Beach blast

[Buddy L]

I thought that i'd post a little clip that i have made up.
This is of my old bike at the beach west of Dargaville.
playing around and just having a blast.
i posted one under the 250 club of my road bike.
Its of my 1997 kdx220, i now have a CR125R 2002.
its a bit buge because i had to cut out the music and srink the movie by half to fit on to a thread.
hope you like it.
Others should post movies or pictures as well of your adventures off the beaten track.
Untill the next movie i make, should be of this weekend as well.

[Brian d marge]

very good

but tell me how did you do a collar bone ???

very good movie btw

Stephen

[tysonzane]

very cool!

Ouch about the end though :doctor:

I love playing around on the beach like that. Great fun doing circles with your feet on the pegs and a peg scrapping along the ground :D.

I'll have to make a video of my anticts down the back of the farm in and around my pine tree track :)

[Buddy L]

flipping off the back of the bike while pulling wheelys "as you do":blip:
landing on the sand on my back and braking the bones:violin:
sand has no give, it only takes, but all in all still a good day on the bike.

[cheese]

That was cool, looked like fun!!!!

[Motu]

Stop farting around with donuts! Stick it in 3rd gear and lay it into a full lock slide with a toe drag,that's what you do on the beach.

[Headbanger]

just a pic of a little sand hill.....

[Buddy L]

in the furture if anyone was interested ill post a tread about a ride up to pouto point in northland, sand dunes for miles like the ones in the pictures, each one bigger then the last, paddle tires would be the goer, or any tires with decent knobs on them:rockon:

[paturoa]

A bit over 20 years ago I had a DR400 and used blast up and down that beach. We used to take a spare can of gas and some rope (2 tow dead bikes) each and go onto the beach at Glinks.

We'd spend half an hour doing donuts getting bigger and bigger. We'd set up 2 markers at dead low tide and do a short track course. Man that was fun.

Then we'd stash the tanks and head down a few clicks to the sand dunes and do what we thought were huge jumps, but were only a couple of feet off the ground.

No-one really got hurt as the bins were always wash outs. I don't remember any high sides.

That was soooo much fun.

check out the map
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=new+zealand&om=1&ll=-36.163379,173.947906&spn=0.543267,1.373291

The beach goes non-stop from what is called Aranga beach, the bluff at the north end, to Pouto. Its all rideable and at low tide is wide flat and hard sand.

[Buddy L]

yer i know that beach is the bees knees, i go their every year at christmass and camp behind the sand dunes just south of glinks, and little place call secound stream, thats the best.
have been all the way up to the bluff and all the way down to pouto, takes about an hour and a half to cove that distance.

[C_A]

Stop farting around with donuts! Stick it in 3rd gear and lay it into a full lock slide with a toe drag,that's what you do on the beach.

^^^ true story

[paturoa]

yer i know that beach is the bees knees, i go their every year at christmass and camp behind the sand dunes just south of glinks, and little place call secound stream, thats the best.
have been all the way up to the bluff and all the way down to pouto, takes about an hour and a half to cove that distance.

We used to call that round hill. There r some awsome lakes back there too at the bottom of the hill. My recollection of camping there as a kid was mosquitos and toheroas ...mmmmmm.....

[Headbanger]

in the furture if anyone was interested ill post a tread about a ride up to pouto point in northland, sand dunes for miles like the ones in the pictures, each one bigger then the last, paddle tires would be the goer, or any tires with decent knobs on them:rockon:


Only managed to make the trip that way 3 times in the last 20 years, First rode those dunes when I was 12.

Shes a big mission to get people orginised all on the same weekend, then drive 12 hours north pulling trailers loaded with bikes, so we can camp on a beach.

[avgas]

OMG there is green in your collar bone!!!!!!!!!

[Buddy L]

it takes about 3 and 1/2 hours from auckland to get their, it is hard to get people sorted, but ill give it a go in summer, when the weathers better.
it would be a one day ride. 2 day ride would just be to hard to get people their.

[DMNTD]

Nice pic's 'n vid mate. :yes:
Pouto Point is an awesome place for sure. We used to do a lot of 4WD'n down that way a fair bit.
Could drive from my old house on Opononi...down the beach,through a forest(Waipoua) and back onto the beach before crossing a farmers land at Manganui Bluff. From there is was yeeeeeee haaaaaa!
You're right re those sand dunes too....bloody awesome!
A mate had some sort of 350 2 stroke racing quad we used to thrash out...evil little thing it was. :blip:
BTW....should only take 2.5 hours tops from central Auckland to get there too

[paturoa]

Just got back from 4 days staying at the Glinks camping ground with the family. The poor KDX got a thrashing on the beach!

I went down the beach and had a good play on the dunes, but was being a bit of a nana as I was by myself. Note to self, get the GPS coordinates for the lakes next time as I couldn't find them.

Not far from Mahuta gap, there were several bikes climbing the cliff face. I had a go but couldn't even get half way up. Said to Mrs P that I need a new bike and I didn't get a no (not sure if that one is a trap! - lol)

[Buddy L]

tryed at Xmas to get up the hill by Mahuta gap, failed for the first time:shit: , but when you get to the top, their are rolling sand dunes along the top of the cliffs. And also a awsome veiw of up and down the beach.
The lakes are way down by pouto further. Lucky i had my dad with me, as i had plowed in to some quick sand around the lakes, and need the hand to get the old KDX220 out.

[paturoa]

The lakes are way down by pouto further.

I've been to them before, but couldn't find them this time.

I had a look on google earth and there is a whole piece of low res where I think the northern most lakes are. The ones about 24km south of Glinks are cleary visible.

Glinks camp 36 04 45.9 S 173 51 28.85 E
Mahuta gap cliffs to ride up 36 00 23.04 S 173 47 27.11 E
Visible lakes on GE 36 16 03.33 174 00 29.77