Kaiaua/Coromandel Loop on Saturday 20th

**justsomeguy** · 21st August 2005, 16:57

Originally Posted by Zed

We'll see JSG. Next weekend is a long time away at this point.

Why??

You got a trip up Mount Everest to plan in the mean time?? p/t

Yaa I'll probably be broke again and wont be able to make it.......hehehe

**Keystone19** · 21st August 2005, 18:09

Originally Posted by Zapf

yea... I got a big suprise at this VTR250 that passed a ZX9R, RF900, then me going up hill across the ranges towards Kopu

Oh oh, sounds like I need to slow down a bit. Obviously a VTR250 isn't supposed to be ridden like that. Hope I didn't appear dangerous?

**justsomeguy** · 21st August 2005, 18:14

Originally Posted by Keystone19

Oh oh, sounds like I need to slow down a bit. Obviously a VTR250 isn't supposed to be ridden like that. Hope I didn't appear dangerous?

Grrr - now I'm even more pissed at having missed the ride - another 250 to play with...... oh well........ there's always next weekend.

**Keystone19** · 21st August 2005, 18:18

Originally Posted by justsomeguy

Grrr - now I'm even more pissed at having missed the ride - another 250 to play with...... oh well........ there's always next weekend.

JSG, about half of us were on 250s. It was a great paced ride with everyone riding their own ride but still hanging as a group. Just really enjoyable. And I don't think anyone did anything stupid, I was just worried that maybe I had without realising it.

**MacD** · 21st August 2005, 18:45

Originally Posted by Keystone19

Hope I didn't appear dangerous?

Damn, and there I was thinking that was the whole point of riding bikes!

Oh well, back to the watercolours then...

**justsomeguy** · 21st August 2005, 19:14

Originally Posted by Keystone19

JSG, about half of us were on 250s. It was a great paced ride with everyone riding their own ride but still hanging as a group. Just really enjoyable.

Stop rubbing it in

...........

hehehe j/k

- I enjoyed myself too. Did some work on my lines and learnt to up shift and down shift a little better too. Still need to work on staying commited to my lines and consistently apexing at the right point, among the other million things a newbie needs to learn.

I guess all this talk about SV's means you aced your CBTA -

.

When do you get your full??

**Keystone19** · 21st August 2005, 19:23

Originally Posted by justsomeguy

When do you get your full??

Another month and a bit hopefully! Booked in for the end of September, so if all goes according to plan, I should have a new bike for Christmas (just have to ask Santa nicely

).

**Zapf** · 21st August 2005, 20:52

Originally Posted by Keystone19

Oh oh, sounds like I need to slow down a bit. Obviously a VTR250 isn't supposed to be ridden like that. Hope I didn't appear dangerous?

you... dangrous? maybe you are... I'll comment when I know you better

**R6_kid:Me** · 22nd August 2005, 09:22

holey shit, its taken me two days to reply!

That ride was totally awesome...

big ups to keystone (as per usual) what i didnt tell you was that for a while on the bit before whitianga i actually slowed down on the straights (like 60-70kmh) because with all that traffic i wanted to make sure nothing had gone wrong.

But considering the power difference im sure the VTR did get a thrashing - i know my ZXR did

not to be stink JSG, but me and keystong werent taking it easy by any means and the pace set by the sportier 250's was at times a bit faster than the bigger bikes. I know that its probably the fastest i've ever ridden (apart from when i let the bigger bikes through so testosterone didnt take hold)

victoria, hope you had an awesome day... always good to have new people getting into the game.

to the northcote boys, we gotta get out more on our two fiddy's that ride back was pretty crazy - lucky there were no cops

cheers everyone for coming, i know i really enjoyed it

cheers for coming people

**R6_kid:Me** · 22nd August 2005, 09:27

Originally Posted by Zapf

you... dangrous? maybe you are... I'll comment when I know you better

dangerous.... maybe
dodgey... ALWAYS!!!

its why we love her so much

**Keystone19** · 22nd August 2005, 16:26

Originally Posted by gareth_d

what i didnt tell you was that for a while on the bit before whitianga i actually slowed down on the straights (like 60-70kmh) because with all that traffic i wanted to make sure nothing had gone wrong.

You would have been waiting a while Gareth, we stopped at the top of the hill for about 20 minutes and had a chat with a rider who had just come up the other way. Sorry about that, should have told you we were stopping. And I'm sure you didn't slow that much...

**R6_kid:Me** · 22nd August 2005, 19:48

oh yup sure sure, im talking about the bit where i passed victoria and crashe then passed you... i wasnt really around you much before that (perhaps it was after whitianga) i passed you then blasted off at some mental ZXR pace and was pushing it a tad harder than you on the corners.

either way im pretty sure we were both near the limits of our bikes today, im not too keen on finding the edge of my front tyre as that tends to be the one that hurts if you screw it up

**SixPackBack** · 22nd August 2005, 20:07

Originally Posted by gareth_d

oh yup sure sure, im talking about the bit where i passed victoria and crashe then passed you... i wasnt really around you much before that (perhaps it was after whitianga) i passed you then blasted off at some mental ZXR pace and was pushing it a tad harder than you on the corners.

either way im pretty sure we were both near the limits of our bikes today, im not too keen on finding the edge of my front tyre as that tends to be the one that hurts if you screw it up

Give her a new bike and a few months and she will be making a lot of us look silly, her lines are perfect