Waitangi Day - Ride.

**Ghost_Bullet** · 6th February 2007, 18:38

Cheers cheers, bloody good day and ride, awesome so many bikes turned up, great to put some faces on faces and on bikes. I have remembered a couple of names, but no doubt some will disapear before the next run.
Good drink and feed a Bully Hays, though realy I only had a cake and coffee, but the food that others consumed looked fine!

Awesome, it all certainly took away some of the stress's from the last week.

**Flyingpony** · 6th February 2007, 19:17

Went on my first KB ride today and also took the bike for its first time beyond the city limits

It was a very nice ride and so was the company. Learned a lot about myself, my bike and found the road to be challenging for a novice tourer.

Got given a 5-minute head start leaving Akaroa. Managed to get halfway up the big hill before the first bike caught up. Heard him before I saw him on this longish straight, went something like VVVEEEERRRROOOOMMMMM and I was a mere speck in his mirror in a matter of seconds, a rather typical scenario.

So what I've learned:

Kneed-It is a handy product to carry (saw another bike getting some on-the-spot repairs)
More power would come in very handy for overtaking cages on the flats but generally there's more than enough to overtake them on the hills
Need way more power to keep up with the big boys
Might need to carry earplugs - lots of wind noise
Centrifugal forces at 90km/hr when trying to make more space for a box suddenly falling off the trailer in front, is high, but counter steering does work
Following distance was probably too close to cages at times
Having leather gear and a quieter helmet would be really nice
Need to improve my downhill cornering skill
That was fun

Special thanks to 200BUSA for staying with me at my relatively spoken

speed.

Comments regarding my ride style welcome via PM, thanks