Porirua - Wairarapa Adventure Ride Friday 19 October 2007

[merv]

My Bro' is staying for an extended weekend, I've taken a couple of days off work and besides going to Col's awezome lunch today we thought we would cruise over to the Wairarapa tomorrow.

The plan is I will ride my XR250L while he rides Mrs merv's DR650SE while she is at work (poor thing) and I'm thinking we'll take in a bit of gravel and go to Pahaoa via Martinborough re-living this ride a bit http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=33831 going the back way over gravel on the return to Gladstone pub.

Re-cycled is going to come with us on his V-Strom or maybe his DR650SE.

Who is free and wants to come with us? Departure time would be no earlier than 10am from my house in Porirua and therefore something just before 10.30am we would pass Rimutex. If the weather hasn't cleared by then we might leave later and possibly shorten the trip.

Respond on here or PM me before say 9.30am on Friday if you are interested and we can arrange to meet or we will start without you.

Remember I'll only be on my 250 so this won't be a grand prix race.

We're sort of prepped, dropped in to see Richard at TSS this morning when it was pissing with rain and bought a few oil filters so have done an oil change on both these bikes this arvo in readiness. Geez when's the weather going to improve?

[marks]

Hi Merv

If I can juggle things I would be keen. I would be riding my sons dt230 as my wr is still not quite back together after I drowned it this week.

I will post here before 9.am Friday to confirm one way or the other. I am in Kapiti so I suppose I would travel down to meet you at Porirua at 10?

my cell is 0274499115

cheers

Mark

[merv]

Yeah let's see what the weather is like in the morning. Frodo is keen too so maybe 4 or 5 of us might go then. I'll check for your message in the morning and then we can organise meeting.

[marks]

I'm a definite starter (in fact I'm frothing at the mouth in anticipation - look at the stunning weather - plus I'm looking forward to actually riding my sons bike for once and not just fixing it all the time).

I presume you guys will be going over Haywards?

If so I could meet you at the coffee shop by the Challenge service station at Pahiatanui Inlet at 10ish? (I might go over Peakak Hill just to get used to the bike).

I'm flexible so let me know what works for you.

cheers


Mark

[Frodo]

Thanks for organising the ride, Merv. Merv took lots of photos and will, no doubt, post some soon, but here are some to get started.
The third photos is our lunch break at Pahaoa. The fifth one is along the Admirals Road area. And the final one is of Brian just before we descended into the Wairarapa plains.

[merv]

Thanks for organising the ride, Merv. Merv took lots of photos and will, no doubt, post some soon, but here are some to get started.

Yep I posted them over on this ride report thread http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=59259

Thanks for your photos Frodo and thanks again for your company.

I especially like your fourth photo http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=73550&d=1192827304 that one really shows the road beside the gorge.

[marks]

Thanks Merv for letting us tag along. I had a great day and will return to those tracks soon.

The gravel meister and brother...

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[James Deuce]

Brilliant photos, especially the ones with that Aprilia in them, phwoaar.

[merv]

Brilliant photos, especially the ones with that Aprilia in them, phwoaar.



Must be about time you got down and dirty with us Jim! I keep saying to people get in quick before the roads are all sealed.

[merv]

Thanks Merv for letting us tag along. I had a great day and will return to those tracks soon.



Hey its not about "letting" you tag along it was good to have the company - and that's the spirit of KB we are all stuck with this motorbike thing here like a disease we can't shake.

Your mud bog threads have probably given others inspiration. As I said on the ride I haven't bothered doing a hard out trail ride since Te Ure 2002 and though I trailered the bike to it and at least didn't have to clean the bike up to ride home, arriving home at around 10pm on a Sunday with a totally mud covered bike with no time to clean it left me feeling like "well I've done enough of this" so have kept life easy doing adventure rides since and being able to park the bikes up without worrying about the lasting damage being done to them totally caked in mud. Geez I'm showing my age and the been there done that attitude huh!

[buggsubique]

Bugger, looks like it was a good ride! I am flat out with renovations and just re-roled my PC so have only just got back online :doh:...next time then!

[Aslan]

Hi guys - i've been lurking from here in britain - envious of your rides - looks like another good one i missed - hope to ride with you all again soon - cheers aslan aka stephen o :cool:

[merv]

Bugger, looks like it was a good ride! I am flat out with renovations and just re-roled my PC so have only just got back online :doh:...next time then!

You in Wellington at the moment? - I see your profile says Blenheim soon. Because this won't be the last ride we do.

[merv]

Hi guys - i've been lurking from here in britain - envious of your rides - looks like another good one i missed - hope to ride with you all again soon - cheers aslan aka stephen o :cool:

Cheers - we were trying to remember exactly when you are due back, but sure we continue to have fun while you're enjoying yourself abroad. You remember how we enjoyed that ride last year so I thought it was about time we went down to Pahaoa again and the crew still give it the thumbs up.

[marks]

Hi guys - i've been lurking from here in britain - envious of your rides - looks like another good one i missed - hope to ride with you all again soon - cheers aslan aka stephen o :cool:

Look forward to riding with you when you get back Stephen

[buggsubique]

You in Wellington at the moment? - I see your profile says Blenheim soon. Because this won't be the last ride we do.

Yeah I'm in Papakowhai, Porirua till mid Dec. DeneFoster and I do the South Coast most weekends but I am off to Blenheim for good in Dec. Here's a pic of last weekend's epic...400 vertical metres down a goat track. Sorry about the photo quality but we were all pretty busy fighting gravity. Basically we rode most of the way through scrub from the top of the hill you see down to sea level. Talk about pucker factor!

[merv]

Who is that on the XLR is that you or another mate? Dene has the DRZ still does he? Your profile says you have a DRZ.

Dene knows Aslan and we've all met at the weekly lunches - do we know you out of your KB name?

[buggsubique]

Nah, that's Ben on the XLR (another mate - we got 250's together a couple years back to get our licenses on). Dene told me about the lunches but I work up at Trentham so it's not really a goer. Yeah that's Dene on the 400 in the photo's. My one is laying on its side in one of the pics.

Looking forward to finding new places down Marlborough, but I will miss Wellies I think. Still, I have a few weeks left here, a couple will probably even be without wife and kids!:jerry:

[tri boy]

Thats quite a hill that you decended. Well done those gents:2thumbsup.

[Aslan]

Look forward to riding with you when you get back Stephen


Cheers Mark - I've been reading of your escapades on that mighty new blue machine of yours from over here in Europe. Looks like you've been having a blast. Best regards to you and all of the others - hope to see you in November. Cheers S :2thumbsup

[marks]

DeneFoster and I do the South Coast most weekends

I have never been around Red Rocks - would love to follow you guys around there sometime.

[buggsubique]

I have never been around Red Rocks - would love to follow you guys around there sometime.

PM me your number mate and one of us can drop you a line. I won't be going for another two weeks myself as I am flat out around the home getting ready to sell. It is a hoot down there - heaps of sand, a lot of rock, a few stream crossings, a few dunes. It's closed on Sundays, so either one evening after work or early Sat is the best. The WR would love it (once you've finished flushing it:bleh:)- 80-100km/h :stupid: along some of the beaches further round where walkers and newbies in their townie SUV's can't be bothered going. Usually she's pretty busy for the first 5-6km of track on Saturdays so you've really got to go slow, give way, be polite etc. Council has put up heaps of signs on all the fun bits where they want to deny vehicle access and plant tussocks. Defies logic really considering the area is mostly rock and is always subjected to storm erosion and slips as a matter of natural course. But anyways, it's a great place for vehicles.