bear
13th March 2005, 07:44
Hi guys,
Popped into Sawyers early on Saturday morning, discovered they were having a sale on their jackets, couldn't resist and purchased a new leather jacket, cheers Jeff. Beautiful day, so thought I'd better take the new jacket for a spin.
Headed up to Palmerston North, via SH1 (getting out of Wellington is always a pain), through Shannon and onto Palmy, such a great day could see Ruapehu. Nice ride, straight forward enough.
Quick stop for subway, a chap from a m/c club up that way stopped for a chat, and over the saddle to Woodville. Nice little track.
Normally the run back through the Wairarapa is quite dull - long straight roads. But this time I really enjoyed it (could have been the jacket). Wasn't hurling along, but a good average speed was kept.
The bypass for Masterton is good, but they should have one for Caterton as well, takes ages to get through, and the cars seem to travel at 20-30kph, instead of 50.
Had plenty of return waves - would put at 95%.
It's funny how transit keeps putting up 85/95 kph signs on corners that have been 100 for years, are people becoming worse drivers?
Not a very exciting write up, but it was such great weather I thought I would share. A few pics attached.
Cheers,
Bear
Popped into Sawyers early on Saturday morning, discovered they were having a sale on their jackets, couldn't resist and purchased a new leather jacket, cheers Jeff. Beautiful day, so thought I'd better take the new jacket for a spin.
Headed up to Palmerston North, via SH1 (getting out of Wellington is always a pain), through Shannon and onto Palmy, such a great day could see Ruapehu. Nice ride, straight forward enough.
Quick stop for subway, a chap from a m/c club up that way stopped for a chat, and over the saddle to Woodville. Nice little track.
Normally the run back through the Wairarapa is quite dull - long straight roads. But this time I really enjoyed it (could have been the jacket). Wasn't hurling along, but a good average speed was kept.
The bypass for Masterton is good, but they should have one for Caterton as well, takes ages to get through, and the cars seem to travel at 20-30kph, instead of 50.
Had plenty of return waves - would put at 95%.
It's funny how transit keeps putting up 85/95 kph signs on corners that have been 100 for years, are people becoming worse drivers?
Not a very exciting write up, but it was such great weather I thought I would share. A few pics attached.
Cheers,
Bear