Swede seeking info!

[Bonez]

Guys, he's from Sweden, and you're trying to advise him about dealing with the colder conditions we have???

I expect he's more than capable of handle a little sleet etc, and will be the last person put off by coming here winter time..

[Fits tin foil cone]Fuck it appears some here have trouble riding in our "summer" .

[feral1]

will be down the coast in a coupple of weeks, when is the woodstock rally on this year?
Nick

Hi Nick,

Weather on the coast is good now, sould be fine in a few weeks too. The rally is in the last weekend of January. See the KB calendar listing ( you guys in AKL have a day of on the monday afterwards as well - i think..)

There are others coming from Auckland and north (warkworth).
The last rallies have been great, top entertainment - had a 50 tonne ex-vietnam war tank on site the other year. Real hoot, seeing tin tops go under that and coming out as high as a stubbie of beer.

[jonas24]

Thanx so much guys!
You've now confirmed the nice and friendly reputation that generally is said about kiwis. Thanx for all the good advices. I can't wait to get down again. About the weather I might as well inform you that I now live in the southern part of Sweden hence mild, rainy, windy, crappy winters very seldom seeing below zero degrees. Referring to your comments on bike-choice It seems that I still should go for a sporty tourer right? I am a Honda fan so I'm 99% certain that the brand I'll go for would be this.Have seen a couple of nice looking early 90 cbr 1000:s for about 6k. Whaddaya think about those beasts? Never ridden one but imagine they would be a little on the heavy side. Are they as good as the VFR when it comes to reliability and performance. They look very comfy which definiately would be an xtra plus for me. I wished for some pics in my first post potraying some nice scenery from the Dunedin area. I would be extremely grateful if someone have and/or could post a few in this thread so that I have something to drewl over.

[AndyH]

There are lots of places down here in the south that you have to miss if you don't use gravel roads, and I find them much more fun on a dual-sport bike. I'm biased, and trying to find my fun at legal(ish) speeds. Maybe somebody else has ridden Skippers Canyon on a CBR1000 so can say it's easy and a Transalp would be too slow on the Crown range twisties?

Jonas, I PM'ed you re: pictures - people living here have better ways to see the views than via my photography!

[pete376403]

I haven';t looked at all of these but you could check out:

http://www.cityofdunedin.com/city/home.html

http://www.dunedintourism.info/

http://www.tourism.net.nz/region/dunedin/

http://www.centralotago.net.nz/

http://www.tco.org.nz/

Heres a typical Central Otago mid summer (like we used to have) view: