The Capital 1,000km Cruise

[StoneY]

NO van is quicker than a buell

Except your one when the Buell is inside, right????
oh, no of course thats an Equal speed,

[yod]

finaly meet the right guy?

two l's

n00b

[Meanie]

What a fantastic day, couldnt have asked for better weather or company
Left Palmerston North at 5.0 am and got home at 6.30. A couple of interseting moments, the first on Eight mile where someone decided to dump a river on the road and the second on the desert road with a police car doing a u turn in front of us resulting in an apology from the oficer and the twat in his gold colour sabaru that was tailgating us getting a ticket. I have to admit it brought a smile to my face when the said twat barreled past us on one of the straights and just as he he got beside me my radar detector went nuts. There is a god
Thanks John and your sponsers for what was an awesome day, well organised and planned even got the weather perfect
The Paraparas were simply awesome in the dry and daylight. I was having a leak at the Ratahei service station when i heard a bike pull up in the forcourt, a moments silence then a loud woohoo, My thoughts exactly
FMS

[chanceyy]

could not agree more Meanie I was riding when came across said river & fark that was not riding two up through that so quick swap & back to pillion seat :

Paraparas were in excellent condition .. just had slight issues with cramp

Scenery from Te Kawa down to Tokaanu lovely & chilled out on the back having a nice convo with Grubb.

then rode again from Turangi thorugh the dessert road, no cops hardly any cars brilliant run back down fr Te Kawa really

great to have dinner waiting at marks place

and thanks to the Duck 01 for sharing the riding duties so I could complete the event .. awesome

the company blardy fantastic as always love riding with you guys when you wait

[banditrider]

And more good news for the Manawatu riders: John entrusted me with the ride certificates and this year I managed to get them home without drowning them. Although Mark (Bluebandito) had similar issues with his drink this time around.

Those I've got are:

• Chanceyy
• Rottidog
• 86GSXR
• Monamie
• Zahria
• Mark Taylor (not sure we've met?)

Let me know how we can hook up or if you're coming to a FNR or the Hikoi and I'll pas them onto ya.

[Owl]

[*]Rottidog

You're killing me Andrew!

[chanceyy]

And more good news for the Manawatu riders: John entrusted me with the ride certificates and this year I managed to get them home without drowning them. Although Mark (Bluebandito) had similar issues with his drink this time around.

Those I've got are:

• Chanceyy
• Rottidog
• 86GSXR
• Monamie
• Zahria
• Mark Taylor (not sure we've met?)

errr that would be Rottiguy and Mark is the Duck01


Let me know how we can hook up or if you're coming to a FNR or the Hikoi and I'll pas them onto ya.

can give ours to Al & Mo will catch up with them sooner than later, good to hear they did not go swimming this time

[NZsarge]

No such place! According to Sarge, it's Te Kawasaki

Well done Andrew!

Yeah aye... My iPhone knows it's stuff man!

[banditrider]

You're killing me Andrew!

Dagnabbit, I'm going back to bed. Apologies Colin!

[Monamie]

Certainly lots of Wahoo moments-and many thoughts about the lovely country we live in and how easy it is for us to jump on our bikes for a bit of a visual recharge after the week.

The Latte crew had an awesome day-we can report that the coffees at Wildbean are consistant across most of the North Island Thanks for the opportunity to sample them again John and Ann-excellent organisation and route (we only got lost once....didn't we Ducky)

Great company again .....roll on next year.

[Nasty]

Well I did it ... thanks Elle for joining me ... you helped me stick it out!!

Ride Report here http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...post1129502242

[chanceyy]

Certainly lots of Wahoo moments-and many thoughts about the lovely country we live in and how easy it is for us to jump on our bikes for a bit of a visual recharge after the week.

The Latte crew had an awesome day-we can report that the coffees at Wildbean are consistant across most of the North Island Thanks for the opportunity to sample them again John and Ann-excellent organisation and route (we only got lost once....didn't we Ducky)

Great company again .....roll on next year.

yeah was like that road is not on the instructions .. males huh at least it was only a slight deviation as speedo says 1069 this morn

must have caught every bug known to man after we left you yesterday & coming home aft dinner last nite, front of the bike needs a wee wash before it heads to wellywood at lunchtime

[banditrider]

Bloggy: http://banditrider.blogspot.com/2009...0k-cruise.html

[ynot slow]

Great write up Andrew.Sounded a great route to use.

[zahria]

Fantastic day, I really enjoyed, and was amazed that I felt reasonably fresh when we hit Petone.
My first endurance ride, and the VTR was reasonably comfortable.
I ran out of fuel 3km's from feilding, had to use my backup 5lt petrol can...
Mint roads to ride, the whole day was a real buzz.

Cheers to the organizers, I will definately do that again!