My first 1000km

[Northpoint]

Well I clocked my first 1000kms today - stoked. Only had to apply the old progressive braking once when a truck pulled out in front of me :) Keen to go for a ride tomorrow arvo (weather permitting) up north/west auckland if anyones keen...

[skelstar]

Awesome. Great feeling huh?

[Trudes]

How many 1000s of ks are you up to now Skelsy?

[MyGSXF]

Well I clocked my first 1000kms today

Congrats Np.. :2thumbsup awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :Punk:

won't be long till ya got 16 years, & thousands of k's under ya belt!!!!!!!!!!! :ride:

Jen :rockon:

[skelstar]

About 55,000kms now Trudsy!

[Trudes]

Aghhhhh, and about 6 sets of tyres too I suppose!?! I've only done 13000, and on the same set of tyres (although I do feel the back slip occasionally, so I guess some new tyres are on the list for the next service) and I got mine the same time as you, how :o

[Winter]

Weather dependant, I could be keen on a ride tomorrow.. I'm on about 1300k now :)

[Storm]

Well done mate, heres to many more :)

[Northpoint]

Sounds good Winter - If the weathers good im keen. Dont know about 400km though...

[TerminalAddict]

Skelsy and Trudsy ..... oh dear :no:

this is why I don't live down south right?
you two make sure you don't give hornet riders a bad name .. y'hear ? :nya:

[Winter]

nah not 400km.. just a pootle somewhere. I dont think the weather gods are going to support us tho!

[Northpoint]

ya never know!!

[gijoe1313]

Did someone mention a ride? :drool:

Oh behave! :o I'm peachy keen as usual, rain, wind or shine! :msn-wink:

And before I get distracted, congrats on your 1st 1000kms! I bet you had a ball doing it and learnt a heap in the process, so set some goals, check your ride, check your gear and find some more places to ride down those lanes to freedom! (oh wait, I'm paraphrasing myself again! :doh:)

[Northpoint]

I think your rides are a bit hardcore for me gijoe!!

[Winter]

Why dont we meet at the quay st mobil at 10am tomorrow? If the weathers crapola we can still potter round and head out to whitford or something?

[Northpoint]

Iv got stuff on til about 11.30-12 then im keen. Im in orewa and havent got a clue where quay st mobil is though...

[Winter]

oh right right.. Hmm Orewa.. thats probably the little ride im looking for..

Perhaps GI could meet me somewhere and we convoy up to rewa to meet up with this chap at lunchtime?

[gijoe1313]

That sounds good! I wouldn't mind a little pootle for tomorrow! And don't worry about going any long distance, a nice short one is just as good :yes:

So where shall we meet? I can ride anywhere to meet you (as you well know! :innocent:)

[kwaka750]

Yeah I would definitely be keen, not so much if the weather is still crap.

[Winter]

Meet at 10am at Shell in Greenlane?

Kwaka, comeone, it'll be nice and easy, don your warmest gear and we'll have some fun.

[Northpoint]

Sounds good mate

[Winter]

Ok so northpoint, We need a meeting place in orewa for you.. somewhere thats easy for us to find :P and a time you can be there?

[Northpoint]

I dont mind coming down your way if we can meet somewhere easy to find...

[kwaka750]

Cool, I live in Glenfield, do you guys wanna meet me at the Mcdonalds on Wairau road on your way through or something ?

[Northpoint]

ok how bout the caltex at the end of the motorway?

[Winter]

Ok here goes :

Me + GI @ Shell Greenlane,10am

Meet kwaka @ Mcdeaths on Wairau at 10.40am

meet northpoint at caltex in rewa at 12.30?

filling in the gaps between as we go?

all aboard!

[kwaka750]

Awesome, sounds like a plan. I will park up on the mobil side of Mcd's.

[Northpoint]

yeah that sounds good - i could probably meet round 12 though if you cant fill in the time (but im sure you will) :)

[Winter]

Ok well im off to bed..

I can be reached on 021 1489-555 for any 'shit im running late' or whatnot messages..

[gijoe1313]

Oh I cannot sleep, all this talk of riding has gotten me all into a tizzy! :lol:

Okay better pack myself off to bed! :innocent:

021-03-76501 contact details!

[zeocen]

Damn you bastards that don't have work tomorrow. :(

Have a good ride!

[Winter]

heh.

Hey we better be extra careful riding today... Its wet, its windy,and its friday the 13th!

[gijoe1313]

And watch out for sidereal warp gates that will take you into the twilight zone! Oh goody, ride is still on :woohoo:

[Trudes]

Skelsy and Trudsy ..... oh dear :no:

this is why I don't live down south right?
you two make sure you don't give hornet riders a bad name .. y'hear ? :nya:

Oh we'd never Termyaddys, we're raising the Horny reputation!:innocent:

[Northpoint]

Friday the 13th... doodoodoodoodoodoo

[Lucy]

So how was the ride guys? And Zeocen, don't blame work, we know what the real problem is.......:zzzz:

You have a dodgy mattress, it keeps threatening to fly away, so you need to keep lying on it to stop it escaping. Am I right? Or am I right?:shit:

[gijoe1313]

Okay ... where do I start? :scratch:

First up, mega kudos to the other nutters who thought riding with me was a good idea :eek5: I recall someone saying "I won't be doing gijoe1313 milage!"

400km+ later .... :innocent:

Ride started well, winter and I got into the "doh! I saw him ride past!" "doh! Where's he going!?" "doh! I was waiting at Shell Triangle Greenlane!"

At this point I had my wet weather riding gear on and looking like the Michelin man. Quick howdy-doos and we pootle off to Wairau McDeath's/Mobil combo and saw kwaka750 pull in. Pleasantries exchanged and a pre-ride ride was organised by kwaka! Good man! We rode out to Greenhithe/Hobsonville as you do before pulling into Snowplanet for us to warm up and get some liquid refreshments imbibed.

Rode to Caltex Orewa just past the roundabout and met up with Northpoint. Much toing and humming and haaing and froing about a possible ride plan. The poor fools.... :sweatdrop somehow I got in on this and ... well read on gentle audience and please remember I am clinically insane when it comes to route taking! :drool:

From Silverdale led ably by Northpoint, we rode to Kaukapaka and I took over to lead the way on SH16. At this point a couple of the lads were experiencing the balmy joys of wind gusts - I'll let them relate this part! We stopped off past the nice 35kph left hander and I checked the chicken strips on the lads tires. Ooh! They were definitely getting their lean on! :yes: :niceone:

And the first of "I'll just duck off to drain the one-eyed trouser snake" shennanigans took place (this would be a recurring theme! :o )

From the magnificent views, we could see nature's elements watering all the land below the heavens. A healthy gust blew the hair of those endowed with longer lengths like a bad Old Spice commerical (for those too young to know what Old Spice is, ask yer male parental spawning unit!)

At this stage, I was maintaining a steady 100kph and had to drop off the speed at points to allow the others to pootle merrily along without worrying about trying to keep me in sight (by the end of this ride, I was at the back trying to keep up with them! :Punk: )

Now, at Wellsford we stop to chat about the next part of the ride, Winter had to be back in Dorkland for his evening stint that provides coin to keep his life sustained. I clearly had been inhaling too much of Daisy's two-stroke smoke lately and I harrumphed something about riding through the Brynderwyns and zipping back down the coast avoiding Dargaville.

A great idea, 'cept I forgot I do that way via the way down from Whangarei! :slap: End result - we ended up in Ruawai, at rush hour. Winter needed to refuel his svelte body and we all ended up tippling the porcelain thrones with our purple-veined yoghurt throwers.

Continued in Part II : "I thought you said we weren't riding to Dargaville!" or "How to end up doing a mega-pootle by default c/o gijoe1313"

[gijoe1313]

And here gentle audience, is the concluding part of II of this sordid tale of deception, decaying bladders, desperately numb saddle butts and the usual cliched biking anecdotes.

Read on avast!

So, in Ruawai we head up the way to ... Dargaville. Dang! :o I didn't bring my map with me so I just blithely pootled along the twisties to get to that nice set of 35kph s-bends and ended up in Dargaville. Kawaka750 had just recently mentioned at Wellsford about how good pizza was there!

Anyhow, we pull up in Dargaville and next to me is northpoint saying "I thought you said we weren't riding to Dargaville!"

Mys bad! I tried to cover up my poor map memory retention by uttering : "Oh yeah, uh, yeah ... all part of the plan - after all, would you have ridden this far if I hadn't completely led us all astray?" :sweatdrop (I think I mentioned this at the lookout point before Orewa on the way home, but I digress, and this makes for more humourous reading!)

Well, at this stage, my light has crapped out - and I push kwaka750 to the front to lead us back! Merry was our wending way - no gas at Paparoa ( I hit reserve just after Ruawai and northpoint was saying "my fuel gauge is suddenly developing a thirsty leak!" or words to that effect).

Anyhow, we pootle back to Maungaturoto and fill up there, shoot back to Wellsford and take SH1 back to Dorkland. We somehow missed all the bad weather and only got a few spots of rain. By this stage, from my TEC position I could see the boys developing that "ooh, numb butt, sore wrist, ooh how I hate gijoe1313 so much right now" attitude :whistle:

winter is now leading us home at this stage and before we hit Orewa, we take one more stop for some of us to water the flowers with our undercover truncheons. We make our peace with each other (I was secretly relieved I was not pitched over the cliff due to the excessive amount of milage we covered ... by accident! :stupid: )

northpoint left us first, followed by kwaka750 and then winter peeled off leaving me to add more km's to my total! An incident that left me :angry2: was when a pyscho in a cage almost rammed kwaka750 in the rear via a hair-brained lane changing maneuver! It was so bloody close I felt my stomach drop. I gave my horn a blast and rode up to kwaka750 and showed how close the idiot got to him ... a thumb and index finger apart :no:

I rode to Dorkland, got a feed in - bought some books and rode back to my brother's place to watch the 'canes give the cheetahs a whatfor! Huzzah! A perfect end to my day's ride! :woohoo:

Mega kudos once again to winter, northpoint and kwaka750 for participating in my sanctioned madness. I dare say, they may find reasons to avoid rides involving me planning any routes! :innocent: but, as I have said, I would ride with any one of these bikers again, they got the biking spirit alright! :D

And that concludes gijoe1313's diatribe about the road trip that was twice as long as anybody thought it would take! 'cept for gijoe1313 who thought it was half as short as it could be! :done:

[gijoe1313]

As promised, photos with my usual interminable, random style of narration.

Photo 1 : Snowplanet, I think winter chose it cause it matched his bike, and he fancied some of the girlies there :msn-wink:
Photo 2 : winter doing his best impression of roadkill (or Gene-o-kleen, evolution you can see!)
Photo 3 : northpoint being dodgy and checking out where winter had been ...
Photo 4 : "eeew yuck...how can such a svelte body get so much out of it!?"
Photo 5 : Old Spice commercial, manly hair tossed in the breeze, all whilst holding onto their helmets! (ooer!)

[Winter]

Im home now.. Sore, Tired, and grinning!

haha, what a funny storey.

[Winter]

521km from my door to my door today.

[gijoe1313]

And the final few photos which was remarkably remiss of me to take more!

Photo 1 : Door to door service! I was laughing so hard at this I think I almost peed a little! :o
Photo 2 : I think northpoint was trying out for a linebacker in this manuever. I hope so, or that's one helluva kidney stone to pass!
Photo 3 : Don't pass it to me!
Photo 4 : The lovely zen car park of Ruawai, winter is busy raking it into new narcoleptic patterns (actually, we were all waiting for him to bin it :innocent:)
Photo 5 : Arty drunk angle shot for "Rough and Tough Biker Bozuzoku Movie"
Photo 6 : kwaka750 saying to northpoint "No, I don't care if your bum is numb - I'm not riding it home for you!" northpoint : "..........."

[gijoe1313]

.......... :innocent: I just had to do it :whistle:

ps - all mistakes are intentional! cheez whiz!

[zeocen]

Oh bloody hell! Sounds like a fantastic ride!
Justin (yes, first name basis and everything), you really shouldn't take your crazy routes as a bad thing. The best ride of my short but exciting riding career was on Thursday thanks to your great long ride. I polished some riding skills that needed some serious polishing.

If it weren't for you I'd be doing Manurewa -> Maraetai loop forever! Now my next big ride will be no shorter than Manurewa -> Whangamata .. and possibly even further!

You've made 2 massive rides out of a weekend that quite frankly shouldn't have had any due to weather forecasts, that deserves some serious bling and a shout of beer!

/Edit: also bling to Winter needs to be given too, in my 2nd week of riding I was still pootling along suburban streets at nana-scooter speeds. You've got balls of steel!

[gijoe1313]

Oh bloody hell! Sounds like a fantastic ride!
Justin (yes, first name basis and everything), you really shouldn't take your crazy routes as a bad thing. The best ride of my short but exciting riding career was on Thursday thanks to your great long ride. I polished some riding skills that needed some serious polishing.

If it weren't for you I'd be doing Manurewa -> Maraetai loop forever! Now my next big ride will be no shorter than Manurewa -> Whangamata .. and possibly even further!

You've made 2 massive rides out of a weekend that quite frankly shouldn't have had any due to weather forecasts, that deserves some serious bling and a shout of beer!

/Edit: also bling to Winter needs to be given too, in my 2nd week of riding I was still pootling along suburban streets at nana-scooter speeds. You've got balls of steel!

Now, it takes a crazy to recognise another crazy! I think Winter has what it takes to be pootling potty crazy - in my 2nd week of riding I was down to Hamiltron to pick up Quasi gear and rode back in the rain and dark down a back country road up to Dorkland!

I just try to replicate that feeling in all people that accompany me on my pootling rides :sweatdrop

I got all gooey inside when I read Winter had done 521km door to door... he needs to lube that chain now! So, you done your chain yet? Huh? Huh? Well have you?

And what do you do when gijoe1313 says to you "I'm thinking of taking you along with me on a pootling ride" ... how do you react? What do you say? What do you do? Huh? Huh? Well? What do you do!?

[gijoe1313]

Well I clocked my first 1000kms today - stoked. Only had to apply the old progressive braking once when a truck pulled out in front of me :) Keen to go for a ride tomorrow arvo (weather permitting) up north/west auckland if anyones keen...

I've just realised from the beginning of this thread that Northpoint has done half that total again in this pootling ride! :gob: :o Mys bad - sorry about that! :innocent: :lol:

[Donor]

Argh!

Another GI ride, and I missed it??

That's it... I'm going to plot myself a biggun... just as soon as I remember what the hell a weekend is again...

[Winter]

Got up this morning, washed my bike, took her for a spin to warm her (it was cold), gave her chain some lovey motul stuff, tightened that flippin clutch lever that was giving me greif all yesterday.

And I broke the ball-end off the end of my brake lever! grr.

The lever was bent all curly like when i got the bike.. She said it was too heavy and got away from her in the garage. By the way its bent, it looks like it was put down fairly gently.

Anyhow, I straighted it out in the vice,but broke then ball end off doing so.


mutter mutter.

[Chisanga]

Sounds like a great ride guys. I really need to get out and ride... feeling very jealous.

[Northpoint]

Yeah it was an awesome ride. But a word of warning to anyone thinking of going for a "pootle" with gijoe - you may end up in Invercargill!!! But it was all good and I thoroughly enjoyed myself (my body might not agree with me though).

[kwaka750]

Was an awesome ride, I see what everyone means about GI Joe's liitle rides, left glenfield at 1:40am got back home at 6pm lol, but one very nice ride, nice meandering back roads, but boy were the cops out in force, waiting around every turn lol, so speed was wathced very religouslyu. All in all an excellent ride, looking forward to the next "little" ride with GI Joe. Nice meeting all you guys that went.

[gijoe1313]

Well, to be fair, I always prefer to start my "little" rides at 6ish in the morning so I can ride for longer! :o :innocent: Cape Reinga and back in time before tea anyone?

I think a sequel to the first movie ride is in the planning ...

And 1.40am? Yowsa! With that early/late start ... I think we could have made it to Gisborne and back! :lol:

[Northpoint]

A sequel to the first movie ride?? Count me in!

[gijoe1313]

A sequel to the first movie ride?? Count me in!

Foolish, foolish lad! I like the cut of your jib! Feast your eyes on this teaser! :sweatdrop

But at least you have a fair expectation of what my pootling rides are like! :innocent:

And btw, how the heck did kwaka750 and Winter end up being posterboys? I think we need a bad bozozoku biker girl to make it better! :lol:

[Northpoint]

Foolish, foolish lad! I like the cut of your jib! Feast your eyes on this teaser! :sweatdrop

But at least you have a fair expectation of what my pootling rides are like! :innocent:

And btw, how the heck did kwaka750 and Winter end up being posterboys? I think we need a bad bozozoku biker girl to make it better! :lol:


Yeah I have to agree with you there...