19th, Sat, slow / med ride - clevedon, hunua, Marinda area

[danb]

Where this is cage thing happen?

[Zapf]

Good weather for it. Not the best roads for my bike as they are often kinda twisty.
Felix cheers for letting me ride your bike, that bike has great potential.
Some of those chicks at the bikini wash were hot. One bizarrely looked 5 months pregnant, WTF!

My bike is proving hard to do extended wheelies, about 350 kg with pilot, on a 170 rear, so I must practice more.

yes... quite right... riding your bike it feels like it'll be more suitable for open sweeping roads than twisties... and your bike does go.. feels good on the faster sections of Gt south Rd.

[Leong]

Where this is cage thing happen?

At the Dawson Rd intersection on teh road that becomes Chapel Rd at the Howick end, Cheers Danb, good to meet you today.

[Zapf]

didn't want to get sucked into entering a turn at a pace I couldn't handle!! Thanks again, that was the most fun part of the ride fior me. Going riding with a friend early tomorrow, will probably do the same route again. ( hadn't been on the Kaiaua coast road - Mangatangi road before either )

Self restrain is a great thing is it not I'll see what I am doing tomorrow might come out that way again, what time you plan to head out?

[Leong]

We leave Howick at 7am..... Spent enuf too much time away from the family already this weekend, hence the early mornings..

[danb]

Looks like another good day for it,
Sunday

Max: 22°C Min: 12°C
(Day) (Night)
Fine. Light winds.

Would come but to lasy to get up that early again .

[Zapf]

We leave Howick at 7am..... Spent enuf too much time away from the family already this weekend, hence the early mornings..

wow... early... yes... really early... mind you the sun is fully out then anyway..

[Fart]

Can someone post up a map or street name (i.e. a side road that comes of the main road) where the mission bay meet up is?
Looks like the weather is going to be good all day tomorow.
Saturday:

Mission Bay is like, the smallest area in Auckland. You will not miss a bunch of raggy bikers early in the morning. Usually there are only morning runners, dog walkers and cyclist having breakfast that early. We will surely disturb the piece with our loud aftermarket cans.

[aff-man]

Mission Bay is like, the smallest area in Auckland. You will not miss a bunch of raggy bikers early in the morning. Usually there are only morning runners, dog walkers and cyclist having breakfast that early. We will surely disturb the piece with our loud aftermarket cans.

Shit that lady was so funny... (for those that didn't notice there was this old lady yelling at us for ages while waiting at the lights at mission bay...... wished i had an aftermarket can.. or if i had my old tyres on it would have been burnout time)

Cheers for the ride.... was a bit of fun. Sorry we had to turn back early but wanted to stop in at mt eden before 21st gift shopping.

Good paced and the weather was great. Sorry i took off from the bp (with a raggedy bunch) but the bike was getting to like 110deg So i needed to get some wind into the radiator...

Swanny.... next time we'll go have a play somewhere did some good wheelies on the way home hahahaha

[danb]

Mission Bay is like, the smallest area in Auckland. You will not miss a bunch of raggy bikers early in the morning. Usually there are only morning runners, dog walkers and cyclist having breakfast that early. We will surely disturb the piece with our loud aftermarket cans.

Yea well the funny thing was, I was the first one there and I did meet up with 3 other non KiwiBikers who where off to the bike wash at Mt Eden.
They where basically in the same area as where we where meant to meet.

[Zapf]

Shit that lady was so funny... (for those that didn't notice there was this old lady yelling at us for ages while waiting at the lights at mission bay...... wished i had an aftermarket can.. or if i had my old tyres on it would have been burnout time)

yea .. what was she on about? didn't hear a word she said

[Keystone19]

yea .. what was she on about? didn't hear a word she said

She'd been sitting there for about 30 minutes eating her breakfast and was too scared to come and say anything to us about parking on the footpath until we'd all ridden off. Then she decided to stand on the side of the road yelling at us about it.

Poor dear, all she had to do was approach us nicely and mention that she'd prefer us not to park on the footpath...

[danb]

She'd been sitting there for about 30 minutes eating her breakfast and was too scared to come and say anything to us about parking on the footpath until we'd all ridden off. Then she decided to stand on the side of the road yelling at us about it.

Poor dear, all she had to do was approach us nicely and mention that she'd prefer us not to park on the footpath...

LOL stupid bitch...
Parking on footpaths is why we have bikes right...

[Zapf]

LOL stupid bitch...
Parking on footpaths is why we have bikes right...

Well... it is the culture of the place that decides that...

In Melbourne, you can walk into nice office buildings and have bikes all lined up and parked in the lobby.

Maybe next time we can angle all our bikes nicely.. (guess she was scared of leather clad bikers... and rightly so )

Photos of my biking weekend

oh and check out this mad biker!