013, 20:07

Washing a couple of pairs of socks and undies tonight and pack tomorrow night is all I have to do now.

kiwi cowboy

28th May 2013, 20:25

Washing a couple of pairs of socks and undies tonight and pack tomorrow night is all I have to do now.

Hope there possum fur undies its furkin cold here at the mo

Coldrider

28th May 2013, 21:57

Long range forecast fine, windy, and rain Sunday. Just another normal Brass. West Coast will rain the whole duration plus more.

Ghost_Bullet

29th May 2013, 17:47

Bikes packed and ready to go... just waiting for Friday.... :baby:

paturoa

29th May 2013, 21:14

All packed , off to welly for leg one tomorrow.

XF650

30th May 2013, 21:42

Came through Dansey's Pass tonight and it's in great nick.
Only white stuff was a few woolies on the northern side of the summit.

idb

31st May 2013, 11:27

Rained here this morning, looks likely for some more yet.

scumdog

31st May 2013, 11:29

Rained here this morning, looks likely for some more yet.

Don't forget to wave...

idb

31st May 2013, 12:58

Don't forget to wave...

Right...what's the KB wave again?

idb

31st May 2013, 13:00

Don't forget to wave...

Right......now, what's the KB wave again?

idb

31st May 2013, 13:01

Wow, did you see that?
Deja vu I think.

Must be a glitch in the Matrix.

scumdog

31st May 2013, 13:48

Right......now, what's the KB wave again?

Uh, I though it was YOU that invented the wave??:confused:

idb

2nd June 2013, 12:30

Windiest...brass monkey...everrrrr.....
Roads closed all over the place, cops stopping folks and giving them bacon sarnies and hot drinks while they wait on the side of the road at Omakau for the wind to die down.
Apparently bikes off the road all over the place.
I managed to sneak home 'round a back road...there's no wind here but it's bucketing down.

There were tents flattened all over the place last night and embers flying all over the place...there'll be tons of newly leaky tents now.
The fire brigade turned up around 1am to put the bonfire out and the organisers went 'round the site putting out the drum fires.
The band had to stop early because of the wind.
It blew without stopping all night and probably still is.

Flip

2nd June 2013, 13:33

Just got in.

My dome tent got flattened by the wind, broke a couple of poles. We didn't have too much trouble getting out over the pig route but I was on the sidecar.

Erelyes

2nd June 2013, 17:20

My first brass. :baby: Copy 'windy as fuck'.

Got a faceful of tent in the middle of the night, tent's fibreglass poles were bending into an 'S' with the gusts, didn't break thankfully (I borrowed it!).

Waited til 9.40 to get on the road. Even still, bike was doing an awesome Costa Concordia impression on the way into Ranfurly. Grabbed coffee, headed back out an hour-ish later and it was much better after then - windy but not gusty.

Good fun, peculiar weather, I plan to be back (sans L plates) next time!

Mr. Blonde

2nd June 2013, 17:42

Costa Concordia <- most of the way back to Chch
I was VERY glad to see the "Christchurch" sign.
And a big thanks to Flip and Mrs Flip for their Hospitality on Fri nite.
Don

XF650

2nd June 2013, 19:36

I was a support vehicle this year so for first time walked into the Rally, but still had a great time.
This one will be remembered for the gale force winds, so here's my wind memories:
The wind creating back-draughts in the long drop dunnies.
Sparks from the drum fires landing on the 'down wind" tents.
Alloy tent poles are much more resilient to wind than fibreglass poles.
The band playing Led Zeppelin as the stage was rocking from the wind.
The sound of the big wind gusts coming across the valley - it sounded like a quake coming.....
Did I mention it was windy?

Ghost_Bullet

2nd June 2013, 19:36

Was awesome.... windiest for sure, but worth it.

russd7

2nd June 2013, 19:42

definately one to remember, wont be forgotten in a hurry

paturoa

2nd June 2013, 20:19

Fecking wind!. I've got a cheap small dome tent from the swearhouse and the fibreglass poles smacked me in the head a few times as the tent had a little lie down in the wind.

I got bugger all sleep so just got up early and left the site about 7am. I was still uber windy.

I thought I'd do the Dansey's pass and when I did a left turn for Naesby, I had the bike cranked right over just to keep on my side of the road from the wind. I went past a row of trees on my left and just about ended up in the left hand ditch. There is a tight right hand corner not too far along the road and I still had the bike cranked over to the left as I was going around the right hander. FREAKY!

I then remembered the gravel roads and thought the better course of action was to get to the coast so I turned around and went to Palmerston.

Just past the turn off there was stretch of road in the same direction as the wind and there was a bunch of leave and shit blowing along the road, I slowed down to 80ks, the same as the leaves!!!!!

granstar

2nd June 2013, 21:18

:Oi: Well Jack had a great time at the Brass ( Jack the ripper) with a host of tents bust up or torn by the wind gales. :clap: Awesome rally with great company.
Thank You to the Police for their support Sunday morning with the ongoing weather conditions. They stopped us at Omakau, feed us brekkie bacon samies, and coffee, then ensured we were comfy opening up the local rugby club and camping ground to sit it out for a while. Finally an escort through the high wind area of concern had us on our soggy way South .....YAWN! :woohoo:

Grover and Turtle get busy at 12.30 AM Brass Monkey 2013

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/granstar/SAM_0367_zps31f7f035.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/granstar/media/SAM_0367_zps31f7f035.jpg.html)

Berries

3rd June 2013, 08:02

Any Kaipoi members in the house?

The Windy Monkey. (http://www.odt.co.nz/regions/otago/259536/police-help-bikers-battered-gales)

doc

3rd June 2013, 08:17

The sound of the big wind gusts coming across the valley - it sounded like a quake coming.....
Did I mention it was windy?

Na thats just the noise of Shrek snoring....probably the odd fart as well

BABiker

3rd June 2013, 09:44

Was certainly windy. Just finished refuelling at Ranfurly and as I was standing in the forecourt wondering whether to go or not, a piece of the building broke off with a massive wind gust and collected an unfortunate rider just pulling into the servo. She got hit by a piece of wallboard in the ankle and dropped the bike. Fortunately she wasn't badly injured and the bike had little damage but I couldn't help think that a thin piece of wallboard at the right angle could have caused a nasty injury.
We had a coffee at the busy Cafe and left around 10.30 over the Pig Route and it was fine then.
And yes, a big thumbs up to the organisers who probably didn't get any sleep at all.

Flip

3rd June 2013, 17:46

Just a couple of picks

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Wingnut

3rd June 2013, 18:45

Just a couple of picks

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That bike/sidecar looks mean!

=cJ=

3rd June 2013, 18:47

First it was hot...then it was cold...

granstar

3rd June 2013, 18:48

The morning sky was more spectacular than the fire this year and the fluro planes in the sky way cooler than the unspectacular snow on the tip of the mountains far off :lol:

There was a cameraman wandering about Omakau while we were holed up waiting for the wind to drop on Sunday morning. Apparently the guy was getting footage for the next season of TV One's Highway Cops series. Some of us could well be on that.:bleh:

Sad that the press :spanking: had to front page the low life idiot pulling a knife on vital service people. :spanking:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/8750949/Highway-Cops-captures-the-south

pete376403

4th June 2013, 17:28

Sure was interesting ride to ChCh on Sunday: stopped at the top of Danseys and 2 of us were blown over, then riding leaning hard over while travelling straight(ish) on hakataramea, watching a pretty big pine tree crashing down beside the road and showering bits all over the track, bike nearly blown over again while shutting the gate, being passed by my own dust at 100km/h...

paturoa

4th June 2013, 17:48

Sure was interesting ride to ChCh on Sunday: stopped at the top of Danseys.

I did the Danseys on Saturday going to the site and it was a nice ride. I chickened out on Sunday morning as the side wind was crazy at the Naseby turnoff and I didn't fancy doing that on gravel.

festus

5th June 2013, 09:14

I was one of the 4 blown off the bike between Omakau and Alex......all 4 went down together thru a cutting just outside Omakau.
Been riding for years never experienced anything like it. Took ages to get bike up as wind that hard and just fighting it.
No way could you put bike on side stand.......One female passenger in our group on another bike tumbling down the road............

4 of us plus 2 others from earlier group got through while the other 3 from our group went back to Omakau after cops closed road..........

Only minor damage to bikes.......

Ghost_Bullet

5th June 2013, 16:12

There aint ever nuthin bad about the Brass, it be more of a differing experience every year in which creates memories... never regrets... I dont think... mmm :innocent::sick:

And a couple of videos.

http://youtu.be/cFuk-re8OUQ

and

http://youtu.be/UrLo8pWdcGQ

Bring on 2014 yeah.

scumdog

5th June 2013, 17:15

Bring on 2014 yeah.

Ppiss-off!

I'll be over 60 then, I'll be getting old...and I'm only just getting used to 2013.:sweatdrop

Ghost_Bullet

5th June 2013, 19:16

Ppiss-off!

I'll be over 60 then, I'll be getting old...and I'm only just getting used to 2013.:sweatdrop

I am sure you were old many years ago:crazy:, though no doubt you shall linger for a long time before becoming a fossil :woohoo:

granstar

5th June 2013, 19:57

:woohoo::corn::niceone: Cool vids dude.

doc

5th June 2013, 20:34

I am sure you were old many years ago:crazy:, though no doubt you shall linger for a long time before becoming a fossil :woohoo:

He was over 60 years ago. technology can make ya move a bit betta tho

3umph

5th June 2013, 20:46

Any Kaipoi members in the house?

The Windy Monkey. (http://www.odt.co.nz/regions/otago/259536/police-help-bikers-battered-gales)

me... lucky im not that old yet... haha

wouldnt know who it was either

Ghost_Bullet

5th June 2013, 20:59

I removed the link for the facebook pictures, cause many dont have that... this album should be available for all.
https://plus.google.com/photos/116230687543102134177/albums/5885914902370473313?authkey=CKScr7Pqysn7VQ