gijoe1313
3rd October 2008, 20:38
Well, it has been a while since I have been on a pootling tour worthy enough for me to write up (I go on other long sojourns, but that is another matter entirely!)
These last few months I have been champing at the bit, my persona has been cranky and I have felt a very distinct sense of dis-ease ... I worked it out ... my milage and pootling form has been down of late!
Damn school and trying to edjumacate the inmates has eaten into my riding time! :weep:
So ... now its the school hols, I decided to make up for it ...
Tuesday 30th
Randomly decided to ride somewhere, since it was 10am I felt like brunch and rode to Tauranga ... txtd DMNTD I was in the area and felt like seeing where he worked, blardy hell ... too long for reply so I fuel up and head off to Rotovegas ... from there worked around to Opotiki ... and then decided to do the East Cape, right around to Tologa Bay and into Gizzy ... by this time night had fallen and rain started to add its charm to night riding (lucky I had a rain suit!)
Ran out of gas :sweatdrop after doing the twisties from Gisborne to god knows where, but sputtered to a stop outside a random house, I ask the kind people inside for some spare gas and whaddya know! 10 more litres of go-gas and I'm on the move again (Thanks to that man called Dan, when I'm out that way again, I'll make sure to drop in again to say thanks once more! :lol:)
I think it was where you can make the choice to go North or South ... I decided to head back up North and via Taupo and then onto a warm beckoning bed ... which I reached at 3.30am ... 1200km on the trot ... I missed that feeling of just riding for ridings sake! :woohoo:
Total Bikes seen : 2
Total Milage : 1200km (give or take)
Route taken :
SH22 to Ngaruawahia
Ngaruawahia to Raglan
Raglan to the 'Tron
'Tron to Tauranga
Tauranga to Rotovegas
Rotovegas to Opotiki
Opotiki to Tologa Bay
Tologa Bay to Gisborne
Gisborne to Taupo (I think I ran out of gas somewhere here :doh:)
Taupo to Tokoroa
Tokoroa to Tirau
Tirau to Cambridge
Cambridge to 'Tron
'Tron to warm beddy bye byes ...
In general the cagers in the East Cape are a good bunch, they let you go by and they also drive bloody well (didn't see a single one cut over the white line o'doom), roads are in great condition and the people are friendly (the people at Tologa bay had a few questions about the Big Ol'Hornet!) ... top marks to Dan who saved me from pushing the ride to a servo (turns out I had run out 5 minutes to a town with a servo in it :doh:)
These last few months I have been champing at the bit, my persona has been cranky and I have felt a very distinct sense of dis-ease ... I worked it out ... my milage and pootling form has been down of late!
Damn school and trying to edjumacate the inmates has eaten into my riding time! :weep:
So ... now its the school hols, I decided to make up for it ...
Tuesday 30th
Randomly decided to ride somewhere, since it was 10am I felt like brunch and rode to Tauranga ... txtd DMNTD I was in the area and felt like seeing where he worked, blardy hell ... too long for reply so I fuel up and head off to Rotovegas ... from there worked around to Opotiki ... and then decided to do the East Cape, right around to Tologa Bay and into Gizzy ... by this time night had fallen and rain started to add its charm to night riding (lucky I had a rain suit!)
Ran out of gas :sweatdrop after doing the twisties from Gisborne to god knows where, but sputtered to a stop outside a random house, I ask the kind people inside for some spare gas and whaddya know! 10 more litres of go-gas and I'm on the move again (Thanks to that man called Dan, when I'm out that way again, I'll make sure to drop in again to say thanks once more! :lol:)
I think it was where you can make the choice to go North or South ... I decided to head back up North and via Taupo and then onto a warm beckoning bed ... which I reached at 3.30am ... 1200km on the trot ... I missed that feeling of just riding for ridings sake! :woohoo:
Total Bikes seen : 2
Total Milage : 1200km (give or take)
Route taken :
SH22 to Ngaruawahia
Ngaruawahia to Raglan
Raglan to the 'Tron
'Tron to Tauranga
Tauranga to Rotovegas
Rotovegas to Opotiki
Opotiki to Tologa Bay
Tologa Bay to Gisborne
Gisborne to Taupo (I think I ran out of gas somewhere here :doh:)
Taupo to Tokoroa
Tokoroa to Tirau
Tirau to Cambridge
Cambridge to 'Tron
'Tron to warm beddy bye byes ...
In general the cagers in the East Cape are a good bunch, they let you go by and they also drive bloody well (didn't see a single one cut over the white line o'doom), roads are in great condition and the people are friendly (the people at Tologa bay had a few questions about the Big Ol'Hornet!) ... top marks to Dan who saved me from pushing the ride to a servo (turns out I had run out 5 minutes to a town with a servo in it :doh:)