DingoZ's Blog

Wellington to Taupo and Return via Western Lake Road, taumaranui/national park/ ohakune / waiouru / sh 1 home to Welly 04/12/07 About 950km's

Well that was my first decent ride on my bike. Considering I have not been riding for very long, Big thanks to Grub, you set a really comfortable and enjoyable pace. Learnt bucket loads from watching your lines, and how and when you did things... And yes have to agree with you, it is really satisfying when things click into place and everything is smooth.

So the riders were from Rimutex - Grub - Aero - Dingoz - Jarrod, and that was the order for most of the ride.

The journey up, was very very pleasant. Loved Sh50, man that is a nice piece of road.... Nice mix of twisties and straights.

We caught up with Scott on the southern side of town, and he led us to the meet point at Bayview, for a quick refuel. The others had already gone ahead.

Napier - Taupo road, well what can I say that you all don't know already. LOVE IT, kinda road you can ride again, and again, and again, and not get tired of.

The CC ride in Taupo went off really well. Glad to see that the point is getting through. Gotta keep at this though, otherwise under the carpet it will go....

Lunch time, and the chance to meet a few more riders from KB. Then the all important decision was to be made about which way to head home via. Grub chucked out that he thought the Western Lake Rd, would be nice, so Grub, Myself and Skunk, geared up and off we headed. Straight to the servo for Grub to fill up......Oh wait - try to fill up.... I think he managed 6 times to try and get the attendant to take the pump off pre pay - to no avail. Cap closed, and off around the block to the next service station we went. Yay, full tank and we headed off. Grub in the Lead, then me, with Skunk bringing up the rear.

Now that road from Taupo to the junction Sh 4 is absolutely brilliant. Had some real fun on that one. Flicking between the corners...

Taumaranui to National Park, could not help but grin when we hit the junction at Taumaranui, as I know that particular piece of road very well, and had a blast on the bike. Fuel stop at National Park, and it was decided to go ohakune and then sh 1 home. Bit of a freshen up stop at Waiouru, (drink and some choccy was just what the doctor ordered ), and then the slog down sh 1 home.

LEVIN = Puncture for Grub........... Phone call made and trailer on the way.