Sunday 24th September -Where Did You Ride Today

[Terminated]

Golf November Two Five Zero is in the shop. Bought the current KiwiRider and a quiet beer.

[Waylander]

Down to Rotorua, then back up into mid Waikato, then all around between Tirau and Cambridge and finishing up over the Kaimais and back to Tauranga.

Was great fun!!:2thumbsup

[SpankMe]

Took the gixxer to Kaiaua for lunch and back.

Saw a gay pride parade. Thou some might pronounce it "Scooter rally". Oh well, you say tomato. I say tomahto.


Saw lots of bikes on the road so I guess the fair weather riders have pulled their bikes out of winter storage.

[Forest]

There's a new R1200 RT in the garage that needs running in (not my bike, but I have the use of it).

Rode from Auckland to Thames and filled up the bike. Followed the coast up to Coromandel and over the hill to Whitianga. Bloody beautiful - the Thames to Whitianga road on a clear day is easily one of the best biking roads in the world.

Followed the other coast down to Pauanui and stopped for a feed. Pauanui is still a complete shit-hole but the cafes are worth the detour.

Continued down to Whangamata then past Whiritoa to Waihi. Came back through the gorge. Took the main road back through Paeroa and continued back to Auckland.

Total distance around 500km. The 1200 RT handled like a dream (definitely a big step forward from the older 1150 RT).

[jtzzr]

UP NORF:2thumbsup

[Madness]

Up & down dalefield Road in Carterton a bunch of times at around 265km/hr, completely legal of course.

[apteryx_haasti]

Blah - couldn't ride today because I had to go to work. Then I had to go to the fire station for some brigade photos then I had to go to my brother-in-law's to run him back from the airport so he could drop the car off for my sister...well, you get the idea...I feel your pain, Buck!

But yesterday I went over to Martinborough and back - that was awesome...

[jumma]

Up and down the driveway. Just fitted my new chain.

[sunhuntin]

just to turakina and back....finished work at 2. not bad going down, but windy as hell coming back....the wind was catching the helmet and making my whole head vibrated something awful. got ignored by 3 trikes [wont wave to trikes now...] and got a few waves from 2 wheelers.
ran into the local triumph club at a bar, so hung around there for a while. one of the guys has had his tank repainted and it looks awesome! its got tigers on it...wicked job. will take photos at some stage.

lots of bikes come through work today....best lot was a group of about 5 harleys and a triumph, heading north from woodville. [going to opunake or somewhere] there was a chick on as blue sporty. fairly friendly bunch.

not a bad day, but the wind picked up and made it less enjoyable.

[Brett]

I would have loved to have ridden again today, but alas i have been sitting here since about 10:30am typing up a uni assignment...maybe another day this week.

[Oakie]

Did a dry run of the route I need to take tomorrow for a job interview. Took 22 minutes. I'll add 10 more for traffic and 5 more just to make sure. I'm being interviewed for a 'Payroll / HR Coordinator' position.

[apteryx_haasti]

Did a dry run of the route I need to take tomorrow for a job interview. Took 22 minutes. I'll add 10 more for traffic and 5 more just to make sure. I'm being interviewed for a 'Payroll / HR Coordinator' position.

Oooo! Good luck for your interview! Hope it goes well.

[granma2]

We went out through the back roads of Pukekohe, had a peek at the race track and then to Port Waikato. Back through to Tuakau for lunch. On the way back to the motorway we came across the cars heading to Puke racetrack for the Peter Brock memorial. Was an awesome sight.

[lb99]

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[lb99]

I got to spend the day in the shed with a crate of beer, a box of tools, and my latest project:beer:

[WarlockNZ]

Just tooled around auckland, i decided to wash the machine and then just hit the road, went to the auckland domain and happened to run into a fellow KB'er (Silverado), so we both hit the road, went and drooled over a couple of bikes, hit one tree hill and burned up some pavement. ohhh and i have photos.

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[Lou Girardin]

Silverdale to Waitoki - SH16 - SH1 - Woodcocks Rd - Sh16 - Old North Rd (Gave a knob in a 300Z the learn through the twistys, who says cars are quicker?) - Coatsville to Albany.
Heaps more fun now with power.

[WarlockNZ]

and the rest

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So i went snap happy .... LOL

[Big Dave]

Golf November Two Five Zero is in the shop. Bought the current KiwiRider and a quiet beer.

I luuuuuuve youse, mate.

[Big Dave]

Corro loop. :sunny:
nuff said.

[Black Bandit]

...hit one tree hill and burned up some pavement...

Ouchies - sounds painful. Hope you're OK man.:Pokey:

Cool pics BTW

Me - just went for a quiet blat round the neighbourhood - good weather for a ride.

[WarlockNZ]

Ouchies - sounds painful. Hope you're OK man.:Pokey:

Cool pics BTW

Me - just went for a quiet blat round the neighbourhood - good weather for a ride.

Could have been a lot worse, lucky theres no tree there anymore :Pokey:

[SkOrM]

i rode to work then i rode home :weep:

[WarlockNZ]

i rode to work then i rode home :weep:

Thats just sad .. no detours on the way ??

[silverado]

:Oi: WarlockNZ You forgot to mention the ladies.... The ladies wanting our photos at the museum:blip:

[WarlockNZ]

:Oi: WarlockNZ You forgot to mention the ladies.... The ladies wanting our photos at the museum:blip:

Forgive me ... yes folks thats right, aparantly silverado and I are "stylish men", lol .. we got asked for a photo op not once but twice .. twice people!

[WarlockNZ]

Mind you, it was a museum, perhaps they thought we were part of an exibit?? LOL

[SwanTiger]

I took all of the bikes out of the garage and rode each one up and down the driveway, then I practised some stoppies. Beautiful day for it.

[Richard Mc F]

To Waiuku for coffe and pizza with the mrs ( hey we are on a DUCATI OK !) back through Kingseat and Karaka, off at Manukau, loop out pas the airport, left on to Ihumatu rd right to take you through the viliage, comfort stop there and back throuh past puketutu athrough Mangre bridgeback to Onehunga

[McJim]

I spent the morning trying to sell a low mileage Mitsi FTO with manual transmission at Ellerslie car fair.

Got sunburnt.

Busy looking after the wee ones - once they were in bed however I took the bike in the dark to Whitford then took the straight road to Clevedon and came back to Whitford the Twisty way (twilight road?) then I went back into Howick a slightly longer route that comes back in via the Bhuddist Temple.

Then I went to Lloyd Elsmore and practiced emergency stops and cornering in the car park.

[gijoe1313]

Did the run out to Okokoire and then when I got back to Auckland, decided I needed to get rid of the 5 litres of 98 I put into a jerry-can (in case of emergencies on the trip!).

Pootled around and funnily enuff I ended up opposite WarlockNZ on the Mt.Eden hill looking at One Tree Hill! :lol:

Hit North Shore and caught dinner with a mate and then took a long slow ride taking in Freeman's Bay, Mission Bay, Mt.Wellington, Panmure, Pakuranga, Howick, Botany through to Manukau Heights, back of Alfriston into Manuwera and on the home straight back to Takanini.

Simply Marveeeellllousss! This much fun should be illegal! Oh wait...it already is!

[WarlockNZ]

Did the run out to Okokoire and then when I got back to Auckland, decided I needed to get rid of the 5 litres of 98 I put into a jerry-can (in case of emergencies on the trip!).

Pootled around and funnily enuff I ended up opposite WarlockNZ on the Mt.Eden hill looking at One Tree Hill! :lol:

Hit North Shore and caught dinner with a mate and then took a long slow ride taking in Freeman's Bay, Mission Bay, Mt.Wellington, Panmure, Pakuranga, Howick, Botany through to Manukau Heights, back of Alfriston into Manuwera and on the home straight back to Takanini.

Simply Marveeeellllousss! This much fun should be illegal! Oh wait...it already is!

Get a zoom lens on your camera .. lol .. you could have seen the yellow peril glinting in the sun from there .. ha ha, you should have rocked over and joined us.

[gijoe1313]

Get a zoom lens on your camera .. lol .. you could have seen the yellow peril glinting in the sun from there .. ha ha, you should have rocked over and joined us.

Thanks, but no, thanks! Your bike is like a fuzz attractor - I reckon they use it as a reference point to start pinging other bikers (Come in Silverado, your number is up!). j/k - if I was arsed to pull my binocs from the tank bag and squizzed your position, reckon I woulda seen you! :lol:

[SkOrM]

Thats just sad .. no detours on the way ??

yea to the BP.

[Fishy]

Went for my first ride down 22 with Beyond, Firefight and F/F's mate Chris. Was a pretty good ride!. Some damn nice roads to be found right in my backyard....will have to go for more rides out that way in future!.

[Devil]

Up 16 to Mangawhai for lunch with Motobob.

Damn nice weather and nice to get out for a decent ride. Holeshot have fixed the running problems with the Trumpy and it's running MUCH better.
240km on 13.5L zinging. Yay.

13,000km's on my Metzeler M3's though. They aint feeling so good anymore ;)

[TLDV8]

I was slack and didn't get out until 1:00pm but managed a quick 400 ks.... I decide to slow down to 110 on the 27 straight before 26 and the dogleg to Tirau... A car is slowly catching up in the mirror and pass's me at around 120 something,i wonder what he said when the only oncoming vehicles grill turned into a christmas tree.. :spanking: :laugh:........ As per usual the TL just rumbled along :banana:

[mangell6]

Tripped up on the day to Okoroire to see RiderInBlack, his pillion and Blackbird

[Blackbird]

I was slack and didn't get out until 1:00pm but managed a quick 400 ks.... I decide to slow down to 110 on the 27 straight before 26 and the dogleg to Tirau... A car is slowly catching up in the mirror and pass's me at around 120 something,i wonder what he said when the only oncoming vehicles grill turned into a christmas tree.. :spanking: :laugh:........ As per usual the TL just rumbled along :banana:

Hahaha - don't you just love that?:2thumbsup. Mangell6 was riding up from Wellington and I rode down towards Whakamaru from Tokoroa to meet him. We crossed and as I turned round to catch him up, I gunned it up the hill and only vaguely took notice to 2 vehicles coming the other way. Suddenly, my detector went off in my ear 'ole and one of the cars was clearly a mufti. Just kept going on the premise that it would take a while for him to turn round if he intended to chase and turned up a country lane just outside Tokoroa. All was well fortunately.

[Dodger]

I rode into work and back Sunday morning (Stokes Valley – Wellington)
Nice wee trip, although the near gale force Northerly on the way back seemed to want to rip my helmet and head off. :( (maybe i just need a better helmet)

Saw a few bikes on the trip back to Lower hutt. (They all passed me as I putted along at 100kph)

Saturday was spent riding around Lower/Upper Hutt with one nice ride into Whiteman’s Valley from the Upper Hutt end. (had to turn around as my mate's fuel light started flashing) :cool:

[Harry33]

I went to the gas station and filled my bike up with gas and sold it. Now I'm bikeless for a bit.

[35tickets]

Went home (whangarei) from auckland on sunday after going there friday nights for a mates stag doo. Lot of traffic on the road thank you school holidays stuck to SH1...bad mistake.

So heading north and heres this fucking caravan hauler doing 60 in the 100 zone with at least 20 cars behind the stupid old cunt driving....so he got the big finger from me as i raced past stupid bastard check your mirrors and pull over you're just pissing everybody off!!

Amazingly some car drivers actually pulled to the side to let me go past....i gave em a wave. Its not hard to say Thanks mates with a wave.

But what the fuck is it with other bikers out there NOT waving. Hell, i wave at mostly anyone on 2 wheels and so see someone on a bike on the open road.....i give em a wave. But it seems motorcyclist are becoming like car drivers, they aren't waving anymore. Their loss, i'll still wave on.

Anyhow nice quick trip home on shit roads

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Then I went to Lloyd Elsmore and practiced emergency stops and cornering in the car park.

Good onya McJim for mentioning this. How many of us do review our techniques and safety strategies, it would be good to see this mentioned on the Sunday ride posts...if I remember I will mention it next time round when I post 'Where Did You Ride...'

Heads Up and Enjoy

[Swoop]

...so I guess the fair weather riders have pulled their bikes out of winter storage.

What is this "winter storage" you speak of???:scratch: :scratch: :scratch:

Why would anyone want to store a bike over winter?:lol:

[dawnrazor]

woodhill forest - on the environmentally friendly two wheeled option!!!!

nearly creamed myself on a tree on a downhill section, good fun and a great day for it as well.

[WRT]

nearly creamed myself on a tree on a downhill section, good fun and a great day for it as well.

Sounds like you were having just a little too much fun there buddy. Must have been all those two-stroke vibrations, or are you just a "nature lover"? ;)

[Scouse]

Coroloop again scurubed in me new tyre fanfuckintastic Weather fanfuckintastic roads fanfuckintastic day and not a single Rozzer in sight

[crusa]

Took the gixxer to Kaiaua for lunch and back.

Saw a gay pride parade. Thou some might pronounce it "Scooter rally". Oh well, you say tomato. I say tomahto.


Saw lots of bikes on the road so I guess the fair weather riders have pulled their bikes out of winter storage.

I saw the scooter boys and girls leaving as i pulled in for fish and chips,was talking to a guy in a black F150 who said he almost collected some of them trying to cut a corner.Me and the handbrake started out from over the bridge,maraetai,clevdon (Hot rods everywhere),Kawakawa bay,Kaiaua (Lunch),pukekohe,back over the bridge.Was a good ride to get some cornering practice in and a good change of scenery from SH16.Was my first time over those roads and enjoyed it.:2thumbsup

[SPman]

Off to Armadale - hooked up with a Ulysses ride - off through Jarrahdale, down to Quairaidding?, up the lower Hotham Valley to Dwellingup for lunch. Met up with a freind who had come up from Esperance that morning, then meandered off home. 520k's well spent, on a lovely clear spring day...23 degrees....perfick!

[Maha]

:Oi: WarlockNZ You forgot to mention the ladies.... The ladies wanting our photos at the museum:blip:

Hows that 750 going Ash?....looks dam fine in the pic's i must say.....:cool:

[granma2]

Went home (whangarei) from auckland on sunday after going there friday nights for a mates stag doo. Lot of traffic on the road thank you school holidays stuck to SH1...bad mistake.

So heading north and heres this fucking caravan hauler doing 60 in the 100 zone with at least 20 cars behind the stupid old cunt driving....so he got the big finger from me as i raced past stupid bastard check your mirrors and pull over you're just pissing everybody off!!

Amazingly some car drivers actually pulled to the side to let me go past....i gave em a wave. Its not hard to say Thanks mates with a wave.

But what the fuck is it with other bikers out there NOT waving. Hell, i wave at mostly anyone on 2 wheels and so see someone on a bike on the open road.....i give em a wave. But it seems motorcyclist are becoming like car drivers, they aren't waving anymore. Their loss, i'll still wave on.

Anyhow nice quick trip home on shit roads

Well we must be quite lucky then, because we dont seem to have too much of a problem. All the bikes we see, all wave.
I wave anyway, whether they do or not.

[Wenier]

Went to Manfeild and raced around the track with two other mates. But where were all the other bikes, we were the only ones there. Bit sad really, was fun thou.