South Island Impromptu Adventure Ride: 12, 13, 14 March

[ADVGD]

Bike sounding better now, not perfect.

That's good

Next dilemma, my rack brackets are witha mate to reweld them after snapping them on the Dusty Butt, unfortunately he cant find them, so I guess I will be carrying everything in a backpack,

That's shit

I do have this 35(ish) litre tail bag if you want to use it...

[Shoshoni]

Do you guys mind another person to tags along, just interested in doing the Rainbow then head back to quake town.

[ADVGD]

Do you guys mind another person to tags along, just interested in doing the Rainbow then head back to quake town.

Good as mate, PM me your bike reg, make and colour so I can register it with DOC for Edwards and Mailings Pass

See you in the morning

[ADVGD]

What time you fullahs planing on leaving the lakes ? I MAY tag along for a bit

Is this still your plan mate? Did you want us to set times to meet up? Lake Rotoiti would probably be the easiest as this is where we will be camping Saturday night and departing from on Sunday

[JATZ]

Is this still your plan mate? Did you want us to set times to meet up? Lake Rotoiti would probably be the easiest as this is where we will be camping Saturday night and departing from on Sunday

Right.... Lake Rotoiti camp ground.
It's about an hour and a half away so I could be there by about 8:30
Don't bother waiting around if you wanna take off earlier

[ADVGD]

Right.... Lake Rotoiti camp ground.
It's about an hour and a half away so I could be there by about 8:30
Don't bother waiting around if you wanna take off earlier

Good stuff, we'll be staying at the West Bay Camp Ground



http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-rec...area/west-bay/

8:30 sounds great, see you then

[mattsdakar]

That's good



That's shit

I do have this 35(ish) litre tail bag if you want to use it...

Nah mate it's all good, backpack will be fine

[ADVGD]

All sorted this end, a fresh E09 on the back, a crisp new visor for the S4, major routes input to the GPS, all packed up and good to go.. bring it on

A couple have pulled the pin (including badblackbuell who is washing his hair this weekend, or some other similarly flimsy excuse )

So at this stage there are 4 starters:

ADVGD
mattsdakar
chainsawbike
Shoshoni

See you in the morning 7am at the Peg, (see you 8:30 Sunday morning at Lake Rotoiti camp ground Jatz)

[badblackbuell]

A couple have pulled the pin (including badblackbuell who is washing his hair this weekend, or some other similarly flimsy excuse )

I'll make it up to you bud, guided tour on the peninsula next week?

[Shoshoni]

Right.... Lake Rotoiti camp ground.
It's about an hour and a half away so I could be there by about 8:30
Don't bother waiting around if you wanna take off earlier

ADVGD has asked to pass a message onto JATZ. He is going hard out on the bike and wont be able to catch up with you on this trip.

[JATZ]

ADVGD has asked to pass a message onto JATZ. He is going hard out on the bike and wont be able to catch up with you on this trip.

O.K......

[chainsawbike]

my bike decided it no longer wanted to go fast a bit after hamner
so i drove it straight home (albeit slowly...) and sent it to its room :P
ill be sending it into the bike discipline school to get it back into line

it still was a good trip

[ADVGD]

Cheers for passing that on Shoshoni

Sorry for the mess around JATZ, Matt and I felt the urge for a big day and planned to do a few more hours on the bikes aiming to push right through to New Creek/Deniston

However, did not plan to be here typing this (Murchison motor camp) but a log that was hiding in the bushed rudely launched itself at Matt coming down the Porika (which other than that we made through fine), smashed up the radiator, which then started bleeding fluids

Unsure what tomorrow will bring, Matts plan is most likely trying to get bike back to Chch without overheating, I'll most likely push on and aim to reach Montgomery Hut...

[Shoshoni]

Here is a couple of Pic's of the day.

[mattsdakar]

Well got back safe n sound, pity I can't say the same about the bike.

While coming down the steep south side of the Porika I was caught out by a fallen tree protruding from the bank behind bush which I copped straight into my right radiator.
Speedo cable was ripped off, radiator protection bar bend around 90degrees and 3 of 4 fuel tank bolts bent or snapped off completely not to mention the nasty wound to my right shin. After a top up of water we managed a quick sprint to Murchison for repairs where we were able to stem the bleeding courtesy of some radiator stopleak.
After tenting the night at the very noisy Kiwi Holiday park in Murchison I limped home to chc via tarmac. ADGVD carried on towards Montgomery Hut for some fishing.
Going to drop radiator off to a repair shop tomorrow, hopefully they can weave some magic as I hate to think what a replacement is worth
.