Ride south saturday morn

[Firefight]

Just like to say thanx to firefight for the excursion on sat morn, its good to get out with a group that can actually ride reasonably fast, its been a while for me so i might take some time to keep up with the guys, plus, i was feeling a bit jaded after friday night!!! Thats my excuse anyway!!
Stuey.

It was great to meet you Stuey, glad you enjoyed the ride, look fwd to having you with us on another ride soon.

F/F

[Cajun]

You would have been disappointed then, all I was doing was trying to catch the other two, what are these lines thingys that you are talking about ? , I was trying to hang on, so what did it look like ?

F/F

hahahaha shrug, just following why you go around, the wife is faster than me up the kamais. but i have also had some insane slides coming in to corners there so that never helps

[V Twin Raver]

Thanks for the company guys - great ride had. Nice to meet you Stuey & Glen. Glen - glad to see the brakes working all good - sorry about that - really dumb move on my part, I am REALLY slutted at myself for that. Good to see all you guys out for the run through 22 - I had a blast through there.

To F/F & Alex - awesome to ride with you both over the entire distance - I was shattered when I got home over 500km later - took Mrs VTR out for dinner, had 2 beers & it time for a sleep on the couch.

Pity about the traffic on the Waihi/Whangamata Road but the windys on the run thru to Hikaui (sp?) and especially Miranda/Kawakawa made up for it.

Can't wait for the next jaunt.

[2_SL0]

Hey JB, yeah that was us, we were drooling over your cosins bike, the other two dudes were Mal on the Blue VTR and Alex on the the NC30, will try and meet up next time, I ride your way alot durning the week, do you know where Dave 750y lives, hes sort of in the Hunua area, bloody neat guy.

F/F

I know he lives out here somewhere, I plan to go for a ride with him once Im up to speed.

[dss3]

Think I may have spotted you'll coming outta the servo at Ngara's, If I had of recognised ya I would have turned around and joined in the fun, instead I went and played out 22 way.... f*&k'n roadworks!, me and my bike both covered in tar!! Bring on summer and more days like that...

_daryl

[Cajun]

Think I may have spotted you'll coming outta the servo at Ngara's, If I had of recognised ya I would have turned around and joined in the fun, instead I went and played out 22 way.... f*&k'n roadworks!, me and my bike both covered in tar!! Bring on summer and more days like that...

_daryl

yeah they said they saw you when i meet them in matamata

[Firefight]

Think I may have spotted you'll coming outta the servo at Ngara's, If I had of recognised ya I would have turned around and joined in the fun, instead I went and played out 22 way.... f*&k'n roadworks!, me and my bike both covered in tar!! Bring on summer and more days like that...

_daryl

yeah we thought it was you, I waited to see if you came after us, but figured you must have had another plan.

F/F

[dss3]

yeah we thought it was you, I waited to see if you came after us, but figured you must have had another plan.

F/F

Nah, no plan... went to go practise getting knee down, only to find that my favourite corner had just been covered with wet tar! Didn't realise you guys were riding, otherwise probably would have "clicked" that it was you. Probably wasn't good idea to go for big ride anyways... steering header bearing things knackered, off to shop to get fixed this week ($$$)

Next time....

c ya
_Daryl

[What?]

...thats not a bad blat Your place to Lichfield which way do you go ?, I milked cows there about 150 years ago.

F/F

Turn off down Rapurapu road, left to Tapapa, right into SH5, left into Whited road, left into Harris road, then Domain road and onto SH1 by the Putaruru centre for failed mechanics. The Harris rd bit by-passes Put village and is a better surface.
37 minutes to work in the ute (and I don't drive slow) or 30 on the bike

[RiderInBlack]

Thanks F/F for the ride. Hope I didn't hold too many of you young bucks as I nana the corners on "Roxanne" We had a good blast down Nga/Otoro and Te Ki to Taupo Yep, manage to stuff the speedo by the time I got to Taupo The nylon bushing that drives the speedo cable on the outside of the Gear box housing got stipped. I was passing "cages" @ 30MPH. I didn't click until I looked at the rave counter. 60MPH is 4000RPM top gear on "Roxanne", I was doing 30MPH in top @ 5000RPM+