Labour Day 2005 - Where did you ride?

[Uncle B]

Is that where you got to VTWIN??

Sorry Jim

Decided to try some different roads for a change, plus dumbarse had his phone sitting at home

Father and son team......Et al (Hornet 900/Ducati 916) and Gunner (Sv 650) perhapse.

Sounds like you guys had a good day as well.

[Zed]

Once over Dafe and I (see pic of the twins) picked up the pace and were covering ground at an impressive rate...

Good pics & writeup VTWIN, tks! I like the pic of the twins, but was that a nice Bluebird I saw there too!

[Uncle B]

Good pics & writeup VTWIN, tks! I like the pic of the twins, but was that a nice Bluebird I saw there too!

Yup. That's Darkmans baby, nice too

[skelstar]

Yeah I sat on the couch. Should have come with you guys but Im sure I would have played the 'chase the blue dots' game . Next time.

[Wonko]

Saturday - Down to Tauranga for a mates party, nice blasting past cars stuck in traffic. Down thourgh Paeroa and the K gourge, and along Old Tauranga Road.

Sunday midday - Up and down an express way giving people nice safe pillion rides. Then back up to Auckland the way I'd coem down.

Monday - Out to Piha for a swim in the afternoon.

All up just under 600kms of ridding

[dhunt]

Didn't have time to do too much riding, stupid study
But did manage to go for a bit of a ride with a mate out past marton and a long santoft road back to bulls which is a really nice windy road for a quick blast.

[ducatilover]

i went down to welly wood and rode the whole day with me mate, we did bout 500km, swapping between bikes, he had a low speed crash on his gsx250 but no damage done. we swapped between bikes but anything my mates have no longer satisfies me. we did the wainui coast road, moores valley rd, then went to see another mate in karori, went to makra [spelling?] twice just for fun then headed out to j-ville through the back roads near makra, then rode around random roads back to karori then back to wainui then i went back to karori to stay the night

i hate my gn now. on the saturday i rode my soon-to-be-mine Honda bros650 and now the gn is a pathetic excuse for a bike
buy my gn $1900

[skelstar]

i hate my gn now. on the saturday i rode my soon-to-be-mine Honda bros650 and now the gn is a pathetic excuse for a bike
buy my gn $1900

Dude I hope you dont work in marketing. Im not saying youre wrong though.

[skelstar]

Sunday morning there was an arrangement to meet MoFunThanMost and Poorbastard at Shell Mana for a ride to Manfield to watch the big boys ride round and round. Somehow we all managed to find a different service station to meet at and sat there for a while waiting for the respective riders to turn up. Despite being at the right station, I had the miss fortune of not having a Wild Bean cafe at mine . Nevermind.

We had a nice pootle up the coast. Not much traffic. Met up with another KBer (blue Firestorm) at Foxton (The 'Fox Town of NZ') and continued on. Fantastic view of Mt Ruapehu covered in snow on the Himitangi straights (highlight).

Once we got to the track, watched a few rounds of each class we decided to head home. Kicked tires for a bit (admiring PBs new/used ZXR250 ) and I headed back the way I came and MFTM and PB went the long way home.

Had a bit of fun with the traffic but ended up in a queue from McKays crossing onwards (bloody 80km/h limits and double yellow lines). Cant afford to get pulled over (no L-Plate) so had to behave. Ho-hum.

Anyway, good day out, beautiful weather, got home early-ish, good company and conversation. Thanks guys.

[ManDownUnder]

Labour day my little girl turned 3. A quiet day around the house painting and relaxing. Quite nice but not much riding involved...


Zed - sounds like you had a good one! ONYA!

Pop around to my place some time - see if you and your wife can talk my wife into riding on my bike too... that'd make it the 3rd time for her...
MDU