Hey thanks Wellington !!!

[Quasievil]

Thanks very much for all the efforts you all went to freckin fantastic.
Me Loosebruce and the cajun arrived at Paul in NZ 's house at around 4.45 to a awesome welcome from the crew, Hamish, Lynda, Blakaman ( sorry if forgot) were there, Pauls wife had a Damn nice spread of yummies for us , and we headed of over the Hill , at the foot of which was some dodgey looking dude on a dodgey looking bike, who seemed to pass us all with ease. We stopped at the top to find out it was Jimmy the White Trash of Welly, From there we were escorted into welly to WT house where we were invited to spend the night (thanks again Jimmy damn good of you ).
The evening rolled on and a few others joined us and we had a few beers and a good feed of F&C which went down well, Jimmy I must say is a man of good taste and shows signs of absolute class regulary, this was certainly the case in his choice in Music, now I dont know how many of you were around in the 70's but if you were you may remember a band called , The Rodger Fox Big Band, well their was his record sitting pride of place amongst the photos of his children and did it come out of its cover yes it did , on numerous occasions..... sorry Jimmy couldnt help myself lol
We went out into town and were shown a few of the sights, I was barely conscious by 12.00 but managed to hang on till 2.30am, jimmy managed to hang on till errrr about 4.30pm the next day, good energy Jimmy ..Respect mate.
The next day we went on the organised ride and there must have been 30 -40 people, great turn out. I always thought these guys didnt have any decent roads to ride on, Freckin bloody hell they got awesome roads down there, not sure exactly where we went, Lynda will fill you in Im sure , But what a great days riding, good people great food great roads , and great weather, well for the most part, after the ride I had to go up to Paraparaumu to the old mans place and got rained on severly.
Got up this am had a cup of tea and hit the road, I left at 9.15 am and got back to Hammy at 2.45 with petrol stops and a quick lunch in Tauramnanui, really good time, Im confused then how it took us nearly 8 hours to ride down..... go figure to much talking and coffee I suspect
Any way here are some pic's of the weekend
Sorry Coldkiwi, what can I say Im evil??

[James Deuce]

Pleased to see you got back OK.

That rain was pretty horrendous. Mike (Mangell6 - FZ1), Mooch (Neal- 748) hung around for another coffee at Wild Oats after everyone else left, and by the time we got to Upper Hutt it was fair old bucketing down.

It was great to meet you, and the 636 looks best in red. Good choice.

[Quasievil]

Also forgot to mention great to meet you all, deano, Jimbo, celti sea lilly, Jazbug, Ummmm errrr stonechucker Nice bike mate, shit Im buggered but you all know who you are big hI

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[Ms Piggy]

Great to meet ya Bret - see ya at Tokaanu

[White trash]

You had to bring up the James Last record didn't you?

That's it, no more invites for northerners, Quasi's just fucked it for all of ya!

Good to meet you, Dude. I can see that when you're not dog tired, we'll have a blast on the turps. Maybee Tokaanu.

Glad you got home safe and sound. Lily was wondering where you were this morning.

Wandering 'round the house going "Bett, Bett?!"

[loosebruce]

Hey Quasi good to see you made it home alright mate, good time to. Hoping th weather holds out for me later in the week. Will give you a call when i'm heading back up, might be able to meet up somewhere.
Cheers for the company on the way down. And as usual nice pics.
Cool man, catch ya

[mangell6]

Quasi the red 636 looks slick. Glad to have you down and now that we have sussed you out we can take you on the real roads.

Mike

[jimbo600]

Also forgot to mention great to meet you all, deano, Jimbo, celti sea lilly, Jazbug, Ummmm errrr stonechucker Nice bike mate, shit Im buggered but you all know who you are big hI

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Bloody nice meeting you mate.

I'll have a bike next time we meet up.

Catch ya next time.

[bevsta]

Good Times Mate, glad you enjoyed it, I also have to say big thanks to those who put the ride on, it was my first group ride and I loved it! It was awesome,
go the Lower North Island riding, it dominates!

[LB]

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Glad you had a safe trip home Quasi, it was neat to meet you and LooseBruce.

Yeah, the 636 in red is pretty sharp.

We'll have to hook up with you next time we come up to Morrinsville on the bikes - not sure when that'll be yet, every weekend till Christmas seems to be booked up (well, that's how it feels anyway!)
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[Blakamin]

Glad you had a safe trip home!

Good to meet you all!
and, Quasie, next time you're down visiting in p'ram you'll have to come round for an ale!

[Coldkiwi]

Any way here are some pic's of the weekend
Sorry Coldkiwi, what can I say Im evil??

ya cheeky bugger!

thanks for the company though. Nice to go on some new roads - even if they were actually old roads that seemed to be actively turning into gravel roads as I rode over them!

[Coldkiwi]

, now I dont know how many of you were around in the 70's but if you were you may remember a band called , The Rodger Fox Big Band, well their was his record sitting pride of place amongst the photos of his children and did it come out of its cover yes it did , on numerous occasions..... sorry Jimmy couldnt help myself lol

You don't need to be a 70's muso to be a rodger fox fan. He taught me trombone for a while when he was leading the Macleans College jazzz bands in a few years ago. Bloody legend hardworking guy and good fun... not too mention a mighty fine musician

[merv]

Good Times Mate, glad you enjoyed it, I also have to say big thanks to those who put the ride on, it was my first group ride and I loved it! It was awesome,
go the Lower North Island riding, it dominates!

Glad you enjoyed yourself and I hope we see you again many times more.

Sorry I didn't get too much of you and your bike in my pics though glimpses of the bike are seen in a couple of photos.

[Cajun]

I gotta second that, White Trash in the man, putting us showing us the town, good work. If i can ever repay the favour if your up my way.


BTW i'm home all safe and sound as well, buggered off out of wellington central about 9am, got to taupo about 12.45, wife was there waiting for me, had lunch then road from back to tauranga, via rotorua, was glad to be riding with someone i could pick the pace up a bit