Where did you go today/this weekend?

[ViragoVixen]

Hi guys,

Just curious where all the bikers have been or going to this weekend. Just did a morning trip from AKLD to Warkworth (and back) to try the new toll road and saw heaps of fellow bikers out in both directions. Meet a nice couple up in a Warkworth cafe too.

Unfortunately we couldn't do a longer trip as expecting visitors but hope everyone got out in the nice weather and let her rip.
VV

[slofox]

Went here...

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Crazy Cow Cafe in Putaruru has the best coffee I have had in an age......

[AllanB]

I got up early and when for a run to Akaroa then back to Little River for a long black (coffee ya perverts!) and a piece of ginger slice.

I timed it well as I missed the road train of cars and cars towing boats over the hill :2thumbsup

I did notice 2 speed camera vans parked up on the highway. I have to say I wonder about the point of this - a long weekend, heaps of traffic going that way and they put 2 speed cameras up. Mufti ones too (vans). If the point is to slow people down a marked police car in plain sight works extremely well. Most people getting a speed camera ticket will not know until it arrives in the post.

[portokiwi]

:sleep: Just going to work each day:sleep:

[EatOrBeEaten]

Nowhere, though I keep looking wistfully at the bike in the garage :(

[jrandom]

vtec and I had an excellent pushbike cruise yesterday which took in the Movenpick shop in Mission Bay. It's Always Better With Icecream (tm).

And I got the learn. There's a lot to be said for working as a bicycle courier; those guys are strong motherfuckers.

[EatOrBeEaten]

And I got the learn. There's a lot to be said for working as a bicycle courier; those guys are strong motherfuckers.

And a bunch of mentalists in my experience...

[ducatilover]

went to martinborough, died in the heat and decided i want mcdonalds then cruised on home. why the hell was every cage going so slow?

[Swoop]

Stayed the fuck well-away from the VERY heavy presence of bacon on the roads out west (1@bike, 5@cars, 1@ MSV on the motorway).
So I went to the Auckland war memorial museum. Haven't been there in years... OK "decades"...
Air conditioned as well.

[kahn]

:2thumbsup Just a wee ride to hoki

[jrandom]

And a bunch of mentalists in my experience...

You have experience with bicycle couriers?

[EatOrBeEaten]

You have experience with bicycle couriers?
In that I used to know a few who were part of CourierDJs and various squats in East London, yes. Mad bunch of dudes they were too, with their fixed-gear bikes and tales of speeding (in both senses of the word) through the City.

Probably not the experience you were alluding to though :P

[Krayy]

Here: http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?p=1924395

[jrandom]

Probably not the experience you were alluding to though :P

Wasn't alluding to anything in particular, just wondering how you knew of bicycle courier matters.

[EatOrBeEaten]

What can I say, I expect the worst off this site! (in the best possible way of course)

[Swoop]

What can I say, I expect the worst off this site!
You've met katman then?:clap:

[Oakie]

Out thru Halswell then thru Gebbies pass back to Chch. Observed stupid passing shit still happening ... once by a group of about twenty non-Jap bikes negotiating their way around a ute with oncoming traffic and then on Gebbies by a Jap sprots bike hurtling past another bike on the apex of a left-hander. A few minutes later we rounded a corner to find a bike lying on the road with it's owner deposited in the grass against a fence and not moving a heck of a lot. The skidmark suggests he misjudged the downhill left hander, locked it up and dumped it. Nice hole in the petrol tank meant it wasn't going much further that day (not that he was in any condition to ride anyway). Due to this particular biker's circumstances I'll not say anything more about what transpired. After about half an hour at the road side and after the cops arrived we moved on at an even more sedate pace than usual and back home for a quiet de-brief.

I am in a state of disquiet.

[Voltaire]

Down the Southern motorway, accross the river on to Huntly and more o less the skiers route to National Park, up Mt Ruapehu, round to Waioru, up to Taupo, accross to Rotorua and then TePuke ....stay the night.
Back to Auckland via Pokeno for an ice cream.
998 KMS....on a 900ss ie...and can still walk.:gob:
Tomorrow off to Puke for the classic racing.
I'll be on a Black/Gold Darmah...if it starts.:bash:

[Lucy]

Down the Southern motorway, accross the river on to Huntly and more o less the skiers route to National Park, up Mt Ruapehu, round to Waioru, up to Taupo, accross to Rotorua and then TePuke ....stay the night.
Back to Auckland via Pokeno for an ice cream.
998 KMS....on a 900ss ie...and can still walk.:gob:
Tomorrow off to Puke for the classic racing.
I'll be on a Black/Gold Darmah...if it starts.:bash:

Cor - good effort!

I finally got out today, thought I'd do an easy ride around the mountain (Raetihi, Waiouru, Rangipo, National Park and home) but also decided to take a side trip up the Tukino road, having been up as far as the 2WD car park in a bus a couple of weeks ago. I nearly made it to the Round the mountain track, but chickened out and spent a very long time getting back down!

Great day for a ride, but only saw about four other bikes. Saw heaps on Thursday gassing up at Raetihi on their way to Puke.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Since Ive bought an adventure bike, I went adventuring. Not really: just a little trial run to test my new shocks (Ohlins: O for Oarsome) and see what the beastie goes like on shingle.

Answer: better than the Hornet thats for sure. It is a great big lump of a thing, and I am a tiny wee man, so if it starts to go, I will be bailing out, but my trip to Diamond Harbour- Purau- Pigeon Bay then back to town via Devauchelle passed without real incident.

I do live in a very nice part of the world.

[gatch]

came home this morning from levin to palmy via tokomaru/linton, the fun part of the road (between shannon and tokomaru) is no more, the works are in full swing and there is diggers and trucks all over, that and the spada overheated and gave the death wail, the dream is over :(

was a shit day

[chanceyy]

came home this morning from levin to palmy via tokomaru/linton, the fun part of the road (between shannon and tokomaru) is no more, the works are in full swing and there is diggers and trucks all over, that and the spada overheated and gave the death wail, the dream is over :(

was a shit day

Ohhh bugger Gatch :( .. yeah the tossers that feel the need to fix those nice wee corners ..:nono: .. noted quite a bit of work being done last weekend :2guns:

[klingon]

...998 KMS....

Couldn't you have ridden around the block for another 2 kms before you went home? :no:

[Voltaire]

Couldn't you have ridden around the block for another 2 kms before you went home? :no:

and risk my 6 pack of Montheiths Pilsner getting warm?

:drinkup::drinkup::drinkup::drinkup::drinkup:

[gammaguy]

went to the classic racing at Pukekohe

was worth it even in the heat,:sweatdropto see and hear the Britten(V Twin four stroke)ridden by andrew stroud and the Konig(square four two stroke):yes: ridden by Rod Tingate.I honestly dont know which sounded better.

and i caught up with my mate Giovanni and his sex on wheels Gamma.:drool:

all in all a fabulous day

[TLDV8]

To find this B-24 Liberator............

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[Starky307]

Just joined moto where and hopefully this works.
Rode from Pukekohe to Raglan and then back again. Ended up being far to hot in the afternoon.

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[Naki Rat]

Out to the Whangamomona Pub and back Saturday morning. My mate needed to exchange some T-shirts he purchased on the Chateau to Plateau so what better excuse to ride in for a coffee at Whanga.

Popular place as always, we met 10 or so bikes that had stayed at the pub heading for Stratford as we headed in and a few more than that headed in for lunch as we headed out. Warm day again but too early in the day for us to suffer melting tar this time.

[chanceyy]

Balzybuell & coffeejunkie rode up fr welly .. meet in levin .. rode to Ashhurst, meet up with Rottiguy, Owl & sugilite (who came across from Dannivegas).. did the Apiti, Vinegar hill, Hunterville (lunch) then Halcombe, Feilding loop .. great day, great weather roads in pretty good nick & short stint on state highway 1 where most ppl pulled over for us & a lack of Mr :Police: meant we had a sweet trip really :yes: :clap:

[Hitcher]

Kinloch. Kawhia. Kinloch. Home. 1,500km.

[coffeejunkie]

Balzybuell & coffeejunkie rode up fr welly .. meet in levin .. rode to Ashhurst, meet up with Rottiguy, Owl & sugilite (who came across from Dannivegas).. did the Apiti, Vinegar hill, Hunterville (lunch) then Halcombe, Feilding loop .. great day, great weather roads in pretty good nick & short stint on state highway 1 where most ppl pulled over for us & a lack of Mr :Police: meant we had a sweet trip really :yes: :clap:


Was a mint day indeed, Traffic was alittle heavy heading from Levin to Wgtn,
Passing lane on forest lakes road was closed but in true Balzy style we zipped across and had the whole lane to ourselves much to the disgust of the poor cagers who were trapped in it, LOL,(points and laughs at cagers)
Must say a fair few of them did move over as we came through paecock, Made it home in one piece but are pretty buggered and will sleep well tonight

[mister.koz]

Whanga's etc about 280km - 12 or more bikes... I think...

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[cave weta]

Went to Ragamuffin man!:doobey::doobey::doobey:
got to hear Eddie Grant and UB40 live!
oh and Arrested Development, Kora, Shaggy, Two Houses Down, House of Shem and Ziggy Marley.

hot hot hot! 38degrees in the stadium - water $4 a bottle Tui $6.50 a stubbie. funny little cookies were being handed out by several nice people !
diddnt take the bike- nowhere safe to leave a bike in Rotovegas!

[chanceyy]

ohh & for some the trip has only just begun .. :yes:

another Kber is on the around NZ adventure at the mo ..

rode from Palmerston North on Friday to Hamilton via the naki

Sat from Hamilton to Kaitaia, today Cape Reianga & said fuck it lets ride to Bluff, so back to Whangarei

their trip back down will take in the eastern side of the north island

.. before getting on the ferry & making their way down one side of the island & back up the other.

3 are on the northern leg & another 4 will join for the southern leg .. watch out for those harley riders .. :whistle:

[sels1]

Hi guys,

Just curious where all the bikers have been
We went to the Vincent County rally in Central Otago. Thoroughly recommended.

[Fatt Max]

Went here...



Crazy Cow Cafe in Putaruru has the best coffee I have had in an age......

Dead right bro, have stopped there before...

[McDuck]

I went fomr whakatane to hamiltion, back to whakatane, to kawerau, whakatane, back to napier via rotorua and a short diversion around the other side of the lakes.


Only 700-800kms.