Wednesday Night Ride

**Dave-** · 22nd November 2010, 17:36

Originally Posted by brp

Not into dropping soap being part of foreplay

Was some loose shingle 1/2 way up the diamond harbour side of the hill to port levy couple of months ago - may have now been sweep clean. For those that have never ridden back from port levy back to diamond harbour - its worth doing - neat corners !

IMOO - The only road bike I'd be taken from Port Levy to Little River is - one I didn't care about. Single track in most parts, tight corners, braking ruts on corners, and Very steep coming down into little river.

that shingle is there year round, it comes off the hill.

**KiwiPhoenix** · 22nd November 2010, 17:45

Eccleces (apologies for the spelling) and myself came over from Lyttleton through Evans, I do have to say the road looks so much better, no grit (as of today) and was a nice smooth ride!!

**brp** · 22nd November 2010, 19:42

Originally Posted by Dave-

that shingle is there year round, it comes off the hill.

This was shingle/grit dumped by likes of falton hogan, prob for frosty days few months back.

**Dave-** · 22nd November 2010, 21:14

Originally Posted by brp

This was shingle/grit dumped by likes of falton hogan, prob for frosty days few months back.

ahhh see to me shingle = that flat rock all over the port hills...

there's always rockfall on the diamond harbour - port levy road

**SpeedMonger** · 22nd November 2010, 21:37

Originally Posted by cruza

Day off on wed so I'm keen for early trip to akar's , maybe halswell 5ish departure, prob fish n chips, and return to meet up with others at the taitapu pub for a cold ale or 2. Nice place to end a run . flick me a pm if your keen .

It is a no-brainer

**Peeteey** · 23rd November 2010, 00:28

Originally Posted by KiwiPhoenix

Eccleces (apologies for the spelling) and myself came over from Lyttleton through Evans, I do have to say the road looks so much better, no grit (as of today) and was a nice smooth ride!!

Speaking of smooth rides, how was the Magpie???

Get soaked on Sat?

**KiwiPhoenix** · 23rd November 2010, 07:26

Originally Posted by Peeteey

Speaking of smooth rides, how was the Magpie???

Get soaked on Sat?

Was awesome! Got soaked on the way down but tent was already pitched (thanks EccelesNZ for that) so got there, dumped my gear, got changed, got myself a couple of drinks then headed away for dinner in a nice toasty warm house. Had an awesome feed then back to the site as the rain stopped to see a few well drenched folk!

Ride on Sunday was fantastic!

**Peeteey** · 23rd November 2010, 09:11

Originally Posted by KiwiPhoenix

Was awesome! Got soaked on the way down but tent was already pitched (thanks EccelesNZ for that) so got there, dumped my gear, got changed, got myself a couple of drinks then headed away for dinner in a nice toasty warm house. Had an awesome feed then back to the site as the rain stopped to see a few well drenched folk!

Ride on Sunday was fantastic!

Excellent! Get lots of nice pics?
Was tempted to do a day trip on Saturday but the weather put me off, too much of a wus!
Went for a wee blat on the DR instead on Sun (briefly)

**cromagnon** · 23rd November 2010, 09:27

I went for a ride yesterday around banks (dyers, gebbies, diamond harbour, port levy, little river, pigeon bay and back) and the sealed roads were mostly free of grit except outside of some corners and the usual bits of rock that fall off the sides of the road. It seems like the sweepers have been through and cleared away the majority of grit.

**KiwiPhoenix** · 23rd November 2010, 13:24

Originally Posted by Peeteey

Excellent! Get lots of nice pics?
Was tempted to do a day trip on Saturday but the weather put me off, too much of a wus!
Went for a wee blat on the DR instead on Sun (briefly)

Didn't take my camera, what happens at a rally stays at the rally!

The weather was crap, the rain made it a slow ride for me although the wee bike done good! My leather gloves are now just about dried off, ust in time for tomorrow nights ride!

Good that you got out though, you still haven't found your way over here yet!??

**Flip** · 23rd November 2010, 19:28

Can't get out of work earlier enough to make it to the start on Wednesday. Gan you give me a toot as you go past my house please and I will tootle along behind?

**Mully Clown** · 23rd November 2010, 22:08

Originally Posted by cruza

Day off on wed so I'm keen for early trip to akar's , maybe halswell 5ish departure, prob fish n chips, and return to meet up with others at the taitapu pub for a cold ale or 2. Nice place to end a run . flick me a pm if your keen .

Definitely keen. If I don't manage to make it at departure time I'll catch you at the chip shop anyway.

**SpeedMonger** · 23rd November 2010, 23:16

Originally Posted by Mully Clown

Definitely keen. If I don't manage to make it at departure time I'll catch you at the chip shop anyway.

Same, can't get to Halswell till 5:30ish so I'll catch up along the way or at Aka if you leave earlier....

**Peeteey** · 24th November 2010, 00:14

Originally Posted by Flip

Can't get out of work earlier enough to make it to the start on Wednesday. Gan you give me a toot as you go past my house please and I will tootle along behind?

I don't know where your house is Flip so I'll just toot like mad once we reach Diamond Harbour and hopefully one of your neighbours will get so pissed off you'll notice them yelling at me, you'd know where we were then!

I actually have no idea where we're going this week, too many ideas being thrown around for my poor tired brain!