Auckland to Taupo then Welly meeting (loosebruce funeral)

**GIXser** · 5th December 2006, 19:45

ok since there are a heap of us going down on thursday night, im posting a thread on people wanting to meet up in taupo early friday morning (7 ish)
everyone welcome.

shedule as follows
Auckland -taupo (thursday avo about 6 o clock)
stay in taupo
from taupo we'll be riding our bikes to welly early (7 o clock) friday morning

meeting point to be posted shortly

**crashe** · 5th December 2006, 19:47

huh ??????

Meet in Wellington on Saturday...... you maybe a tad late...

**kiwifruit** · 5th December 2006, 19:55

meet you at the super loo (the only set of lights in Tpo) at 7am friday morn

**GIXser** · 5th December 2006, 20:11

done boyo---

**ajturbo** · 5th December 2006, 21:37

what time you guys going threw foxton?

**NinjaBoy** · 6th December 2006, 10:45

Originally Posted by kiwifruit

meet you at the super loo (the only set of lights in Tpo) at 7am friday morn

There are 4 of us leaving Aucks Fri 5am. We will not make Taupo by 7am but what is a conservative travel time for Taupo-Wellington ?

**kiwifruit** · 6th December 2006, 10:46

4.5 hours

**The_Dover** · 6th December 2006, 10:49

Originally Posted by kiwifruit

4.5 hours

how many glove checks does that factor for mate?

Last time I rode to Cowpoos place I left Akl at about 2.30pm and we got to his place about 11pm, including a stop to see some of his rellies.

I think I met him at the BP just north of Napier by about 5.30-5.45.

Akl - Welly is about 660ish km, so leaving at 5am may be a little late.

**kiwifruit** · 6th December 2006, 10:50

Originally Posted by ajturbo

what time you guys going threw foxton?

around 10am

**kiwifruit** · 6th December 2006, 10:53

Originally Posted by The_Dover

how many glove checks does that factor for mate?

Last time I rode to Cowpoos place I left Akl at about 2.30pm and we got to his place about 11pm, including a stop to see some of his rellies.

I think I met him at the BP just north of Napier by about 5.30-5.45.

Akl - Welly is about 660ish km, so leaving at 5am may be a little late.

at 100k its 3.5 hours from Aucks to Taupo, and 4.5 from Taupo to Wellington DC

so about 8 hours all up id say

**XP@** · 6th December 2006, 11:15

It's 630km's to upper hutt (You don't need to go all the way in to wellington)
But still you won't have much time to muck about on your ride down. 8 hours and you will need to be averageing 78km/hr (including stopped time) so an on open road speed of 100 - 110 will be needed, and stopping should be for essential fuel, food only. Otherwise you will be looking at 8.5 - 9hrs if you want to take it a bit easy.

http://maps.yellowpages.co.nz/client...utt&rn=NZ&qs=q

Take care guys :-)

And see you all down here.