Originally Posted by
roogazza
I've been looking at the thread heading "Akaroa GP " and wondering if any of the older riders on here remember the Rimutaka GP's of old ????
I started fanging over there in the mid to late 60's ! I have lots of old fart meme 's of riding that road..
and will always remember from as early as 1968 .
I was on my trusty YDS3 waiting for a mate at Te Marua on a early Sunday morning. We were heading to a Sprint at the Loopline in the Rapa.....
I heard a beaut noise and thought whats that? Flying by was Mel Wrigley on one of the first Triumph Tridents, you know the original green ones. Always remember that ! What a beaut sound.
The Hutt Valley bred some really good racers in the 1970's and I think the Tukas were probably partly responsible for improving riders....
The Kaitoki's were a good warm up before the hill as well.....I can even remember a couple of TZ's being unloaded on a Sunday morning once !!!!!!! ridden over to Featherston and back !!
as you were : lol.
I am younger than you and my days of the Remutaka GP were in the early to mid 80's - I left Wellington in 1988. One memory I have is thinking I was going quick over the hill one day when I was passed by a silver blur. Didnt see who it was or what he was riding. I was later told it was one of the Hiscock brothers "running in" a new Katana before it got turned into a racebike. Not sure if true. Good lesson though: there's always someone better than you - unless you're Freddie Spencer. I had the same lesson at Ruapuna on a trackday a few years ago when I was flat out at the end of the back straight and was passed by Dennis Charlett on one side and Ryan Hampton on the other going at least 60kph faster than me.
I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave
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