The Weather in Welly is bitter cold today

[riffer]

Just got to work on the motorway this morning.

The southerly is really strong from Petone through to Ngauranga and it's REAL cold.

Wrap up warm today folks!!!

[LB]

Yeah, I think it's currently hailing. It's BLOODY cold.

I hope you had your handlebar warmers on Celtic.

I hope to God it's not like this Good Friday, or I might have to resort to taking the car to Turangi.

[riffer]

hope you had your handlebar warmers on Celtic.Handlebar warmers! Huh!

I'm so tough I don't even need glasses to ride home!

WE don' need no steenkin handlebar warmers!!!! :laugh:

[Lou Girardin]

Thanks for the warning. I'm heading down there at Easter, better take the cage.
Lou

[MikeL]

Not exactly tropical in Auckland either. But at least the rain stopped and the sun came out for my ride to work this morning.
I must admit I wasn't expecting winter to arrive quite so early.

[White trash]

Thanks for the warning. I'm heading down there at Easter, better take the cage.
Lou

Lou! Will we be seeing you on Monday?

The more Aucklanders the better, we'll show you guys how awesome the riding is down here.

[White trash]

Just got to work on the motorway this morning.

The southerly is really strong from Petone through to Ngauranga and it's REAL cold.

Wrap up warm today folks!!!

Brought the car today, whata friggin 'omo! :baby:

[Indiana_Jones]

I guess the riding to school season is over for a while :brick:

-Indy

[Hitcher]

Celtic, you are either extraordinarily tough, stupid or somewhere on the continuum between these two! It is fu fu fu fu fureezing out there! I have the Zrex booked in tomorrow for new rubber, so I hope it is warmer and drier by then...

[riffer]

Celtic, you are either extraordinarily tough, stupid or somewhere on the continuum between these two!
Actually Hitcher, it wasn't TOO bad. I grew up in Stokes Valley, and live in Upper Hutt, so I'm used to the cold.

I have some Thinsulated leather gloves, a Spool jacket with warm linings, Dririder pants with warm linings, wooly socks, strong boots and a nice warm fleecy neck thingie I picked up at the Kathmandhu sale a few weeks back.

Plus, unlike you, I have a HUGE fairing to hide behind too.

And also, not having a choice on transport tends to sway one towards the bike too.

Anyway, my office has 24/7/365 climate control - always 22 degrees, 40% humidity. Just lovely for drying out my gear... It's always nice weather in my office at the Library!

Oh btw, next time you see your bro, can you tell him the glasses are working out fine. Cheers

[Slim]

It was cold in the Waikato too! Ever since that Southerly change yesterday afternoon. :cold:

But I woke up to blue skies with only the smudge of some rising fog this morning, and it's cleared up beautifully. :D

What are the chances it'll be like this for my ride to Napier tomorrow afternoon though??? <_<

[Motu]

I'm riding to Taranaki on friday - they are predicting over the North Island...at least where ever my bike is I expect.My diesel Nissan Vanette is not tempting me at all,but friday morning could be a test of will.

[merv]

Anyway, my office has 24/7/365 climate control - always 22 degrees, 40% humidity. Just lovely for drying out my gear... It's always nice weather in my office at the Library!

Did you say you were at National Library? If so you'd know 4skins then.

[jrandom]

Not exactly tropical in Auckland either.

No it surely is not. Riding in this morning first thought was 'hmmm, wish I had my jacket lining in'.

About halfway down the motorway I thought 'hmmm, might be time for one of those gee-it's-getting-cold KB posts' but celticno6 beat me to it by a long shot.

Balaclava going in the washing machine tonight, methinks.

Oh well. Get ready for six months of "look at me, I'm a Hard Man for riding today" threads, everyone :bleh:

[riffer]

Did you say you were at National Library? If so you'd know 4skins then.
Is he the bloke with the DR650 who keep nicking my park?

[merv]

Is he the bloke with the DR650 who keep nicking my park?

I'd say yep.

[vifferman]

No it surely is not. Riding in this morning first thought was 'hmmm, wish I had my jacket lining in'.

Hah - I put mine in a few days ago, then thought I could've waited a while, as I was too warm some days. Then last night, I thought, "Hmmmm... it's snowing somewhere." This morning I put my neckwarmer thingo in my Teknic jacket, and was warm as toast. Apart from my fingers. But I'll get used to it - I wore the same glubs (Spidi Pro-1) all year round last year, and the year before. Except when it was precipitating down (which it does occasionally in D'Auckland, apparently...) Still, some new gear is always good to have, and I've nearly worn a hole in one finger of the Pro-1s. Strangely, it's the "rude gesturing" finger...

Anyway - this is all relative: I rode to work every day bar one in Christchurch (black ice that day), including when it was snowing. And I didn't have no fancy jacket with thermal liner and neck warmer thingo then.

[MD]

I rode to work every day bar one in Christchurch (black ice that day), including when it was snowing. And I didn't have no fancy jacket with thermal liner and neck warmer thingo then.
Ah they bred us Riders tough in Chch. I did my early riding years in Chch. No fancy gortex stuff and armour for us. I remember taking the dirk bike to work one day because the snow was too deep for the CB400F. Now that was a fun commute.
MD

[matthewt]

Ah they bred us Riders tough in Chch.

Ahhhh, another "mainlander" :laugh:

Yer, I commuted in ChCh in my fairydown windbreaker for ages. Mind you the traffic is pretty soft down there.

Have gone the gortex jacket way now, mainly for weather and the commute now includes SH2 instead of just Ferry Road.

[matthewt]

Actually Hitcher, it wasn't TOO bad.

Ha, busted you on the way home. Mangell6 was giving me a lift home when some crazed nutter on a fzr750 wearing a spool jacket come ripping between the two lanes heading towards Petone on SH2 doing 140 in a 70 !! OMG that's like 120 in a 50 !!!

(actually you were quite considerate and even indicated but the other stuff just sounded better).

We were going to pull up beside you to shout abuse but by the time we hit the Petone disco light you were too far ahead.

edit: note for those without a sense of humor, he wasn't actually speeding the 140 was for dramatic effect.

[Hitcher]

Mrs H has put in a request for heated grips for her birthday (handlebar grips, is my presumption). What are the best sort to get??

[MD]

Ahhhh, another "mainlander" :laugh:

Yer, I commuted in ChCh in my fairydown windbreaker for ages. Mind you the traffic is pretty soft down there.


Us Mainlanders just keep coming out of the closet. :Offtopic: Which do you think is the better riding spot, Port Hills & Akaroa or the Rimutakas-Wairarapa. Its been so long since I rode to Akaroa but being a Mainlander I have to favour Chch. Better made roads in the Sth Island and more variety
MD

[Hitcher]

Us Mainlanders just keep coming out of the closet. :Offtopic: Which do you think is the better riding spot, Port Hills & Akaroa or the Rimutakas-Wairarapa. Its been so long since I rode to Akaroa but being a Mainlander I have to favour Chch. Better made roads in the Sth Island and more variety
MD

The Akaroa ride is longer and the scenery superb. I would have to give this the edge over the 'takas. The South Island may have better roads (and less traffic) but it also has lots of long, boring straight stuff.

[merv]

Us Mainlanders just keep coming out of the closet. :Offtopic: Which do you think is the better riding spot, Port Hills & Akaroa or the Rimutakas-Wairarapa. Its been so long since I rode to Akaroa but being a Mainlander I have to favour Chch. Better made roads in the Sth Island and more variety
MD

I was 5 years in ChCh in the 70s and loved the peninsula to ride on, sealed and dirt roads. I guess most are sealed now but certainly more choice than just riding over the 'tukas, but Wairarapa isn't too bad except for the long flat bits getting to some of it. The snow in the winter above Akaroa or on Mt Bossu was always interesting.

On the dirt bikes we used to do the "line of the summit road" paper road that had never been built - can you still do that? Bridle path was another good one for a quick blat over to Lyttleton and back - is that still OK or have the do-gooders stopped bikes on that track?

[LB]

Mrs H has put in a request for heated grips for her birthday (handlebar grips, is my presumption). What are the best sort to get??
Hitcher: I'll have a chat to you - have tried several types (have had them on six of my bikes now - yeah, yeah I know I'm a woose but I'm a WARM woose)

Will you be on the ride Easter Monday? We're probably only going as far as M/borough (if the weather's not too too bad this weekend will be clocking over my 20,000km mark so won't go all the way (as it were) to Castlepoint).
Could chat to you there?

[LB]

I'm riding to Taranaki on friday - they are predicting over the North Island...at least where ever my bike is I expect.My diesel Nissan Vanette is not tempting me at all,but friday morning could be a test of will.
We're riding to Turangi (via paraparas/Nat Park/Taumarunui/SH41) with a friend who's learning on a 250. My will will be severly tested Friday AM also (a 6.30am start....) and if it's too too too bad I'll make Hamish take the car.

We're booked in for dinner at Valentinos for Friday and Saturday nights. A wonderful Italian restaurant in Turangi.

Will be contacting Ching and hopefully meeting up.

[LB]

Hitcher: have just read the "Wgtn ride Easter Monday" thread and see you will be there Monday.

Weather today ain't too bloody crash hot either - my fingers are freezing and I keep making more typos that normal - I think I need a heated keyboard.

[Ms Piggy]

Weather today ain't too bloody crash hot either - my fingers are freezing and I keep making more typos that normal - I think I need a heated keyboard.

Bloody cold all right but a amazing sunrise over Miramar this morning on my way to the airport! Really orange and purdy!! :niceone: (Alas to the Airport to drop someone off & not go anywhere myself)

Heated keyboard sounds an excellent idea Lynda! C'mon you IT boys :laugh:

[James Deuce]

but Wairarapa isn't too bad except for the long flat bits getting to some of it.
?

Merv, we have to go for a ride. You can get to Dannevirke from Caltex Upper Hutt without travelling for more than 1km in a straight line.

[James Deuce]

Bloody cold all right but a amazing sunrise over Miramar this morning on my way to the airport! Really orange and purdy!! :niceone: (Alas to the Airport to drop someone off & not go anywhere myself)

Heated keyboard sounds an excellent idea Lynda! C'mon you IT boys :laugh:

Pretty sunrises are bad - "Red sky in the morning, Shepards warning".

Heated keyboard is easy. Pour some coffee in it. Heavens knows enough of you "users" do that as part of your daily ritual anyway.

[Indiana_Jones]

Man, the inside of my helmet got wet on Tuesday (leave it on the bike) :brick: ah well :D

-Indy

[wkid_one]

Merv, we have to go for a ride. You can get to Dannevirke from Caltex Upper Hutt without travelling for more than 1km in a straight line.

I think this is a liberal use of the truth. Try measuring a km out - you will be surprised how short it is.

[MikeL]

A great ride to work this morning. Blue sky, not much wind, just a bit cooler than normal for this time of year. Much less traffic than usual in Auckland this morning - I think lots of people have taken an early holiday. Would explain why the traffic last night at 5 o'clock was horrendous.
Called into Haldanes on the way home to book a couple of test rides for Saturday - was stunned to learn they will be closed for the long weekend!
I thought this sort of attitude went out in the 80s...
(J/k - why shouldn't they have a holiday too? I can wait until Monday.)
Will just have to find something else to do on Saturday... Wonder what the weather will be like for a ride...

[James Deuce]

I think this is a liberal use of the truth. Try measuring a km out - you will be surprised how short it is.

You've heard of hyperbole right? :)

Seriously though its really easy to avoid SH2 altogether and get the sensation of almost ceaseless corners, with no traffic. The straights on these roads are just the fast bits that connect the corners, rather than having a vanishing point like a lot of SH2 through the Wairarapa does now.

[jrandom]

A great ride to work this morning. Blue sky, not much wind, just a bit cooler than normal for this time of year. Much less traffic than usual in Auckland this morning - I think lots of people have taken an early holiday. Would explain why the traffic last night at 5 o'clock was horrendous.

Yes, it was quite nice this moaning. Tempitcher just about bracing without being nippy. I keep forgetting about the long weekend. Fishing! Fishing fishing fishing! Yeeeeaaaaaaah. I might go for a ride, too :p

[Hitcher]

Today is certainly better than yesterday! The Zrex got a ride into town today -- new Metzelers going on! Forecast for the trip home is decidely unflash but...

[Coldkiwi]

now, I know you clowns down there love to tout the phrase ' you can't beat wellington on a good day'... but when its turning off the temperature like that for you, I'm quite happy to forgo any good day and stick with our slightly temperamental but less extreme Auckland weather!

[Hitcher]

now, I know you clowns down there love to tout the phrase ' you can't beat wellington on a good day'... but when its turning off the temperature like that for you, I'm quite happy to forgo any good day and stick with our slightly temperamental but less extreme Auckland weather!

You big Wuss!

[Zed]

A great ride to work this morning. Blue sky, not much wind, just a bit cooler than normal for this time of year. Much less traffic than usual in Auckland this morning - I think lots of people have taken an early holiday. Would explain why the traffic last night at 5 o'clock was horrendous.
Called into Haldanes on the way home to book a couple of test rides for Saturday - was stunned to learn they will be closed for the long weekend!
I thought this sort of attitude went out in the 80s...
(J/k - why shouldn't they have a holiday too? I can wait until Monday.)
Will just have to find something else to do on Saturday... Wonder what the weather will be like for a ride...
The traffic on the NorthWestern m/way sucked the BIG kumara as per normal this morning on my way to work at 7.45am- backed all the way back to Westgate, what a joke. I wore more undergarments than normal today which kept me nice and snug, and my new winter gloves were great even though I could still feel the cold slightly through them- what freaked me out though was when I passed a Harley rider wearing NO gloves on!! Brrrrrrr his hands must have been numbed by the time he reached his destination, not to mention the state of them if he had come off hands first! :crazy:

Zed

[DeanOh]

And also, not having a choice on transport tends to sway one towards the bike too.


The train. thats where you'll see me if its wet. Old age has softened me :mellow:

[riffer]

The train. thats where you'll see me if its wet. Old age has softened me :mellow:
Shhh! Wy wife reads over my shoulder sometimes. The last thing I want is her to realise there's an alternative!

"Nope. It's the bike or nothing darlin'... The train is just too unreliable. Doesn't fit in with my unpredictable work hours. With the bike I can leave when I want and not be held up by traffic or other commuters or schedules."

There. That's settled now... :laugh:

[MikeL]

Shhh! Wy wife reads over my shoulder sometimes. The last thing I want is her to realise there's an alternative!

"Nope. It's the bike or nothing darlin'... The train is just too unreliable. Doesn't fit in with my unpredictable work hours. With the bike I can leave when I want and not be held up by traffic or other commuters or schedules."

There. That's settled now... :laugh:

At least you have the choice. I live within (easy) walking distance of a disused rail link (Onehunga) that ought to have been revived years ago. Even with the museum pieces that are Auckland's current rolling stock (or is that laughing stock?) I would be able to get home from the CBD in less than 30 minutes by rail. Instead, if I don't take the bike I have to sit in a bus for an hour. Now we're told that re-opening the rail link is not on because (a) it's not proven that enough people would use it and (b) if it did become popular the brand-spanking-new multi-million-dollar Britomart station would not be able to cope with the extra passenger movements!
Logic??!!

[DeanOh]

At least you have the choice. I live within (easy) walking distance of a disused rail link (Onehunga) that ought to have been revived years ago. Even with the museum pieces that are Auckland's current rolling stock (or is that laughing stock?) I would be able to get home from the CBD in less than 30 minutes by rail. Instead, if I don't take the bike I have to sit in a bus for an hour. Now we're told that re-opening the rail link is not on because (a) it's not proven that enough people would use it and (b) if it did become popular the brand-spanking-new multi-million-dollar Britomart station would not be able to cope with the extra passenger movements!
Logic??!!

Sorry Mike, but...hahahahahahahhaa :Pokey:

Im from Auck Celtic...hence the softness :rolleyes:
I live in UH too. Id much rather ride for 30 mins than sit in a train for an hour, but the wellington cold and wet, really is very cold and very wet.

*me goes back to knitting and flower arranging

[pete376403]

Shhh! Wy wife reads over my shoulder sometimes. The last thing I want is her to realise there's an alternative!

"Nope. It's the bike or nothing darlin'... The train is just too unreliable. Doesn't fit in with my unpredictable work hours. With the bike I can leave when I want and not be held up by traffic or other commuters or schedules."

There. That's settled now... :laugh:
Celtic#6 lives over the road from a railway station....

[Lou Girardin]

Saturday, Sunday and Monday were superb. Bloody forecasters. I wanted my bike.
Lou

[riffer]

Celtic#6 lives over the road from a railway station....
Yup. I reckon I could spit on the train as it goes by. Certainly makes the house shake a bit. All the paintings are "quake-waxed" to the walls.

:D

Still not catching the train but...

Tell you what - it was BEAUTIFUL today coming in to work.

It was about 3° C if that when I left. Lovely white frost over everything (including the road) but no worries - just mind the throttle hand.

Going down River Road, golden yellow sun at my back spreading its warm rays on the road ahead, slight river mist rising from the river, white fields of grass, everything had a "just washed" look to it.

Just beautiful. *sigh*

Youse poofters on the train just don't know what you're missing. :2thumbsup