Who went to Sandy Pines ride yesterday?

[mazz1972]

Our ride went off extremely well with a turnout of 650 riders.

Glorious weather would have helped....but why do you guys (& gals) love this ride so much?

We would be interested to hear feedback (or post some photos if you have any!).

[Rmxer]

This ride was absolutely wickard!!
Awesome variety of terrain fast, technical etc
very well organised aswell and to top it off a huge free lunch! Excellent!!
only dissapointing thing is that it is only once a year. Should be at least twice
Thanks very much for the ride thoroughly enjoyed by many

[FlangMasterJ]

Count me in for the next one. From the amount of responses in the original meeting thread I thought the turnout was gonna be small. was way off.

[F5 Dave]

I like this ride, one of the best of the year, but it keeps clashing with other things, arrgh! One of our chaps from work still isn't back in though.

[Beemer]

My husband went and enjoyed it again, as usual. He said it was a good ride and nice and close to home. New record for the club with the number of riders present - he heard 630 which is still pretty impressive. Funny how you never hear anything about this on the tv news...

[F5 Dave]

It's great that it is successful, but the only drag is that you get queues which suck. Esp as some people figure they can do the A loops when really they should get some more experience, so then you get a hold up. With more people it exaggerates the problem.

[mazz1972]

Thanks for all your feedback! Hope to see you all at our next ride (Sand Country Run) on 20th May. There will be a variety of terrain (forestry and farmland) and a longer loop (last year was 46kms). It's my favourite ride of year

A bit more info here http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/ca...=2007-5-20&c=0 Venue is just past the Waitarere Beach turnoff.