Wednesday Night Ride

[Gibbo89]

sounds good. but its ment to bucket down with rain do you guys still go on those days?

Do you want to ride in the rain? If it's raining then I don't think anyone will go, if it might be alright then some will turn up.

[gloplg]

Do you want to ride in the rain? If it's raining then I don't think anyone will go, if it might be alright then some will turn up.

You know me GB I'm just a woose. When it comes rain to I use 4 wheels.

Hopefully the weather forcast is wrong. Will post closer to the time.

[Mully Clown]

As we headed up Dyers Pass on Sunday there was a cycle race on (http://www.elitenationals.co.nz/). They didn't have the roads fully closed off and were somehow allowing cyclists to battle down Hackthorne Rd at 80kph dodging between the cars which were potentially driving down there as well.

How much effort would it take to get some partially closed roads and do some real bike racing in the area? It would somehow be perceived as unsafe, it couldn't be any worse than what was happening on that hill though.

[dumpclutch29]

As we headed up Dyers Pass on Sunday there was a cycle race on (http://www.elitenationals.co.nz/). They didn't have the roads fully closed off and were somehow allowing cyclists to battle down Hackthorne Rd at 80kph dodging between the cars which were potentially driving down there as well.

How much effort would it take to get some partially closed roads and do some real bike racing in the area? It would somehow be perceived as unsafe, it couldn't be any worse than what was happening on that hill though.

we can all wish to that but bloody health and saftey and acc would moan and by the time they approved hover cycles would have been invented. atleast we have a race track at ruapuna it does the job

[Peeteey]

Video from Sunday is up:







Sunday sounds like fun! I've heard of that road, never ridden it.

[Buyasta]

Video from Sunday is up:







Sunday sounds like fun! I've heard of that road, never ridden it.

That chest-mounted view is rather good, although your comment at 1:59 is a touch disturbing.

[Dave3362]

Video from Sunday is up:







Sunday sounds like fun! I've heard of that road, never ridden it.

That comment pete at 1:59 is very disturbing

[Peeteey]

That chest-mounted view is rather good, although your comment at 1:59 is a touch disturbing.

That comment pete at 1:59 is very disturbing

I swear I don't know what you're talking about ...

[dumpclutch29]

im going to miss the rides this week aswell a truck from the quarry shared half of its load with me and broke my indicator and all the faring on the right hand side of my bike. $1546 to repair. $350 for a cover for his truck you do the math

[Peeteey]

im going to miss the rides this week aswell a truck from the quarry shared half of its load with me and broke my indicator and all the faring on the right hand side of my bike. $1546 to repair. $350 for a cover for his truck you do the math

Bugger! That's sad news. You weren't on the bike at the time were you?

[dumpclutch29]

Bugger! That's sad news. You weren't on the bike at the time were you?

yeah I was

[Peeteey]

yeah I was

You're OK tho?

[dumpclutch29]

You're OK tho?

yeah just annoyed already started repairs lucky I had that much in the bank good bye new exhaust

[helenoftroy]

Oh, figured that the Dusty Butt, being about 500k per day, would be what we rode, repeated five times, then doing the same thing again the next day!
Bloody hell!

yea, normally closer to 50%+ unsealed stuff including dirt, gravel, rocks, 4x4 ruts and bogs, fords and other interesting and sometimes challenging terrain.

Few pics from the last route scouting mission early December over here.

Transalper,Budda,TimG,Casualty me & the rest of us do the Dusty Butt next weekend!!!!

Its the most fantastic adventure(our kiwi mini Paris-Dakar)with a bunch of the most awesome riders,thru spectacular terrain....bring it on!

[Peeteey]

Transalper,Budda,TimG,Casualty me & the rest of us do the Dusty Butt next weekend!!!!

Its the most fantastic adventure(our kiwi mini Paris-Dakar)with a bunch of the most awesome riders,thru spectacular terrain....bring it on!

I'm so jealous 'cause I will not be able to go. Got some work on, which I need, and the arms wouldn't hold up to it.
There are a couple of trail rides coming up, Scargill and Mt. Sommers. Will hopefully do one of those but I have a big gig in the middle of Feb, don't wanna risk the body too much before then

Have fun you lucky buggers!