Mr Motorcycles Waikaretu Beach Run, Sunday 27 Feb

**scott411** · 22nd February 2011, 09:52

time again for the annual Waikaretu Beach Run,

for those that have not been to this run before, it is a bit different to our normal rides, there is only one loop but it is approx 80km long, we have a lunch/fuel stop in the middle, with added attactions incl Sand Dunes, and a run down a west coast beach,

no kids or family loop on this one, and you do not return to your cars for lunch, you need to be signed in by 9.30am or else you miss the first part of the ride, if not the whole thing,

its not everyones cup of tea, but you get to see some places you never would else where, and enjoy the beauty of this area,

all funds raised go to the Waikaretu School,

Will be signposted from the Mercer and Rangairi Bridges

Map:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sour...,0.077162&z=14

(googlemaps not showing properly in this forum, click link

**RJM** · 22nd February 2011, 11:11

Can't wait for Sunday, loved this ride last year.

Weather doesn't look too bad either.

**sxyrx7** · 22nd February 2011, 16:20

limestone hill should be great with all this hot weater

**oldguy** · 22nd February 2011, 21:59

Originally Posted by scott411

time again for the annual Waikaretu Beach Run,

Sand Dunes, and a run down a west coast beach,

its not everyones cup of tea, but you get to see some places you never would else where, and enjoy the beauty of this area,

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**scott411** · 25th February 2011, 19:12

track all marked, 39km in the morning, 35 km in the afternoon, we have a couple of options to get some more km's in for those that want it, make sure you are up near the front near the end of each loop

**green machine** · 27th February 2011, 18:14

Man what an awesome day,track was fully sick(to quote the young ones)me and the boys had a great day,Cheers to Scott,Craig and all the team

**RJM** · 27th February 2011, 18:14

Had a great first half of the day, favourite part of the ride was the clay bush track as it was so tacky - is that what people refer to as Limestone hill?

Went up the big dune a couple of times and was enjoying the view, a couple of guys were on the beach, not sure if they were part of the ride though...? A quad was also down there hauling ass, turned away, looked back and he was in a heap on the ground with his bike a good 50+ metres away. Hope the guy was ok. The other couple of guys on the beach were on the scene pretty quickly.

After lunch I lost all compression when trying to kickstart my bike so could only roll start. Was getting fuel and spark but didn't feel normal when tring to kick it. Managed to roll start from the lunch stop and had a nice flowing ride without a stop back to the carpark.

Thanks to Scott, the Whitfords, other land owners, marshalls etc.

**scott411** · 27th February 2011, 18:19

thanks to all those that turned up, 590 riders today which is a record for this ride,

great ride, but the explorers casued us some issues with someone breaking a collar bone on a beach they were not ment to be on,

thanks to all the land owners, helpers and everyone that turned up

**oldguy** · 27th February 2011, 20:50

Awesome stuff Scott,

my team and I had a great day,

even got my boot fixed. mate had some super glue. worked a treat.

Thanks to all involved with the organizing and running of this event,

**SeppoDave** · 28th February 2011, 13:32

Here's a GPS trace of the morning run. Sorry about the big red X. Turn off the image layer attached to the tracklog. Video to follow.

What a great event!

**IIIRII** · 28th February 2011, 14:59

WTF is a .kmz file

**SeppoDave** · 28th February 2011, 15:07

Very good question!

It's a Google Earth layer file. If you save the file, and then open it with google earth, it will show a line representing where we went yesterday, overlayed on the map of the area.

Try it, it's cool! (if you're a geek)

**oldguy** · 28th February 2011, 15:58

Originally Posted by SeppoDave

Very good question!

It's a Google Earth layer file. If you save the file, and then open it with google earth, it will show a line representing where we went yesterday, overlayed on the map of the area.

Try it, it's cool! (if you're a geek)

Hey man thats cool, you using the Contour vid cam with GPS?

**SeppoDave** · 28th February 2011, 16:42

Nope. Using a GoPro HD Hero, and an old Garmin GPS in the bumbag as a datalogger.

Here's a screenshot from the video where some guy just laid down in front of me. I'll put some hilights up on Youtube tomorrow.

**SeppoDave** · 1st March 2011, 06:43

Here are some highlights from the day. I cpatured a little argy-bargy from some enthusiastic riders!

Be sure to watch in 720p HD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS37KtMegAQ