Cold Kiwi picture report

[leathel]

Cold Kiwi 2014
2014 forecast was looking pretty grim…. Warm northerly winds and Rain, But rain was not going to stop me going, as it got closer to the date the forecast eased, As it turned out we hardly got wet :D

We had a couple of showers on the way down but not enough to get the wet weather gear on, It Rained at Taumarunui but we had stopped for fuel so waited it out

A couple of pics on the trip down

Whatawhata to catch up with steady. Munster and I went Via Viands but caught up again at different spots on the way down

Just cell pics this time.... didn't want to risk the workshop canon.

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While setting up the first bike down was a Harley

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Tent set up

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Some pics from the event, I will add video when I find time, will take a day or so…. Or week or so :P

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Friday night band

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Viewing area for the hill climb, have some video to add later

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Viewing for sow races and other events that I didn’t get much footage of

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One bike that blew a piston out while doing a burnout

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A few more Pictures (mostly bikes)


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A couple from the trip home


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[Mo NZ]

Some cool pickies there.
Thanks for posting.

[jellywrestler]

it's remarkably quiet about the cold kiwi here on KB at the moment, maybe everyones still worn out, I know I am....
bloody ripper weekend it was.

[Mom]

Thank you for sharing your pics of what looks like an awesome weekend away!

[leathel]

it's remarkably quiet about the cold kiwi here on KB at the moment, maybe everyones still worn out, I know I am....
bloody ripper weekend it was.


I was nearly falling asleep earlier but have a second wind so video time

I will add a few video's as I get them sorted, a couple of hill climb failures :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTowBuhE7NQ&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQcBlMDgVEs&feature=youtu.be

[Laava]

Mean! I love a good hill climb fail!
Might have to mark next year down. So the new site is all good then?

[leathel]

Mean! I love a good hill climb fail!
Might have to mark next year down. So the new site is all good then?

Great site, not exactly flat but plenty of room.... a bit of fun getting to the top if it was wetter but I guess that will be sorted before next time.

a quick video, still more people arriving so got fuller than this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bYB1GuVBLU&feature=youtu.be

[R650R]

it's remarkably quiet about the cold kiwi here on KB at the moment, maybe everyones still worn out, I know I am....
bloody ripper weekend it was.

It's the same on the truck forums, everything seems to end up on FB these days, easier to post and share images etc...

Good pics by original poster here and some good ones on the kiwi fb page too.

The new site is pretty cool :)

[jellywrestler]

It's the same on the truck forums, everything seems to end up on FB these days, easier to post and share images etc...

or when people want to pick holes in something....

[Katiepie]

Great photos - thanks for sharing. Just loving looking at everyones photos they are sharing on facebook. As Spyda says, been pretty quiet in here about the Kiwi. Guess we all are still in shock from the most AWESOME weekend ever. (plus I don't know how to add photos on here like you have above).

Massive thanks for everyone at the Club who made this happen for us all. A full year of hard work and dedication, a great new site and one hell of a kick arse rally back up and running.

I'm still buzzing, and kept laughing out loud at work all day from these new magic memories created.

Best weekend I may have ever had, on par with my first Cold Kiwi 5 years ago where I discovered my true happy place.

My album on facebook is set to "public" - feel free to have a look

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=629025467&sk=photos&collection_token=629025467%3A2305272732%3A69&set=a.10154532147220468.1073741839.629025467&type=1

[Katiepie]

Will try and load some on here tomorrow night for those of you who don't want to check out facebook

[Big Dave]

Good reportages.

[Mo NZ]

or when people want to pick holes in something....

Well... Lets see those dissenters get off their arse and organise something. :bash:

Nah good job and well done. While I was not there I have only had reports of a great weekend.

[Katiepie]

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[munster]

One of my Photo's and 2 of Katiepie's got used in the "Ruapehu Bulletin" coverage of the Cold Kiwi.

You can check it out here http://www.ohakune.info/thisweek/ruapehu-bulletin.php

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[Katiepie]

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[Katiepie]

One of my Photo's and 2 of Katiepie's got used in the "Ruapehu Bulletin" coverage of the Cold Kiwi.

You can check it out here http://www.ohakune.info/thisweek/ruapehu-bulletin.php

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Very cool -cheers for the link. Some great shots around of the best weekend!

[caseye]

Good to see you had a Great time at the Kiwi Katiepie. Neat pictures everyone, makes me think I'd better get act together for the next one, been on me list for a while now.

[jellywrestler]

Good to see you had a Great time at the Kiwi Katiepie. Neat pictures everyone, makes me think I'd better get act together for the next one, been on me list for a while now.

Get there before it dissappears and is all part of the old days. The Ruapehu Motorcycle club hasn't made a surplus for six years and unlikely to break even this year.
With everything costing more these days there's a couple of ways to make this event survive, put the price up or get more people through the gate. I know which way I prefer....

[Reckless]

Good to see you had a Great time at the Kiwi Katiepie. Neat pictures everyone, makes me think I'd better get act together for the next one, been on me list for a while now.
Geez mate I lead a crew down from up here you could of easily tagged along? I go with the Missus every year mate just PM me ok :)

Jelly
There's nothing to pick holes in!!
Was a great event pretty much the same as the last one with Mildish weather and great music reach night.
Really like the rock band thing on Friday and the Bluesy on sat when we are a little Jaded LOL
You always seem to get the bands in the right order means we can ride Sunday with less worries :)
The booze is a good price which means we don't have to try an Sneak BYO in or stay home :)
One observation over the last few years everything (the Crowd) is so much more PC?? SHIT we even had Jean wearers in the helmet race FFS?
Thanks goodness the Drew and Luke came and boosted the event numbers :)

The road in was a pleasure, the firewood supply was a blessing, food was good as usual :)
Overall I cannot think of one complaint I could put forward, another Great event by the club!!
I bought down 3-4 Newbies and they are defiantly in next time.

I heard there was 900 ish there hard to judge if this was more or less than other years because of the new site layout?


PS Think Id have an issue with the booze price goin up but I'd spring for another $10 bucks on the entry if the club needs it to keep things going!
Cheers great work by you and the crew!!

[R650R]

As said before, no complaints here either, great event. And the road in, very easy compared to past events and all part of the fun anyway.
But a couple of tips for some extra revenue maybe:

With the rise of glamping and support vehicles an extra fee could be charged in exchange for allowing four wheelers onsite. For safety reasons they could all park in one section and have to hand in keys etc.
After several trips back and forth to our ute via bike and foot, I'd happily pay another $20 to have had the ute behind the tent site, multiply that by 50-100 vehicles...
At the classic club rally we had plenty of fellas with campervans with bikes on back. There's a lot of that older generation who'd prob like to come to the kiwi but aren't up to riding all the way there and sleeping on hard ground etc.
Maybe its time to evaluate the target demographics, specifically as in who has disposable income to come to a rally and offer wider range of options. There a dorm rooms at Classic rally with obviously higher prices.
I know all this is blasphemy to the hard core kiwi veterans but times are a changing and better to keep something going than lose it all together.

[Drew]

These ideas for furthering the event...

Should be sent to the club folks.

I'd pay twice the entry to be able to take 'The Dungeon' into the camping area. It's a six tonne truck we have for transporting the sidecar. Has beds and a fridge! And won't blow over like our tent did. But it's kind of not in the spirit. We'll bring it next year, but happy to park in the car area.

Was a fucken excellent weekend!

[Reckless]

Was a fucken excellent weekend!

I know lotsa people like you that this event would be right up their ally and they've never been either?


Re: cars

Its always been the rule no cars and It should remain NO CARS!!

Its a biker event if we have cars we'll have blow up beds, BBQ's , the club will loose revenue on sneaked in booze and bought in food, big tents transported in (people will from clicks), have their own music and generators for heat etc Logistics will be a nightmare for the club!

It will be the beginning of the end when the Latte drinking Sunday rider club who complain about everything start turning up in their camper vans instead of their bikes!

Fuck that! it was a hard arse biker event its already softened to the point there are flushing toilets and people wear clothes in the Helmet run FFS?
If the punter cant handle whats there now they can fuck off to a motel.
You might still get a bit of the above with the carpark being so close at this venue and the quads to transport their shit to their campsite.

Don't Change a bloody thing Spyda you guys are doin great we just gotta get the word out to support you!

My 2c

[jellywrestler]

As said before, no complaints here either, great event. And the road in, very easy compared to past events and all part of the fun anyway.
But a couple of tips for some extra revenue maybe:

With the rise of glamping and support vehicles an extra fee could be charged in exchange for allowing four wheelers onsite. For safety reasons they could all park in one section and have to hand in keys etc.


food for thought but cars on site will only make it easier for theft, like real easy, and people would just take extra keys etc.
years ago there were about 6 cars of the organisers for 4500 rally entrants, no band and no marquee.
once they started letting them at the gate the horse had bolted. this year the club decided not to have a four wheeler to ferry stuff in but in reality people will still turn up with a van full of stuff and need it carried as barbeques aren't light. the answer won't be cars on site but i will pass it onto the club

[Big Dave]

One of my Photo's and 2 of Katiepie's got used in the "Ruapehu Bulletin" coverage of the Cold Kiwi.

You can check it out here http://www.ohakune.info/thisweek/ruapehu-bulletin.php

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Well done.

I wrote elsewhere regarding the publication of some pictures that 'for a shutterbug like me this is akin a high five from Annie Liebovitz, Ansel Adams and Andy Warhol'.

[jellywrestler]

These ideas for furthering the event...

Should be sent to the club folks.

I'd pay twice the entry to be able to take 'The Dungeon' into the camping area. It's a six tonne truck we have for transporting the sidecar. Has beds and a fridge! And won't blow over like our tent did. But it's kind of not in the spirit. We'll bring it next year, but happy to park in the car area.

Was a fucken excellent weekend! still too many people bringing their own beer etc, reality is they can't stock everyones flavours and the piss was as cheap as a wholesaler but the liquor license is conditional on no byo and that's the biggest threat to the rally. losing that.

[jellywrestler]

Don't Change a bloody thing Spyda you guys are doin great we just gotta get the word out to support you!

My 2c I'm not a club member but already have a list of things to do differnt next year, while everyone says it was great, including me, we need to look at a couple of things that could be changed for the better.
Already planning some new events for next year, got to keep it dynamic.
One thing i found with this site is once events got underway and people saw they could actually enter and enjoy due to the nature of the terrain it was in the too hard basket to go back and get their bikes. It was almost as quiet as the baggage carousel for Flight MH370.
the last site was flat an easy, so less people did. the events were exactly the same as last Kiwi but less numbers.
Hats off to the club for all the sheer hard work over the last 12 months, but they can't afford to rest on their laurels for example due to it being so good more will come next year, plus it's a big anniversary so it'll ba game on plus a bit more.
Thanks for all the pats on the back, the club gets a buzz from all that.

[Katiepie]

I'm not a club member but already have a list of things to do differnt next year, while everyone says it was great, including me, we need to look at a couple of things that could be changed for the better.
Already planning some new events for next year, got to keep it dynamic.
One thing i found with this site is once events got underway and people saw they could actually enter and enjoy due to the nature of the terrain it was in the too hard basket to go back and get their bikes. It was almost as quiet as the baggage carousel for Flight MH370.
the last site was flat an easy, so less people did. the events were exactly the same as last Kiwi but less numbers.
Hats off to the club for all the sheer hard work over the last 12 months, but they can't afford to rest on their laurels for example due to it being so good more will come next year, plus it's a big anniversary so it'll ba game on plus a bit more.
Thanks for all the pats on the back, the club gets a buzz from all that.

The Club and the likes of you have done a fantastic job to be able to keep this Rally going. We have all seen the updates of the hard work going on behind the scenes for many months prior to rally weekend. I take my hats off to you all, because it takes a lot of perseverance and dedication to keep something like this going year after year, let alone rebuild it at a new location.

This might sound over the top but I don't care - for someone like me, it is the very best weekend of every year by a long shot. This year was, being completely honest, the best weekend in my life as far as I can recall - but on par with my first Kiwi 5 years ago when I went on my own. It's the highlight of the year for me, and I begin getting excited months ahead. It gives me freedom to completely be myself around other people who are absolutely in the same mindset about the weekend.

Very well run, the site, the marquee, the bands, the fire wood (enough for everyone to go around and more) to keep us warm, the bar, the games, the clean up by the team at the end... I took part in an interview recently by a women rider from the states writing about other women around the world who ride (global women who ride), and when asked about a regular rally or event I attend I was SO excited to tell her about the Cold Kiwi (the book goes to print next year).I told my story of my first year on my own and what it gives me... compete freedom to be around people, bikers, bikes, in a safe place to have a weekend to remember.

I have a feeing next year, being the 40th, is going to draw a bigger crowd, especially with the second year at the new site. It will be time to settle back in, tell friends about it, and support this fantastic event that has been built and run by a lot of awesome people with wicked passion!

Thank you to everyone involved in the Cold Kiwi - I am a better and happier person because of it, and I know a few others feel the same.

(Drew, Luke and Alan... the rally needs the likes of you - fuck did I do some laughing!!!)

[Drew]

(Drew, Luke and Alan... the rally needs the likes of you - fuck did I do some laughing!!!)It was the back handed groping wasn't it?

[leathel]

I am another that thinks no vehicles on site, I think it is wrong to have a huge tent with all the mod cons and a generator running. The site doesn't have the room (well flat room) to have Glamping getting more popular or vehicles at the tents, Big BBQ's can stay at home and those that want a comfy bed can go off site late and support the locals and return in the morning.

an easier track for the bikes to get the bikes up top would be a bonus and people would be keener to bring them down to compete

I had a blast, next time I will try not to get the bike trapped in by tents so it could be used :P

[Drew]

We weren't meant to be up the top in the first place.

[leathel]

We weren't meant to be up the top in the first place.

some of the best spots are up there, the boundry was the left side track wasn't it, Air field across past the tank? around the edge then down to just below the the hill climb, so lots of the top in boundry but a fair few tented on the wrong side of the left track up etc but most were in boundary.... or near to it :P


I am sure some of my other pics will have boundary poles in shot :)

But then who actually read the paper work that said where/what the boundary markers looks like :crazy:

[manxkiwi]

I hope that wasn't a GPZ9 on the bonfire!!!? That would be very sad, in my opinion.

I'd actually like to get my hands on one. Had 2 in the past, the rose tints are well and truly on now.

[Katman]

I hope that wasn't a GPZ9 on the bonfire!!!? That would be very sad, in my opinion.


I thought the same thing.

Probably would have spoiled my weekend if I'd been there to see it.

[5150]

I hope that wasn't a GPZ9 on the bonfire!!!? That would be very sad, in my opinion.

I'd actually like to get my hands on one. Had 2 in the past, the rose tints are well and truly on now.

Yeah, but I don't think that digger would have been capable of lifting a Harley up. :laugh:

[Drew]

I hope that wasn't a GPZ9 on the bonfire!!!? That would be very sad, in my opinion.

I'd actually like to get my hands on one. Had 2 in the past, the rose tints are well and truly on now.


I thought the same thing.

Probably would have spoiled my weekend if I'd been there to see it.
It was fucked. Dropped it's lunch all over the burnout pad.

[Flip]

They burn jap bikes don't they? What will they think of next?

How very old school.

[Graelin]

Thanks for the write up and photos, enjoyed them from Australia.

[doc]

Found out some background for the new site. Awesome spot.



http://www.laharfarm.co.nz/index.htm

[Berries]

They burn jap bikes don't they? What will they think of next?
Road Kings.

[Drew]

Road Kings.

Naaaaaah. The digger isn't big enough to pick one of those fucken things up.

[buggerit]

They burn jap bikes don't they? What will they think of next?

How very old school.
Yeah, the ones with boilers tend to put the fire out:bleh:

[jellywrestler]

Found out some background for the new site. Awesome spot.



http://www.laharfarm.co.nz/index.htm

wrong place...

[doc]

wrong place...

Pretty close tho. We only talking a couple of paddocks here.

[*Boot's*]

Awsome! :)

[roogazza]

They burn jap bikes don't they? What will they think of next?

How very old school.

In the rough years of Bathhurst with riots and stuff. I saw a pissed guy doing donuts on the top of the mountain.
Picked it up and it wouldn't start,so he lit a match .
Expensive signal fire, a fairly new XJ750 Yamaha. :laugh:

[caseye]

In the rough years of Bathhurst with riots and stuff. I saw a pissed guy doing donuts on the top of the mountain.
Picked it up and it wouldn't start,so he lit a match .
Expensive signal fire, a fairly new XJ750 Yamaha. :laugh:

Still happens, though these days they steal a coppers car and burn that, OK, well, um they take something that looks like a coppers car and do doughies with it, then they burn it, I'll keep me eyes open in a fortnights time and get some pics for you.