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    Quote Originally Posted by Maha View Post
    ''It's like riding in a foreign country. Parts of it reminded me of Montana''

    Were there Cowboyz?
    No. And instead of cattle there were sheep. Funny that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MSTRS View Post
    Noooo!!! Tell EVERYBODY!! It's a horrible road and should be avoided at all cost!!
    You swore an oath of secrecy when you started reading the original ride report. You may have just sworn. It's hard to tell at this distance!
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    I castigate myself on behalf of the BDOTGNZA...
    Misplaced !!! and a capital 'I' utterly changed what I really meant to say.
    That is - No!!! Tell EVERYBODY it is a horrible road and should be avoided at all cost!!!
    Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jantar View Post
    From the description, I'm sure I've ridden that road a couple of times in the past. But what's this "Sealed all the way through"? Last time I rode through there it was "Sealed almost none of the way through".
    That was one of the reasons it was so excellent. Say it isn't so!!!
    And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.

    - James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    No. And instead of cattle there were sheep. Funny that.

    Sheepboys. It just doesn't sound the same...
    And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.

    - James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.

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    Quote Originally Posted by riffer View Post
    Sheepboys. It just doesn't sound the same...
    Bikers using that road are known to wear very loose boots...if you know what I mean?

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    Hence the term "Fill your boots" ?
    Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?

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    Quote Originally Posted by MSTRS View Post
    Hence the term "Fill your boots" ?
    Presumably. But how one is supposed to kiss them whilst in that position, I have yet to learn.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    Presumably. But how one is supposed to kiss them whilst in that position, I have yet to learn.
    Once they are snug in said boots, you get them close to a cliff, that way they tend to push back...so I am told

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    Quote Originally Posted by MD View Post
    You went the wrong way. It is the Napier-Taihape road, not the Taihape-Napier road......,.
    I believe the western end is known as the Taihape-Napier Rd and the eastern end is just the Taihape Rd.....so no Napier-Taihape Rd I'm afraid.


    Here's another wee story about the ride http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/en...-of-Chocolates!

    and a couple of pix...but we were too busy riding to stop for pix.
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    If you happened to notice a few scrape and gouge marks along a few of the bridges, they were put there by Mrs. Bear back in the early-mid '70's...

    You see, she used to drive bulldozers for her Dad and the blades, naturally were rather wider than the bridges, so she had to tilt and twist the blade as far as possible and ease the bully over the bridge. Despite taking care, the odd scrape was unavoidable.
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    Oh it must have sucked to be you guys!

    I was closer to your neck of the woods: http://banditrider.blogspot.com/2011/09/lake-ferry.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edbear View Post
    If you happened to notice a few scrape and gouge marks along a few of the bridges, they were put there by Mrs. Bear back in the early-mid '70's...
    While in her teen's I imagine ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by FJRider View Post
    While in her teen's I imagine ...
    Ahhh, yup! She started driving them when she was ten, and was one of the best operators her Dad had. She's featured in Gough's Caterpillar book. I courted her on the bully, I had to sit on the toolbox...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Edbear View Post
    Ahhh, yup! She started driving them when she was ten, and was one of the best operators her Dad had. She's featured in Gough's Caterpillar book. I courted her on the bully, I had to sit on the toolbox...
    I first drove a truck (a K series Bedford) age eight ... Hay making season in a rural area ... good fun (and money) for a kid ...
    When life throws you a curve ... Lean into it ...

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