Off Road Manners

[paturoa]

Dont ride in parks myself, there is too much dog shit that gets all over the bike.

[crazyxr250rider]

What is Wood Hill and River Head?
Thought you wanted to go fast? Is Mx "NO fun cos you're not competitive?

Mx is not fun because you just go round and round and round..........
oh and those are off road bike parks I mentioned........Duh???

[Stevo]

Mx is not fun because you just go round and round and round..........
oh and those are off road bike parks I mentioned........Duh???

You are such a homo.
If I had Woodhill and River Head available for use I'd know what they are. They are obviously closer to you than me!! Marlborough is nowhere near Auckland, if that's where Woodhill and River Head are????????

[crazyxr250rider]

Hey I thought you were in auckland
oh and if you've ever read Kiwi Rider you'd know what woodhill is.............
Homo.

[Jimmy]

Lucky you weren't around when I was a teenager - we rode our trail bikes on all of Aucklands volcano's,even Mt Eden and One Tree Hill...but Mt Richmond was our favortite.Go up there now and you'll still see the tracks we made leaping in and out of the kumara pits,hill climbs up the crater sides.Anti social was one of the requirments of being a motorcyclist.....you are all so PC now....

Motu - those were the days. Mt Richmond was my patch, starting out on the old Honda 100!!. In addition to the superb kumera pits that we launched ourselves from (not that I knew that's what they were then - you have enlightened me) I remember a particularly narrow sheep track around the crater that we rode. Would think twice about doing that now. It's those memories from the 70's that have got me back into dirt bikes. I also remember regularly getting chased out of the freezing works holding paddocks by Sylvia Park by some totally unreasonable farm manager!! and he never got us!!

[Motu]

Hey,we must of lived in the same area then! Yeah,we didn't know what they were,or their significance,although we did know they were kumara pits.We made lots of small tracks around the mountain,it was good soft loamy soil for good corners,lots of jumps for huge air (2ft) and hills to climb - did you ever get up the hill from the Sports Car Club? But no one went up there,we had the place to ourselves.

Yeah,we used to play in the holding paddocks too,and stroll across the motorway! Shit,4 lanes was a hell of a lot of road to run across in those days.The manager lived in that house by the motorway interchange - I know the family that originaly owned it well,the Sylvia Park Army Camp was built on their land...bet they wished they owned it now eh?

[Jimmy]

Yeah - I was an Otahuhu teenager! Can recall the sports car club but sure don't reckon I'd have made the hill climb - but would've tried no doubt. Really was a great little spot, and no hassle with whatever public was around then. We would just nick off out of sight for a while. I also recall the motocross at Mangere Mountain. No way would we ever get away with staging an event like that now - resource consents, land protection and political correctness being what they are.

[Motu]

We only got up the big climb a few times,it was a tall order for our bikes of the day and a recipie for disaster...it would still be a lot of work on my TLR200.

Motocross on Mangere Mountain - ah,them were the days,that's where we first saw those noisy 2 stroke things - the Bultaco's.I'm sure we had good manners back then - or our Mum's would box our ears!...or more likely the ''wooden spoon''.