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[Oscar]

Are any of you Ladies going to the Far North Adv Ride?

[Taz]

When is it?

[warewolf]

Nope, unfortunately its just tooo faaaaaar

[Crisis management]

Yes darling, bring your own sheep.....



So's Ducati Jim and some bloke from Wobblington that DJ has managed to insult.....fight is on friday night!

[Oscar]

Yes darling, bring your own sheep.....



So's Ducati Jim and some bloke from Wobblington that DJ has managed to insult.....fight is on friday night!

???

So you are going?

[Crisis management]

Yes Oscar I am going......apologies for the obtuse post and general confusion!

Looking at the weather, my plan of spending tomorrow meandering north on the gravel is looking more like a last minute sprint up SH1 to Whangarei trying to avoid torrential downpours, bugger.

I assume you are going, is this a KR contingent complete with brolly dollies?

[Oscar]

Yes Oscar I am going......apologies for the obtuse post and general confusion!

Looking at the weather, my plan of spending tomorrow meandering north on the gravel is looking more like a last minute sprint up SH1 to Whangarei trying to avoid torrential downpours, bugger.

I assume you are going, is this a KR contingent complete with brolly dollies?

I dunno about brolly dollies, but I am meeting Herr Fuhrer and the lads tomorrow morning at the KR Eagles Nest if you wanna ride up with us.

[Crisis management]

I dunno about brolly dollies, but I am meeting Herr Fuhrer and the lads tomorrow morning at the KR Eagles Nest if you wanna ride up with us.

Let me know what time your leaving the Eagles Nest (do I have to wear my genuine german army helmet?) and I will see whether I can make it or not, I have some work stuff to co-ordinate first thing so it will be on the basis if I'm there great, if not I will see you later in the day.

Be good to ride up with some others tho.

[george formby]

We got sun shiney up here!!

[ducatijim]

Im not going.

No, its not work related, got plenty of time on my hands now.....

Just fucked up-

1) bike transporter
2) bike run-in
3) jetting on its pipe
Dumb, just plain bloody dumb

[Crisis management]

Bloody hell Jamie, with your garage of bikes you must be able to get one going!


Anyway, I will think of you when I am wobbling around in the rain tomorrow.....next time eh?

[ducatijim]

[QUOTE=Crisis management;1129550519]Bloody hell Jamie, with your garage of bikes you must be able to get one going!


QUOTE]

You would think so eh? Actually, no garage full, just 2 and both outta action at moment!
Anyway, knowing that I was going to be a strong maybe, I did not enter by cut-off date so couldn't go even if I was preped!

Have a gr8 one Iain.

[Crisis management]

Right, been there, done that!

A brief summary for the non readers amongst us, it pissed down friday, it was sunny for saturday & sunday and 70-ish trail bikes massacred several adventure bikes on farm trails in Northland.

It as a great venue with lots of off road sections and some neat gravel roads but it was predominately a street legal trail bike event with anyone on a large (over 650cc) bike struggling and having to miss out a significant amount of the ride. If it had been wet I wouldn't have got around much of it, as a comparison, the last CCA was easier, there was more isolated tricky bits in this and more exposure to big falls if you stuffed up.

However, I had a good time, the score was about 4 falls on the right side (the extensive KTM toolkit does not contain the bloody spanners for the wing mirror nuts), once almost drowned in a stream and several "what the hell happened here!!" moments. I was glad of the suspension, the farms were very rutted and pugged out in places and I was saved by technoligy quite a few times....640 can fly too, another discovery from this weekend...the landings weren't bad either!

So, a great venue and lovely people to spend time with but (I think) there were 10 bikes actually ridden too and from the event which is probably more telling than anything else about the target market.

I would do it again but wouldn't recommend it for big bikes unless you are really confidant.

[Waihou Thumper]

Right, been there, done that!

A brief summary for the non readers amongst us, it pissed down friday, it was sunny for saturday & sunday and 70-ish trail bikes massacred several adventure bikes on farm trails in Northland.

It as a great venue with lots of off road sections and some neat gravel roads but it was predominately a street legal trail bike event with anyone on a large (over 650cc) bike struggling and having to miss out a significant amount of the ride. If it had been wet I wouldn't have got around much of it, as a comparison, the last CCA was easier, there was more isolated tricky bits in this and more exposure to big falls if you stuffed up.

However, I had a good time, the score was about 4 falls on the right side (the extensive KTM toolkit does not contain the bloody spanners for the wing mirror nuts), once almost drowned in a stream and several "what the hell happened here!!" moments. I was glad of the suspension, the farms were very rutted and pugged out in places and I was saved by technoligy quite a few times....640 can fly too, another discovery from this weekend...the landings weren't bad either!

So, a great venue and lovely people to spend time with but (I think) there were 10 bikes actually ridden too and from the event which is probably more telling than anything else about the target market.

I would do it again but wouldn't recommend it for big bikes unless you are really confidant.

Glad you had a good time Iain. Yes, those mirrors are the first to go.
Nothing worse than riding and it or both flapping around and turning like a merry go round.
I got used to taking them off and putting them into my pack, when I remembered that is...
They took a hammering and I was glad I had the protectors on the bars too...

[ducatijim]

Hmmm, that has a deja vu ring to it for me!

Such a pity my bikes were( are) broken.