Northern Exposure Tour

**DMNTD:Me** · 25th January 2006, 13:47

Originally Posted by Damon

Only one of my mates thats comming is scared of corners but he's not an Aucklander, he's a thames boy with one of those pussy 4 cylinder things

...up here pussy is a good thing

**Qkchk:Me** · 25th January 2006, 14:11

Originally Posted by TILLER

I think we might be meetin up with ya in dargaville,Dont like the boring straight bit from paparoa to dargaville.Mind you we did talk about ridin the road to paparoa, catchin up with ya there then headin back the same way,& catch up again somewhere else.

Dargaville would probably be better. Gotta stop to fuel the bikes and the riders. Do you guys know where there is a good cafe/eatery? The reason I mentioned Paparoa was because we stopped there on the Opononi ride 4 lunch........

**Bleck K6** · 26th January 2006, 00:39

Haven't stopped there for lunch before,Must be 1 on the main drag.

Originally Posted by Qkchk

Dargaville would probably be better. Gotta stop to fuel the bikes and the riders. Do you guys know where there is a good cafe/eatery? The reason I mentioned Paparoa was because we stopped there on the Opononi ride 4 lunch........

**DMNTD:Me** · 26th January 2006, 08:15

Originally Posted by TILLER

Haven't stopped there for lunch before,Must be 1 on the main drag.

Sure, on either of the two main streets or there's a good takeaways/cafe on the corner next to a dairy at the western end of town where you turn HARD right and head up north.

**Qkchk:Me** · 26th January 2006, 15:15

Im sure we will find something

Not long now............ getting the bikes back today from a service, yay!

**Qkchk:Me** · 26th January 2006, 16:02

Straight from the horses mouth - email from Waitiki Landing Camping ground (last stop til the cape), not much help but better than a poke in the eye.............

The road is gravel road, it gets graded now and again, but we dont know the timetable of the grader, it was graded two weeks ago. the metal trucks came up before christmas to lay the metal, It depends on the date of your tour. Sorry I could not be more helpful. There is talk of them tarsealing the road sometime this year.

Good to hear they are considering tar-sealing the last section of road, I know the local Maori's have been campaining to stop this (to stop more people coming to the area).

**jimevo** · 26th January 2006, 21:48

Originally Posted by Qkchk

We will be meeting at Shell Westgate @ 8.30am on the Saturday morning, leaving by 9am....got alot of kms to cover...........

Hey Qkchk, it looks like my mate and I would like to join you guys for part of the first leg. We have to head back to AKL by midday but really keen for a good blast.........Is it still 08:30 meet up at Westgate Shell???

**Qkchk:Me** · 27th January 2006, 15:58

Originally Posted by jimevo

Hey Qkchk, it looks like my mate and I would like to join you guys for part of the first leg. We have to head back to AKL by midday but really keen for a good blast.........Is it still 08:30 meet up at Westgate Shell???

Sure is........... meet @ 8.30am have a nana natter/top-up with fuel/fart around/check tyres then head off @ 9am.

**jimevo** · 27th January 2006, 16:12

No worries.........look forward to meet you all tomorrow morning!

**Qkchk:Me** · 27th January 2006, 21:33

Weather is looking promising - see you all at Shell Westgate @ 8.30!

**Scorpygirl** · 27th January 2006, 21:40

Originally Posted by Qkchk

Weather is looking promising - see you all at Shell Westgate @ 8.30!

Good luck!!!!

and I hope all goes well with ride!

Ride safe all.

**DMNTD:Me** · 28th January 2006, 20:10

This morning Duc-Gurl and I rode over to meet Qkchk 'n Crew in Dargiville from Whangarei.
Through drizzle,rain,fog and road snakes we blasted over...a few moments were had on the way too but ya get that.
From rain to damn near sunshine!! Dargi was mint!
After the mandatory harassment we all headed off north bound towards Opononi.
Had a bloody good ride up and through the Waipoua forest. Custard and I took the lead and carved it nicely.
Reconnected with all at Tane Mahuta in the forest for pic's and a quick relax.
On to Opononi for a beer/bourbon and oh...yes MV Senna...a fark'n LATTE!! Yep...bloody Jafa's eh!!! And yes,photographic evidence is attached too I didn't even know that the Opo pub served them and I lived there for a bloody decade
Well we then went our own ways. They carried on to Rawene to catch their ferry and we cruised back here to Whangarei.
Looking forward to riding up to Paihia on Monday to meet up and show them the fun way down the coast