Northern Ride:Sat 15th

[DMNTD:Me]

Well done Chris 11/10 mate, take it you had gloves on while performing the surgical removal of a cager's grin........would hate to think you were at home picking glass out of your knuckles..........
ps: would have paid good money to see that.........

LOL...mate I need $1800 for a set of those Akropovic cans so please send money now...our operators are ready just for you!
After a recent event when a gimp nearly caused me to bin my ride I had had enough so this poor guy took the brunt of it. Had to brake excessively hard to the point that it was going over. With some push 'n pull action along with my knee I managed to keep it off the deck...just!
But all's good...I'm ok


NB: Carbon fibre knuckled gloves save lives

[justsomeguy]

Loosing your licence JSG....bet your gutted, I guess we won't be seeing you on to many rides for a while.
Shit that's really upset me

I came to see you on the last ride - but was told you chickened out.

[DMNTD:Me]

Thanks Chris & Duc-Girl - awesome roads, great company, top day.
When's the next one.

Mate...anytime you're keen come on up Trev for a blast.
May not be able to provide styley bit like the Hauraki Plans but you might have to put up with ferry crossings,1 or 2 CORNERS and a few loose units...yes shocking I know.
See you next time

[erik]

You nongs didn't speed on Ruakaka/Waipu Straights did ya Cause if ya did then ya deserve ya tickets. That's a very cop heavy road that. Have counted 5 cops between Brynderwyns and Whangarei along those straights. Please tell ya weren't that stupid.

I can only speak for me and justsomeguy, dunno whether the other guys sped on those straights since they were way ahead of us.
But yeah we did.
I'll keep it in mind next time.

[justsomeguy]

I can only speak for me and justsomeguy, dunno whether the other guys sped on those straights since they were way ahead of us.
But yeah we did.
I'll keep it in mind next time.

I don't see how we could have avoided that ticket apart from not speeding:slap: We shouldn't have been speeding in those places as there were no faster riders ahead of us in a group, especially as we can't "plant it" as the cop put it.

Same with the other ticket...... there was no way to "see" the cop or get any other hint.

Tough luck, anyway lets just savour the thousands of time we got away and I'll just wait till someone knocks on my door and wants the little piece of plastic.:eyepoke: Nice of the cop to let me ride away.

[erik]

I don't see how we could have avoided that ticket apart from not speeding:slap: We shouldn't have been speeding in those places as there were no faster riders ahead of us in a group, especially as we can't "plant it" as the cop put it.

Same with the other ticket...... there was no way to "see" the cop or get any other hint.

Tough luck, anyway lets just savour the thousands of time we got away and I'll just wait till someone knocks on my door and wants the little piece of plastic.:eyepoke: Nice of the cop to let me ride away.

It says on the back of my ticket that "demerit points will be recorded against you upon payment of the infringement fee."
So maybe the cop couldn't take your licence yet?

[Maha]

Dont pay the full amount of the fine, their computor needs the fine amount and the payment to be the same before it can generate demerit points, if fine amount is paid and say, you are on 80 dem pts, and the tickets worth 40 dem pts then you are walking. If you dont pay the full amount then you will get a reminder notice to pay more, pay more just dont pay it out. Hopefully you can hold out till demerit points drop off the other end...........

[justsomeguy]

Dont pay the full amount of the fine, their computor needs the fine amount and the payment to be the same before it can generate demerit points, if fine amount is paid and say, you are on 80 dem pts, and the tickets worth 40 dem pts then you are walking. If you dont pay the full amount then you will get a reminder notice to pay more, pay more just dont pay it out. Hopefully you can hold out till demerit points drop off the other end...........

I think that's what the cop meant by saying I can drag it out and still keep my license. Can you please PM me with some more specifics.

JSG

[Unit:Me]

Well TL Rider is out of the house so I've snuck onto KB, oh shit, busted, he'll read this
Anyway, Thanks to everyone who made the effort to join us. (This feels like an Oscar speech) As we get into winter I guess we can't expect so many perfect days, but overall we were pretty fortunate with the weather. We finally managed to get everyone together at Burger King in Whangarei. 17 bikes in total departed and headed through town (lots of Saturday shoppers gave us the stear, sort of made it feel special). We took everyone out along the northern side of the Whangarei Habour, to our favourate back door track, Mt Tiger Road. So we were into the good shit straight away. 27kms of super winding road up over the ridges of the eastern Whangarei skyline which dropped us out at the nor'eastern end of the city. From there we took the Ngunguru Road to the east coast proper, following the coastline up through Tutukaka, Matapouri, (2x speeding tickets, and the winners are ),Wooly Bay, Sandy Bay. From there we swung inland and made our way back to Hikurangi, a small township 20kms north of Whangarei. By this time we would have done a good 80-90kms of great roads, and we had bearly left town . A short link onto SH1 and more fuel, we then swung east again and headed out towards Oakura and the old Russell Road. A brief period of rain (was forced to pull over and remove the tinted insert I had just put on my visor, couldnt see a thing), slowed us down a bit but as we headed further north towards the Bay of Islands we found clear roads again. Unfortunately there was a lot of P-metal this time, but Im sure the serious boys up the front found this just adding to there fun. Me I was trying to make all corners straight and stay as safe and upright as possible, bearing in mind Im about to trade my bike and buy a new one.
We finally all met up in Russell for lunch at the famous and infamous Duke of Melborough Tavern. By this stage the ride now has plenty of material to make a short movie, starting with the day before when the first of the Jaffa waive arrived at mine and TL Riders place.
From there we planned to head West to our beloved Kaikohe/Opo road and the Waipoua Forest to finish off the day. For those of you who havent managed the northern experience yet, this is about a 500km loop, all totally windy and challenging.
Some people had already dropped off by now, and a couple more had to peel away too, but we still had a hardcore group to do the west. However, 10-15min out of Paihia and I find myself lying on the side of the road feeling like a right twat Couldnt believe it, I was pulling off the road at the next meeting point and didnt see the metal under my heavily breaking front wheel, a quick wash out of the front and she's all over rover. Nothing major that cant be fixed, other than bruised pride, a wrenched shoulder and being pissy at missing the next part of the ride.
Thanks to nodrog for following me home with a broken gearshift and smashed off footpeg.
The rest of the ride I believe was as it always is through those parts, yeeeeha!!
As organisers (Which of course was TL Rider) we learned a lot about how it can be done better next time.
Meanwhile, Im back to work (just had some time off), and back to the basement to fix the TL.

[The_Dover]

Fucking awesome ride, just what I needed to reprofile the Pilot Power after a few weeks of motorway commuting!!

The roads up there are truly awesome and that twisty little bitch over Mt Tiger Rd was a perfect start to the da,y which carried on in much the same vein until we crawled back into Whangarei in the dark and drizzle at 6.30.

I had a hoot trying to keep pace with the northern monkeys thru the twisties, gave up a little on the real fast sweepers cos 2 up it gets a bit wallowy at those speeds, luckily Vic's a fuckin mad biker and I'll never go too fast with her on the back.

A huge thanks to Chris and Annette for their hospitality, thanks to Custard and Vicky for the entertainment on Friday night and thanks to Northland District Council for their fine playground.

Will be doing it again soon but first I need to get my heap of shit in for a service and some new rubber.

Long live the Log!

[DMNTD:Me]

I don't see how we could have avoided that ticket apart from not speeding:slap:
Same with the other ticket...... there was no way to "see" the cop or get any other hint.

...mate we all had a BIG conversation re the Sandy Bay cops remember?
Oh well....

[boomer]

Fucking awesome ride........Long live the Log!

Will the REAL Dover please stand up!! tis far too civilised a write up for you Ben!!!

[Qkkid]

A huge thanks to Chris and Annette for their hospitality,the food was lovely annette, thanks Chris,Dover and Vicky for the entertainment on Friday night and thanks to Northland District Council for their fine playground and letting me pay some road tax.


Long live the Log![/QUOTE]
:slap: Well thats the biggest log i ever seen
well done TLrider/ducgirl hospitality and ahem everything else even the ride was great and i cant forget the northland police for my lovely speeding fine its a pity you cant get me at a faster speed it truly was a pathetic ticket given to me by a poofter cop who could not speak without a faggot lisp in his voice, Thanks justsomeguy for saving me from getting arrested

[justsomeguy]

Thanks justsomeguy for saving me from getting arrested

No worries mate, thought we were going to get into a fist fight for a moment.... hehehe

Leave em be they're just doing their job.

That cop dealing with you seemed to have a big chip on his shoulder and was a bit of an a-hole.

I was lucky I got the guy with a better attitude, even the cop who pinged me earlier in the day was a nice chap and let us leave with one ticket. -Thanks again Erik for being the man.

Yes TL I knew about the cop, just didn't expect him to be waiting there...... Oh well....... at the rate things were going I'm surprised I lasted this long....

[vixter]

Will the REAL Dover please stand up!! tis far too civilised a write up for you Ben!!!

yeah boomer was thinking the same thing!!! he as a slight excuse his brain was fried over the weekend but not half as much as custard's mate you was funny as.....

bow to the log!!!!

good weekend part from riding myself noone would let me loan there bike not quite sure why but i did ask...

good to meet gixxer and a few others fuck man there were sum gud roads up there
and thanks to tl rider and his missus for putting us up and making us welcome and all that...