Adventure/Dual Purpose Bikes

any of you go riding to far north ,kiataia etc ,cape reinga,if so do you ride throught state highway 10 thought mangonui ?

if u havent you should its a good ride up there
stop off at taipa for lunch or stop for night stay at Taipa Bay Resort.

www.taipabay.co.nz

COME AND EXPERIENCE THE BEST BACK ROADS THE NORTH HAS TO OFFER. 2 DAYS OF FANTASTIC RIDING ON WINDY METAL ROADS THROUGH NATIVE FORESTS & FARM LAND, VISITING BEACHES AND TRAVELLING ON SOME OF THE NORTHS MOST REMOTE ROADS. RIDE WILL START AT HIKURANGI ON SAT THE 11TH APRIL. HEADING NORTH VIA THE EAST COAST AND RETURNING TO WHANGAREI THAT EVENING. SUNDAY WE HEAD SOUTH-WEST, FINISHING AT WAIPU. FOR THOSE WHO LIVE SOUTH YOU CAN RIDE HOME FROM THERE, OTHERWISE A SHORT 20 MINUTE RIDE BACK TO WHANGAREI ...

I had the most amazing time trail riding in Waihi!

Your guide, Stuart, is a great guy, a half or full days ride is very reasonable; you get to do at least two different trails and more and he pretty much has all the equipment one would need.

Website: www.overthetopadventures.co.nz

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Email: stuart@overthetopadventures.co.nz

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Cell: 021 205 7266

You will not regret it!

Laura ...

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We wake up to the sound of drills and I am a bit surprised with our surroundings. When we arrived at our new friend's place it was already dark, and now with the morning light beating down on us we get a real sense of where we are.





We look over and notice the neighbor already up and working on his house, which is only the wooden frame.


"Good morning!" ...

"Hilary, come on, bring your bike!"


Exhausted, I push my motorcycle towards Radek's voice. I turn a corner around some trees and I'm surprised to see him standing next to an old woman, dressed in black with a scarf on tied around her head, sitting on a tree stump in front of a roughly built one room house.





She smiles at me, with more than a ...

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trying again with pictures....test. Can't do the image thing, and am sufficiently pissed off now and out of computer battery that I don't feel like writing. Wish this was easier.

Originally Posted by Trudes

I just realised that I have been having so much fun reading other people's reports of their adventures at Taupo that I hadn't gotten around to writing one of my own

Our weekend started early, Wednesday to be exact with a ride through to Wairoa in the Hawkes Bay to spend Xmas with family. Pissed down the whole way except for about an hour, luckily from Napier to Lake Tutira, the best bit of the trip!

Spent Xmas in Wairoa then rode through to Gisborne on

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anyone out tere keen for ride today? look at the weather dam its hot! drop me a txt if ur keen? im based on the shore...thinking about rideing to have lunch out muriwai beach or maybe highway 16 and down to puhoi pub? txt 0272387012 eddy planing to leave 12pm today