petesmeats
11th November 2006, 17:18
I rode up from christchurch to wellington yesterday (as you may have picked up from the thread title) cos i finished my studies for the year (half an engineer now... yay!!!) and wanted to get home for some decent home cooking. I left christchurch at about 7.30am and headed off in convoy with a dude in his car. The first part of the ride was hellish. It seems that i may have had one or two too many wines at dinner the night before, and not to mention the fact that there was a bit of a frost. I wrapped up in all my warmest gear though and it warmed up pretty quick. The bike seemed to not be running to well either. It was faltering around the mid rev range (6-7 thou) and was sluggish on the uptake when throttling on at around 100kph. (Does anyone have any ideas about this?? I thought it could be a carb prob or an air filter prob but havnt had the time to check it yet.)
We made it to kaikoura though with no problems at all and stopped at aroma's for a shearers breakfast which was awesome.... Pretty decent hangover cure really.
We were keen to stop at meatworks for a surf in kaikoura but it turned out that there was bugger all surf so that wasn't a go. I decided not to piss round waiting for my mate so i shot off and had a bloody awesome ride from there on in. I just love the section of hill south of Blenhiem (sp?). Those corners are so nice and sooo smooth... Pity there are only a few of them though...
Got to picton and jumped on the lunchtime ferry. The crossing is probably the most boring thing in the whole world... especially when you have just been riding, but we got talking with this really cool old lady who we talked to for ages and she knitted my mate a red/purple fluffy scarf.
Got off the ferry pretty quick and had to pull over to wait for my mate in his car... The only place i could find to pull over was on the side of the road which goes to SH1 and SH2 on double yellow lines...
A couple of people rode past and a couple of them were gooing to stop and help me which was cool... Pity i was not broken down... Thanks to whoever they were, it is nice to know that you would help me if i was actually broken down...
Anyway about ten minutes later he got off the ferry and we convoyed it back to my house...
All up a really successful ride... Made it in one piece and with no speeding tickets or anything. Thouroughly enjoyed my day.
I'm keen to do some rides while up in wellington though... I have done the Rimutaka's once last year and would be keen to do it again a couple of times... Are there KB rides that go over there for people who are medium paced???
Anyway i wasn't really planning on posting such a big post so i will sign off now...
Pete
We made it to kaikoura though with no problems at all and stopped at aroma's for a shearers breakfast which was awesome.... Pretty decent hangover cure really.
We were keen to stop at meatworks for a surf in kaikoura but it turned out that there was bugger all surf so that wasn't a go. I decided not to piss round waiting for my mate so i shot off and had a bloody awesome ride from there on in. I just love the section of hill south of Blenhiem (sp?). Those corners are so nice and sooo smooth... Pity there are only a few of them though...
Got to picton and jumped on the lunchtime ferry. The crossing is probably the most boring thing in the whole world... especially when you have just been riding, but we got talking with this really cool old lady who we talked to for ages and she knitted my mate a red/purple fluffy scarf.
Got off the ferry pretty quick and had to pull over to wait for my mate in his car... The only place i could find to pull over was on the side of the road which goes to SH1 and SH2 on double yellow lines...
A couple of people rode past and a couple of them were gooing to stop and help me which was cool... Pity i was not broken down... Thanks to whoever they were, it is nice to know that you would help me if i was actually broken down...
Anyway about ten minutes later he got off the ferry and we convoyed it back to my house...
All up a really successful ride... Made it in one piece and with no speeding tickets or anything. Thouroughly enjoyed my day.
I'm keen to do some rides while up in wellington though... I have done the Rimutaka's once last year and would be keen to do it again a couple of times... Are there KB rides that go over there for people who are medium paced???
Anyway i wasn't really planning on posting such a big post so i will sign off now...
Pete