Cruisy Night Rides

[Bren]

bugger...i wish my bike was on the road....sounds like you guys had fun....

[Sparrow_1982]

wow was it 240? i started clocking as we left oxford (place with the cafe and the hot chick and the sprite in a glass bottle!!!) and went via hampton motorcompany on the way home (I disapeared at the sockburn roundabout) managed to clock 152.4k

certainly couldnt do that ride on a saturday night...

LOL, yeah, i gotta agree she was pretty tidy at the cafe and was pretty nice and in hororata, i didnt even feel that wind much near the gorge except on the final bend going down hill to the gorge it caught me off guard but besides that i didnt notice it...... except the lack of pick up on the straights, I noticed that... but what would u expect in that wind with a small bike, u'r little 150 seems to keep up alright tho man

[BADGRL]

It always gets me how the front of the group can go hard out and even if they're fully going for it, when ya pull over to let the 'slower group' catch up they are only ever 2 mins behind??! How does that work?! lmao

[JMemonic]

It always gets me how the front of the group can go hard out and even if they're fully going for it, when ya pull over to let the 'slower group' catch up they are only ever 2 mins behind??! How does that work?! lmao

We could go into scientific explanations like speed*time=distance and over shorter distances the time it takes for two vehicles to travel the same distance at different speeds is seemingly short however that would be long winded.

It is more fun to say well it makes the cruisy rides all the better

[Mikkel]

Just got out of the mountains and I can see that people have been having fun without me. Anyway, a two day tramp did me good I think, but now all I got to show for it are sore muscles and blisters (BIG blisters on my heels).

It always gets me how the front of the group can go hard out and even if they're fully going for it, when ya pull over to let the 'slower group' catch up they are only ever 2 mins behind??! How does that work?! lmao

Shhhh quiet you. If you start yelling that around we'll have them ban speeding soon Oh, yeah they already did and this is partly the reason why.

(If you go twice as fast obviously it'll take half as long to drive the same distance - if you go 50% faster it'll take you 66% of the initial time - etc. If you're riding hard but "roughly inside" the speed limits you might gain 10 km/h on average on the guy who cruises and if the average was 90 km/h already it's not gonna do a lot of difference.) Only justification for speed is that it's fun and that it's not nearly as dangerous as its been made out to be.

Good to meet you Craig, I'm Mikkel on the bike you know better than myself. Hope to see you wednesday.

[helenoftroy]

The young one is on new wheels

He's only been home for food since

Hope the weathers ok so I can bring him along on Wednesday night

[laRIKin]

The young one is on new wheels

He's only been home for food since

You have to re-fuel the body and well as the gas tank.
And if all your money is going in to the gas tank, you have to pick up the free food where you can.

[onearmedbandit]

It always gets me how the front of the group can go hard out and even if they're fully going for it, when ya pull over to let the 'slower group' catch up they are only ever 2 mins behind??! How does that work?! lmao

Don't know about that. I always seem to have enough time to get a ciggie in.

[BADGRL]

Don't know about that. I always seem to have enough time to get a ciggie in.

Haha yeah but you can wheelie, smoke and ride all at the same time :P

[Sparrow_1982]

(If you go twice as fast obviously it'll take half as long to drive the same distance - if you go 50% faster it'll take you 66% of the initial time - etc. If you're riding hard but "roughly inside" the speed limits you might gain 10 km/h on average on the guy who cruises and if the average was 90 km/h already it's not gonna do a lot of difference.) Only justification for speed is that it's fun and that it's not nearly as dangerous as its been made out to be.

lol,

[Transalper]

...Hope the weathers ok so I can bring him along on Wednesday night

Wednesday looks good/fine so far to me, may be a little bit of a southwester blowing.

[Deviant Esq]

Wednesday looks good/fine so far to me, may be a little bit of a southwester blowing.

Hopefully not anything like what it's doing at the moment (read: pissing down). We could do with a nice fine Wednesday for a change... really not like Christchurch weather to have so many average days running! Still, the event has been pretty good so far, been much more attendance than me and Phoenix thought would happen, as well as bringing in a few new faces too. All good signs

[helenoftroy]

Wednesday looks good/fine so far to me, may be a little bit of a southwester blowing.

Sounds good - was hoping the weather man was going to speak

[Foobin]

not sure who is going to come on wednesday night, but ill turn up and see whats happening. will be taking it slow if we are going up the hills as i got a new back tire and have only ridden it home so far.

[Ghost_Bullet]

Even though it looks like there could be very few droplits coming from the clouds. I have decided at 4pm today that I will take much of tomorrow off, just because I can. Spend some time with the family, then shoot out for this ride all going well.
Bloody goodly.