Wires track, Thames?

[ali-s]

[QUOTE=cave weta;1444528]

hey cave weta - that's sounds awesome, room for an old one at the back?

Ha ha !!! I bet you are no older than me.-
Im in the super vets class. -had my bike licence for 31 years.....

you would be very welcome- lets put something together for after easter.

XLNT - diary is open and pen ready - having just moved up to the BOP am looking forward to exploring a bit of the N Island, I'll just have to make sure it doesn't clash with me taking the zimmer frame in for a service !

[roger_doger]

Here's what happened when me and a mate attacked it a few days ago:

"We headed off to the Coromandel area (we entered the coromandel forest from the Paeroa side) to explore a track we'd heard about. We had an awesome ride the first hour or so. The track was primo - winding its way through native bush. Slowly it got trickier and trickier. It was a good challenge, but the kind of bike that Shaun has is not good for slow technical riding, so we got to a point where we decided to turn around. That was all well and good. Then I was leading back down the track, and we came to a point where the colour of the dirt changed slightly, but I didn't think anything of it. That is until I went to ride over it and got sucked into a 1m deep bog. We almost couldn't see the front wheel it was buried that deep! And it was the stickiest, clumpiest, dirtiest mud I think I've ever encountered. It took Shaun and me over 40 mins to get it out. We used various strategies, the bike was literally upside down for half of the time. But we finally got it out. Went to kick it back into life....it fired up second kick, of course! So we were "back on track" and blatting down the track again. Shaun was skirting his way around a deep puddle and accidently dropped his bike in the puddle. It looked funny (as I'm sure my bike in the bog did, but it was my turn to laugh), but then when he went to try and kick it over it wouldn't kick. Uh oh, that only means one thing - water in the cylinder head. We didn't have any tools with us (slap on the hand), so I shot back to the van, picked up some tools and came back. We stripped his bike down and tried draining all the water out of the cylinder, but it was no use. The bike was stranded. So it was the trusty XL (my bike) to the rescue. We hooked up a tow rope and towed her back through the bush. It was a very tricky assignment trying to tow a bike (and person) up some of the gnarly, rocky tracks - I was fighting between momentum, traction, and keeping the front wheel on the ground - but I have to give all the credit to my bike! It is a legendary machine. It handled it all with relative ease. I'm still blown away at how much torque the thing has. So anyway we finally got back to the van, and were able to head back in one piece. It certainly isn't a day we'll forget in a hurry."

[BILLY P]

hi guys we rode the wires loop and the gut buster on feb the 8th 08 it was all good. but the track was meant to be closed because the main loop ends at a 12ft bank where they are putting a drive into a block of land. there where no signs up in the morning and none in the afternoon except the new land owner chained a gate across the track at the very end and told us we where trespassing.we explained to him we could'nt go back with the amount of gas we had left and we where stuffedand we are only 200m from the car park. to bad he reckoned and told us to f off. we explained that if there was signs we would'nt be here. f off again. so we did. it's a wicked ride but now needs a end to the track. doc are meant to be sorting it out shortly.

[Danger]

How did you finish the track then? There is no physical way you would get your bike back up those rock descents. You would need a dozen Sherpa's.
There was a point near the end by a river crossing that had a left and a right option. We took the right option and went over the private land as indicated by the sign and got back ok, there was no chain or gate up at that time. Not sure where the left option takes you to, perhaps Old Maratoto road? That could be an optional way out? Cave Weta might have more info.
Thanks for the warning though. Was just thinking today that I was getting a hankering to head down there and ride the track again.
I just checked the dates and are you sure you did it on the 8th of Feb cause thats the exact day that we did the ride? We were the only ones there parked at Wires road.

[BILLY P]

sure was the 8th danger .truck and ute parked at car park at the end of the road. we got back by riding down the guys fence line while he screamed at us.the gate was chained at the very end of the track where the earth works is happining. you would understand why we couldn't go back up the track. to hard and to stuffed. it's still the best test of your skills i reckon as well as neasvile. cheers