Labour day weekend ride. Sunday 21st oct.(Castle Point)

[rottiguy]

Good ride guys and girls, great to meet y'all. It will take me a few rides to remember everyones names.
Brilliant weather and a fine bunch to ride with. Looks like this summer will be a spiffy one

[Trudes]

Good to catch up with you all at Castlepoint.

And, Jim2 and the Kendogs, thanks for a great ride back, the grin is still on the dial.

Heads Up and Enjoy

Glad you liked the water tower road Guy, it's a gem hey!!]


Fantastic day, lovely weather, good company, nice to meet some new faces and see some familiar ones too, thanks for organising NZSarge!!

[MSTRS:Me]

What a thoroughly awesome day. Can we do it again? Can we? Can we? Huh?

[robertydog]

What a thoroughly awesome day. Can we do it again? Can we? Can we? Huh?

Hope you took lots of pics cause you dont get a free pass very often

[Bonez]

thanks for organising NZSarge!!

Ditto and he was fashionably late .

I ended up going on a detour to Alfredton via Tinui. 20 odd kms of loose stuff so I guess a smidgeon would be the correct term. In riding terms it cuts around 10 minutes, even toodling along at 50kph or less on the unsealed section. I'd do it again no worries. No pics as the cameras batteries were flat. Got to Eketawere and fueled up. The servo hadn't seen the lads and laddess's come through so I back tracked towards Masterton and meet the main group heading norf(s/p).

Great day out.

[chanceyy]

Well its been a simply awesome day

was great to wake up this morning to clear skys, no wind .. even if it was a bit chilly

by 7.50 Mstrs, Rottiguy & myself were on the road of to meeting point 1. Nice early Morning cruise & after our late night discussion on cornering with me finally understanding how to actually "weight the pegs" it was great to be able to cruise behind Mstrs & try this out on the corners outta shannon. .. all I can say John is Blardy brilliant ... it definately makes betsy more stable, just need to work on it becoming a memory muscle

so at meeting point 1,three of us, Banditrider, Moniame, DJ, Garry H. it was a bit of a mentoring ride to Pahiatua, with Bandit rider in the lead the two new riders & rottiguy being tail end charlie off they set .. then Mstrs myself & garry H set off .. really really good fun for sure

regrouped in pahiatua with the rest of the ashhurst crew & great to see the Mrs meanie & Mrs Cowboyz out & about. hmm now where was our ride organiser .. ohh wait there is a message at the time we were due to leave he was still at home .. dunna wait he will catch up so sweet we are off great ride out to Alfreston & short break, then off to masterton regroup at mobil

fantastic ride out to castlepoint, love that road apart from the peagravel on that weee section .. but no mishaps so all good & OMG Castlepoint was certainly the place to be today .. flat water, sun, sun, sun .. no wind .. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh perfect so lunch & catch up with everyone then time to saddle up & head back other quick stop at masterton & off straight up the line, where the wind returned with a vengence but everyone handled it well & mangamarie, track for course home

damn brilliant day guys ... Mstrs great seeing you again & thanks for the tips really appreciate it, DJ & Moniame well done guys on your first group ride, you both did really really well, & kudos to you both it was a long day with the wind being challenging at the end

Noel & Rottiguy thanks for being Tail end charlies today & Bonez for making sure that everyone took the right turns

rock on summer with some more great riding to come ... pics will be later

[banditrider]

Good ride all right - dig that Castle Point road!

My little blog here.

[Monamie]

Kind of speechless really (that will be a first).
Beaut weather-cept for the wind doing its best to toss me off me bike
I knew it was going to be a great feeling to finally get out and RIDE-but man it was amazing.
Thanks to all the tips/pointers and especially for putting up with the Noobies.
Special thanks to Chanceyy and Rottiguy for playing `mother duck' and making sure we did nuthin' too stupid .

I have learnt heaps in one day just by watching you guys. It was great to finally meet you-and roll on the next `cruisy' Manawatu ride.

M

[chanceyy]

Kind of speechless really (that will be a first).
Beaut weather-cept for the wind doing its best to toss me off me bike
I knew it was going to be a great feeling to finally get out and RIDE-but man it was amazing.
Thanks to all the tips/pointers and especially for putting up with the Noobies.
Special thanks to Chanceyy and Rottiguy for playing `mother duck' and making sure we did nuthin' too stupid .

I have learnt heaps in one day just by watching you guys. It was great to finally meet you-and roll on the next `cruisy' Manawatu ride.

M

really good to see you giving it a go now you have lost your virginity so to speak we shall see you out & about more ohh btw it was a pleasure

[Kendog]

Have to agree with everyone, that was a great day. The roads round there are magic and the weather could not have been much better.

Nice to put some faces to names and catch up with others.

[cowboyz]

Was good to have such a diverse range of bikes and riders all out together. Had a bit of pace on chasing Yod and ltnz through Alfredton. Bit of a criuse out castlepoint road. All in all it was a good day. Good to see the Kendogs bikes in the flesh and nice chatting.

Newbie riders did a fantastic job in the wind. It got pretty bad on the way back.

[wayne708]

What a great ride today, started with a bit of a chilli run up through the Hutt at 07:30 to Rimutex then a blat over the Rimutakas with Jim2 before cruising through to Pahiatua to meet up with everyone. Once again it's great to put names to faces and thanks to Sarge for organizing the ride. The road to Castle Point is in much better condition than when I rode last year, and the weather out there,brilliant. Had to leave a bit early but still managed to be home by 15:30 in time for next engagement with family and friends.
Till next time thanks everyone, Wayne.

[DJ]

Awesome day today! Thanks heaps to all for putting up with me tailing the pack - especially the guys behind me on the way home with that wind. Hair raising stuff for a newbie Learnt a lot today and I just need to get out more and practice practice practice. But damn fantastic day, and great to be able to put names to faces. Cheers!

[phantom]

Another fantastic ride by the sounds of it. Unfortunately had to spend Saturday night in hospital thanks to my dicky ticker so no riding for a week or so hopefully better luck next time

[ldnz]

Yeah cheers to you all for a great day! Really enjoyed getting to fling the bike around with Yod and Cowboyz - I'm amazed how quick that zx9 is two up! Thanks for putting up with my no stuffing around overtaking back from castlepoint, I hope I didn't do anything stupid or scare anyone.