Brass Monkey 07 - T.I.E Paturoa & friends(?)

**Ghost_Bullet** · 29th May 2007, 18:34

Originally Posted by paturoa

I'm off sparrow fart Wed morning to try to get to the Welly Lunch.

Forecast is for FOG around the Waikato - so might take a while.

All packed and excitement building.

Still looking like snow for this weekend!!!!!

Have a wicked run down!!!

**paturoa** · 29th May 2007, 19:03

Originally Posted by Ghost_Bullet

Have a wicked run down!!!

You too, see you there.

... Ride safe everyone.

**xknuts** · 29th May 2007, 22:05

Make sure you put that KB flag up so as to make it visible. I've told friends I would meet them there in the past and never seen them yet!!!

**Winston001** · 30th May 2007, 13:08

So where will the flag be? I'll be at the rally with 3 mates.

**festus** · 30th May 2007, 14:04

Originally Posted by 98tls

If anyone wants a coffee/feed/tools or help in anyway sing out as i live in oamaru which is on the way there for many................

I'll be at the Penguin Club Friday night.........workingmans club for our annual feed. Come down for a beer mate and we can swap mighty TLS stories!.....

**98tls** · 30th May 2007, 19:34

Originally Posted by festus

I'll be at the Penguin Club Friday night.........workingmans club for our annual feed. Come down for a beer mate and we can swap mighty TLS stories!.....

May well do that...............

**T.I.E** · 31st May 2007, 08:56

and look after brian when ya get down there chaps.
brian let me know how ya going when ya get a chance. its bloody cold up north, hope the sun shines all the way for ya.

**Ghost_Bullet** · 3rd June 2007, 20:20

Was a great weekend, a bit wet to begin with, but once the fires got started, it was all good.

After a bit of a hard night Friday I was feeling rather

Saturday. I think I spent alot of time just staring at the burning embers...

Here are some pics from the weekend.
I might write somthing later...

by GhostBullet

**timg** · 4th June 2007, 18:40

Originally Posted by Ghost_Bullet

Here are some pics from the weekend.

Hi GB. Great pix.

Awesome weekend. Great rides and great company. Great to meet you ans some other KB'ers I'd not met before, and put some faces to names. Cheers.

**PLUG** · 4th June 2007, 20:52

geeez ... for a norf I lander ya not a bad bloke Bri ... hope the rest of your trip is going well for you ... c u next year ...

**paturoa** · 6th June 2007, 11:24

Got home safe last night and my kids came running down the stairs going "Dad! Dad! Dad!" They had baked me a welcome home cake and all. I should go away more often - lol.

I'll write up my trip report tonight.

Fantastic trip!

**cold comfort** · 6th June 2007, 12:40

Hey there. good to be able to say hello at the KB site.Great photos,mine were knobbled by having the resolution set too low (can't imagine how that happened in the rain and darkness!)

**paturoa** · 6th June 2007, 12:48

Woke up at 3am, that sort of wide awake, I'm not going to go back to sleep sort of awake, ggggrrrrr.

So I got up and did the abloutions et al, some breakfast and on with the gear.

I was on the road at 4am and I thought I would have the roads to myself. No. Bloody cars and trucks everywhere at 4am. Anyway, boring trip down the motorway over the bombays to see if there was really any south of there.

I was making up my mind on the way which route to go and decided on the western route. So I turned right at Ngaruawhaia and as soon and bloody fog. So I crawled for a while and took a left turn to get back on the main drag at Te Awamutu. The fog was less from there.

Nothing of note thru to Waiuru where I had a chat with a guy who gave me shite about how much gear I had stacked on my bike other than it started to warm up from there.

The trip thru to Welly was a yawn and I got there at 12:00. I checked with the ferry people (Bluebridge) if there was an earlier crossing I could get on (was booked for 8am Thursday) and the options were 1pm or 3am so I stuck with the Thursday booking and arrived late for the Welly lunch.

Nice to meet you lot! - and I didn't get a hug from the big guy.

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=50431

I took a leisurely ride around Welly in the arvo and have a couple of pics to post later.

I bumped into Sels1 again at Welly M'cycles where I'm sure he was oggling one of the new Tigers.

**paturoa** · 6th June 2007, 19:24

pic 1 - the pack mule overloaded at chateau Paturoa
pic 2 - Welly beach by the airport
pic 3 - another on the breakwater

**paturoa** · 6th June 2007, 19:40

Got to the Ferry early as woke up early again. It was blowing real hard (unusual for Welly I hear). Talked to a few others who arrived and were doing the Brass and a couple off to Nelson for the weekend.

I was expecting a rough crossing given the wind but it was remarkably calm - go figure.

Decided to do the east coast as the forecast for the West was BAD.

Good ride to Kaikoura where I met Bass-Treble and his Dad. We rode the inland route from there to Hamner Springs together, where they did a u turn as they were staying close to chch that night. Nice twisties and no traffic.

I had 2 moments on the inland route to HS, the first was where I banged it down a couple of gears into a tight right hander and had a little rear wheel slide and the second was a BIG rear wheel slide going thru a tight left hander over a tar sweat with loose stones on it.

Stayed at Rosies (biker friendly motel sort of a place) at HS. $90 including breakfast, on Cheltenham Rd about 100m from the pools and shops.