Brass Monkey rally

[festus]

Yep another Brass Monkey coming up.
We have a group of about 8 this year from WangaFlorida.
The weather has been good these last few years, last year we wore Hawaiian shirts and shorts. BTW we were the group wearing only Hawaiian shirts and shorts , there was another group wearing there shirts over the leathers??

[White trash]

Hi D.

I have to say a resounding "no" to this one (which won't surprise anyone who knows me - I'm a motel/hotel girl me)

Hope you all have a great time.

PS: just to let you know I wasn't always this wimpy - I've been to 7 Cold Kiwis in my earlier days

what's that, washing your hair again?

Must be the best washed bloody hair in motorcycling ya blouse!

[Holy Roller]

I was only toying with the idea of doing the brass monkey not really expecting to actually be able to go. BUT....
Here I am in Mosgiel, what a trip it has been so far.

Life had not been too good at home recently over tired and stressed from working two jobs and having five kids who appeared to be pushing the limits all the time. Well I lost it big time resulting in the Mrs booking me into seeing the doctor. This resulted in three weeks stress leave, the doc asked where I would like to go to give my family some time without me, so I said Dunedin.

No time to really plan the trip as my lovely wife wanted me out NOW.
Went to Auckland to my mum's picked up a tent from a mate. headed south great ride appart from the fog and rain and an accident at rainbow mountain that resulted in a detour around Waikite Valley a great dry, day time ride but a shocker in the fog following other cars.

Froze my but off going through the desert Rd at sunrise but what a fantastic view.
Heading through Fielding on Saturday I rode over a railway track and lost all forward motion. Stripped the driveshaft pinion Well thats the trip over I thought.
The guys at Ride Yamaha in Fielding are tops. Got the bike fixed ( welded the driveshaft up) Stayed in Masterton for a few days untill the bike was fixed. I got to go for a ride in a 2003 911 Turbo Porsche, not been that fast in a long long time

What a ride the Rimatukas would be in the dry. Boy am I jelous of you Wellington types. caught the ferry over and hooked up with a guy on a 1100 Guzzi californian stone. A sedate ride to Christchurch in the dark. The ferry had mechanical probs so a slow trip over.

a Big bthanks to kickaha for putting me up for the night

Fantastic roads down to Dunedin but shockers in Dunedin. Heading down to Winton next week catch a trip to Bluff then up to Brass monkey


More L8R
Gordon

[pete376403]

It is going to be a bit nippy

[Ms Piggy]

Heading down to Winton next week catch a trip to Bluff then up to Brass monkey


More L8R
Gordon

Great to hear all has turned out good for ya Gordo! I guess you'll be catching up with Peter in Winton - say a big "Gidday!" from me and ride safe!

[Ms Piggy]

It is going to be a bit nippy

Nice one! Where is that exactly?

[pete376403]

Don't know, it was sent to me as a reminder of what to expect. Somewhere in the McKenzie Country I expect. The whole area as absolutley stunning.

[duckman]

Nothing relieves stress like freezing ya nads off eh ?

[F5 Dave]

Oh I wish I could post this picture now. Duckman I'll send you a PM.

[Holy Roller]

A couple of days in Dunedin gib fixing payed for the repairs to the bike and enabled me to carry on. One meets fellow KBers in the strangest places
I had stopped at Balclutha to get a photo of the bike infront of the sign, had to wait a bit for the traffic to pass before I could take the photo. Then pulled into the Mobile station to refuel when a fellow KBer came over to see if I or the bike were ok. It turned out to be Scumdog its good to see there are folks out there looking out for us bikers, UR doing a great job SD keep it up

A fantastic day, fine weather all the way to bluff but a tad windy south of Balclutha I hit reserve 30km earlier than usual. A bit of a front was rolling in from the southern sea so I could not see Stewart Island but got a pix of the bluff sign pointing to various parts of the world.

Pete says hi CSL. So far the trip has been fantastic must be close to be the one who has travelled the greatest distance to the rally, A quick trip up to Queenstown and back may put me in the lead maybe. looking forward to the rally and going home.

[merv]

Good to hear about your trip Holy.

[LB]

Jeez, from looking at the weather forecast you guys/guyesses are going to freeze your bollocks off!!

Take care on them there snow covered roads......

I'd like a full report from at least one of you when you get back please.

[dangerous]

HR, I take it that it was you that called in on Sun on your way north? My nabour told me a some one stoped by so sorry I missed you, cant of been by much.

So far out of the 2 of my crew that went, one has made it back and the other is missing in action. The mate that got back said that by Sun morn the snow was comming in horozontal and all the passes were closed but the pig rout. He had to walk the bike down hill as cars had made such a mess of things that it wasent realy possible to ride he had already droped it once cos of a d/h jumping out in frount of him yelling 'stop' The same d/h had stopped a line of traffic and now none could get going again.

[Milky]

I saw some brief shots of the rally on tv3 news and i can say whole heartedly that I have absolutley no wish to ever do something that crazy.... sleeping in tents when it is snowing?? trying to ride in those conditions must be impossible too...

[laRIKin]

A mate of mine and his friend got though the Hast Pass before it got closed.
And found that they could not get up one hill, that is until the grit truck came.
(remembered the R this time )
And then they both crash on a 300M long bit of ice (they could only just
stand up) and noticed that some one had gone down before them.
And while they where picking up their bikes. Three more guys went down,
they where trying to wave them down, but it was to late.
My mate went down twice on the way home. He is all right and so is his mate.
My mate (a X cop) said that someone should be held responsible for the
shit condition on the roads down there.
Not the ice, the condition of the roads, as they need resealing, lots of shiny
bear tar-seal. So they where slipping on that as well as the ice.