Honda - Auckland to Palmie, 29 Sept

[sarahtvet]

:sunny:

At last the old girl is docked:love: and now I need to go and bring her down to palmie:2thumbsup:

Manakau reckon if I can get her from docks to them on Friday they will do reg etc without me present and I can pick her up Saturday morning:Punk:
I have a contact to transport her docks to Manakau but any suggestions on that front would be good.

I am working on a plan to get me to Auckland friday night probably take the Overlander as I hear the views are great. The first request is for a friendly and cheap place to stay within easy reach of manakau.

As staying Friday night it would be great to catch up with some KB friends in the evening too so any venue suggestions?

Saturday I plan to pick bike up from Manakau and ride back to Palmie, fingers crossed.

Never been to Auckland apart from both airports and the antarctic centre so an escort out of town and as far south as anybody fancies would be fun. I will be pouring over the maps for a route in the next few days.

I am pretty sure that some of the Ashurst/Manawatu team are planning to come north and meet me en route so the more the merrier. I need to decide when and where we can converge on a suitable coffee stop :yes:

First attempt at riding the Honda, navigating any further north than Hawkes Bay and starting a ride thread but multi tasking is what women do best :innocent:

Any help or advice gratefully accepted and look forward to meeting some northerners!!

[Meanie]

Ill bet your excited
As much as id love to come up and had planned to i am at a wedding on Sat 29th, My Niece is getting married on the Saturday in Lower Hutt so sorry Ill have to miss this event
Ride safe :yes:

[chanceyy]

will know closer to the date .. Will be good to have ya own bike there girl

[cowboyz]

good stuff. will be good to see the (in)famous bike we have been waiting so long for.......

[yod]

mrs yod and I might come to taupo and escort you back from there :ride:

[NZsarge]

mrs yod and I might come to taupo and escort you back from there :ride:

Yeah Taupo would be a nice ride, which side do you think you'd go up?

[yod]

Yeah Taupo would be a nice ride, which side do you think you'd go up?

depends on how we're off for time really, could always go the long way, via ormondville, havelock, then over highway 5 :lol:

[MSTRS]

depends on how we're off for time really, could always go the long way, via ormondville, havelock, then over highway 5 :lol:

Long way? That's the only way. Isn't it?

[yod]

Long way? That's the only way. Isn't it?

no there's always the extra long, vinegar hill, pohangina valley, ormondville, havelock, highway 5, route

[Meanie]

no there's always the extra long, vinegar hill, pohangina valley, ormondville, havelock, highway 5, route

Now your talking, How about a detour over the rimutakas

[sarahtvet]

Now your talking, How about a detour over the rimutakas

careful you will be all exhausted and just wanna ride straight home by the time we meet up!!

Save some fun for me :yes:

[sarahtvet]

will know closer to the date .. Will be good to have ya own bike there girl

Will too, hope I manage to do her justice:ride:

Would be nice to have you along for the inaugral ride:yes:

If you sneak a small celebratory cake in your pocket I will buy the hot chocolate, tempted now? :banana:

[chanceyy]

Will too, hope I manage to do her justice:ride:

Would be nice to have you along for the inaugral ride:yes:

If you sneak a small celebratory cake in your pocket I will buy the hot chocolate, tempted now? :banana:

hmm well i dunna think there will be any cake left from this weekend ... & hmm that means two cakes two weeks in a row .. :nono: we can not be having that ... :lol:

[sarahtvet]

hmm well i dunna think there will be any cake left from this weekend ... & hmm that means two cakes two weeks in a row .. :nono: we can not be having that ... :lol:

Probably right :mellow: just lots of mocha and hot chocolates I guess then:

Just soooo looking forward to tasting the cake (and getting the Honda :scooter: of course)

[sarahtvet]

Hi All,
Just wanted to say a huge thank you to all those of you who have pm'd me with offers of accomodation and advice re my trip. I really appreciate it. Pretty sure that I have a somewhere sorted to stay now and just waiting on importers to firm up final times etc.

Thanks again :-)

[yod]

looks like the desert road may be closed - ruapehu is having a little hissy fit

might be the long way home....oh, gee, what a hassle....

[86GSXR]

Hmmm, yes, see that. I wonder if it will carry on? This could make for an interesting weekend. Last time it was amazing. I actually have some bottled ash from the eruption which I collected, incredible stuff! Hope it doesn't really blow and wipe out Turangi :shit:

Apart from the mountain, this ride should be good. Be looking at hopefully meeting up with some AK KBers on Sat after we've picked up the bike and having a little cruise southwards. Yet to be organised :yes:

[NZsarge]

no there's always the extra long, vinegar hill, pohangina valley, ormondville, havelock, highway 5, route

Sounds interesting...

[NZsarge]

Hmmm, yes, see that. I wonder if it will carry on? This could make for an interesting weekend. Last time it was amazing. I actually have some bottled ash from the eruption which I collected, incredible stuff! Hope it doesn't really blow and wipe out Turangi :shit:

Apart from the mountain, this ride should be good. Be looking at hopefully meeting up with some AK KBers on Sat after we've picked up the bike and having a little cruise southwards. Yet to be organised :yes:

Yeah I reckon, i'm thinking about going to turangi to get me some of those custom earplugs:doh::D

[sarahtvet]

Yeah I reckon, i'm thinking about going to turangi to get me some of those custom earplugs:doh::D

We haven't made a firm decision about the route back yet but sure we can catch up enroute:yes:

Seems a shame to rush back when we could do some exploring as we work our way south. Hopefully we can get some of the auckland lot to join us for a ride saturday once we have the bike.

I have never been past Hawkes Bay before so really looking forward to exploring up north a bit more. Turangi sounds gorgeous so can't wait to see it.

If the mountain goes off that will be fun to see too:wari:


Keep jumping up and down like a kid when I think of it, vv excited :scooter:

MAFF inspecting bike today so if that goes well I may try and get her over to the VTNZ centre tomorrow rather than Friday, just incase they have any concerns.

[86GSXR]

Sarah and I will be picking up her Honda from Manakau VTC on Saturday mid morning. Looking forward to seeing it on it's first NZ ride! If there's any AK people heading south on Saturday it would be great to hook up with you and head on out of town enroute Palmerston. We're easy regarding times, meeting places, destinations etc. I'm reasonably familiar with AK so can probably find you without too many dramas :scooter: :yes:

[yod]

so when you buggers heading up there? tomorrow sometime i take it?

i have the new rack arriving tomorrow - so we will be all ready to head up to the HB tomorrow evening and then over to taupo on saturday

i cant see it taking more than 2 hours to get to taupo so as long as you let us know when you're leaving hamilton, we should arrive about the same time

where are we meeting? how about the carpark in front of KFC/Subway/etc?? should be able to get a fiendish latte there :laugh: and they do a mean all-day brekkie...mmmmm....:drool:

thoughts?
suggestions?
random abuse?

:wari:

[cowboyz]

you are a dick

[cowboyz]

sorry , I didnt have any thoughts or suggestions.

[yod]

:laugh: fair enuff...i asked for that


you're a dick too....:girlfight:

[jafar]

Sarah and I will be picking up her Honda from Manakau VTC on Saturday mid morning. Looking forward to seeing it on it's first NZ ride! If there's any AK people heading south on Saturday it would be great to hook up with you and head on out of town enroute Palmerston. We're easy regarding times, meeting places, destinations etc. I'm reasonably familiar with AK so can probably find you without too many dramas :scooter: :yes:

PM sent, see you saturday:scooter:

[sarahtvet]

:cool:
so when you buggers heading up there? tomorrow sometime i take it?

thoughts?
suggestions?
random abuse?

:wari:

86 and I are planning to leave here reasonably early tomorrow, 86 fitting bigger pack rac as I type:yes: Need it to carry all my girly stuff :innocent:

I will ring Manukau tomorrow and find out how they are getting on, Honda went over this afternoon and person I spoke to seemed quite chilled n positive :cool: They will be starting it for WOF so hopefully I will know if there are any problems before we leave/get there.

Bass an AK KBer has kindly offered any techinical help saturday am if the Honda is feeling under the weather after her voyage :2thumbsup:

86 and I are a bit casual about the trip back, wondering if to take it over 2 days and enjoy the scenery and exploring :ride: Quite nice to be spontaneous and make it up as we go along:yes:

Not much use for you trying to meet up with us I know:grouphug:. Weather does look dodgy on Sunday though so maybe want to get most done saturday:lol:

How about we text you when we know more about the old girl and what time we are getting away from AK?

[yod]

:cool:

86 and I are planning to leave here reasonably early tomorrow, 86 fitting bigger pack rac as I type:yes: Need it to carry all my girly stuff :innocent:

I will ring Manukau tomorrow and find out how they are getting on, Honda went over this afternoon and person I spoke to seemed quite chilled n positive :cool: They will be starting it for WOF so hopefully I will know if there are any problems before we leave/get there.

Bass an AK KBer has kindly offered any techinical help saturday am if the Honda is feeling under the weather after her voyage :2thumbsup:

86 and I are a bit casual about the trip back, wondering if to take it over 2 days and enjoy the scenery and exploring :ride: Quite nice to be spontaneous and make it up as we go along:yes:

Not much use for you trying to meet up with us I know:grouphug:. Weather does look dodgy on Sunday though so maybe want to get most done saturday:lol:

How about we text you when we know more about the old girl and what time we are getting away from AK?

yeah sounds like a plan - we could always do a run over to taupo and back to napier and stay sat night in napier too, then meet ya somewhere sunday - weather dependant of course (you're right, sunday is looking a bit dodge)

thats cool then, just text us when you know more:2thumbsup

[86GSXR]

PM sent, see you saturday:scooter:

Got it, cheers! Would be good to catch up :niceone:


yeah sounds like a plan - we could always do a run over to taupo and back to napier and stay sat night in napier too, then meet ya somewhere sunday - weather dependant of course (you're right, sunday is looking a bit dodge)

thats cool then, just text us when you know more:2thumbsup

Great Jonno :yes: We'll keep an eye on the weather and see where we end up on Sat. I'm pretty sure it should be in Taupo, seems right somehow. Hope you get that rack sorted mate :)

[yod]

Got it, cheers! Would be good to catch up :niceone:



Great Jonno :yes: We'll keep an eye on the weather and see where we end up on Sat. I'm pretty sure it should be in Taupo, seems right somehow. Hope you get that rack sorted mate :)

yup, i've already stripped the RFs rear end down so I can install the rack at lunchtime, after i pick it up, then we can just come home and take off

cya when we cya

[sarahtvet]

yup, i've already stripped the RFs rear end down so I can install the rack at lunchtime, after i pick it up, then we can just come home and take off

cya when we cya

Hey Jonno can see you are keen to get away too:yes: we were both like excited kiddies and awake before 6am this morning raring to go. Should be out of palmie by 8am at the latest:soon:, depending on how long 86 is in the shower :whistle:

[ynot slow]

Weather brilliant in Taranaki even frost,clear skies,why do I need to work?

Have a safe and cheap(no tickets) trip,enjoy the scenery,will be perfect up the middle of nz.

[yod]

Hey Jonno can see you are keen to get away too:yes: we were both like excited kiddies and awake before 6am this morning raring to go. Should be out of palmie by 8am at the latest:soon:, depending on how long 86 is in the shower :whistle:


Weather brilliant in Taranaki even frost,clear skies,why do I need to work?

Have a safe and cheap(no tickets) trip,enjoy the scenery,will be perfect up the middle of nz.

fark...its another one of those inconceivably-perfect-weather-for-riding days....i know, i can see it out my office window as i sit at my desk that im chained to:weep:

[cowboyz]

I know. It is killing me. This is the worst idea I have ever had taking annual leave while the kids are on holiday. Bike been sitting in the drive for a whole week.minter of a day. no can ride. Wont be out this weekend either so have fun going napier taupo. Next weekend I will be taking girl back up to taranaki so planning a ride for that but it is going to be a touring ride. Plan is still in the making.

[yod]

I know. It is killing me. This is the worst idea I have ever had taking annual leave while the kids are on holiday. Bike been sitting in the drive for a whole week.minter of a day. no can ride. Wont be out this weekend either so have fun going napier taupo. Next weekend I will be taking girl back up to taranaki so planning a ride for that but it is going to be a touring ride. Plan is still in the making.

oooo goody goody....

[sarahtvet]

I know. It is killing me. This is the worst idea I have ever had taking annual leave while the kids are on holiday. Bike been sitting in the drive for a whole week.minter of a day. no can ride. Wont be out this weekend either so have fun going napier taupo. Next weekend I will be taking girl back up to taranaki so planning a ride for that but it is going to be a touring ride. Plan is still in the making.

Sounds fun, I hope the Honda is released by then!!! :yes:

You missed out on a fab trip but we will be up there again soon I am sure. Trying to plan a coromandel weekend already:yes:

Not sure how ride report ended up on Manawatu thread but hey ho

[86GSXR]

Weather brilliant in Taranaki even frost,clear skies,why do I need to work?

Have a safe and cheap(no tickets) trip,enjoy the scenery,will be perfect up the middle of nz.


fark...its another one of those inconceivably-perfect-weather-for-riding days....i know, i can see it out my office window as i sit at my desk that im chained to:weep:


I know. It is killing me. This is the worst idea I have ever had taking annual leave while the kids are on holiday. Bike been sitting in the drive for a whole week.minter of a day. no can ride. Wont be out this weekend either so have fun going napier taupo. Next weekend I will be taking girl back up to taranaki so planning a ride for that but it is going to be a touring ride. Plan is still in the making.

I felt your pain guys :weep: