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  1. 3rd January 2012, 16:05 #1
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    Up Gentle Annie

    The friggin' route I mean! (oh shit...)

    Couple of pics from up somewhere high on the Gentle Annie...

    I wrote a ride report as well but decided it was so fucking boring as to be exempt from publication

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  2. 3rd January 2012, 16:16 #2
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    Nice pics...in a barren kind of way it is awesome country up there. We usually take our grandies camping in there. You can't beat being serenaded by a kiwi...
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    Quote Originally Posted by yungatart View Post
    Nice pics...in a barren kind of way it is awesome country up there. We usually take our grandies camping in there. You can't beat being serenaded by a kiwi...
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    Brown one, Black Spotted one or the even rearer one the White one?
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  5. 3rd January 2012, 18:00 #5
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    Gentle Annie is New Zealand's best kept motorcycling secret. So please shut the fuck up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    Gentle Annie is New Zealand's best kept motorcycling secret. So please shut the fuck up.
    Wise words.

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    I rode gentle Annie once, let's just say she's a good ride.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    Gentle Annie is New Zealand's best kept motorcycling secret. So please shut the fuck up.
    At least until you've setup the tollgates huh?

    Such a sweet road now that the metal bit in the middle has been straightened out and sealed....but oh, I'm just making it more popular now
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    Quote Originally Posted by slofox View Post
    I wrote a ride report as well but decided it was so fucking boring as to be exempt from publication
    Thats the exact same spot i stopped at when I went through I only managed to take 1 pic as I was to busy enjoying the ride & doubt I would even write a ride report cause the best report is doing the ride its self sweet road on a nice day
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    Quote Originally Posted by insomnia01 View Post
    Thats the exact same spot i stopped at when I went through
    Yeah, it seems to be a popular place to stop.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    Gentle Annie is New Zealand's best kept motorcycling secret. So please shut the fuck up.
    It's ok Hitcher, I am about to tarnish his repuation in a large way.

    Hey slowfox! I will thank you not to post in this way about me. I am NOT gentle, unless you beg
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    Gentle Annie is a side creek in the Kawarau Gorge, near Queenstown. Further into the gorge is Roaring Meg Creek which has a power station. Both creeks were named by miners in the 1860s after a couple of Arrowtown bar maids.

    Somehow - and this is pure speculation - I don't think the OP is referring to the Gentle Annie I know....??
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    If there aren't laws about pedantic Southlanders, there should be.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    If there aren't laws about pedantic Southlanders, there should be.
    Can we blame them though? I mean... after you've done all the sheep... what else do they have?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Winston001 View Post
    Gentle Annie is a side creek in the Kawarau Gorge, near Queenstown. Further into the gorge is Roaring Meg Creek which has a power station. Both creeks were named by miners in the 1860s after a couple of Arrowtown bar maids.

    Somehow - and this is pure speculation - I don't think the OP is referring to the Gentle Annie I know....??
    You would be correct. This Gentle Annie is a highway whose location I am oviously not at liberty to disclose - (see post #5, above...)
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