mbazza's Blog

21 riders on a first ride.

Great weather, bikes, company and riding. The first of many?

201.4km for a fuel cost of $20.11, not too bad (98).

See the write up here. . . .
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...03#post1608503

Also on ride: normajean, Daffyd & XKNUTS turned up.

Cheers . . . . .

After work today I had to make a quick trip to Dunedin 165km return in the golden hour before dark. Because of the need to carry much we took my wife's vehicle. Temperature 12 degrees C, no wind. So still that eflections on lake Waihola (no time to stop to collect a photo) were eye catching.
That's not what I hate! It's the 23 lucky riders of all sorts enjoying an excellent evening ride!
All sorts of bikes, in the dusk light and the dark. Solos, groups of two and three and bowling ...

The Big River Bikers were to have their first road run today. I didn't even make the start!
I was away at dawn to capture some of the snow scenes which had accumulated in the southerly over night.
I wasn't keen on the lunch ride from Balclutha to Port Chalmers from the time Metservice sent me an e-mail on the subject of weather warnings yesterday afternoon which warned me about gales here on the east coast to the tune of 120 kph. We got that, well a few gusts of that speed.
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I missed the blokes from Balclutha and set off along, no mates . . . story of my life. The first bikes I saw were an hour later at Fruitlands and I just passed on by as I was carrying some speed. It wasn't till later I realised that I'd passed Alan & Deter! The blokes I'd missed in Clutha.


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My favourite approach from Alexandra is to Chatto Creek Pub where I had a quick bite of lunch and was the only bike there for 15 minutes ...