The Excellent Adventures of.. Trudes

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 Boxing Day to see the other half of the family and then through the Waioeka Gorge, lunch in Opotiki and on to Rotorua, a bit more rain before hitting Taupo.Checked into our motel and were then joined by Dangerous, Rashika, Skunk Control, Sketchy, Str8 jacket and Koba to talk shit. SLEEP!!!!

Off to the track on Saturday morning bright and early to find Skunk and Skunk Control had kindly already set up our bikes in the garage all ready for us, so a quick hug for Pamela and then it was time to see if she'd pass scruitineering, which she flew through!! Finally it was time to pile onto the track for a scrub in session. Pammy started first pop and out we went for our first ever go at Taupo. What a wicked cool track!! I love it!!

Had two more sessions out on the track before our F4 GP, I had fun stretching Pammy's legs. I'd only ever managed to get her into top gear once before, and only for about 10 seconds, so it was good to be able to let out the reins a bit. We came somewhere nowhere near first but we had fun as always and was just pleased we finished. Beautiful yummy BBQ dinner put on by the crew at the track (thanks so much all involved!!) and then we hopped off back to the motel to sit down by the lake to have a few brewskies and tease the wildlife with Str8 and Koba.

Back at the track next morning, longer waits between races today, which was fine, a bit hotter today, so was nice to be able top slip the leathers off for an hour between sessions. Had a bit of an "oh shit" moment during the scrub in session, Pammy slipped out of third gear into second I think and just about locked up her rear end on me... put the shit up me a bit as I wasn't sure if there was something really wrong with her, but after a word with Skunk who assured me that it's just something that happens sometimes, I figured that I'd just carry on and just keep the clutch covered!

Enjoyed our first race, got a crap start, but as it turned out, not as shit as some of the others, no incidents, we finished and so I was quite pleased.
Kendog said he was tired and wanted to take some pictures for the last race, a ten lap race that he figured his teeny tiny petrol tank wouldn't get all the way through, so I offered to take "The Grey Ghost" out for a strop seeing as I'd only done one lap round the Slipway on it once. Dangerous looked sad at not being able to race in the buckets after blowing up his, so we decided that Pammy might like a Ginga to have a little ride. I was quite nervous about riding the Lonchin for some reason, but once I was out on the track I started to settle into the 4 and get comfy with the extra bit of speed and the vicious vibrations!! Sadly we didn't get to run out of petrol, the bike got a ride back to the pits like we expected it might, however I got a ride to the hospital as well.

I had a fantastic time, love the Taupo track, will so be back next year!!!
Thanks to everyone who put in so much hard work over the weekend to make this such a cool event, and especially to the folks who were there so fast after I fell off and didn't even know where I was and the ambos, you guys are awesome!!
Thanks to Skunk and Skunk Control for looking after me and my bikes when I was full of morphine and on another planet, Dangerous for giving Pammy a thrill and helping me off the track and Nasty for giving me a lift home and keeping an eye on me.
Big hugs and thanks to my dear hubby for lending me his bike and caring more about me breaking myself than the bike You!