Going round the South Island

**Countyman** · 27th March 2011, 19:05

Leaving Manapouri 28th. Going to Wanaka, Haast,Karamea, Nelson, Blenheim,Canterbury and home again next week. Give us a wave if you see us on the road. My cobber Ross is on his 109 with trailer and me on the v1600 with trailer.

**SMOKEU** · 27th March 2011, 19:26

I've always wanted to do a South Island trip. Maybe one day...

**hayd3n** · 27th March 2011, 20:12

Originally Posted by SMOKEU

I've always wanted to do a South Island trip. Maybe one day...

well your already on the right island

**junkmanjoe** · 27th March 2011, 20:16

Originally Posted by SMOKEU

I've always wanted to do a South Island trip. Maybe one day...

interesting you say this as i live in the north and not yet been right around... but traveled a fair bit of the south...

JMJ

**gunrunner** · 27th March 2011, 20:24

Sounds good , we are doing half of it next month just havent got enough time to do the full monty ..

**junkmanjoe** · 27th March 2011, 20:30

Originally Posted by Countyman

Leaving Manapouri 28th. Going to Wanaka, Haast,Karamea, Nelson, Blenheim,Canterbury and home again next week. Give us a wave if you see us on the road. My cobber Ross is on his 109 with trailer and me on the v1600 with trailer.

any photos of your rides... sounds like a lot of good times a coming...

JMJ

**C.Linnell** · 28th March 2011, 15:20

Enjoyyyy.

Need to do this again... I did it last Feb on my VTR250... itching to try those roads on the Street Triple.

**Countyman** · 19th April 2011, 00:19

What a great ride.
Monday 28th. We went to Hari Hari the first day. Stayed at the pub.
Tuesday. OverArthurs Pass to Ashley for the night.
Wednesday. Iinto Chch to get a new tyre for the 109, then over the Lewis Pass to Nelson for 2 nights. Mate rode his VRod to Murchison to meet us.
Thursday. Visited Talleys WOW Museum. It's really worth a visit.( Make sure you go out to the back shed.)
Friday ,Awee bit of drizzle around Queen Charlotte Drive to Picton,then Blenheim for the night.Good meal at the Marlborough Combined Club.
Saturday.Down to Chch to stay with friends.
Sunday.Had a look around Chch/Lyttleton. The television does'nt show how bad it really is. Send them a few $ if you can.
Monday.Headed south into rain. Gave up at Oamaru and got a motel. Soaked to the arse. 2 heaters and several hours and beers later all dry.
Tuesday.Lunch at Dunedin with son at Uni.,then home to Manapouri.
My observation about the traffic is that it would appear that the cops are obviously busy in Chch as we saw only a couple of them the whole trip. The traffic was really good. Everybody travelling at their own pace. No stupid driving. We were able to ride at our pace and not have to pass long lines of traffic being held up by slow drivers. We were able to enjoy the awesome roads the way we should.
Sorry I will have to find a 5 year old to put my photos on for me.

**mulletman** · 19th April 2011, 00:51

Nice one !

**robo555** · 19th April 2011, 01:38

Originally Posted by SMOKEU

I've always wanted to do a South Island trip. Maybe one day...

What's stopping you? Grab a mate and go do it. You don't even need to travel the whole island in one trip, allowing you to have more tiime in each place.

**Gone Burger** · 19th April 2011, 04:44

Have a wonderful time round the south island with your mate. I myself have done 2 south island trips, both my my boulevard m50. It was an incredible experience, especially doing one of the trips solo. Best thing I have ever done to date. And the Haast pass..... oooooo now that's a scruptious playground with heavenly stone chip seal!

Enjoy indeed. Jealous much right about now as I was planning on doing that again soon on my new love of my life the R6. Doh - shoulden't have bloody crashed it sould I?

The stunning roads will just have to wait til summer now. But what spectacular roads they are too.

**unstuck** · 19th April 2011, 06:53

You had an awesome trip,I love riding up the west coast(love riding anywhere really).I have a bro that lives in franz and am always finding excuses to head up there....P.S. Was that your bike and trailer at the british bike day in mandeville? SWEET.

**SMOKEU** · 19th April 2011, 19:42

Originally Posted by robo555

What's stopping you? Grab a mate and go do it. You don't even need to travel the whole island in one trip, allowing you to have more tiime in each place.

Long story but I can't really ride any more. Things may change for the better with time.