2013 Queen's Birthday Ride - Canterbury

[NordieBoy]

Well it would have been rude if we didn't give your lad a birthday he'd remember!

The game of pool wasn't that good...


Although the meal was quite something...

[SE950]

six men in a hut for three nights two days, survivor, bear grylls bring it on

[alfonz]

Gravel roads, river beds, deep water crossing, howling winds , heavy rain , snow.
Hard wooden floor to sleep on.
Good wood burner. Good food .good friendship, good laughs. Good ride loved it.
I would't be dead for quids
I would like to start and finish the ride at a later date.
.ive still got some spare rubber gloves. Handy things.

[hilslamer]

...for a ride report? Finally got pics edited and uploaded; slept all last night after arriving home and most of the day today due to the cold or pneumonia or whatever it was I caught up there.

Definitely one for the recordbooks, definitely one with a long list of do-again's and also some never-again's for me. I just made a list of gear that I will be upgrading or updating ASAP after this adventure, and I thought I was going in pretty well prepared.

I could not have asked for a better group of people to be stranded with or ride with in any case...stellar personalities, optimism all the way around, and despite a cough and really sore throat that prevented me from a lot of conversation I would have loved to participate in, some of the hardest laughs I have had in a long time!

[NordieBoy]

Who needs to do the Baja 1000 when there's one of Josh's rides in the offing...

[Trials Rider]

I have a switch under my dash that turns on alarm lights. In situations like this I simply flip the switch and say "Oh geeze guys, looks like I need to head back for mechanicals"


Dam thats clever

[Transalper]

...for a ride report? Finally got pics edited and uploaded; ....

Here in this thread is as good as anywhere for a ride report, but where are your pics uploaded???

[ADVGD]

I had my camera and GoPro with me, had planned to start getting footage once we dropped into the Wilberfoce but didn't quite get there. This is the only decent photo I managed to get...

[mattsdakar]

I didn't get one bloody photo as camera got wet and decided not to work.

Certainly the most extreme ride I have been on, but great experience.

At the end of the day we were never in serious danger (just the bikes and Rusty!) we made a few bad decisions but also a lot of good ones, the key was patience to sit out the high water levels, if we were to do it again I would definitely be a starter - see my signature "Life begins where your comfort zone ends"!

Most vivid memory for me was Rusty and I abandoning our bikes on a island between two uncrossable very fast flowing braids and wading across arms locked only for Rusty to get sweep away. Picture pitch black, horizontal gale force rain and you mate being washed away in a waist deep torrent, panic stations!
Anyway he made land 100m downstream and between us we manage to reunite and trudge to the hut. Sleepless night spent listening to Alfies jokes and the howling wind, thunder crashing all the time wondering if the bikes would even be there in the morning.

[SE950]

how do I put go-pro and camera photos on this site

[alfonz]

Se 950
To get photos on site point camera at a cavity and shoot .should work .if not get a glove and check the cavity. Lol

[NordieBoy]

Picture pitch black, horizontal gale force rain and you mate being washed away in a waist deep torrent, panic stations!

Is said mate skinny or fat?

[Transalper]

how do I put go-pro and camera photos on this site

Way I do pictures is to get them on the PC then choose the ones I want to post (can only do 6 per post as attachments), resize them to about 1000 pixels across by whatever the vertical defaults to at that width and then save the resized picture with a medium Jpeg compression to get a file size under 100kb instead of the original picture with a huge file size and a resolution too big for the screen.
I use Photoshop Elements version 2 to do this, it cost me about $150 many years ago.
There are free programs to do similar but I haven't looked recently to see what they are.

Then when making a post here you have to click the 'manage attachments' button, another window pops up. Find the add files button in that and then 'select files' then navigate to the small picture files you made to post.
Select them and click upload.
A progress bar should appear for each picture and when finished uploading there hopefully will be a done button.

Guess given some time over the weekend I could make a youtube video showing how.

As for gopro videos I edit them down with another brought program and upload to youtube then link to them from Kb. The trimmed video is a much smaller file than the original recording as with the pictures when resized and compressed so they take a lot less time to upload too.


Other people sometimes upload their photos to another server like using photobucket.com and then embed them or the whole album here using links created by those sites.

No idea if that's enough info but hope it's a start.

[SE950]

ill stick to riding me bike. this to me is like u doing supercross, thanks,u warm yet

[Transalper]

ill stick to riding me bike. this to me is like u doing supercross, thanks,u warm yet

Warmed up pretty quickly once home whit a warm milo then a very long shower.
My feet were the worst on the way out, going to try some of those sealskin socks as soon as the bank account recovers. Been after a pair since I first heard of them a while ago but now they are near the top of the list. Top half not as bad with towelling dry and changing to my dry clothes.
Actually got off and pushed the bike along the road once before Peal Forest to get the blood flowing and warm up, worked well but wish I'd stopped under a little bridge we went over, could have gone under and sheltered and heated up my last meal and filled the hottie. Think doing that would have got me home after dark but in better overall comfort.

Quite keen to see what you got with the cameras, could visit or just copy the memory cards.
I'll PM my number or something.