BOP Cruisy ADV ride - Late August

[Rosie]

Rosie, approx riding time please from the turn off to Blue and Green Lakes to the Falls?

Probably around 20 minutes, maybe more or less, depending of traffic. The Okere Falls Store is very easy to find, there is a 70km area labelled 'Okere Falls' and the store is on the main highway (SH 33), opposite the lake. Since the weather forecast is very good, we'll probably sit out the back, in the beer garden.

[Bass]

Enjoy yourselves people.
Would have liked to be there and in fact will be spending the weekend on a bike (the other one). Nicky and I are heading north this weekend.
Am working on maybe catching up with you lot in Taranaki in a month's time.
DR goes in for service, fresh rubber and some "after Oz" restoration tomorrow.
Lastly, thanks to Rosie for having the "Get up and Go" to organise a ride. I am delighted to see that you are getting a good response.

[young1]

Hi I got home around 3pm after a stop in Mokau for lunh.

great ride and hospitality thanks Rosie!

Will post pictures later

Mike

[tri boy]

Hi I got home around 3pm after a stop in Mokau for lunh.

great ride and hospitality thanks Rosie!

Will post pictures later

Mike

No! Post them now! Me have no patience.
Missed the ride, and need my fix!

[Cary]

Thanks very much to you both, another great weekend/ride. Had a great run home from the pub and stayed dry to.

Sorry Brent your gonna have to wait for my pics to as I'm now off to work for the next 12 hours but gotta pay for this fun some how!

[Tony W]

Thanks Rosie and Clint for a great ride and stay.
Will post pictures one day, when I learn how!

[young1]

#$$@ I have about 14 or so pics and except for the last two I took them on the wrong camera setting so the size of them is too big to upload here. Can anyone tell me how to resize them?

But anyway here are two pics, both of gunnyrob getting a little bit out of his comfort zone in a bit of mud, this is a road through the Mamakus (note the new "bling" on his bike, the new lip thingy on top of his fairing)

[cave weta]

#$$@ I have about 14 or so pics and except for the last two I took them on the wrong camera setting so the size of them is too big to upload here. Can anyone tell me how to resize them?

WHAT YA DO is rightlick on ya picure- select 'resize' and then choose small and it will give yu another copy at the end of your folder. use that one to post. or resize them in your internet photohost- similar deal.

[young1]

Thanks Cave Weta
1) It doesn't look much in this pic but on way over yesterday I stopped on the Whakamaru Dam and they were spilling water (must be heaps in the waikato at the mo if they are doing that) and I tell you this was bigger than any water slide
2 and 3) Normally for KB rides I pack heaps of wet weather gear but you can tell from these two pics that I should have packed my sunglasses. On the coast just north of that place that got flooded badly (Matata?) north of Whakatane. Clint and Mark took time out here to try a bit of beach riding.
4) What does a man do, I wanted smooth, straight, well groomed roads. This is what chasing a young woman around the Bay of Plenty leads to, BRING IT ON!

[young1]

1) It is hard to tell from this pic but this is the hot pool we stopped at, you can just see people in the water past the bikes and through the steam. A nice way to unwind at the end of the day.
2) Clint knew what we wanted and when we got to his "lakeside retreat" the beers were nicely chilled.
3) Tony feeling a wee bit sleepy and it looks as though Mark is heading that way to!
4) Only two words for this photo - kitchen and bitches. Seriously, good food thanks Rosie and Clint.

[young1]

1) Life is tough on a day like this, Kerry and Rob outside with Rob trying to find cell phone coverage (you can take the boy out of Auckland...)
2) Earlier you will have seen Rob's bike going cross country, this is what he was trying to get around
3) And here is the "Uber" 1200 going bush

[NordieBoy]

WHAT YA DO is rightlick on ya picure- select 'resize' and then choose small and it will give yu another copy at the end of your folder.

Only if you have installed the Resize PowerToy though.

[Crisis management]

Looks like you lot enjoyed yourselves, well done! Where is that road thru the Mamakus, it looks like an interesting variation for a route to Rotorua, Leslie road?

I can sympathise with Gunny Rob, I spent yesterday wrestling with the 200 in the mud at Whangamata (the bike won....again)

[young1]

Looks like you lot enjoyed yourselves, well done! Where is that road thru the Mamakus, it looks like an interesting variation for a route to Rotorua, Leslie road?

Yes Leslie Road, interesting that at one end it says "No Exit"

[clint640]

Good pics mate! Thanks to all who came along, it was a great weekends riding. The little tar backroads we took along Karapiro & then down to Okoroire were very nice yesterday too.

My pics are up on Advrider: http://www.advrider.com/forums/showt...58#post7766458

Cheers
Clint