RRRR (Round Ruahine Range Ride), 6-7 March 2010

**junkmanjoe** · 8th March 2009, 17:17

Home safe 791kms on the trip counter, post pics up soon.

A special thanks to BART, top man.
even stayed at backdoor to make sure every one was out.
well done my freind, look forward to your next trip.

**Eddieb** · 8th March 2009, 18:08

Looks good, I'm jealous.

I just went out for a little evening ride and saw the Transalp, KTM & 1 other heading through Petone.

**bart** · 8th March 2009, 18:34

Cheers guy. Awesome ride. You don't know how glad I am that we actually got a veiw up Takapari.

Things seemed to go as planned...................considering there weren't any plans.

Big thanks to Tony. Awesome. That beer went down a treat.

I'll sift through all the photos later on tonight.

**junkmanjoe** · 8th March 2009, 20:38

HI all.
my weekend started in masterton, meet up with the gang coming from welly.
we all headed to woodville, to catch up with the others.
up over the sadle, have a look at the wind turbines, big and cool. a bus load of granys turned up, so we sadled up and moved off.
meet up with the rest of the riders at ashurst gas station.
buy now we had quite a collection of riders.
headed up the the takapari rd, was interesting riding down in the misty cloud.

**junkmanjoe** · 8th March 2009, 20:49

all down the mountain, headed for taihape for late lunch.
tummys full, we headed for the gentle annie, first time for my self, very exciting, a little damp up top, just loved it.
wish i took more pics.
got down other side and theres a tui stop waiting for us.
sweet tui time.
all rested up, off to motorcamp.
had a very nice feed and few beers at pub, bed time.
had great roomys aslan and the vet, top chaps.

**junkmanjoe** · 8th March 2009, 21:02

in to napier for breky, yummy.
said our good bys to a few northern riders.
hope all got home allright.
and off we went, im not sure where we went, and im not sure our leaders knew eather, as the map showed its face a few times. a lot of very cool uppy downy windy country roads, made our way down to dannevirke, for lunch.
aslan departed for home.
others headed in land towards HWY 52
another bunch of great country roads,
marks, and bart departed us, then rest of us up and over pori rd, fab road, very windy, back on 52 and home.

thanks for a great 2 days, i seen a lot of new country,

i lost a bolt on my tank mount, and turns out my tank brace has a crack in it so will be sorting that out for next ride.

cheers bart.

**marks** · 8th March 2009, 21:23

going back to work after weekends like this is not much fun.......

thanks Bart et al for a great weekend

that Waitahora Rd (between Dannvirke and Cooner) is freaking awesome - got to do that again soon

and I promise that I'll fix my muffler before the next ride

**Aslan** · 9th March 2009, 05:48

hi all - thanks for a great weekend - as JunkmanJoe has said already a top bunch of guys and gals (Dawn).

Amazingly beautiful country we are lucky enough to live in!

Big thanks to Bart for organising - all for your company and TonyW for the RRRR Tui refreshment stop - that man's a legend (and deserves a DB!)

Did attmept a post last night but was so tired apparently omitted to press post.

Aslan

**Phreaky Phil** · 9th March 2009, 17:32

Thanks Bart for your organisation and everyone else for your great company. A great ride and good to see some new faces. Our camera came up with memory card error so we have no photos to add to the collection.

**Cary** · 9th March 2009, 18:04

Thanks all for a great ride and company. Top bloke award to Tony for the Tui's and all those who lead the way at various times........

Did manage to drop the Tiger on the weekend and even though it was on the 42nd Traverse...........Well at the start of it just for photo op!

Paula had to do a sock change as her boots were not (as it turns out) waterproof. she was on the bike and it rolled forward off the side stand and she did a hollywood fall to avoid more serious injury than a bang on her (helmeted) head.

The pannier took most of the damage along with the engine crash bars & little on the upper faring, Oh well.

2000k's all up for the weekend

Pic 1 Pre crash sock change
Pic 2,3 On the Wanganui River road

**bart** · 9th March 2009, 18:46

OK, here's a few photos.

1. Up Takapari
2. Marks showing us how it's done
3. More
4. Yep, the shit weather was only just up there
5. Aslan
6. Junkmanjoe making us jealous, showing off all his petrol

**Padmei** · 9th March 2009, 18:54

Lovely bike Aslan. (I take it it's you on the GS)

Sounds like a great weekend was had by all.

**junkmanjoe** · 9th March 2009, 18:54

i did say i would share it with you.

**bart** · 9th March 2009, 18:55

7. These bloody orange things pop up all over the place
8. Oh......they come in silver too.
9. Who needs knobblies, eh Hugh
10. What bad weather
11. Tui time
12. Oh......that's why you need knobs. Cheers Tony. You were going bloody quick up until this point.