Ride saturday -southish

**Firefight** · 3rd September 2004, 17:32

given that is going to piss down sunday(thanks two smoker weather jinx)

I

shall be going for a wee blat down a certain north

waikato road,

maybe on to rags, see what ppl want to do!

Will be at Tuakua bridge around 10.30ish, or I might be convinced to come to AB papakura if some-ones not sure of the way.. will check later

txt on the day 021 304 310.

Firefight

**merv** · 3rd September 2004, 19:31

Go Southish a bit more and you might meet us down in Wgtn.

**Zed** · 3rd September 2004, 23:15

Originally Posted by Firefight

given that is going to piss down sunday(thanks two smoker weather jinx)

I

shall be going for a wee blat down a certain north

waikato road,

maybe on to rags, see what ppl want to do!

Will be at Tuakua bridge around 10.30ish, or I might be convinced to come to AB papakura if some-ones not sure of the way.. will check later

txt on the day 021 304 310.

Firefight

I'm dead keen on a ride tomorrow (u know me by now) but will be busy till about 10am with our inorganic rubbish collection! I could probably meet you around 11am-ish if you don't mind waiting around? Weather permitting of course.

Will text u in the morning.

Zed

**Zed** · 4th September 2004, 07:30

Originally Posted by Zed

I'm dead keen on a ride tomorrow (u know me by now) but will be busy till about 10am with our inorganic rubbish collection! I could probably meet you around 11am-ish if you don't mind waiting around? Weather permitting of course.

Will text u in the morning.

Zed

Wow, looks like a spectacular day for it!! Especially for the lads who are riding down south.

**Firefight** · 4th September 2004, 07:56

Originally Posted by Zed

Wow, looks like a spectacular day for it!! Especially for the lads who are riding down south.

Yes what a great day,

, will go for an early ride, but txt me when your ready and I'll come in and meet you.

,, as Willy Nelson sung, "Blue Skys, smiling at me, nothing but blue skys do I see "

F/F

**Firefight** · 4th September 2004, 16:55

Zed , Andrew and I meet AB papakura, did our normal ride, Drury, Old GSR
ramarama, bombay, tuakau, and on to 22, pasted a very well organised adventure ride group on BMW,stopped for coffee at Nagarwhia, how ever coffee was off and they were serving horse piss

mixed with brake fliud, we could not even give it away !!.

At this stage Zed headed back for auckland, while andrew and I rode on towards raglin, after a spell of playing on the hill, we returned to Huntly, soaked up some good old Mac spew , time to head back, we saw a few rain clouds over rotowaro (I guess they were getting ready for sunday) so decided to do Rangirir-glen murray, slight shower but no problem,

looked for you Matt, but must have missed you, sorry.

Quick coffee at Tuakau and up to Bombays, .Thank you Andrew and Zed, another great ride.

F/F

**Two Smoker** · 4th September 2004, 17:56

Well Dave, in 2 weeks time, i will be able to go on saturday rides, so ill bring the rain with me :sly:

....

I think i might have to bite the bullet and ride on sunday no matter what the weather as i havnt ridden my bike in 8 days !!!!!!!

ive got the shakes already

**Zed** · 4th September 2004, 18:10

Thanks F/F & Andrew for the riding company! Good ride back for me from Ngaruawahia via the 'secret' roads back on to SH22, Tuakau, Ridge Rd, Bombay, Old GSR, and back on to boring SH1 at Drury to make it home by 2.30pm.

Only 'incident' of the day was when we stopped 1/2 way along 22 to wait for Andrew who I thought had joined the 'BMW granny tour' only to find out by text that he took another route to Ngaruawahia!

Summer is coming!!

Zed

**Andrew** · 4th September 2004, 18:42

Yep thanks for the ride guys was fun!
One question though. Why is it they always ask "eat in or take out" at McD's??

Yamahamaman · 4th September 2004, 18:55

Originally Posted by Andrew

One question though. Why is it they always ask "eat in or take out" at McD's??

They don't if you go to the drive-in part. :confused2

**Coldkiwi** · 7th September 2004, 17:38

wow.. you managed to find the sunshine? All I managed to collect was varying degrees of dampness heading further south! Still, I did manage to find roads (courtesy of Quasi) down by Kihikihi and the lakes that rival SH22 for dodginess of the surface! very picturesque although at the time I was more concerned about trying to catch up to loosebruce- an activity which i soon gave up in an attempt to preserve my dying tyres and threatened fairings!

**Zed** · 7th September 2004, 19:16

Originally Posted by Coldkiwi

...although at the time I was more concerned about trying to catch up to loosebruce- an activity which i soon gave up in an attempt to preserve my dying tyres and threatened fairings!

Havn't seen your face on a ride or at the track for months CK! See, this is what happens when you have a long break from it - you slow down!!

...then again, Bruce is pretty loose on that cickle

**Andrew** · 7th September 2004, 23:00

Originally Posted by Zed

Havn't seen your face on a ride or at the track for months CK! See, this is what happens when you have a long break from it - you slow down!!

...then again, Bruce is pretty loose on that cickle

I'd like to say that you slow down with old age. Sadly I can't say this about FF this time. He's so much faster and is developing a very racy riding style.