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  1. Christmas Clayton's BBQ

    That time of year again so let's have BBQ.....nah!!! We had a slow ride and subsidised meal at the PWMC (Petone Working Mens Club) instead. I guess one could say, “the Christmas BBQ you have when you're not actually BBQ'ing!”

    The Christmas BBQ is normally held at Kaitoki....which is somewhere near Rivendel, and we slip down to the somewhat tranquil setting for a feed. But last year we managed to combine a BBQ with a slow handling event at Karori West School. On enquiry, we learnt ...
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  2. 2012 MDA Ride

    Another great weekend with another Muscular Dystrophy Ride done and dusted. I wasn’t sure if I’d make it last week because Ann came back from Melbourne on Sunday night with a rather nasty Gastro Bug, but fortunately, apart from a slightly queezy stomach (from the thought of catching it) I made it through the week and managed to escape on Friday morning (with nothing more than the odd fart...or two).

    Once again this year, the trip started for me at the beginning of November ...
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  3. Fordell 4 Lunch

    Today was a Uly ride to Hunterville, via Fordell, which I wasn't going to go on, but maybe I would, but the weather was going to be crappy so I wasn't, and I had heaps of work to catch-up on so I wasn't, and I only managed to mow the front half of the lawns yesterday so I wasn't, and I haven't been to the gym all week so I should have gone to the gym instead so I shouldn't.....then I checked the forecast again this morning and it was really crappy......but it wasn't raining when I looked out the ...
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  4. 2012 C1KC – Part 2: A Nice Wee Daylight Ride!

    Yes well, another one gone and another one gone and another one bites the dust!

    The plan for 2012 was to do the Awakino Gorge and around the mountain (ie Mt Egmont/Taranaki), so that's what we did with a few diversions via Mauriceville, Halcombe-Stanway and Aria thrown in for good measure and to provide the 'road-less-travelled' requirement into our mix.

    The lead-up for me was to resurrect and check the route out of the archives, since it was an option drawn up 2-3 ...
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  5. 2012 C1KC – Part 1: A Brief History

    This year's C1KC (or Capital 1000Km Cruise) actually started for me about 2 to 3 years ago when playing with Google Maps &/or MapSource to come up with some options for a nice wee pootle. With the Awakino Gorge probably rating in my top 5 rides in the country, I thought, “that would be nice!” and set about seeing how it could be done within the prescribed Km's …without being predominantly a horrid boring grind up and back on SH1 & SH3. Well that can't be avoided really, but we did OK. Anyway, the ...
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  6. A Plan is Good!

    With crap forecasts predicting crap weather, I haven't done much riding lately and didn't expect to do any this weekend either. This hasn't been very desireable because after the long lay-off and witht the Capital 1,000Km Cruise on next Saturday, a few rides to harden up the butt would have been quite good, so with a hint of blue sky this morning I thought, 'Bugger the gym, I better go for a ride!'

    I figured anything up to a tank of gas (500-600Km) would be good...but where to go? ...
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  7. A Farkling Good Weekend

    Get Farkled!!...It has a sort of ring to it that might shock or perturb some non-bikers, but I'm pretty sure most most bikers would know what one was on about....although even then, I've yet to hear a the exact definition and origin of the word. Some would say it stands for Functional-Sparkle, while others insist it stands for Functional-Accessory-Really-Kool-&-Likely-Expensive?

    Having just bought my new bike, it came with three farkles, namely:
    a Rider Seat (Sculpted modified ...
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  8. Back in Black

    I had my first ride in 5 months this week.....talk about aprehensive Trev!!

    On 5th May I had a rather nasty accident that wrote-off the old bike thanks to a brief encounter with some black ice. I was extremely lucky to come out pretty much unscathed...at least on the face of it with no blood and no breaks, but it did arouse an old bike injury whereby a ruptured disc caused a bit of sciatica in my right leg. That in itself was pretty minor, but combined with a good dose of post-accident ...
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