Help! (Easter 2008)

[bandus72]

Hello everyone,
With two of my friends we had a plan to go to Coromandel for Easter for a 3 days gravel ride. For various reasons we can not go there but we do not want to sit at home or do Easter egg hunting. Is anyone can recommend 1 day gravel or light trail (Pirelli MT90, MT70 and Michelin Sirac tyres are on the bikes ) rides around Auckland? If you want to join to us you are welcome or we are happy to join others. I am talking about Saturday and Sunday.
Andrew
0211579478
farago(at)orcon.net.nz

[clint640]

Having a look down the west coast is one of the nicest 1 day gravel/tar routes I know out of Aucks, start Port Waikato & hug the coast as much as possible down to Raglan. Continue down to Kawhia if time permits then back up the other side of the hill & a nice road run back up SH22.
There are a few options like Ruapuke for a fang on the beach on the way too if the tide is right (but be responsible, we don't want to be giving more reasons to ban vehicles on all beaches & they may be busy)

Cheers
Clint

[cooneyr]

Do you have a GPS Andrew? I'm keen for data for my web site (see my signature).

Cheers R

[bandus72]

Unfortunately I have no GPS but I am OK with maps. I could not see routes around AKL on your website. Is the Safari browser going mad again or you have not too much around there? Anyway, thank you for the site I will keep an eye on it. Andrew

[bandus72]

Thank you for the ideas. The tour is started to take a shape.
1st day Sat) AKL-Hamilton on sh22 (someone will join to us there) then Hamilton-Te Uku Landing-Kauri Flat-Matira-Waikaretu-Limestone Downs-Port Waikato-AKL
2nd day Sun) AKL-Puhoi-Ahuroa-Hoteo-(maybe a loop on Okahukura Peninsula)-Back on sh16 to AKL.
On Monday I will give an escort back to Hamilton. The route is undecided.

[cooneyr]

Unfortunately I have no GPS but I am OK with maps. I could not see routes around AKL on your website. Is the Safari browser going mad again or you have not too much around there? Anyway, thank you for the site I will keep an eye on it. Andrew

Not much in the whole of the north island as I'm still trying to find people up that way with a GPS to supply me data Safari doesn't show the web page quite correctly - lots of red text.

Good luck with the ride.

Cheers R