3 Dec 2005, Wellington Christmas Ride

[Ms Piggy]

Date: Saturday 3rd Dec

Meet: Top of the Rimutakas 2.00pm

Ride & Destination: Paul in NZ's place (Raumati) via the Paekakariki Hill Rd for coffee & Xmas cake.

Hope to see ya'll there :2thumbsup

[MOTOXXX]

i thought that the 3rd was a saturday. but i could be wrong

[Hitcher]

Hmmmm. Cake...

[sels1]

Yay, Xmas cake - I'll be in :banana:

[Ms Piggy]

i thought that the 3rd was a saturday. but i could be wrong
Yep - you were right. Change now :)

[Velox]

Argh - I've got three other things on that night! Sorry fellaa - I'll have to give it a miss this time.

[Dafe]

Did somebody say Rimutakas, cake & cuppa??? C U there!:banana:

[skelstar]

Yep, Ill be there...

[Str8 Jacket]

Im keen, but is there anyway that those of us that dont want to ride the 'Takas can just meet at Pauls place?... so sorry to be difficult. (insert tui ad here)

[Paul in NZ]

Of course there is.. No problem at all, especially for a likeable, charming person such as your good self!

Can you get to Raumati?

Cheers

[Str8 Jacket]

Of course there is.. No problem at all, especially for a likeable, charming person such as your good self!

Can you get to Raumati?

Cheers

lol!! Thanks (I think....). Im sure that I can find my way to Raumati, if you need/like im quite happy to be at yours earlier and can help with anything that may need doing?...

[F5 Dave]

Bump.

I've ordered some good weather.:sunny:

[phoenixgtr]

Lets hope that good weather arrives on time :yes:

[Skunk]

I'm hoping to meet at Pauls. Can't make the ride :(

[the yoshie]

Of course there is.. No problem at all, especially for a likeable, charming person such as your good self!

Can you get to Raumati?

Cheers

So no need for a BBQ this year ya Paul Save me some cake. PLEASE:yawn:

[Ms Piggy]

Errrrr....ummmm, as long as 1 of us know where he lives. :blink:

[James Deuce]

Errrrr....ummmm, as long as 1 of us know where he lives. :blink:

oIl B dEre. Oi knNoWs de WAy oI do3s.

[Ms Piggy]

oIl B dEre. Oi knNoWs de WAy oI do3s.
Phew! Lucky some responsible is coming...as well as you Jim (mwah hah hah - oh I am sooooo funny my sides hurt, ouch, oouch, eaach.).

[F5 Dave]

Lets hope that good weather arrives on time :yes:
:sunny: Oops:sunny:
:sunny:Peaked too soon :sunny:

Think holding thoughts.

[sels1]

Save me some cake. PLEASE:yawn:

dont be late.......I like cake.......:lol:

[phoenixgtr]

:sunny: Oops:sunny:
:sunny:Peaked too soon :sunny:

Think holding thoughts.

Hold weather, HOLD!! You can last!!

[robbie]

hi folks, am keen on the ride if i can make it. Where is Paul's place ? assuming this is the start point and what time ? am from Otaki. cheers Robbie:doh:

[Ms Piggy]

? assuming this is the start point and what time ? am from Otaki. cheers Robbie:doh:
Meet: Top of the Rimutakas 2.00pm

Ride & Destination: Paul in NZ's place (Raumati) via the Paekakariki Hill Rd for coffee & Xmas cake.

[skelstar]

hi folks, am keen on the ride if i can make it. Where is Paul's place ? assuming this is the start point and what time ? am from Otaki. cheers Robbie:doh:
Be good to have you along mate. Always good to have new KBers.

[badlieutenant]

hmmmm cake (see sig)
hope to be there :D

[bungbung]

What time is cake?

I can't ride at the moment (can't walk either) but I'll encourage Mrs Bung to drive me up the line to say hi and whatnot.

[GSVR]

Hoping to do the cake run sleep on Paul NZeds front lawn then get up and do the Vic ride and BBQ on Sunday. Hope its not to wet this weekend otherwise I'll have to do plan B (drive the van down).

Haven't asked Paul about this yet but if I brought down a few old vynil records, cake forks or something he may agree to it. His record player probably doesn't play 78s anyway and he probably doesn't like listening to Moreschi.

[Paul in NZ]

Just to clarify...

The idea of a repeat of last years monster BBQ or another similar event was floated earlier (several times). There was limited interest so it was scaled back and the kind respondents have been pm'd re a smaller bbq type function after the coffee cake type thing.

Please do not be offended if you were not pm'd, if you desperately want to burn a sausage afterwards with us, you are more than welcome BUT this will not be the same open house deal as last year. There was not enough support for a repeat.

To clarify, the deal is:

We meet at the car park top of the Rimutaka hill at 2pm!

Catch up for 20 mins or so and then ride down the hill, over Haywards and the paekakareki Hill road to our place in Raumati South. There will be enough people there that know the way, if you are not sure, please ask.

if you get lost, my cell is 027 249 9959

I assume that we will be at our place around 3:45 to 4:15pm. We will provide coffee and xmas cake.

Afterwards, we will have a very (very) simple bbq. This is a byo bbq which is a pain on a bike so lets keep it simple.

We will not be going all night. It's a very busy time of the year and Vicki and I have obligations on sunday for a charitable organisation. We need to be functioning and relatively coherent! (well no worse than usual)

Hope to see you there!

Paul N

Notes: (this is NOT a list of orders or conditions, just stuff you might like to know about us if you have never been before)

You are welcome to bring you kids but please remember, we have a peculiar dog that is not overly fond of them or old men in hats (no we can't figure it out either) She is fine if you leave her alone, she is old and has a sore back where she got run over by a drunk in a 4WD! Her tail does not work!

Please look out for your children, ours have long since left home and our place is definately no longer kid safe. We have some toys to amuse them (they can put my triumph engine together) and plenty of space for them to play in.

Please remember that this is our house. We like our house... We are not fussy people but neither are we wealthy enough to replace windows and carpets after every bbq. We understand accidents.... We don't understand carelessness... (does that sound fair?)

Please don't trash our garden. It's big and built to be played in and explored by kids but not trampled and uprooted.

Garry - If one of the kids is away that night we will have a spare bed or will make one up for you in the lounge!

General:

In all likelyhood this is my last ever post on KB and I have logged on specifically to check this thread and make this post re the day. I didn't intend to do this but temptation was too much and I want to avoid akward questions tomorrow. I will not be answering pm's, emails, discussing it etc or anything else but I will check this post today and tomorrow. I have said my goodbyes to some of you and doubtless missed a hell of a lot of the rest of you. Sorry about that, it was not intentional, it just became an impossible task!

There is no anger in my heart over this decision, just sadness and a great relief.

FINALLY! Vicki and I wish you and yours ALL a very Merry Christmas and a happy and safe New Year. We are sure we will see you on the road sometime and around the usual traps.

[Dafe]

Bump.

I've ordered some good weather.:sunny:

You might wanna recheck your order dude!

[James Deuce]

Man, Dave ALWAYS goes to the wrong takeaway window.

[GSVR]

Maybe its just natures way of supplying the necessary elements to improve our wet weather riding skills.

I don't reacon its going to get to bad until tomorrow so will be heading down there at around midday. See the real bikers on the top of the hill I guess.

[Dafe]

Skelstar and I can't wait any longer!

We're headed to the hill soon. Meeting Caltex at 10am.
B/F run to Wild Oats. Rendevous at 2pm, top of the takas.
If you have nothing better to do, come out for breakfast!

[Paul in NZ]

It's grey and windy here but looks like it will improve.... Maybe....

I have a horrid hangover from the office xmas party and have had about 4 hours pretending to be asleep...

Prefect prep for a ride .... (groan)

[cowpoos]

its sunny and a little windy close to martinborough

[F5 Dave]

Just been up that way & it is ok, not sunny, but ok. . . ish.

[Str8 Jacket]

Ive just had to get the washing of the line, its starting to rain here :angry: just to add to things I have somehow gone and bent my bike key and now it doesn't work :slap: and seeing as my man is working it is very unikely that I'll be there, bleh!! Hope you guys have a great ride etc and if I don't see ya'll before have a very Merry Christmas! :spudbooge

[F5 Dave]

Ah, straighten it in the door jam!

Fine up here, just leaving.

[Str8 Jacket]

Ah, straighten it in the door jam!



You have no idea how clumsy I am, do you? If I attempted that I would break the bloody thing. God I do some stoopid things sometimes, lol! :slap:

[skelstar]

Dafe and I were in Feathers just before 2pm and the wind was friggin scary. For some reason it wasnt all that bad on the hill but f*ck I was nervous. Meet Paul etc at the top but decided to head home. Hope the avo is going well. Awesome ride ta Dafe.

[Dafe]

Yep, I'm glad we got the Wairarapa ride in. We had a good three hours of fine weather at least. I also couldn't believe how the wind picked up in Featherston! The GSXR sure was getting blown around alot more than the old SV1000 used to.
Unfortunately the weather gods didn't favour us yet again - Or was it F5 Dave's poor ordering?
It was nice to meet you all at the top of the hill.
I didn't realise Paul had the FZED1 bike. I was lane splitting opposite you on the motorway on thursday night........
Looking forward to meeting with you all again. :2thumbsup

thanks for the ride Skelstar. I'm glad you took on the hill, confidence building stuff! I know the high winds can tend to be scary, but it is good to mix up your riding, well done. :yes:

[skelstar]

...I'm glad you took on the hill, confidence building stuff!..
Yeah, character building.

[James Deuce]

It was nice to meet you all at the top of the hill.
I didn't realise Paul had the FZED1 bike. I was lane splitting opposite you on the motorway on thursday night........


That's Mangell's FZ.

Paul has a Moto Guzzi Le Mans MkII

[F5 Dave]

Ah the weather was fine, wasn’t too windy on the route actually taken & the roads were dry with the exception of a few spots on the rimas.

Good day all around & cheers for Paul’s hospitality. Sorry I didn’t stay for the bb but had to shoot after cake.

Saw someone snapping pics somewhere?

[mangell6]

That's Mangell's FZ.

Paul has a Moto Guzzi Le Mans MkII


So now I know another who travels the road everyday :yes:

Mike