[QUOTE=dangerous;(hey 98tls was that you that buzzed us?) .[/QUOTE] Yea mate.........saturday morning bike wouldnt go....well stay going so had to flag it.Got it going sunday and as it was so nice decided to head south.Sounds like you guys had fun,Great to see yas albeit very briefly.Bikes looked great on the road.
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Home tonight after four awesome days of riding heaps of gravel & fantastic roads, all in great company.
Highlights were the Myers & Dansey's Passes, the Old Dunstan Trail, Ruralman's & the Princess's hospitality @ Lawerence and of course the PP Rally itself.
Late yesterday I found a neat "dry weather only" track in the hills near Gimmerburn & took some pics of a couple of old abandoned farm buildings, well hidden from general view.
I extended my trip to today, to include "work" calls @ Omakau, Alexandra, Cromwell, Tarras, Otamatata (incl coffee with Mr & Mrs Oldrider), Kurow & Waimate.
Will try to load some pics but the quality is dissapointing (I'll blame the camera).
Dansey Pass Pub where we met up with Jantar & Oldrider in the rain.
Timg on his Trannie & Jantar on his VStrom in the Dunstan Trail.
Prior to this point it was very slippery & Jantar showed great skills to keep the big bike upright, especially considering his tyres are quite 'mild'.
It's a desolate place & a long walk out if things go wrong. However can't wait to go back, in the other direction when it's actually 'officially open' & hopefully a bit dryer.
Shrek's fixation with food - even a pile of magpies on the southern side of the Dunstan trail weren't safe.
The 2nd pic just seems appropiate........
Next morning Ruralman led the adventure bikes the "long way round" via some great gravel from Lawerence to the PP.
Pic of smoko stop @ Milton & our bikes @ the PP
Some Maniototo pics, on my way home from the Pissed Penguin:
1) looking back from Gimmerburn accross the Maniototo Plain to Dansey's Pass in those far hills
2) Derelict cottage on exposed ridge, now home to an old ewe that missed the muster. The gateway strainer posts will last forever.
3) These abandoned stables still have tack gear & harnesses for draught horses etc, hanging in the stalls.
I think it was Scumdog who directed me here, thank you. In the article I have written I have put this: "A bikers’ website had very favourable comments about the Penguin Rally. One said, “Kaka Point continues to be a very favourite place of mine in NZ, the coast to greet my weary eyes this morning was stunning, once I was able to focus.!! All in all, a fab fun time was had, the contained lit area with the fires are always a great way to keep everyone sociable. So thanks to the organisers, a wonderful job was done, guys and girls.” Even more enthusiastically another said, “Awesome weather, Awesome Southern hospitality Awesome people, Awesome ride ... yeah my weekend was OK Best weekend I've had in ages, I look forward to a repeat next year."
I will send this soon, but if the people writing those comments object, please let me know before tomorrow (Wed) lunchtime and I will get it taken out.
Cheers and thanks muchly, Caro.
It was indeed a great weekend. Want sure I was guna make it on Friday but got there just in time to throw the tent up before the group ride, (After a snack of bacon and egg pie..thanx mutley nice to see you and virago there if only for a moment.)The added trip to the lighthouse was well worth it even tho been there before if you havent you must put it on your to do list
. Nice to meet sum new faces and catch up with ones hadnt seen for a while. Well done botb and crew for organising a superb rally in a really lovely spot.
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5:30 what a sleep bounce outta bed the three SSS then coffee, Oldrider up next then one by one every bodys up, then the princess gets up & think shes an ogor coz the sun is not up
Rm goes & moves the stock i cook breaky left over spuds, bacon & eggsfollowed by more coffee, clean up re pack bikes.
Ronnie & Mbazza showed up in plenty of time to leave by 9 then a 3hr ish tiki tourto the PP lots of nice back roads & gr8t company
lost Oldrider on the way to pp from Belcluthahe found us again
then intros meet up with some of the KB tar-babies
when i got to know who was who you could see how each one suited their name
but then i meet Mr sensible
who missed the bus when the sence was being dished out
i thought there was a law out there saying you can't impersonate some one, will have to talk to SD & have him arrested for impersonation of a sensible person
Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. (John 15:13)
1:00 off we all went mystery ride got to the 1st place nice place good food great hosts even better companyoff to the next place another pub this is getting boring time to break off and find some gravel
picked up some goodies from town then down the back roads to the light house awesome was great to see two tar-babies had joined us
back to the pp change & get set for the night...
Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. (John 15:13)
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