Lee's Valley in the dark before Dusty Butt

[Alpha Solo]

Anyone keen to do another Lee's Valley in the dark before the Dusty Butt?

A couple of us with our fancy new LED headlights want to test them out, I'm keen any night and I see MotoRad-ical is too.

[MotoRad-ical]

Yes, yes pick me! :banana:

27th or 28th would suit me fine. It starts getting dark round 9 ish so as an idea meet at Rangiora Mobil at 8:30 or another option is to meet up prior to that for a feed. I guess well just gauge it on whos coming and what will suit most.

[Alpha Solo]

28th or even the 29 suit me best.

Maxis fitted so i will go up there with the new head torch later to check out how it performs..

[mattsdakar]

Hey MotoRad,
Are you keen to head out via South side of Waimak to Waimak Bridge and on to Oxford?
I start work on 27th and 28th at 23:00hrs so wouldn't have time for Lee's valley that late.
Peach VW lives Oxford way anyway so would probably prefer to start Oxford end of Lee's.

Rgds matt

[Alpha Solo]

Shall we say the 29th then?

And if we start at the Mobil Rangiora then I can end the ride riding gravel almost home :niceone:

[mattsdakar]

If you are starting Rangiora then I'm out :-(
See you at Warewolves in Nelson....I'm trailering bike up this year.

[Alpha Solo]

OK Matt - lets start it at Oxford, BP Garage at 9.00pm?

[mattsdakar]

Cheers Paul for route change.
Not working the 29th so that sounds good,look forward to seeing your new beast, drool drool!
I'm still keen on doing South side of waimak if Motorad is keen.

Motorad can you PM me with your cellphone # and I'll give you a call

Cheers Matt

[MotoRad-ical]

Hey 29th is fine with me and oxford is no prob either. Is the Bp hard to find in Oxford? I havn't been that way before.

[_Shrek_]

Hey 29th is fine with me and oxford is no prob either. Is the Bp hard to find in Oxford? I havn't been that way before.

coming from town Matt its on ya right as you come into Oxford

[MotoRad-ical]

coming from town Matt its on ya right as you come into Oxford


Beauty cheers Shrek :niceone:

[cooneyr]

coming from town Matt its on ya right as you come into Oxford


Beauty cheers Shrek :niceone:

But if your going up the Waimak as MattsDakar suggested it will be on your left. Either way you will find it at the Rangiora end of Oxford on the main street. Pretty obvious if you ride the length of the main street.

Cheers R

[_Shrek_]

But if your going up the Waimak as MattsDakar suggested it will be on your left. Either way you will find it at the Rangiora end of Oxford on the main street. Pretty obvious if you ride the length of the main street.

Cheers R

thanks R
I never thiught of that until I made the post

cheers keith

[mattsdakar]

But if your going up the Waimak as MattsDakar suggested it will be on your left. Either way you will find it at the Rangiora end of Oxford on the main street. Pretty obvious if you ride the length of the main street.

Cheers R

You coming for a blast Ryan???
Caltex Russley at 19:30

[Padmei]

how long a ride are you thinking? I'm down here on hols & wouldn't mind a ride. Gravel roads or rocks?

[cooneyr]

You coming for a blast Ryan???
Caltex Russley at 19:30

I'm swanning around in Padmei's part of the country at the moment so I wont be there. Went for a 300kms blat over some hills with some of the NN locals yesterday. We need more hills and forestry in Canterbury :D

Cheers R

[Alpha Solo]

I've never timed it myself, but possibly 2.5 hours at night?

I rode it last night in the dark but nanna'd it due to dropping it the day before!

It also depends on the size of the group as I was opening all my own gates etc... and playing around with the mp3 player :third:

Be aware that all the garages in Oxford close at 7pm, so you will have to fill up in Springfield or Rangiora.

Sorry for the late reply on this, too busy riding KTM!!!

[Alpha Solo]

I've never timed it myself, but possibly 2.5 hours at night?

I rode it last night in the dark but nanna'd it due to dropping it the day before!

It also depends on the size of the group as I was opening all my own gates etc... and playing around with the mp3 player :third:

Be aware that all the garages in Oxford close at 7pm, so you will have to fill up in Springfield or Rangiora.

Sorry for the late reply on this, too busy riding KTM!!!

[Peril]

Heads up for you guys going up the south side of the Waimak,be aware that the cattle stop thingy at the end of the willows that leads to the intake forest block has been dug up..IE they've taken a digger and dug the dirt out between the steel rails,making getting a bike across,a big Beemer especially,very difficult.I'm assuming it's due to them doing forestry work in that section at the moment.

[Padmei]

sorry guys I got my back fixed today so will take it easy. I'm heading back up to Nelson on the 1st if anybody wants to come. The family is staying here til the 5th I think so anyone wanting accom over the DB give me a pm.

[Transalper]

I just got back in to Christchurch from down southish and over westish... skimmed this thread and looked to me like you guys are probably in lees valley right now?
I see the river is up on the river flow site so I am interested to know if you got through or turned around in the middle?
Give us a better idea of how accurate the site is.
Cheers
TA.

[Alpha Solo]

Hi Carl,

The river was OK today and yesterday, three of us rode through tonight and no issues... didn't seem too deep but the rocks looked bigger!

Good fast ride, the headtorches were ok if you were in front but whenever there was a dust cloud then it was like driving with your high beam on in fog. Be good in technical sections in forests etc.

[_Shrek_]

Hi Carl,

The river was OK today and yesterday, three of us rode through tonight and no issues... didn't seem too deep but the rocks looked bigger!

Good fast ride, the headtorches were ok if you were in front but whenever there was a dust cloud then it was like driving with your high beam on in fog. Be good in technical sections in forests etc.

I see you got back before me :msn-wink:

[Transalper]

Very good. The site lists the river as about 7cumecs at the moment but does say the figures are not reliable below 60cumec. I was hesitant to go through when it was over 3... until now.
Maybe it's a bit more like pot luck and I shouldn't take so much notice of them when thinking about doing the run. I suppose it is still a good ride when you are forced to turn around at Okuku Fox Creek to backtrack anyway.

[MotoRad-ical]

Ride was great last night. Good to test out all the gear etc and good to meet Mattsdakar and peachvw.

Opinion on head lamp is....... Good if someone was to ask me weather to put lights on a bike or on ya head I think I do the lights on ya bike first mounted a low as possible to get under the dust. The head lamp was great in slow technical situations like river crossings or meeting Shrek :lol: but as peachvw said if your in the dust its like turning your highbeam on in fog and actually becomes abit dangerous. Light output is about as strong as your DR650 headlight on low beam which is really what you want anyway it just gives you the advantage of being able to put the light where you want it.

River crossing was fine up Lees valley if anything the crossing up the south side of the waimak was consideribly deeper! Good fun though.

[Peril]

River crossing was fine up Lees valley if anything the crossing up the south side of the waimak was consideribly deeper! Good fun though.

Did you make it across that cattle stop I mentioned? Or did you go around it and come into the river further up?

[cooneyr]

Ride was great last night. Good to test out all the gear etc and good to meet Mattsdakar and peachvw....

Nice pink webbing on the panniers :bleh:

Cheers R

[MotoRad-ical]

Nice pink webbing on the panniers :bleh:

Cheers R

Thanks :rofl:
You should meet the guy I borrowed them off :moon:

(Once again thanks R)