Rotorua Road Trip on the ginnys...

[Kendog]

Good on you guys!! And special brownie points for doing it on GNs and in the CRAP weather of the weekend! (You mad buggers!)
Mrs KD.

[judecatmad]

Cat Fight!!!!

LOL, no, the cats at the homestead are perfectly happy

I'm a pain in the @rse when I'm cold, wet, tired and hungry (I'm English, I'm a pain in the @rse most of the time if truth be told ) so the poor boy has a lot to put up with!

But the next time I see 'severe weather warning' on the metservice website, I'm going to listen to the little voice inside my head (mostly I try to ignore them...) that's telling me to stay home in the warm as opposed to the little voice outside my head telling me to 'come on, it'll be fine and you'll really enjoy it'! LOL



It is something to giggle about in hindsight tho and like a few people have said - after this trip, every other one will seem REALLY easy!

[Colapop]

After this trip you may not want to upgrade the Ginny's!! The same trip on different bikes will seem a whole world different. The weather factor may have played a little influence too. The big thing here is, you've learned so on this trip that you wouldn't have learned pootling around town. Gas mileage on trips is very different, wet weather gear is not always what it claims, weather forecasts for different parts of the country are really different sometimes... and the cats can live without you for a day or two...

[judecatmad]

i,m pretty sure that it was me that passed you ,you pulled over just by the golf course ?
i'd just made the same trip on the 800,might have been a little more comfortable tho,lol
well done on the trip-been there,done that on a GN as well so know the feeling

Nice blue bike with a cammo backpack on the back of it? Sorry if I startled you when I pulled out into the traffic just after the roundabout or held you up at all

It was a really funny moment when I realised you weren't Dave!

[Paul in NZ]

It never pays to be too destination oriented when riding - some days, some rides are just not meant to be. You need to ask yourself why are you doing this? Fun? Um....

Bail to a nice warm motel room, order up a bottle and relax...

Mind you - this is mr ride home at 1pm in the rain talking so wtf do I know?

Paul N

[Wolf]

Great ride report, judecatmad.

Welcome to KB, dhtnz.

Good on both of you for undertaking the ride on ginnies. I've ridden all sorts of bikes on long journeys and it's my opinion that you don't need a 600cc or larger bike to tour the countryside (though sometimes you have to work your plans around the limitations of your bike, like budgetting 2 days to take a 1954, 150cc Zundapp scooter up to Whangarei 2-up).

Lias frequently took his ginny to New Plymouth and back - often enough to demonstrate that the bike is reliable enough to clock up a lot of kms.

It's a bugger about the weather but you will look back on it fondly some day. I already look back on bloody-near freezing solid on Desert Road in the early hours of a sleety morning (and having metal bits snap off the CB360) with fondness and perhaps someday I'll come to look upon the long, painful ride from Palmerston North to Hamilton on my LS400 with fondness.

You've already found better ways to carry your gear than wearing a backpack (says the guy who spent four days riding the Zundapp to Whangarei and back wearing his backpack on his chest so his wife at the time could fit on the back of the bike).

You'll get good rides and bad rides, you'll learn what gear works best for you and the conditions you ride in, and you'll look back in years to come at the adventures you had and the lessons you learned and grin like bloody maniacs.

Happy riding!