EJK
26th December 2014, 16:52
Time for an update. Sorry for the late update, I didn't have an access to a computer during the trip.
I left Porirua at 5:00am in the morning to avoid the major holiday traffic out of Wellington, then arrived in Auckland at around 2pm-ish. Forecast was not so great all over the north island and was expecting downpour. Luckily, the weather started to open up just when I was passing through Bombay Hill, just south of Auckland. I then went straight to Mom/ Maha's accomodation in Takapuna to wrap up the day. That evening a few KBers came by (Laava and MarkW. Aparently I'd just missed Crazy Steve and Jafar too).
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Day 3
On the next morning I caught up with some friends in Auck town. While I was catching up with some of my friends, someone had stolen my jacket and backpack! :mad: Thankfully the theif left my helmet behind (thanks bastard! :mad:) I guess that's Queen street. Shouldn't have left anything unattended. Luckily I still had my bike key, phone and wallet with me. Also the jacket was over 6 years old, I had 5 crashes on it, and bought it from MotoMail for $110 so it wasn't a big loss for me. Thank God I didn't wear my Dainese jacket for this trip.
That afternoon I was catching up with Gremlin, TOTO and Musicman in east Auckland. So without a choice I rode from central to all the way to the east Auck wearing only t-shirt, gloves and a helmet (ATGATT anyone?). While I was passing some bikers I was thinking to myself "Ah, please don't look at me as if I'm a squid!". :facepalm:
Day 4
Luckily Cycletreads was just down the road from where I was staying. So in the morning I dropped by and got myself a replacement jacket and a tail bag for the S1000RR. Now this "Race Replica" supersport bike was fully geared up for touring (nodrog :msn-wink:).
Then I met up with the legendary GIJOE1313 and TOTO to go for a bit of a pootle though the Scenic Drive.
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That evening I met up with the one and only Kiwifruit and jrandom for go-kart riding and a meal.
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At night (my last night in Auckland) I rode all around the Auckland via nicely built motorway from central to westgate, then to Albany, back down to central then up again to Takapuna. Had awesome fun riding through the empty motorway at night. Back at the accomodation we (Maha, Mom, MarkW and I) caught up with MyGSXF and had a drink in warm-and-humid Auckland evening.