Woodstock Rally Jan 25-27, 2008

**SVboy** · 28th January 2008, 08:41

Great rally guys-good rides there and back. Big ups to Sels for having me as his pillion bitch on saturday. Great weather,great scenery-I will be back.

**alley cat** · 28th January 2008, 08:54

Had a blast, beautiful scenery on the way over, thanks soooooooo much for the dub D. Unfortunatly drank way way to much, missed most of the party and flaked out on the back many times coming home.

Otherwise farking magic weekend!

**scumdog** · 28th January 2008, 14:35

OK, now at Hanmer unwinding after the Woodstock.

Awesome ride (ferk that wrod 'awsome' is such a cliche' these days) but it was, dry roads, interesting scenery etc etc.

Good to catch up with the usual rabble and other KBers - and meet new ones.

Took over Dangerous's job and buggered off to bed at about midnight, no more tequila left anyway.

Had a cooked breakfast using out own cooker for the first time - CB's first go at al-fresco cooking - champion! - then we lolly-gagged around Hoki for a bit and looked at the driftwood art contest before poootling off up the road - original idea was to go to Hanmer but CB decided Blackball was the go and worth a look so Blackball it was.

Cruised up on a corker of a hot sunny calm day over beautiful scenic roads and booked into Formerly the Blackball Hilton for the night, had a few drinks, a nice dinner, met another dude and his mrs who were touring on a Honda touring bike (Trans-Continantal?) then looked around Blackball (property maintenance is not a high priority in that town apparently) and hit the sack at about 10pm. (no ghosts spotted despite the legends)

Up this morning, cruised via Reefton and Springs Junction to Hanmer with a hot strong wind behind us and not much traffic and here we are, heading to the hot-pools for some r&r.

**dangerous** · 28th January 2008, 17:06

errr, ummmm... I started remembering a few things to day

and that farking bag pipe and drummer... shit I kept humming that bloody tune all day its in my head AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

**NighthawkNZ:Me** · 28th January 2008, 17:15

Originally Posted by dangerous

errr, ummmm... I started remembering a few things to day

and that farking bag pipe and drummer... shit I kept humming that bloody tune all day its in my head AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

They were at the Waikaia Bikers Bash they were awesome... I got about a minute video (or so) of the drummer going to town :-) awesome...

**98tls** · 28th January 2008, 17:28

Originally Posted by scumdog

OK, now at Hanmer unwinding after the Woodstock.

Awesome ride (ferk that wrod 'awsome' is such a cliche' these days) but it was, dry roads, interesting scenery etc etc.

Good to catch up with the usual rabble and other KBers - and meet new ones.

Took over Dangerous's job and buggered off to bed at about midnight, no more tequila left anyway.

Had a cooked breakfast using out own cooker for the first time - CB's first go at al-fresco cooking - champion! - then we lolly-gagged around Hoki for a bit and looked at the driftwood art contest before poootling off up the road - original idea was to go to Hanmer but CB decided Blackball was the go and worth a look so Blackball it was.

Cruised up on a corker of a hot sunny calm day over beautiful scenic roads and booked into Formerly the Blackball Hilton for the night, had a few drinks, a nice dinner, met another dude and his mrs who were touring on a Honda touring bike (Trans-Continantal?) then looked around Blackball (property maintenance is not a high priority in that town apparently) and hit the sack at about 10pm. (no ghosts spotted despite the legends)

Up this morning, cruised via Reefton and Springs Junction to Hanmer with a hot strong wind behind us and not much traffic and here we are, heading to the hot-pools for some r&r.

Have fun you two,great tootling round with you guys over there,the picture of you two at haast was spot on for timing as you can see cbs pain as the little bugger stung her.

**Lil'M** · 28th January 2008, 17:28

Cheers for a great time all! Had a blast, was a great ride there, a slightly tired but good ride back as well. Once again, good to meet some new faces

**Rashika** · 28th January 2008, 18:08

and some pics
pic 1: southern style headwear (southern as in sth island)
pic 2: some proud pommy chick with her new pipes
pic 3: nice parts bike for Speediegirl
pic 4: nice 2fiddy, reminds of the olden days

**Rashika** · 28th January 2008, 18:10

pics 1-4: pretty damn fine HOG, sweet paintjob there

and my pick if i didn't already have my bolt, I luv the cherry bomb bolt

**Bren** · 28th January 2008, 19:47

Originally Posted by Rashika

and some pics

pic 4: nice 2fiddy, reminds of the olden days

them olden dayz are still with me....if I can get mine sorted out....anyone know where I can flog a GPX starter motor from???

**Rashika** · 28th January 2008, 19:50

Originally Posted by South3rn Rid3r

them olden dayz are still with me....if I can get mine sorted out....anyone know where I can flog a GPX starter motor from???

tho funnily enough this is a brand spanking new one...

**Bren** · 28th January 2008, 19:57

Originally Posted by Rashika

tho funnily enough this is a brand spanking new one...

With a brand spanking new Starter motor too.....Goody!

**scumdog** · 28th January 2008, 20:01

Argh!

Other campers came over when we were putting gear in our tent @ Hanmer and after they found out we had been at Woodstock they said "Oh, there was this guy here last night, he had been at the bike rally too, his name was Selwyn and he rode a big Triumph, he was heading to Picton today"

Shee-it, we HAD planned on being here last night - but CB said "Blackball" so who was I to argu????

Shame, would have been nice to have caught up with him again.

**Silage** · 28th January 2008, 20:52

What a great rally. Bit of a change in entertainment. The front-wheel drive ute was "different" - pity they didn't allow people to do time trials with it or summit instead of a couple of laps then blowing the engine. Fireworks was good.

And good free and frank conversations about ... (stays on the rally!!!)

Panorama of the site. Covers the main tent area but there were a lot of tents in the next door paddock also.