Waitangi Day Ride

[What?]

Bluddy weather man!!!
Supposed to be fine today. Glorious bike riding weather.
And it's pissing down.

[Firefight]

Bluddy weather man!!!
Supposed to be fine today. Glorious bike riding weather.
And it's pissing down.

Its fine here Alec , you keep it there, and well ride up here

Firefight

[Lord Pac]

yes that was me! first time on cleve/hunua road, lost concentration wasnt sure if it was a left or right- so went with straight!

All good- no damage- only broken f.brake lever.will be back there tomorrow. Just a little disappointed

Thx motoracer/draco/count death and rest of the peeps.catch up with all on the next one...

Hope you had a good one!

[130wide]

To wet, the kid is crook, ok I wasn't allowed.

[bluninja]

To wet, the kid is crook, ok I wasn't allowed.

I had a serious back problem....it was stuck to the mattress actually it's a bit knacked at the moment, but hope to be out an about over the next 2 weekends.

[Hitcher]

By modelling the trajetory of the sun on a sine wave. We see that in order to intergrate the differential between pie and zero we must first find when the positive maximum will be displaced.

And what sort of pie would that be? Apple or bacon and egg?

[Motoracer]

Interesting day. lol

Finally for once I got there on time (Well, kinda anyway). I had to, cause I was the one who set up the times! Met up with more new faces.

A few corners after clevdon, Paco had a little misshap but I am really glad that it was nothing serious.

Carried on to Kopu, only to find out that the weather was absolutly shit down there. All the hills were completly covered in rain clouds. Half the parties went on their seperate ways to Themes and the other half of us decided to continue on to Whanga. After a few close calls in the wet with the back tire being a real bitch, we had a little group meeting. All of us decided to head back cause the rain looked like it was there to stay.

Came back to Kaiua fish and chips, had a feed and the weather also became a bit drier. We then came back to Clevedon and went to Maratai beach then went our seperate ways after reaching howick.

Not exactly the awesome blasting ride that I had planed but it turned out ok anyway. Thanx to all the people who came along. It was great meeting you lot.

Have a good one and stay safe!

[Ms Piggy]

Bluddy weather man!!!
Supposed to be fine today. Glorious bike riding weather.
And it's pissing down.

It's a stunning day here in Welly. I've just been at the Waitangi Day reggae concert - well it's actually in honour of Bob Marleys b'day. Yeah mon.

[Marmoot]

Good ride 4 me, Mracer. Thanx for setting up.

Didn't know y'all waited at Shell Cleve. We (me and that 250 with me....who was that?) thought yous all blasted all the way and waited at kopu, so when I turned back (had to work) I said to that poor li'l bugger "they may be waiting at kopu. It's THAT way (pointing fingers all around the place)".
So, off the li'l guy saying "Ok, Kopu is That way" (fingers all around the place again). Ok, hands up, who was that guy that don't even know where the famous bike hangout Kopu is?

Anyway, that's why I was a bit surprised seeing u guys in Shell Hunua on my way back.

I went back through Bombay hills to M'way btw. A bit tired with Hunua after going back-n-fro in just 1 hours. Wow, mates.....on my way back I saw Southbound Mway was bustling with total traffic jam with 2 accidents (bumpers up) and about more than a dozen cop cars along the way!

Side note: there is always the feeling of how you are much slower than what u're used to be before a crash, but it feels much more frightening.

[Shade]

AGH damn it, I was keen for this ride, but Since i only have a computer at work (not at home), I didnt know this was on till now (had some days off). Damn.

Next time eh!

[XRNR]

Splintered off from the main group at the shell & had lunch in Thames, (a little damp I must say). Splintered again after leaving the pub (scared firefight away by talking about what could happen to his licence), & a couple of us went over from the wet east coast to the sunny west coast.

Riding over there turned out great. Was taken to Port Waikato for the first time nice scenery. Then we decided to have a go at the loop road back down the coast from Port Waikato through the back way to Glenn Murray.

Motu, you would have been proud!
We did about 30 - 50km of gravel road, a nice intro to gravel for the others, Fantastic scenery (least I thought so!). We should have bought along a couple of the R1 riders (paco, vladi maybe even wickid), they would have felt right at home. Everyone, would have been off-roading not just them.

Mike may even post some pictures.

[MikeL]

Well it was an interesting day. "Scattered showers"?? It had well and truly closed in at Kopu - looking miserable, so Dave, Andrew, Craig, Anton and I decided to give Waihi a miss and went to have lunch in Thames and wait for the rain to stop. Enjoyable meal at our regular place the Goldmine and then Dave and Andrew went off one way while Craig, Anton and I headed back to Akl. Stopped for coffee at Mangatawhiri, had a look at the map and decided to detour via Port Waikato. Great roads, fine weather, interesting scenery, but Port Waikato is the end of the line, right? You have to go back the way you came, right? Wrong. Have a look at the map: see all those little roads filling in the empty space south of Port Waikato? Well, Craig said "Let's find out where this one leads". Of course the seal stopped a few kms along, and for the next hour we bumped and bounced and slid along some of the most, er, interesting gravel roads I've come across. All right for some who spend half their riding time on dirt bikes, but after what seemed like 50 km I was starting to get a little weary... Finally emerged onto SH22 somewhere near Glen Murray and the subsequent blast northwards made up for the preceding gravel endurance test. Coffee at the Autobahn Papakura and then home by 6. A great end to a day which didn't start off too promising.

[Marmoot]

Well.....sounds like the movie Torque

[Andrew]

I get the fairing back and the bike cleaned and into what I consider a mint condition. I go on my ride thats all sweet.

Afterward after dinner I cruise into town. Park up and the bike fell over. Not 24 hours after getting it up together its fuct up again

The side fairing, front fairing, rear fairing, mirror and visor all have deep scratches and cracked. Man this just isn't my day. Why me :spudwhat:

[MikeL]

Sorry to hear about the latest incident Andrew. You didn't look too happy yesterday morning - perhaps a premonition?? What an end to the day. But just think - it could have been worse. At least when the bike fell over it was doing 0 km/h and you weren't on it. Cracks and scratches and dents are only painful to the wallet.