Stayed down in Te Awamutu on Sat night then headed up SH26 (not a bad bit of boring road) through to Morrinsville, Te Aroha and then Paeroa. Met a few bikers in Morrinsville, a ZXR400 and pillion then followed a RG500 from there all they way to Paeroa... had an old man (what is it with the old buggers?) on a RS1100? BMW (flat twin) who was keeping up to us on the straights but somehow forgot how to lean into corners.........
When we got there we bumped into Damon and Nigel, Keystone, Motobob, Mv Senna and Boomer. Found Dover and Vicki up on the hill (down on the northern corner by the Shell Station - the start of the long straight) as well as Aff-man, Hanlo, Zrxer and (is it Coldkiwi?) sat in the sun (well it was kind of shaded) got sunburnt.......
Custard had come down with me on the 'busa. He's got a cast on his wrist/arm at the moment and he started getting pains and pressure building up under his cast. We decided to head off home and saw Aff-man and crew heading off so we decided to join them. Custard was starting to get in a bit of pain by now so we gapped it back to Auckland (sorry if I annoyed anyone, it wasnt intentional...) following yet another 500 2-stroke TZ500? (the yammy version of the RG if thats what is called), rushed him in A & E and finally got seen to @ 11.45pm that night. (We waited for 5 hours to be seen.....

) he ended up having a huge infection in the metal rods he has in his wrist (dare I say it - PUS!), so it was night-night nursey and has to stay in overnight tonight too, eating hospital dinners and sucking on bags of IV antibiotics.....
While we were waiting (and the reason we had to wait for so long..) there were a couple of bad crashes up north and a few nasty motobike crashes coming back from Paeroa - has anyone heard about these / how they are?
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