Latte riders?

[Crisis management]

Being a soft cock and having pulled out of the Wobblington ride next weekend I feel an urge to go somewhere anyway...probably north (cause it's been a bit ignored really) and on sunday the 15th.

Update: the important bit is meet at the Shell Westgate petrol station ready to go at 9.00am.
For those prone to getting lost thats take the North western Motorway to the end (at Massey?) turn left and approx 1km down the road on the left is the Shell petrol station.

I'm on a black KTM990, if you need a contact number send me a PM.

Depart via back roads to Wellsford.
Wellsford towards Mangawhai (or Kaipara)
9.00 till 3ish aimless wandering and general hilarity (no falling off ok?)
Lunch is somewhere in here?
3ish till later, find a pub and tell some lies (puhoi or around matakana depending on where we're coming from)
Back roads to nw motorway and home for 6ish.

Gravel as much as possible and maybe up or down Muriwai beach if the tides are right, anyones welcome as long as you are self sufficient...ie. have a map and can read it!

Cheers
Iain

[Bass]

Damn!
Have been meaning to lean on you about just this sort of day and north of town as I haven't done much gravel up that way. However, I'm gonna be at a concert in a vineyard that day.

[Crisis management]

Damn!
Have been meaning to lean on you about just this sort of day and north of town as I haven't done much gravel up that way. However, I'm gonna be at a concert in a vineyard that day.

We're going to need to get our social calendars better organised mate!

If it's any help, I have the possibility of rides on these dates:
28 feb / 1 mar
7/8 mar
21/22 mar.

I have to check if I'm allowed out to play on these dates tho, my higher authority hasn't signed off on these yet.

[Waihou Thumper]

Out of Kaukapakapa, north to Glorit and turn off at Mt Auckland sign 4km.
This road is great! Kaipara Hills Rd, 16km all ridge riding, nice and high and all metal road :woohoo:
It comes out at Kaipara flats, turn right to got to Dome Valley.....

Good ride, recommend it...

[tri boy]

Pukekohe classic's for me on Sunday.
Kim Newcombs Konig et all.:woohoo:

[Motu]

Sounds like a street bike ride....I could bring my tourer.I haven't been north of Auckland since moving to the Waikato - I miss Kaipara Hills Rd.I will see how my calendar pans out....

[Crisis management]

This road is great! Kaipara Hills Rd, 16km all ridge riding, nice and high and all metal road :woohoo:
...

Certainly one of the best in that area, it's a pity there is so much seal around now that it is hard to string a ride together without lots of boring bits. Thanks for the reminder tho.


Pukekohe classic's for me on Sunday.
Kim Newcombs Konig et all.:woohoo:

There's obviously a tear in the time space continium around your place...this weekend 6/7/8 for the classics. You'll have to think of a better excuse now, however that was a 6 /10 for inventiveness.

[Bass]

We're going to need to get our social calendars better organised mate!

If it's any help, I have the possibility of rides on these dates:
28 feb / 1 mar
7/8 mar
21/22 mar.

I have to check if I'm allowed out to play on these dates tho, my higher authority hasn't signed off on these yet.

Thanks.
Will get back to you on that.


Pukekohe classic's for me on Sunday.
Kim Newcombs Konig et all.:woohoo:

Umm... I may have it all wrong - I often do, but I thought Classics at Puke was this weekend and Crisis is talking about the 15th.
Please sort me out if I have this screwed up as I intend getting to the classics for the Sunday at least.

Edit: Just checked and it appears that I have it right for once. Also, that it pays to read the whole thread before posting. Doh!

[tri boy]

Damn, oops and buggar. Someone remove the dozen eggs dripping down my noggin.:blank::o

(you knew i could travel through time on Fatty the Tardis?, right?<_<
Best I attend, so you can laugh at the fool with the slow brain. (and slow, but pretty bike).

[trustme]

Have entered into deep & meaningful negotiations with 'The War Office'.
Will alert Zeph , I suspect he will be tootling around the SI.

[tri boy]

Have entered into deep & meaningful negotiations with 'The War Office'.
Will alert Zeph , I suspect he will be tootling around the SI.

Cool.:cool: I might be able to convince John (a new scrambler owner) to attend.
Hell, we might just out number the kabooms:headbang:

[marks]

Hell, we might just out number the kabooms:headbang:

so much classier than the kateyboom's as well

[dino3310]

so much classier than the kateyboom's as well

and a hell of a lot louder,
you'll need earmuffs if ya get caught between them

[jafar]

Being a soft cock and having pulled out of the Wobblington ride next weekend I feel an urge to go somewhere anyway...probably north (cause it's been a bit ignored really) and on sunday the 15th.

So any willing accomplices (or otherwise) and helpful suggestions.......


Cunning plan goes something like this.

8.00am meet at Riverhead,
8.01 depart via back roads to Wellsford. (note the punctuality)
8.15 Wellsford towards Mangawhai (or Kaipara)
8.30 till 3ish aimless wandering and general hilarity (no falling off ok?)
Lunch is somewhere in here?
3ish till later, find a pub and tell some lies (puhoi or around matakana depending on where we're coming from)
Back roads to nw motorway and home for 6ish.

Gravel as much as possible and maybe up or down Muriwai beach if the tides are right, anyones welcome as long as you are self sufficient...ie. have a map and can read it!

Cheers
Iain

8.00 @ where :eek5:
So many Trumpets & Kabooms, my liddle beemer will be lost:Oops:

[dino3310]

i might shoot up for the day mate, i'll listen out for the fatties roar and meet them at taupiri:laugh:

[johannvr]

Think I may well be in - will confirm soon.

Johann

[Crisis management]

so much classier than the kateyboom's as well

You'll keep.....Jezza, run him over next weekend.


8.00 @ where :eek5:

Riverhead?
I will actually post something sensible with a faint plan / destination before next weekend, fear not. (maybe be slightly concerned)


i might shoot up for the day mate, i'll listen out for the fatties roar and meet them at taupiri:laugh:

Be good if you could, I just need to adjust the start time so Brent has to get up at 5am to get there.....hamiltron to aucks on a fatty, allow 2.5 hours?

[jafar]

Riverhead?
I will actually post something sensible with a faint plan / destination before next weekend, fear not. (maybe be slightly concerned)

Found it on a map,:shit: don't the maori's still wear grass skirts out there? :shutup:

[Motu]

Is yor date firm at this stage? I'm going to go with the Blast From the Past ride on the 15th - my bike fits in and I don't have to get up early.But my riding will fit in better with this ride....although I'll have to get up real early or stay overnight in Jafaland.

[Crisis management]

Is yor date firm at this stage?

The 15th is the only date I have free so thats firm, with the amount of interest from the southern riders I was thinking of say 9 or 9.30 start and meeting at the gas station at the top of the north western motorway to make it "findable", any coments?

Plan is: north towards wellsford, detour via kaipara flats & kaipara flats road to Okahukura peninsula (southern Kaipara harbour), to Port Albert then over to mangawai heads...lunch?
Follow east coast down towards pakiri, to wellsford, HW 16 then backroads to Puhoi (pub) then either motorway south of backroads back to north western motorway.

Fairly adjustable if time runs short but gives a reasonable chance of gravel roads and odd places to end up in.

Feedback about the start time please!

Iain

[jafar]

The 15th is the only date I have free so thats firm, with the amount of interest from the southern riders I was thinking of say 9 or 9.30 start and meeting at the gas station at the top of the north western motorway to make it "findable", any coments?

Plan is: north towards wellsford, detour via kaipara flats & kaipara flats road to Okahukura peninsula (southern Kaipara harbour), to Port Albert then over to mangawai heads...lunch?
Follow east coast down towards pakiri, to wellsford, HW 16 then backroads to Puhoi (pub) then either motorway south of backroads back to north western motorway.

Fairly adjustable if time runs short but gives a reasonable chance of gravel roads and odd places to end up in.

Feedback about the start time please!

Iain

9.00am @ the Shell westgate would be fine with me.;)

[Crisis management]

Updated the first post...the important bit is meet at the Shell Westgate petrol station ready to go at 9.00am.
For those prone to getting lost thats take the North western Motorway to the end (at Massey?) turn left and approx 1km down the road on the left is the Shell petrol station.

I'm on a black KTM990, if you need a contact number send me a PM.

[tri boy]

I'm still in.
Saw john, the new scrambler dude, and if it fits his w/end, he is in too.
Saw another sthern scrambler rider outside the shop today. (Graham on line here i think).
Talked for a bit, then split.
We are taking over, resistance is useless, join the collective. Seven of Nine is Hot.

Edit. Got a txt from john. He's in. Woot! Matt black scrambler joins the convoy.
(now to drag a few other Whaka Too nanna's along. Dino..............?
Maybe Huntly Shell could be a meet point for Waikato boys n girls, say 7ish?

[dino3310]

missus is crook.:shit::no:
if she's feeling up to lookin after the rug rats on sunday i'll b there at 7:00
if she aint i'll flick you a txt.

[johannvr]

I'm out - sorry Iain. Was keen, but it ain't gonna be possible.

*((*^*&%##$*(*

[Laxi]

Damn!
Have been meaning to lean on you about just this sort of day and north of town as I haven't done much gravel up that way. However, I'm gonna be at a concert in a vineyard that day.
Lattes?? Vineyards?? is this for real or a piss take?

[Crisis management]

missus is crook.:shit::no:
if she's feeling up to lookin after the rug rats on sunday i'll b there at 7:00
if she aint i'll flick you a txt.

Hope you can make it Deano, I've arranged for sunshine just for you!


Lattes?? Vineyards?? is this for real or a piss take?

Hey, we're sensitive new age males up here, and an adventure ride allows us the excuse to give up the soy milk for a day and drink real coffee. :shit:

[tri boy]

Fatty is ready to roll.:headbang:
Crusty Demons Tour manager came into work yesterday looking for various help, so I offered to do a double backflip off the ramp to entertain the crowd, but since I couldn't guarantee a clean landing, he politely said my services wouldn't be needed:rolleyes:

Get that sunshine sorted Ian, I'm on Scorpians, and mud and slush isn't there best friends.:(

[Crisis management]

Get that sunshine sorted Ian, I'm on Scorpians, and mud and slush isn't there best friends.:(

The thought of fatty launching off a ramp is truly terrifying.....there is a fairly long & high wharf at Port Albert you could have a practice on tomorrow tho...I'll bring a camera! :niceone:

Sunshine is on order but I could use some physical proof of it soon please???? You will be ok on the scorpions as it's all gravel roads and as long as we get a couple of hours of no rain this will dry out well.

[trustme]

1.20 pm rain has stopped , roads will be dry & best of all ,FA dust.
Looks like 3 of us with fattitude tomorrow. The empire strikes back.

[dino3310]

Looks like 3 of us with fattitude tomorrow. The empire strikes back.

i guess you could say brent looks like an older Han Solo :lol:
now you just gotta figure out who's gonna be luke and princess lea:lol: :lol:

[PeteJ]

OK, folks - I and the DR will see yez tomorrow. Biking Basic has to be represented.

[tri boy]

You saying I stroke my own Wookie?:lol:

[dino3310]

You saying I stroke my own Wookie?:lol:
:clap:
i was thinking more ewok than wookie.

any more scramblers in the mix and we'll be needing grade 5 earmuffs

[jafar]

Oil bee thar. :whocares:

[tri boy]

Home safe n sound. Cheers Ian.
Will write something up later.
Guts needs feeding.

[trustme]

Thanks Ian, we will have to do it again soon,. Maybe an overnighter to Bayleys Beach or the Kai Iwi Lakes.

[Crisis management]

Maybe an overnighter to Bayleys Beach or the Kai Iwi Lakes.

Sounds interesting, all those northern gravel roads are calling!

Thanks guys, it was a good day out, about 500kms for me so you waikato boys must have racked up a bit.....anyone got any pics?
I carefully forgot to take any as I was too busy doing battle with Pete, the last bit home on Krippner got "interesting" in a couple of places.

[PeteJ]

Sounds interesting, all those northern gravel roads are calling!

Thanks guys, it was a good day out, about 500kms for me so you waikato boys must have racked up a bit.....anyone got any pics?
I carefully forgot to take any as I was too busy doing battle with Pete, the last bit home on Krippner got "interesting" in a couple of places.


1. We can go even further north if you like, Ian. We could base a weekend at my place at Russell.

2. Yeah, I looked in my mirror at you too long and looked back at the road to see the corner a helluva lot closer than I thought. I think your near-oops was much the same when I was following you.

3. Me, too, with the camera, which was in my bag the whole time. I always forget to take pics. My camera does 5000km/pic, I think.

4. A good, fun, ride, and great company. Thanks, guys.

PS I have done a real latte ride, you know: www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=355891

[Crisis management]

I think your near-oops was much the same when I was following you.


No, no, no, no, mine was "lets not close the throttle and try applying the brakes" then "why the fuck is this thing not slowing down, followed by, where's that corner gone then?" Clearly not my finest moment. :wacko:

Far north ride sounds good, can Paul still get his Latte up there?

[trustme]

You mean you can't get them up there. Well !! That's fucked the whole deal.

[PeteJ]

You can, and at a choice of waterfront places, too.

Without even leaving Russell, so you won't have to clean the dirt off your tyres, either.

[jafar]

Excellent ride guy's , I have a few pic's but havn't had time to load them as yet :Oops: I'll get there in the next few days ;)