Today's toy run

[heavenly.talker]

Hey everyone

It was great meeting so many of you today and sitting down for a meal :-)

Fantastic day :-)

Hope you all had a safe and enjoyable ride home.

Cheers

K:2thumbsup

[crashe]

Sorry Speedmedic... I dont own a digi camera...
But thats a good idea for you to buy me one for xmas.. then I can post heaps of pics :rofl:

Great day.... meet up with a few up at Westgate, then we rode to Mt Wellington.... heaps of bikes.

The ride started out very slow... Yeah I was at the front and I was able to 'walk' my bike for some time. Then the pace picked up to 60km for the rest of the ride til we turned off into the city.... Down the bottom half of Queen Street and around to Britomart.

Total bikes, trikes and scooters = 450.

Then some of us KB'ers headed over to Mission Bay and had a nice sit down meal or drink.

Big Dave was swinging his camera around... so expect a few shots from him.

After that a few of us headed off to AMPS to check out a few bikes...
Yep we sat on a few of them... One of them I couldn't even reach the footpeg, its honestly that far forward.... let alone even get my feet to touch the ground. Now that 'Rocket' is HUGE.... what a monster of a bike.

Then 3 of us on the cruisers headed over to Colemans..... and then after a very short time, they kicked us out.... the lights went out.....
Yeah apparently they close at 2pm on a Saturday....

So a great day out with some really good people. :banana:
It was great to meet a few new Kb'ers as well.:2thumbsup

[Waylander]

Fucking wicked run. Bikes for ages in front of us and even more behind.

Who was it on the scooter with the KB patch? With the scooter club that went along.

Was funny looking in my mirror and seeing heaps of bikes, then this big cloud of two-stroke smoke, then even more bikes. Slashwylde has some pics aswell that he may post up a bit later.

Anyway, great meeting all those that I hadn't met before, LucyLoo, Heavenly.Talker, Fart, MacktheKnife, Outlawtorn(NOT Outlawton, Crashe...) The Stranger, Madguitarist, and all the others that I cannot for the life of me remember the names of at the moment.

(Sorry BD but I wanted to stand out a bit today hence the white shirt. Don't worry though, it's back to the black tomorrow.)

[heavenly.talker]

Photo's?? 10 chars

Big Dave took some...maybe he will post?

[heavenly.talker]

Fucking wicked run. Bikes for ages in front of us and even more behind.

Who was it on the scooter with the KB patch? With the scooter club that went along.

Was funny looking in my mirror and seeing heaps of bikes, then this big cloud of two-stroke smoke, then even more bikes. Slashwylde has some pics aswell that he may post up a bit later.

Anyway, great meeting all those that I hadn't met before, LucyLoo, Heavenly.Talker, Fart, MacktheKnife, Outlawtorn(NOT Outlawton, Crashe...) The Stranger, Madguitarist, and all the others that I cannot for the life of me remember the names of at the moment.

(Sorry BD but I wanted to stand out a bit today hence the white shirt. Don't worry though, it's back to the black tomorrow.)

Nice meeting you too...sorry we didn't get the chance to chat...it was full on at our table:lol:

[Bulldog]

Hey Waylander were you at Barry's point road in the morning? If so I was the stranger :)

Craig = Bulldog :slap:

I had a great time on my VTR250. But even more unreal was the fact that when I got back to Cyclespot after the ride, I traded my bike in for a VTR1000!! I'm a bad man. :bleh:

So I've been riding all day until now. Need a nanna nap I think. I have some photos. I'll attach.

[heavenly.talker]

Cool photos Craig :2thumbsup

[Marmoot]

what is a 'toy run'?

[Zed]

We met up with a group of bikes in Ngaruawahia who were on their way back home to Te Kuiti from todays Ak toy run, they said it was a great time but a bit too short lived from only Mt Wellington to the city.

[Divot]

Yeh what a great ride, good to see so many bikes out, must have been the sun. Just some of my photos.

[Divot]

what is a 'toy run'?

This one is run by BRONZ and you take a toy to give to the Sally Army for kids at Xmas.

The next one I know off is the Cambridge one next year.

[heavenly.talker]

We met up with a group of bikes in Ngaruawahia who were on their way back home to Te Kuiti from todays Ak toy run, they said it was a great time but a bit too short lived from only Mt Wellington to the city.


Totally right there...it needed to be longer!

[Kjell]

*sigh
If only I wasn't working. I hate working on riding days like these. Oh well means more time during the week.

[Big Dave]

http://www.davidcohen.co.nz/toys

Good show.
we stopped at rebel on the way and bought 'em a cricket set.
on the black cap result just in, perhaps it should have been several.

musta been the tattoos, waylander.

[Zed]

http://www.davidcohen.co.nz/toys Hey thanks for that Big Dave, your presentation made me feel as though I'd been there, those shots from the bike on the motorway were great and all them toys too!! I see also Miss crashe peering over in that last shot...and what's with the 'deleted pic' dude, you got me wondering? :lol:

[FEINT]

Looks like you all had a good time, nice catching up a few kb'ers at AMPS later on in the day.

:)

[Jabez]

Hey Waylander were you at Barry's point road in the morning? If so I was the stranger :)

Craig = Bulldog :slap:

I had a great time on my VTR250. But even more unreal was the fact that when I got back to Cyclespot after the ride, I traded my bike in for a VTR1000!! I'm a bad man. :bleh:

So I've been riding all day until now. Need a nanna nap I think. I have some photos. I'll attach.
So you did trade the VTR:2thumbsup ...now I'll have to convince the other half to upgrade mine:yes: .See you at work on Monday

[Big Dave]

Hey thanks for that Big Dave, your presentation made me feel as though I'd been there, those shots from the bike on the motorway were great and all them toys too!! I see also Miss crashe peering over in that last shot...and what's with the 'deleted pic' dude, you got me wondering? :lol:

chz

just a shot of amanda's bum in a compromising (funny) position - slipped the pic in originally - but then thought you don't do that to your friends. daz all

[Big Dave]

nice pics Dave.. good job as usual.. is one of the two girls in the pic towards the very end the Co-Pilot?

aye. 'tis the old girl and the blondie is our friend Amada and her man is tracy on the 'prilia factory.

[Wolf]

what is a 'toy run'?
A charitable event wherein a large number of bikers load up their bikes with toys and block traffic for a goodly distance and deliver said toys to some predesignated place to give to a charity.

The Cambridge to Hamilton run - maximum 80km/h all the way from Victoria Street Cambridge to somewhere in Hamilton (Garden Place, last year) - is in aid of Child Cancer.

Sales of badges and other memorabilia also help as the prices include a donation to the charity and the run itself helps raise public awareness of the charity. (Try not being aware when you're stuck on a side road as around 800-old bikes roll sedately along SH1 between Cambridge and Hamilton bedecked with soft toys...)

The cubs each have a badge from the toy runs they were on in utero. The latest will be born before the next Cambridge-Hamilton toy run so she won't be getting a badge until she's old enough to pillion.

[crashe]

Crashe was just waiting for you to pull your hands off your bars...

I was right up front behind Santa's Trike... and had a couple of riders who were a tad all over the place, so I wasn't gonna risk it.... But I did see ya there and I did wave and toot to you.:2thumbsup

[kels]

Once again it was an awesome ride! A few of us girls cruised up to Orewa for the an icecream and a catch up. It was great! Very much looking forward to the Westpac Run !! :woohoo:

[heavenly.talker]

Great pics Dave

Cheers

[Big Dave]

It was pretty cool - i wasnt riding i was one of the cops blocking the traffic, Wellesley and Mayoral Drive...was cool to see you all there...lol Crashe was just waiting for you to pull your hands off your bars...

Was nice perving at the bikes after by britomart.....though i got a few dirty looks and anti police comments from some of the guys there for some reason
:( lol

nice to see all the bikes though!


Well, thank you for you help. I appreciated it. I believe you gave me a nod.

[Pillick]

the photos on the highway are amazing, so many bikes. The noise must have been incredible.



wtf? three's a crowd =P

[Mental Trousers]

chz

just a shot of amanda's bum in a compromising (funny) position - slipped the pic in originally - but then thought you don't do that to your friends. daz all

Ya might want to get rid of the thumb nail as well then.

[heavenly.talker]

the photos on the highway are amazing, so many bikes. The noise must have been incredible.



wtf? three's a crowd =P

That pillon was holding on to the biggest gorilla that you can imagine...very cool:yes:

[Mrs Busa Pete]

it was almost like being back at the acc protest ride to wellington, bikes for africa .what has become of the nood or the wave on my way home to gulf harbur only 1 in 5 bikes returned my wave. we were on the coper busa

[Wolf]

Was nice perving at the bikes after by britomart.....though i got a few dirty looks and anti police comments from some of the guys there for some reason
I can't understand that. I feel really pleased with the cops on the Toy Runs - out there stopping traffic and directing us to the right place through town, kindly turning a blind eye to the bikes that are on the toy run without warrant or rego...

I'm not the only bugger I've seen giving them a erspectful wave as we roll past.

The toy runs are excellently helped out by the cops.

[Big Dave]

That pillon was holding on to the biggest gorilla that you can imagine...very cool:yes:

Do you mean the co-pilot?

[Big Dave]

Ya might want to get rid of the thumb nail as well then.

Yeah - thanks for that - I'll yank all the pics in a day or two.

[heavenly.talker]

Do you mean the co-pilot?


Was that your co-pilot Dave?
Awesome toy...almost as big as her :-)

[Gremlin]

Was that your co-pilot Dave?
Awesome toy...almost as big as her :-)
I think his co-pilot was the one behind the camera, I think the other bike were friends of his...

[Big Dave]

Shhh - I'm messing with her head.
(I meant *I* was the gorilla.)

[heavenly.talker]

Shhh - I'm messing with her head.
(I meant *I* was the gorilla.)


Didn't see enough hair to validate that claim:whistle:

[Macktheknife]

Great day all round, thanks for the great photos Dave. Good to put names to faces too, catch you all next time.

[ManDownUnder]

Yeah was fun albeit too short.

Good to meet you Dave and heavenly... bout bloody time for the pair of you I have to say.

BD - you're a lucky man, your better half is a very cool lady.

Good to see you other louts out there too!
MDU

edit to clarify... BD ain't heavenlies other half (nor is he hers or whatever... ) I had a brain lapse and worded this very poorly. MackTheKnife - sorry chap! Beer is on me next time for that far cup

[heavenly.talker]

Yeah was fun albeit too short.

Good to meet you Dave and heavenly... bout bloody time for the pair of you I have to say.

BD - you're a lucky man, your better half is a very cool lady.

Good to see you other louts out there too!
MDU


Great to meet you too :-)
How did the run, bike, swim thing go on Sunday?
We did something energetic too...bike cleaning day!!! :lol: :lol:

[Fart]

Good people from KB, good turnout of bikes, great charity, nice weather and good food at mission bay.... :banana: :chase:

Next ride?:2thumbsup

[ManDownUnder]

Great to meet you too :-)
How did the run, bike, swim thing go on Sunday?
We did something energetic too...bike cleaning day!!! :lol: :lol:

I done good! I got cold (blardy shrinkage...) swam like a mad bastard, sweated profusely and found a very nice young... ermm... "pace setter" to follow (there goes the shrinkage problem...!)

I even posted an improved time so I'm very happy about that. KeyStone done good too... over 2 or 3 times the distance I did...!

I tooped it off with a quick mow of our parklike grounds, a touch of sunburn on the back of the neck and about 3 beers. All in all a good day!

[heavenly.talker]

I done good! I got cold (blardy shrinkage...) swam like a mad bastard, sweated profusely and found a very nice young... ermm... "pace setter" to follow (there goes the shrinkage problem...!)

I even posted an improved time so I'm very happy about that. KeyStone done good too... over 2 or 3 times the distance I did...!

I tooped it off with a quick mow of our parklike grounds, a touch of sunburn on the back of the neck and about 3 beers. All in all a good day!


Kudos to you and Keystone for the exercise gig!!! :yes:

[ManDownUnder]

Kudos to you and Keystone for the exercise gig!!! :yes:

Kudos to KEYSTONE????

She's BULLIED ME into this thing, WHIPS me every time I go to slow, BEATS ME every time every time I stop too soon and puts the cuffs back on every time I manage to pick the locks...

I guess I could ask her to stop if I didn't like it...

(Actually it's been a lot of fun, but bloody hard work for me considering how much my butt has grown accustomed to an office chair over the last 5 years....)

[heavenly.talker]

BULLIED, WHIPS, BEATS ME
I guess I could ask her to stop if I didn't like it...

....nothing to say here...text analysis has highlighted it all:whistle:

lol!

[Waylander]

Lol Ms.Pillion so hates her picture taken.

Surprised your camera didn't break with my ugly mug in a few of those shots BD.

[outlawtorn]

Everything about that day was good:
Good cause
Good ride (Albeit short)
Good weather
Good company
Good food
Good bikes (I'm really only talking about mine here he he)

It was a pleasure meeting fellow KBer's and having a good chat with them. Until the next time........

[ManDownUnder]

Lol Ms.Pillion so hates her picture taken.

Shame - she's a good looking lady, and you tell her I said so in a completely "hands to myself" kinda way.

[Waylander]

Shame - she's a good looking lady, and you tell her I said so in a completely "hands to myself" kinda way.
No matter how many times I tell her she never listens. And it had better be mate lol.


Anyway, back to the toy run. Absolutly loved it. Gonna have to make sure I can to the Cambridge-Hamilton one.