What is the best ride you've had?

[dangerous]

Brisbane to Sydney via the inland rd...... and it was only betered by returning to Brissie via the coast rd on the 97 VFR.

Local rd's would be the west coast one end to the other on a fine day, most memorable would be the n/i trip to Kaitaia and up 90mile beach on a 500euro in 89 and a 750ez in 90.

[F5 Dave]

Best rides;

Blenheim kart race track, reverse direction over the rise at the highest point knee dragging, suspension compresses & pushes your knee in. Scary & Stella at the same time.

Many trail rides where you stop & the scenery is primo-rrific (ooh I dun made a new word).

Trials riding Whitby forest downhill tracks before the buggers mowed it all down.

Any road-ride when it’s been a long time since you’ve ridden. I used to ride every single day, but now there are often gaps of a week.

[F5 Dave]

Oh yeah, 90 mile beach. Good point. Had a great trip with the soon to be mrs on the back. Up the stream 2 up on an 1100. Picnic half way & no one passed by for 1/2 an hour. Won't post the pic, I might get in trouble, but it made me smile. Edit: that makes it sound worse than I intended.

[merv]

Trials riding Whitby forest downhill tracks before the buggers mowed it all down.

Did you ride with the Meads?

[Blakamin]

Brisbane to Sydney via the inland rd...... and it was only betered by returning to Brissie via the coast rd on the 97 VFR.

Pacific highway???? farqin rocks!!!! specially if ya detour thru Port Macquarie etc... (used to teach sail-boarding there)

[Hitcher]

The last one!


Fancy having to choose. There have been so many excellent rides. Into and out of Milford was a standout. The Glenorchy road. So was riding my first bike home from the dealership. The Grand Challenge. Most of the South Island. Large chunks of the North Island. Riding with some of the reprobates on this site. The list goes on...

[Jantar]

Fancy having to choose. There have been so many excellent rides. Into and out of Milford was a standout. The Glenorchy road. So was riding my first bike home from the dealership. The Grand Challenge. Most of the South Island. Large chunks of the North Island. Riding with some of the reprobates on this site. The list goes on...

I must agree fully with Hitcher... So many great rides and so difficult to compare. The splendour of the South Island's West Coast, or the twisty roads between Opotoki and Te Aroha? The lakes of the McKenzie Country, or the Western Taupo route? How do you rate a great ride?

Possibly the most memorable rides are those where I have set out into an area I don't know, and at every intersection I decide left, right or straight ahead, but never follow the main road. You can find some really great motorcyling country that way.

[Paul in NZ]

Dunno... Still having it....

[ajturbo]

i had a DAM good one last weekend,

but then again all the years i spent in the south Island riding....

the buller, west coast, ... every where!

andy

[SPORK]

Thats ok I wasn't overly offended My Mum on the other hand would give you a good clip around your ear hole!

No more mentionings of "holes" when we were so recently talking about mum jokes. Please?! :confused2

[Skunk]

Middle Earth Adventure was good - stands out cos it was my first adventure ride.
Haven't had a bad road ride yet.

[MSTRS:Me]

i had a DAM good one last weekend,

but then again all the years i spent in the south Island riding....

the buller, west coast, ... every where!

andy

Hitcher must have gone to bed. Damn.

[Velox]

Diff rides for diff reasons...
- Heading up the hill behind our place by myself on the Ag., totally concentrating on keeping it upright as it bucks its way along, melting bits of plastic onto my jeans and screaming its head off, and then switching it off at the top *Queue: orchestral background music* and looking out over the Kaikouras and Wgtn harbour with just the wind (ie. no screams of the Ag in its death throws).
- Ripping it upa certain section of Makara hill (the real twisty bit where you just continuously flick the bike from one side to the other) and getting all the corners down pat.
- Riding in 'herd formation' in the Coast to Coast. So many bikes, everywhere around you!
- Playing on the Port Hills in Chch while I was killing time. Early evening so nice gold light, explorating the place - just hooning around not knowing what roads I was on and loving it!
- Even just getting a good run up Aro Valley!
But the list could go on for ages..........................

[FROSTY:Me]

There was this one race meeting at Wanganui. Stinking hot day.
Back then wanganui was part of the nationals so all the top riders were there..
The crowds were huge -especially round turn 1 and through the esses up to rosegardens.
It was a F2 race which the 250 proddy guys could cross enter.
Something in my head went click that day because all race long everything seemed to be in slow motion. I was a midfeilder and battling it out with a guy on a cbr600.All through the race we were swapping places 3 or 4 times a lap and up through the esses we lap after lap were trading paint.
side by side we would go over the bridge popping (it seemed) huge mono's as we crested the top.
on the cool down lap the crowd were on their feet roaring at us 2
We Finished 9th and 10th respectively but I diddn't care, it was the ride of a lifetime

[Al]

In SA we used to do a lot of bush/forest riding, I had an IT465, forests near Melmoth in Zululand, still have video footage of awesome wheelies through rivers (and magnificent wipe-outs too).
Best ride in NZ was last years trip up to 90 Mile Beach, stopping at all the turn-offs you wouldn't normally do with a cage!

Al