Coromandel Ride Saturday 10/12/05

**Zed** · 10th December 2005, 05:26

Well, it's overcast outside with very little wind here in Hobsonville, which is good. Metservice says the following about Thames weather:

Saturday

Max: 24°C	Min: 16°C
(Day)	(Night)
Occasional rain. Humid northerlies.

So we'll see you keen Aucklanders outside Papakura Autobahn around 9am for 9.15 departure, and the rest of you at Kopu around 10am!

**saul** · 10th December 2005, 05:35

I think it will be a little after 10

**zadok** · 10th December 2005, 06:41

Originally Posted by Zed

Well at least it's BIG! How was the Mout looking tonight Marty?

Not ridden a cruiser for ages. Should get the hang of it ok. Nice feed of fush & chups on the Pilot Bay side, before finishing off with an icecream and giving you a buzz.
Weather looking pretty reasonable here. I'll be leaving in about 20mins. So see you's all soon.

**Warr** · 10th December 2005, 06:49

Intermittant wet stuff here, will review at Kopu. Teflon & myself meeting at 8.30 Thomas road BP

**Zapf** · 10th December 2005, 19:19

What a blast.... cheers for the ride guys!

And nice meeting all of yas

**zadok** · 10th December 2005, 20:32

Thanks Zed for the hospitality today, and all the other K.B's. The weather and ride was great (inspite of the cruiser). I was very impressed with Tairua. Very nice place. Great to put some faces to some K.B names. Hope to do it again sometime. A few of pics. Maybe Zed can add some names to faces.

**zadok** · 10th December 2005, 20:38

First meet at Kopu.

**SPman** · 10th December 2005, 20:39

As suspected, I was on roster today - bugger!
Might catch you in Perth next month, Zadok.
SP

**zadok** · 10th December 2005, 20:41

Originally Posted by SPman

As suspected, I was on roster today - bugger!
Might catch you in Perth next month, Zadok.
SP

Send me a P.M when you know what is happening.

**justsomeguy** · 10th December 2005, 22:31

Cheers for the ride guys and thanks for waiting for me to catch up.

As this was my first ride in over a month I continued on and did the Dwive

- reached home at 8:30 - Over 600k's

And back to do it again tomorrow

**Zapf** · 10th December 2005, 22:41

Originally Posted by justsomeguy

And back to do it again tomorrow

wow you are keen

**Warr** · 10th December 2005, 22:48

Great road, perfect weather, what more could a guy want!!
Yes we had it all and awesome company too.
Thanks all. I cant remember all your names so if you care to post you attended or names of others too that would be great.

**aff-man** · 11th December 2005, 09:41

Cheers for the ride guys sorry i could only make it half the way.

Had a nice blat out through the hanua's being the first open road ride with the arrow. Glad i wore ear plugs didn't really notice and big power leaps but still kept good pace (well for me that is). Cheers mat for organising it i'll be keen to do the whole things next time..

After i left you guys i had a nice "tootle" up the east coast through kaiawa (sp) and kawakawa etc etc etc didn't see many bikes... or cars for that matter just a lot of sun and good roads...

p.s. sorry for overtaking you JSG on that corner as we turned off to miranda but i just luuurve those corners

**Zed** · 11th December 2005, 11:23

What a truly fantastic ride, one of the best I've been on with KB! Thank you to all who came, everyone rode well and the group generally stuck together with the exception of poor old Zadok who lagged behind because his cruiser was bottoming out around corners, and the Coro Loop is just full of nice corners!

The Auckland crew met up nice and early as planned and got away on time to make Kopu by 10.15am where there were another 5 bikes waiting for us. We had a good sized group of 11 bikes leave Kopu destined for Whitianga for lunch, where we arrived at 12.30pm and had a good feed and conversation. Riders & bikes were as follows:

Zadok - Suzuki 1500cc Intruder
Hayabusa01 - Black Busa
Busa Pete & partner - Gold Busa
Warr - Frosty's old VFR750
Teflon - Yellow TL1000R
CaN (Christine & Neil?) - Super Blackbird
SV1000 Gal - Naked SV1000 with twin Yoshis!
JSG - CBR250RR (600kms older!)
Zapf - CB900 Hornet
Digsaw - CBR400
Aff-man - GSXR600 (left us at Miranda)
Saul - GSXR1000 (left us at Kopu)
Me - Super Blackbird

The roads were all top notch and the scenery & weather equally complimenting. We ended up not only doing the Loop but also rode down through the awesome Hikuwai road to Whangamata and then thru those challenging twisties to Waihi, where Zadok departed and returned to Tauranga and the rest of us ventured homeward up SH2 thru the gorge, which was a good stretch alongside that river and one of only two places during the ride we got rained on, and at one point it rained so hard for about 2 mins that one guy said it stung him thru the vents on his leathers!

I calculated being in the saddle for a total of 8 hours and as usual the Blackbird performed brilliantly, my body was feeling it last night though...small price to pay for an excellent days entertainment!

Some pics attached. See you on the next one!

Zed