Wednesday Night Ride

**orangeback** · 8th February 2011, 20:36

where to this week ?, as ive just brought home my old bevel ducati, might take it out for a RUN since ive not ridden it for nearly 8 years , other than going round the block 2 twice a year

**KiwiPhoenix** · 8th February 2011, 20:38

Hope you all have a great ride tomorrow night, will miss you all!

Stuck down in Alex with some fantastic weather and no bloody bike! I really should haave brought my bike down!

**Flip** · 8th February 2011, 20:44

I'm out too. It's Zac's birthday and we are going out for dinner.

**FJRider** · 8th February 2011, 20:46

Originally Posted by KiwiPhoenix

Hope you all have a great ride tomorrow night, will miss you all!

Stuck down in Alex with some fantastic weather and no bloody bike! I really should haave brought my bike down!

I thought you had a horse to ride ...

**Transalper** · 8th February 2011, 20:55

This is the only suggestion so far...

Originally Posted by Buyasta

Sounds good to me, what route were you thinking?.. Seems to me that the best route is out via Loburn and Ashley Gorge, then for those of us returning to Christchurch, the Old West Coast rd on the way back, like so.

If you want to include some cool/interesting country roads in that you could include Coopers Creek and View Hill between Oxford and the Waimak Gorge.
May not be high speed roads I suspect though. Only seen a couple myself and thought I must come back and explore sometime.
Looks nice to me on google maps when I drop the little man down for street view.

**Buyasta** · 8th February 2011, 22:46

Originally Posted by Transalper

This is the only suggestion so far...

If you want to include some cool/interesting country roads in that you could include Coopers Creek and View Hill between Oxford and the Waimak Gorge.
May not be high speed roads I suspect though. Only seen a couple myself and thought I must come back and explore sometime.
Looks nice to me on google maps when I drop the little man down for street view.

That was pretty much just a suggestion of the most interesting route to go to/from Oxford, based on gloplg suggesting Oxford as the destination.

As far as going between Oxford and the Waimak gorge via Coopers Creek and View Hill, my memory is fairly poor, but I grew up in Oxford, and I'm pretty sure there are some dirt road patches, and at least one ford on that route, which I suspect would put some people off. If memory serves, Woodside rd becomes gravel about 20m after you cross the bridge over the Eyre river, and there's a fairly small ford a little past Kowhai.

**Peeteey** · 9th February 2011, 01:44

I'm out too this week, both Wed and Sun. I'm not going to cope well ...

however, on Wed I need to go to Kaiapoi so if you're going to Oxford via some part of the Main North Road or Marshlands Rd then I'll join you for the first part ...

**Transalper** · 9th February 2011, 09:29

Originally Posted by Buyasta

That was pretty much just a suggestion of the most interesting route to go to/from Oxford, based on gloplg suggesting Oxford as the destination.

That is pretty much what they normally do when going to Oxford as far as I know, but haven't done that run with the WNRs to be sure.

The route addition I suggested is all seal as far as i can see by dropping the street view guy around it on Google maps.
There is still some nice gravel in the area but no, as far as I can tell you don't need to use it to go through View Hill and Coopers Creek any more.

**neels** · 9th February 2011, 09:37

Normal route out to oxford is through loburn and ashley gorge, so coming from the opposite direction from transalpers suggestion. Coopers creek/view hill looks like a nice detour on the way home though, if one was heading over the waimak gorge bridge (perhaps for the tagorama game for instance) and home down the old west coast road.

A suggestion for the ride out from me, either turn off at the second motorway overbridge and head the back way into rangiora (more interesting than lineside road) or all the way up the motorway and through tuahiwi to avoid half of rangiora altogether.

I might be along tonight, depending on several things.......

**CeeJay** · 9th February 2011, 10:50

Can't make it tonight. Had bike on the Dyno in Ashvegas last night and it seems I need a bigger engine

**jimichelle** · 9th February 2011, 11:32

but oxford doesnt ring any bells so ill wait for the twisties route

**KiwiPhoenix** · 9th February 2011, 13:18

Originally Posted by FJRider

I thought you had a horse to ride ...

Yep, doing that on Friday! MinxiMe done a very short pony ride today!

Originally Posted by CeeJay

Can't make it tonight. Had bike on the Dyno in Ashvegas last night and it seems I need a bigger engine

**helenoftroy** · 9th February 2011, 20:52

Originally Posted by orangeback

where to this week ?, as ive just brought home my old bevel ducati, might take it out for a RUN since ive not ridden it for nearly 8 years , other than going round the block 2 twice a year

Envious!

Finally!! a Tuono Racing,hopefully will arrive early next week