Ride this saturday

[Motoracer]

Shit yea, yesterday (Saturday) was mint! I won't spoil it for Andrew cause he might want to do a big write up. Thanx for the co guys, it was nice to put faces to a few names. Special thanx to the guys who helped me repair the puncture. Also thanx a mill to FF for putting together an awesome ride!

[Firefight]

Okay, were to start ?, I guess firstly, sorry to those who took the time to come with us and got lost, my fault for asumming everyone would have my level of local knowledge, also I did not think so many would turn up, I will be more careful with briefing next time. we did spend a fair bit of time waiting as promised, but to no avail , anyway for those who are interested the route was. Autobahn to Drury off ramp, Old GSR via ramarama to bombay, down exspress way couple of kays, off at the top of the bombay over the overbridge and down the winding"Ridge road"" on to the Pokeno-Tuakau rd-Whangarta and over the Tuakau bridge, from there down my personal Favorite 22 to Ngaruawhia, after regrouping and picking up a few others and losing a few its off down to Whatawhata and on to Raglin, lucnh and a long chat good to meet some new KBs Then its back to Ngarawhia, yet another stop, down SHW 1 to Horotu(Stinky) and down the back to Gordonton, down the long starights to morrinsvile to meet with a couple who popped up from Wellington, again due to cir
umstances our group spilt again, for us after a fair time in morrinsville its back via Tahuna, Hoe-o-tainui and on to the exspress way at Ohinewai, down to rangariri, split again 3 down the main road, MR and I over the bridge and down via Rangriri-glenmurray conection rd onto 22, Yeha back to tuakau ,, buckland, up to Bombay for coffee with our mates.
That was the route !

Highlights, meeting new KBers, Great weather, no accidents, winding up boy racers in Morrinsville,.

In my humble opinion, the KB riders of day. Mike L for getting back into it so soon after his off, XRNR keeping Mike company, but to top it all MY good mate
Ändrew"' who managed to lure a boy racer into a ticket"', nice one mate !!

No doubt Andrew will post a few pages about some of the other interesting things that happened, ....
Thanks again everyone for a great day

Firefight.

[wkid_one]

You shoulda carried on through to Kawhia - nicer road than the Raglan Road...esp mid ride.

[Firefight]

Some good pics! only have to ask FF what a cop does when you pass him at double the speed limit ??

Yeah unbelivable ! the leaned out the window of his car and gave Motorracer and I the fingers !!, we were just at the end of the huntly exspressway and only saw him in the dark at the last minute, I don''t know if I should ring up and complain. ?


Firefight

[Two Smoker]

Yeah unbelivable ! the leaned out the window of his car and gave Motorracer and I the fingers !!, we were just at the end of the huntly exspressway and only saw him in the dark at the last minute, I don''t know if I should ring up and complain. ?


Firefight

You should, incompetence and stupidity, oh and i forgot he was jealous hehehe

[Firefight]

You shoulda carried on through to Kawhia - nicer road than the Raglan Road...esp mid ride.

I had thought about that Dan, but we had arranged to meet with Lynda and Hamish at Morrinsville, so gave it a miss due to time, but yes I agree it is a better choice, have you also done from there back to Waitomo ?, that is also a great ride.

F/F

[wkid_one]

Yeah - used to play around there quite a bit.....shit through there in summer tho - roads get to tarry.

[Andrew]

Yeah - used to play around there quite a bit.....shit through there in summer tho - roads get to tarry.

Ya reckon?

[Coldkiwi]

Yeah unbelivable ! the leaned out the window of his car and gave Motorracer and I the fingers !!, we were just at the end of the huntly exspressway and only saw him in the dark at the last minute, I don''t know if I should ring up and complain. ?


Firefight

FF: if all he did was wave a few digits at you, i'd be stoked! anything but another ticket or a crash and i count it as a great ride

zed: lack of cc doesn't automatically mean you have to give up. just means you have to probe them a little to see if they know how to use it Some guys do, many do not. for instance, first time I was out at pukekohe i had great fun overtaking a speed triple on my zxr (What the-?)in all sorts of places even though he should've dumped on me. beating bigger bikes is very rewarding and worth trying so long as you stay within abilities.
and if you can't get past you've always got the excuse ready

andrew: you got a boy racer busted? right on!!

sounds like a good, if some what chaotic ride was had. Bummer i missed it but i'll do me best to make the next one.

[Shawn]

feck feck feck....

i lost u guys within 5 mins as i missed the first exit...

so i took a ride up to whangarei....wasn't bad at all...

meet Motoracer at the gas station in the morning before we started.

PLSASE arrange another ride ASAP!!!

[Zed]

zed: lack of cc doesn't automatically mean you have to give up. just means you have to probe them a little to see if they know how to use it

Oh I didn't give up CK, and I probed...I probed. You should see my newish tyres after that ride- they look worn in now!! It would have been good to have you accompany us- young Motoracer rides in a similar style to you, maybe a tad more adventurous around blind corners though.

BTW it doesn't take much skill to power it out on the straights, and most 1000cc sportsbikes will pull away from the 600cc's in the higher gears (we're talking about real high road speeds here).


Zed

[LB]

It was nice to meet up with all you guys at Morrinsville and put a face to the names. Thanks for organising this FF.

Hope you didn't have to wait too much longer to get the puncture fixed Motoracer. I'm going to see Johann at lunchtime today to see his new bike so will tell him I've met you.

On our way back home yesterday (Sunday) we met up with K14 at Inglewood for lunch - nice to meet you too K14.

We had a great ride up and back, another 1300kms on the Monster (and Hamish's Suzuki)

Andrew: how did those photos come out?

[Firefight]

FF: if all he did was wave a few digits at you, i'd be stoked! anything but another ticket or a crash and i count it as a great ride

andrew: you got a boy racer busted? right on!!

sounds like a good, if some what chaotic ride was had. Bummer i missed it but i'll do me best to make the next one.

Your right CK, it was a great ride, sadly one of us did get a ticket, however many more got off , as I recall the group I was with missed out on two hefty tickets, one at old GSR ramarama 165ish!, 100 area, and coming back from Whatawhata 130 approaching the 50 area, and then later that night MR and I
190ish in the 100, so yeah getting the fingers from him was not that upsetting.

F/F

[Andrew]

Your right CK, it was a great ride, sadly one of us did get a ticket, however many more got off , as I recall the group I was with missed out on two hefty tickets, one at old GSR ramarama 165ish!, 100 area, and coming back from Whatawhata 130 approaching the 50 area, and then later that night MR and I
190ish in the 100, so yeah getting the fingers from him was not that upsetting.

F/F

Might be time to trade your bike in for a GN125 for a while?

[Firefight]

Might be time to trade your bike in for a GN125 for a while?

Ah so they have computers in the student pubs, I thought as much !

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