Waitangi Day 2008: Wellington/HB North Range Rd ride pics here

**skelstar** · 11th February 2008, 08:03

Originally Posted by merv

You going to get a dirt bike and come with us some day?

Too expensive for me this having more than one bike. No offence but theres a lot of gravel roads in your pics, I'd be after something a bit more 'cross country'... reckon riding across farmland/non tracked stuff would be great. I don't know what you call that though... trail-riding?

If I had another bike at the mo it would be a race bike/bucket.

**merv** · 11th February 2008, 11:24

Originally Posted by skelstar

Too expensive for me this having more than one bike. No offence but theres a lot of gravel roads in your pics, I'd be after something a bit more 'cross country'... reckon riding across farmland/non tracked stuff would be great. I don't know what you call that though... trail-riding?

If I had another bike at the mo it would be a race bike/bucket.

Yeah that would be trail riding. I kind of retired from that a few years ago when after having done so much of it I got sick of getting home late on Sunday nights with a thoroughly filthy bike I didn't have time to clean and it was just too hard on the bike to leave it sitting in the garage covered in mud until I did have time to clean it. Gravel roads are fun but not so hard out on me or the bikes. This is what adventure riding is about really, the soft option compared to trail riding or dirt competition like enduros which I did many moons ago.

Bucket racing's cool so yeah give that a go.