South Auckland gravel bash

**Devil** · 11th July 2009, 11:52

Originally Posted by Crisis management

OK, latest weather shows heavy rain in the morning continuing until around lunchtime with strong southerlies, wet and cold.

With that in mind I am bravely staying in bed and watching the rain from the luxury of my house.

This ride is cancelled.

Excellent (err for me).
How bout next weekend?

**Bass** · 11th July 2009, 11:56

Originally Posted by Crisis management

With that in mind I am bravely staying in bed and watching the rain from the luxury of my house.

Roger that.
However, I will head out for a shorter version if the weather starts to clear later in the morning, for anyone interested.

**Waihou Thumper** · 11th July 2009, 12:06

Originally Posted by Crisis management

This ride is cancelled.

Gale force winds here in Te Aroha, has not rained though, not a drop.....
Looks like it might be up in the Coromandel though and it is heading this way...

Disappointing....

**johannvr** · 11th July 2009, 13:47

Same here nothwest of Jaffaland - had been looking average to Ok so far this morning, but now rapidly turning to custard - wind's gradually picking up & it's wet ... very ...

Going to go & fill the LPG bottles now

**Crisis management** · 11th July 2009, 14:15

I think the tipping point for me was the page from Coastguard advising of 70 knot winds and the phone call asking if I could help shift the rescue boat to a safer berth!
And I'm the call out skipper for tonight.......

**tri boy** · 11th July 2009, 14:28

Spent the last five hours on a brush cutter, and saw, fighting the left side of the drive way,

so even if i wanted to ride in the rapidly approaching shitty weather, I couldn't.

body is bruised, shattered, and knackered.

where did my youthful energy go to?

(will take me several days to recover

)
good call Ian.

**rogerh** · 11th July 2009, 16:31

Well I managed to get the bike running, but it needs a bit of tuning. And the weather here is rapidly turning to crap. Has warmed up a bit, but looks like rain setting in, and getting windy.

May need to go for a short ride to adjust the carb if it clears later tomorrow.

**Taz** · 11th July 2009, 16:37

Bloody soft cocks..... I'm going out on a boat trip tomorrow.

**Crisis management** · 11th July 2009, 18:04

Originally Posted by Anthrax

Bloody soft cocks..... I'm going out on a boat trip tomorrow.

Yeah but you're about 800kms south of here.

**Waihou Thumper** · 11th July 2009, 18:11

Here in the Waikato and is is Farkin terrible.....Rain is horizontal and gusting!
I am right under Mt Te Aroha, base of the Kaimais....
I know I am going to get power cuts tonight if this keeps up...
No way am I going out in this, but it will blow over and by lunchtime tomorrow it will be better, hopefully...

Hey Anthrax....enjoy it while you can, it is heading your way, and my private bits are none of your concern, it is between me and my doctor...

Have a great Saturday night, I will be, battening down the hatches...

**jafar** · 11th July 2009, 19:01

Next weekend sounds good though

Today's weather is pure puss

**Cary** · 12th July 2009, 13:42

Well the Tiger didn't get out of the shed but the 999 did. 200k thru Clevedon & Kaiawa and hardly a wet road in sight.....

Going to have another go next weekend Iain?

**johannvr** · 12th July 2009, 18:56

Yea - today did turn onto a bit of a tame weather event, didn't it? Looked like it was gonna turn bad last night - wish we knew.

**Crisis management** · 12th July 2009, 19:42

Well, I give up on weather predicting, my names obviously not Jim Hickey! As far as next week goes, I can't guarantee to be available for next sunday as I have a bit to get done before the MMMM but, if we're happy to plan with that in mind i'll post up another thread for the 19th.

Let me know by monday night.

**Waihou Thumper** · 12th July 2009, 19:42

Originally Posted by NZKTM

No way am I going out in this, but it will blow over and by lunchtime tomorrow it will be better, hopefully...

Have a great Saturday night, I will be, battening down the hatches...

Yep, I was right....1150am this morn, it was dry and the wind gone....
By that stage though I had lost the enthusiasm...
I did get wet, the floor in my office was a little flooded.....Bugger!