Cold Kiwi 3 - 5 September 2010

[davebullet]

Our first taste of this years event was picking an XV1100 off a couple at the gate. She was in complete agony and looked initially like a broken ankle but she got up on it after a bit. Hope they are OK now

That's no good. Oh, getting through the gate was ok and down the road. Where Suzy got tired and decided to have a rest was down the bottom next to the trees... My fault as I started off without straight front wheel, and she tucked....

Although at top it was like a mud wrestling pit by the time we got there saturday morning.

[Genie]

and.......


P.S. Thanks for the pics of the bike tied down.... I know what to expect.

[_Shrek_]

us being see sick with the large swells leaving the sounds & at the beachcommer & tying down (for Genie)

[Mom]

Our first taste of this years event was picking an XV1100 off a couple at the gate. She was in complete agony and looked initially like a broken ankle but she got up on it after a bit. Hope they are OK now

Is Mama Jo game for next year Laava

[_Shrek_]

day 3 starts at 0435 with miSTa we're up so we might as well get moving then he tell's us about a large earth quake in CHCH & things arn't looking all that good, so off I go for the 3 sss's & when I come out of the barthroom the house is in darkness the mongrels had gone back to bed well as I was up & they got up as we could not go home & every one was ok & house's too, we headed north after a realy nice going through Wanganui, Ratahi etc... with the out the whole way the wind through the hair the only thing that spoilt the ride through was the shit heads that cut the corners
on to the site, set up & start to paaaarrrrrtteeeee did the rounds of the site chatting & ...... as you do meeting some of the norfy's along the way like katman will leave it at that, chickincharge, hellboy, Eugene, Hinny, CC, bren, SS, doc, goblin, awayatc & a few others as the memory comes back what a night it was, good sounds & company was had where ever we ended up, & the food (pre-pay) was best way i can put it, fell into hammock midnight ish
as for the snoring never heard a thing
woke up to the sounds of dawn (burping, farting & that was just the girls)
a big : to our hosts doc, Goblin & off spring

[Laava]

Is Mama Jo game for next year Laava

Haha, surprisingly yes! She had a blast! Wish we had been there for the snow 1st thing tho! You guys keen?

[Cheshire Cat]

OMG, The back of Alexis' head minus the bloody Rasta hat!

Whats wrong with my hat?

[_Shrek_]

day 4 left the site & headed to Palmy via viniger hill & other back roads, miSTa headed straight back to the Kapiti coast & to meet up with Gareth & SS & bren took me & GB on the scenic tour cheers guy's we left SS at Palmy & bren took us on to Otaki again the scenic route
after a quick coffee onto Kapiti pick up miSTa say our to sel & co then off to the ferry, again in welly the wind starts then the rain & here we are holding up the bikes, on board tie down watch the news of chch then I found a nice quite place & for the next 2hrs, then a short run to Blenhiem to miSTa's parents for the night, hot showers a coffee & bed

[Cheshire Cat]

Shrek your hammock is godlike! is it warmer than sleeping on the ground or an air bed etc?

[_Shrek_]

I forgot this, now we know why he kept it quiet about what bike he got

[Mom]

Haha, surprisingly yes! She had a blast! Wish we had been there for the snow 1st thing tho! You guys keen?

Do they have heated sleeping bags and airbeds? Flush toilets?

Snow is cool though

[_Shrek_]

Shrek your hammock is godlike! is it warmer than sleeping on the ground or an air bed etc?

I don't wake up cold, wet or with a sore back

[Gone Burger]

Shrek your hammock is godlike! is it warmer than sleeping on the ground or an air bed etc?

Ah yes - the crappy thin self inflating air mattress on a slope. Wouldn't recommend that again. Will all the snow you almost needed to get off the ground more I reckon. Oh - and find some flat ground so you stop slipping down to the bottom of the mattress in the sleeping bag. Gees, it seems I'm a slow learner.

[Cheshire Cat]

Ah yes - the crappy thin self inflating air mattress on a slope. Wouldn't recommend that again. Will all the snow you almost needed to get off the ground more I reckon. Oh - and find some flat ground so you stop slipping down to the bottom of the mattress in the sleeping bag. Gees, it seems I'm a slow learner.

I've found that air beds are good along with the kitchen sink and good thermals

[_Shrek_]

day 5 up at day light s... show.. sh... coffee B & E's pack gone by 8ish
another great run down the coast to Kaikoura coffee & off sth, miSTa & GB head down the coast & i go inland road, not sure how the boys got on but the inland road was ice grit on most corners & 150-180 hr gusts not the most pleasant of rides but still a great one got to Rotherham to find that my 2 daughters & 5 kids from town (Kaiapio) had been picked up by their sister as the others had no power, water etc...
so we bundle the girls & the kids into to cars then take them back to town make sure they are all ok & settled & then return other daughters car then it's heading sth again about 1730 as by then i'd had enough & just wanted to be home a few damp patchers along the way other wise a great run, getting home 2300ish & 2462k's

a big thanks to my 2 riding mates for making it the trip is was & for for the fun that was had along the way pic's have been archived for later bribery etc

"lets do it again soon"