South Auckland Thursday Night Ride

[adiddy]

yeah just did sum research shouldnt be too bad !
will be good

[Big Dave]

I'll shut up now.

[The_Dover]

Hey Dave,

We'll probably be there at about 8'ish if you're still gonna join us.

Or you could come on the ride.

[Big Dave]

Hey Dave,

We'll probably be there at about 8'ish if you're still gonna join us.

Or you could come on the ride.

Ahh bugger - I got caught up with work - 7.50 and I just got clear - good intentions - catch you next time hopefully. thanks anyway.

[gijoe1313]

Great ride tonight, thanks Dover - I can't believe it, I didn't bin it riding out with you in the lead again tonight! Well lead run and great group to ride with at night. Was fark'n great to put names and faces to nicks - nice little blat around the back blocks which I normally do in the day!

I turned up to Dover's place around 6pm with a load of fush'n'chups with a nasi gorang in my backpack (1st time to ride with consumables sloshing around!), McJim popped in and after a little nibble we fired off to BP Takanini where a lovely sight was beheld... bikers and their rides dominating the parking bays Some shite was spouted, more shite listened to - McJim holding court with his antics and me slobbering over the bikes on display

The blat went quite quickly, twisties galore and some loose stuff on the roads which was ably pointed out by the stops Dover made (got to practice my uphill starts!). As for my perspective I had the odd pucker moment when a cager cut his corner into my line and I had to fire off to the left more - saw white stripe and my Asphalt Angel leaning over me! Overcooked one corner which saw me intrude into the other lane a bit

The guys up front roared off on the straights and I just pootled along and made it up in the twisties. One stage I thought there was an alien UFO behind me - everything was lit up bright as day! Turns out it was Croft on her machine with bling bling headlights! Turned up a hill and I had to switch to reserve when I felt loss of power (memories of puttering out of gas before Meremere came back! ) but knew I had plenty in the tank this time!


Great sess at the pub to spin some yarns and talk about bikes and stuff in general! Will post up some piccies a little later on once I get the old Mac firing up! Nice ride guys and gals - had a blast and enjoyed confusing people with my bling bling tyre valve LED lights

Spotcha all on the next ride out!

[McJim]

I enjoyed mysel'

Apparently I'm a lot more gloomy on the keyboard than I am in real life so sorry aboot that. Must remember to smile when I'm typing.

Good tae meet yazall!

Big Dave -wiz lookin' forward to meeting you and havin' a wee blether. Shame about work gettin' in the way. Mibbe next time.

Nice pub byraway!

Beseeinyeez!

The McJim

[The_Dover]

Good ride folks, no bins and no pigs.

A couple of quiet shandies afterwards and then I swapped bikes with bjorn, good to see you again yah big poof, to try and get rid of his chicken strips but there were no twisties on the way back to my Cuntry Mansion.

Thanks for coming folks, make sure you let me know for next week and I'll PM the details.

[gijoe1313]

As promised, sorry for the naff quality of the shots - guess I need to do some work on my skillz as a photog These were taken at the start point of the ride.

Damn! McJim seems to be in all the bleeding bluddy shots I take!

[Ozzie]

Well here's the pix folks, they are crap, as predicted!

GI, which were you?

Been meanin to catch up for a while, but didn't ralise you were there? Can't remember seein a hornet, but truth be told, wasn't really lookin at the bikes.

Dover, great ride mate, good to put faces to names, and meet a few southerners, all good, bling for you, like you need it!

All, great fun, a little sphincter tightening at points, but a good night out, thanks for coming.

OZ

[Ozzie]

As promised, sorry for the naff quality of the shots - guess I need to do some work on my skillz as a photog These were taken at the start point of the ride.

Damn! McJim seems to be in all the bleeding bluddy shots I take!

What am I looking at?

[Ozzie]

OK, would have been some bling, apparently I need to spread it around?????

WTF?

I can't remember giving you any bling, oh well, I owe you one.

[gijoe1313]

GI, which were you?

Been meanin to catch up for a while, but didn't ralise you were there? Can't remember seein a hornet, but truth be told, wasn't really lookin at the bikes.

OZ

I didn't realise you were Ozzie until just now! We were shooting the breeze as the last holdouts at the pub! We had a quick yarn at the roundabout when ye sez "Ya know where to go?" and I sez "Shure! I live around here!"

Go figger! Duhdamn! And yer son came up to me when I was on duty after school and had a quick natter with me!

Ah well, guess we need ta' work this out better!

[Ozzie]

Go figger! Duhdamn! And yer son came up to me when I was on duty after school and had a quick natter with me!

OK, so I know now, all good. It was good to kind of meet you.

BTW.....My son is 2, 3 next week, not too sure he'd be comin up for a chat, where do you work? At a school I take it, which? My kids go to Cosgrove.

[gijoe1313]

So here are the two shots that were barely legible after we got to Clevedon, down pub! Nowt but nowt shite in the shots...I need lessons or better gear

[boomer]

Cheers Benji for the :beers:, food, ride and chat.. always fun

Man i need a gixxer thou, that bike is .... .. ... .. ummmm... .. ... awesome!

well, i thought i'd take it steady as i never managed to scrub the tyres in and boy did i take it steady.. Korn/dmntd if you think im slow normally you would have hit me tonite, the bike never tipped once i left with 3 inch strips and came back with 3 inch strips!

nice to put a few names to faces and i'll get my ass into gear again soon