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    Great event, thanks to the organisers and everyone who turned up. Probably one of the biggest bike gatherings seen in this country. Longest road convoy as well.
    Experience......something you get just after you needed it

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    What did I learn, when you get thousands of bikes descend on you in a very short time, there is little you can plan for, Thank the Gods of Motorcycling that Motorcyclists can use their brains, when they have to.

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    The "use the left lane only" plan for the bit from Papakowhai didn't come off.

    Thank gawd
    Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elysium View Post
    So anyone have numbers on how many bikers turned up?
    lost count after 10 as I wasn't wear my jandels

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    Quote Originally Posted by SpankMe View Post
    Do the next one on a weekend so many others (including myself) can attend. Pissed I couldn't come to this one, as many others will be.
    Plenty of weekend activity coming up. Had to be midweek or the policritters wouldn't have been there. No pint abusng someone if they don't know they're being abused


    Elysium So anyone have numbers on how many bikers turned up?
    Police *unofficially* counted 4600 , with more still arrinving at papawozzaname. Another 2000 at the duck pond and maybe 500 at Molesworth St.

    I reckon over 7000, and 800 people (pillions etc0

    Anyone of the "I ain't going to the Stadium" figured it out yet?
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    This world has lost it's drive, everybody just wants to fit in the be the norm as it were.
    Quote Originally Posted by Phil Vincent
    The manufacturers go to a lot of trouble to find out what the average rider prefers, because the maker who guesses closest to the average preference gets the largest sales. But the average rider is mainly interested in silly (as opposed to useful) “goodies” to try to kid the public that he is riding a racer

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    Apparently we caused a 25 kilometre traffic jam!
    Quote Originally Posted by skidmark
    This world has lost it's drive, everybody just wants to fit in the be the norm as it were.
    Quote Originally Posted by Phil Vincent
    The manufacturers go to a lot of trouble to find out what the average rider prefers, because the maker who guesses closest to the average preference gets the largest sales. But the average rider is mainly interested in silly (as opposed to useful) “goodies” to try to kid the public that he is riding a racer

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    By my crude calculations, if we all travelled @ 70kph, 5,000 bikers at an average of 20km/l -> we were burning 17.5 tonnes of fuel per hour!!!! Damn impressive!
    Quote Originally Posted by FlangMaster
    I had a strange dream myself. You know that game some folk play on the streets where they toss coins at the wall and what not? In my dream they were tossing my semi hardened stool at the wall. I shit you not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by davebullet View Post
    By my crude calculations, if we all travelled @ 70kph, 5,000 bikers at an average of 20km/l -> we were burning 17.5 tonnes of fuel per hour!!!! Damn impressive!
    And it took nearly an hour to get from papakowhai rd to the stadium! The urban motorway was chocker!

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    Quote Originally Posted by huff3r View Post
    So keen for a re-run, and maybe make it a decent rally even, with less pressure on time! It took forever to get away from Papakowhai, i dont think thhe organisers expected quite the numbers they got at that point!
    Amen

    You all represented way better than expected

    Papakowhai was expected to be 2000 bikes...you assholes had 3,100 and my counter quit at that point and told me to fuck off her thumb was sore!

    WELL FUCKIN DONE!!!!!!!!!!
    Just ride.

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    well done to all those organising and who turned out. The news bulletins have been very positive and several people asked me about the levy while I was out and about today. This was directly linked to the news coverage.

    great job

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    Quote Originally Posted by mashman View Post
    I gotta call bollocks on that one as i got to watch them for a couple of hours... they were just quite relaxed, checkin some bikes out... One of the guys asked me where the toilets where and then commented he was a little wary to go in there because it might contain a group of pissed off hairy arsed bikers... i told him if he got lucky George Michael would be in there... jolly fine chap... so i'm callin bollocks... maybe gave enough of a presence and that's why several bikes started to disappear after a couple of minutes...
    agreed,the police were checkin out the bikes just like we were.I didnt see and inspection of warrants or regaos,or any evidence of ticket books

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    Quote Originally Posted by TomJ View Post
    well done to all those organising and who turned out. The news bulletins have been very positive and several people asked me about the levy while I was out and about today. This was directly linked to the news coverage.

    great job
    Yup,
    Got asked about it everywhere I stopped on the way home too.....

    As for Lesson Learnt....
    Well, despite the majority of motorcyclists being well behaved, CAGE drivers still don't know how to react when there is a faster vehicle behind them on the motorway... This lead to a bit of use of the emergency lanes!

    Also, people should remember what is written all over their back when they display poor riding... Although these particular people probably don't give a Fcuk!

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    my lesson for today:
    follow couples on harleys .. many fine arses to perv at

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    Quote Originally Posted by TerminalAddict View Post
    my lesson for today:
    follow couples on harleys .. many fine arses to perv at
    And a lesson for the harley owners... invest in a topbox/backrest just to end his fun

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    Quote Originally Posted by BMWST? View Post
    agreed,the police were checkin out the bikes just like we were.I didnt see and inspection of warrants or regaos,or any evidence of ticket books
    Yup, that's all they were doing.
    HOWEVER, if i was a copper, i would have parked my car on the Himitangi straights.... Crikey, some of the speeds were above Take Off for most aircraft out of Ohakea.... Some of those big V Twins are loud at full throttle top gear and pulling 3200 RPM! Almost like a third of a Bell 47.....

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