Auckland's all right you know.

[Big Dave]

There couldn't be too many major cities in the world where you can do this sort of thing an hour from home.

This lot will go round the world.
http://www.davidcohen.co.nz/wahtipu/pages/a1astart.htm

[juzzer]

There couldn't be too many major cities in the world where you can do this sort of thing an hour from home.

This lot will go round the world.
http://www.davidcohen.co.nz/wahtipu/pages/a1astart.htm

Nice work fella, and yes yr right AK's not a bad place to be :)

[Keystone19]

Beautiful shots Dave. I have done many races on foot through those hills and Whatipu is always a highlight. So remote, yet as you say, so close to Auckland. Great place to spend a day walking, lying on the beach or fishing away from the summer crowds...

[thehollowmen]

cafe touring huh? Just enough for a long lunch hour :Pokey:

well that's what I've been doing lately.. lawrence is 100km away and has great places for lunch and a nice ride there and back.

[Zed]

There couldn't be too many major cities in the world where you can do this sort of thing an hour from home.

This lot will go round the world.
http://www.davidcohen.co.nz/wahtipu/pages/a1astart.htm Choice Dave. New Zealand is such a beautiful country when you get away from the cities and back to the nat-u-ral. To my shame I've never been any further west of Huia and south of Piha, and like you say there's a whole other world so close to town that I'm missing, will have to get out there one day myself.

I knew the road you were on at Huia when you took those pics of Manukau Heads on the other side, I happened to take some similar pics just the other week, see attached.

Great shots/presentation Dave! :2thumbsup

[Big Dave]

cafe touring huh? Just enough for a long lunch hour :Pokey:

well that's what I've been doing lately.. lawrence is 100km away and has great places for lunch and a nice ride there and back.

Nice - I'll call it 'Cafe adventuring'. But that is what i've been doing - pissing off in the afternoon for an hour or two and making it up at night (like now).
So digging what this bike can do.

[Posh Tourer :P]

Somwhere buried about 2m under the sand in those caves is a wooden dance floor. They used to hold dances in there in the 40's.... And back in the 20's, the sea was lapping at the door of the caves. Hard to imagine with almost a km of sand now between cave and high tide.

[Big Dave]

Somwhere buried about 2m under the sand in those caves is a wooden dance floor. They used to hold dances in there in the 40's.... And back in the 20's, the sea was lapping at the door of the caves. Hard to imagine with almost a km of sand now between cave and high tide.

How interesting - only sign of life now is a bit of graffitti.

[scumdog]

There couldn't be too many major cities in the world where you can do this sort of thing an hour from home.

This lot will go round the world.
http://www.davidcohen.co.nz/wahtipu/pages/a1astart.htm


And shoot knife-wielding madmen!!:wacko:

[Big Dave]

And shoot knife-wielding madmen!!:wacko:

....Sorry?!?

[scumdog]

....Sorry?!?

Well ain't that something you can do an hour from home in Auckland?

Like yesterday?:blink:

[Big Dave]

Like yesterday?:blink:

did someone get shot yesterday?
I don't watch the news or listen to the radio ever.

[scumdog]

did someone get shot yesterday?
I don't watch the news or listen to the radio ever.

This IS wind-up right?????

See the 'shotguns?' thread.

[Zapf]

are all those roads out to your intro pic shoot sealed? if so might go see it one weekend.. ermm maybe not... (grave) after looking at the photos... oh well... wait till I get a KTM or Buell... :P

[Big Dave]

This IS wind-up right?????

See the 'shotguns?' thread.


Nah - serious - no news ever any more - I wouldn't bother with a thread called shotguns either. just not interested.

[scumdog]

Nah - serious - no news ever any more - I wouldn't bother with a thread called shotguns either. just not interested.

Summary: one of your fine citizens went mad in downtown Aukers and killed an innocent bystander before being gunned down by the police, madman still alive, other members of public suffered knife-wounds but live.

[Big Dave]

are all those roads out to your intro pic shoot sealed? if so might go see it one weekend.. ermm maybe not... (grave) after looking at the photos... oh well... wait till I get a KTM or Buell... :P

Only a hundred mtrs gravel at the end of the seal. (and it's not worth riding up - just goes to farm gates.)
Nearly all of it is tar and fabulous. WELL worth a look.
Co-pilot prefers the riding out that way over the Coromandel loop even.

[Big Dave]

Summary:

Thanks - but I had a nice day anyway.

[scumdog]

Thanks - but I had a nice day anyway.

Ah, ignorance is bliss!!:lol:

[Stevo]

Summary: one of your fine citizens went mad in downtown Aukers and killed an innocent bystander before being gunned down by the police, madman still alive, other members of public suffered knife-wounds but live.
I understood that the cops up that way can't shoot for shit. Hence why the bastard is still alive. If he was dead he wouldn't reoffend, and we wouldn't be paying his lodgings and god knows what else for the next twenty years.

Didn't realise there was a thread around here about guns. I like guns, well rifle stuff mainly

[Big Dave]

Ah, ignorance is bliss!!:lol:

For sure!
You can't do it because of your gig, but I have almost successfully filtered out all News (except sports), DJ's, advertisements (except 1 every hour on J2), commentators, and infotainment from my life.
I'm now all digital - all programmed, all day and all Dave, baby!.

I only selectively read KB and pick the good and positive bits in here too.

And You wouldn't believe what a happy carnt i am.
I'd advise everyone to do the same.

[jrandom]

And You wouldn't believe what a happy carnt i am.

Pass the fucking ganjaweed, ocker boy.

[Big Dave]

Pass the fucking ganjaweed, ocker boy.

Jammin', Babylon.

[SPman]

Same area from above.......love it out there....

[Mattyc]

I understood that the cops up that way can't shoot for shit. Hence why the bastard is still alive. If he was dead he wouldn't reoffend, and we wouldn't be paying his lodgings and god knows what else for the next twenty years.

Didn't realise there was a thread around here about guns. I like guns, well rifle stuff mainly


Damn straight mate ! learn to fucken aim coppers (least if i did eventually go mad, i have some chance. For one, they wasted 3 9mm glock bullets - prolly like 1.50$ each,one shot , one kill :bash: the cops should invest in laser pointers for their glocks, then it takes the skill factor out of aiming (the problem), and you just have to be able to take a deep breath, point and shoot.

Half the trouble is they prolly dont use the guns enough to be fully comfortable with them.

Gah, i try to go shooting at least once every couple of months, even if its only possums and rabbits, or claybirds.

At first i thought they should have kneecapped him, but you are right Stevo, now we hav to pay for this fucker to live, after he took the life of an innocent bystander....where is the justice. - this country is fucked in this department

hard case how the situation was defused by a PARKING WARDEN !! which proves they are good for something

[Motu]

I did a thread here some time ago where I went from North Manukau Head at Whatipu to South Manukau Head at Awhitu in one ride,taking pics of both sides...I think I called it Head to Head,but can't find it anywhere in several searches...I'll keep looking.

I've been going out to Whatipu for many years,the seal used to stop at the Huia bridge and the ford was much deeper,but otherwise the road is little changed - always scary around the cliff face where it's so narrow and drops away so steeply.You can go up the mountain and get a really good view,there used to be an old abandoned house up there.

Here are the photos of the trip,sorry about the quality,dunno why they turned out so dark.The road up the mountain where I took a photo of South Head you can just see as a faint line on the shot looking north.

[Zapf]

Damn straight mate ! learn to fucken aim coppers (least if i did eventually go mad, i have some chance. For one, they wasted 3 9mm glock bullets - prolly like 1.50$ each,one shot , one kill :bash: the cops should invest in laser pointers for their glocks, then it takes the skill factor out of aiming (the problem), and you just have to be able to take a deep breath, point and shoot.

Half the trouble is they prolly dont use the guns enough to be fully comfortable with them.

Gah, i try to go shooting at least once every couple of months, even if its only possums and rabbits, or claybirds.

At first i thought they should have kneecapped him, but you are right Stevo, now we hav to pay for this fucker to live, after he took the life of an innocent bystander....where is the justice. - this country is fucked in this department

hard case how the situation was defused by a PARKING WARDEN !! which proves they are good for something

they are only 9mm's... why do the yanks have .303 .44 .50 's....

need to shoot well with 9mm's to KO someone right away... (head shot)

[Big Dave]

you guys should take the gun discussion to the 'shotgun' thread. it's all peace love and brown rice in here.

[Lou Girardin]

How can anyone not be interested in what's happening in the world.
Ignorance isn't bliss, it's dangerous.

[Big Dave]

How can anyone not be interested in what's happening in the world.
Ignorance isn't bliss, it's dangerous.

Bull. People survived quite nicely for a long time without needing to know what is happening at this very minute in Iraq, Afganistan or Adelaide.

We are bombarded with so much data that has been selected for it's emotive content that real balance comes from turning most of the shit off.

I'd rather spend my energy creating and being positive than absorbing foxaganda.

[2_SL0]

Bull. People survived quite nicely for a long time without needing to know what is happening at this very minute in Iraq, Afganistan or Adelaide.

We are bombarded with so much data that has been selected for it's emotive content that real balance comes from turning most of the shit off.

I'd rather spend my energy creating and being positive than absorbing foxaganda.

Agreed. :yes:

[Lou Girardin]

Bull. People survived quite nicely for a long time without needing to know what is happening at this very minute in Iraq, Afganistan or Adelaide.

We are bombarded with so much data that has been selected for it's emotive content that real balance comes from turning most of the shit off.

I'd rather spend my energy creating and being positive than absorbing foxaganda.

Sure, if Fox is your news source. But a healthy awareness of what's happening around us is a good thing. Otherwise you might wake up one day to find out the being a heterosexual male has just been outlawed. (or riding adventure bikes in the countryside)

[Big Dave]

Sure, if Fox is your news source. But a healthy awareness of what's happening around us is a good thing. Otherwise you might wake up one day to find out the being a heterosexual male has just been outlawed. (or riding adventure bikes in the countryside)

I tend to see all broadcast news media in the fox mould. just have various degrees of 'peppy'.
And yeah, I do read the papers online - that's the way to control in-put Stef-an-ie.

[Lou Girardin]

I tend to see all broadcast news media in the fox mould. just have various degrees of 'peppy'.
And yeah, I do read the papers online - that's the way to control in-put Stef-an-ie.
So you aren't totally newsphobic after all.

[BarryG]

Off the 'shotguns' thread and back to the trip pics!
Do you know if those big rocks are climbable, or are they all crumbly? I'd love to take a drive out there (yes, drive, no bike in NZ when I visit :-() and have a look.
Cheers
Barry

[Big Dave]

Off the 'shotguns' thread and back to the trip pics!
Do you know if those big rocks are climbable, or are they all crumbly? I'd love to take a drive out there (yes, drive, no bike in NZ when I visit :-() and have a look.
Cheers
Barry


The equipment on top would suggest they are - but there are better climbs elsewhere I'm told.