"U2, 22, Te Awamu2" - The Trip Report

**skelstar** · 21st March 2006, 11:53

Ah, and its pointing downhill too Simon. Good plan

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Didnt realise you had company coming home (or didnt read it properly). What route did you take this time?

**Velox** · 21st March 2006, 12:23

Originally Posted by skelstar

Wheeeyy...thats fighting talk.
If you werent riding a Gixer Thou Id issue a challenge (an empty one) like everyone is prone to doing these days.

Back me up here V. please?

Yep - the lad is getting pretty fast! Hooning through some of that twisty stuff half way through 22 and heading up Vinegar Hill we were at a pretty good pace with Skel in the lead. (Make it a summer ale thanks Skelstar)

**Dreamer** · 21st March 2006, 12:29

So you guys - what have you got planned for Easter? I'd love to do a 4 day trip but with a lot less hours on the bike per day than you have just done. The only ideas I've had so far is going to Whangamomona and seeing the Bridge to Nowhere. Otherwise there's the road from Wanganui to National Park (is it SH4?). Is anyone keen to plan something?

**madboy** · 21st March 2006, 12:44

What Ixion said... it's all about average speed. Never done Auck on a bike, but done it plenty in cars over the years. Quickest was a Sigma GSR-X, 5hrs 21mins. Certainly not the fastest car I've ever owned, but it was comfortable and covered distance really really well. Only really opened it up on the Deserted Road and the Southern Mway, Auck. All the rest was a consistent 130-140 pace, middle of the night so nothing to slow down for, including most of the corners and small towns! And without constantly having to beat the throttle, I required only one fuel stop.

**Eddieb** · 21st March 2006, 12:48

From Cambridge down SH1 and backroads to Tokoroa (Via Paraonui Road). Then out to Whakamaru (SH 32?) and down to Tokaanu via the Western Bypass. Over to National Park and a stop at Raetihi for some lunch followed by the ParaPara's to Wanganui, Sanson and SH1 to Welly.

**skelstar** · 21st March 2006, 12:49

You can have a whole bloody case of the stuff ta V

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**Kendog** · 21st March 2006, 13:15

Originally Posted by Dreamer

So you guys - what have you got planned for Easter? I'd love to do a 4 day trip but with a lot less hours on the bike per day than you have just done. The only ideas I've had so far is going to Whangamomona and seeing the Bridge to Nowhere. Otherwise there's the road from Wanganui to National Park (is it SH4?). Is anyone keen to plan something?

I'd be quite keen for a trip (maybe), up to Gisborne, round the coast, taking in a few of the local pubs to have a drink or two with the local mongrel mob, black power and the Rastas in Ruatoria and then onto Opotiki and home by some route. Now that would be quite an enlightening trip!

**Lou Girardin** · 21st March 2006, 13:40

Good story, but someone buy velox a clear visor. $50 isn't worth dying for.

**skelstar** · 21st March 2006, 13:48

Dreamer - make it happen if you want to go. Theres only about 3 weeks before Easter...start a thread.

**limbimtimwim** · 21st March 2006, 17:43

Originally Posted by Kendog

I'd be quite keen for a trip (maybe), up to Gisborne, round the coast

I reckon East Cape is probably the best trip in the North Island. I'm keen. Of course, but el hondureño de la diablo may explode.

**Velox** · 21st March 2006, 18:25

Originally Posted by Lou Girardin

Good story, but someone buy velox a clear visor. $50 isn't worth dying for.

I've got one - I just didn't take it cause we weren't really planning to be riding at night. The main prob is more that it slows you down - if I was going at the usual speed it would be dodgey, but it's not so bad when you 'ride to the cndtns' of having reduced visibility.

Btw - I can't do Easter sorry - got an engagement party on Sat pm and leading on a camp all the rest of the weekend. But I do have to ride between the camp (Palmy) and the Party (Wgtn) on Sat arvo and Sun morn so if the ride includes that (which I doubt it will) let me know.

**VasalineWarrior** · 22nd March 2006, 00:16

Originally Posted by Kendog

I'd be quite keen for a trip (maybe), up to Gisborne, round the coast, taking in a few of the local pubs to have a drink or two with the local mongrel mob, black power and the Rastas in Ruatoria and then onto Opotiki and home by some route. Now that would be quite an enlightening trip!

Have some cuzzies in opotiki that could put us up for a night, and have been wanting to do east cape for a while now. Bring a Koha though, im safe from ending up in the hangi but they dont see many white folks out that way so it pays to be carefull!

**Kendog** · 22nd March 2006, 09:50

Almost sounds like a plan hatching! Depending if this works out and how many of us do go.....my mum lives in Wairoa and would be happy to have some of us for the night, (maybe a tent or two would be a plan?) and feed us. Also have tons of whanau in Gissy too, but probably wouldn't wanna stay there if a stop in Wairoa was the goer. Lived in Gissy most of my life and only went all the way round the coast once, in our 1964 Bedford housebus, but heard it's great on a bike!
Mrs KD.

**VasalineWarrior** · 22nd March 2006, 09:57

Hmm yeah I could get a roof to stay under for a few of us, but if this turns out then we might have a few too many people to ''impose'' on someones place. A cheap motel/motorcamp somewhere along the way would be the go perhaps?