Nelson Rideouts - Where next?

[Padmei]

For 10 days i'd be inclined to do a road trip around & including Golden Bay, Port Underwood, Lake Rotoiti, West coast etc etc. Nelson is good but there are many more fine places to see as well with all that time.
Tahuna camp ground is a pretty cool but busy place. The Maitai campground is more laidback. The Brook motorcamp has basic cabins & I think you can hire caravans.
If you have a GPS CooneyRs site may be beneficial. If there's a nads rideout you'd be most welcome to join us.

[A.Cole]

For 10 days i'd be inclined to do a road trip around & including Golden Bay, Port Underwood, Lake Rotoiti, West coast etc etc. Nelson is good but there are many more fine places to see as well with all that time.
Tahuna camp ground is a pretty cool but busy place. The Maitai campground is more laidback. The Brook motorcamp has basic cabins & I think you can hire caravans.
If you have a GPS CooneyRs site may be beneficial. If there's a nads rideout you'd be most welcome to join us.

We're both very capable offroad/gravel riders and will be on XT660Rs so we're keen on those roads up behind Nelson that you chaps so fondly talk about. Obviously the 660 is no dirtbike but it is certainly capable in the dry.
Not overly fond of Tarmac and it's likely we will have just done 900 or so klms of the black stuff.

[A.Cole]

Our plan is to find a place to base ourselves that has as many comforts as possible and ride out from there. 1 day rides, 2 day rides that sort of thing.
I lived in Chch for eleven years and have not seen it since it got hit by the quakes so will probably head down there for a night via Hanmer. The hills above and beyond Nelson look like fantastic riding and that's mostly what we're keen on exploring.
Up here there are no serious mountains and everything is rolling green or native bush so it's quite different.
Nice but different.

[Padmei]

yep i'm a Jafa so I've soent a bit of time up norf.
Nelson is a great place to kick back - many things to do.
Unfortunately the forests behind us are closed during work time due to logging so the forests are out of bounds until 5.30 evenings & weekends.
Hori bay is a cool places tho & is open all the time. A trip across to Anatori would be awesome - you get to see Golden bay & a taste of the West coast too.

[madmartin]

you wanna do Anatori when the tide is low, the lower the better really, there's some very cool things to be seen when the water's out

[A.Cole]

Sounds great, looking forward to it all. At the moment we're prepping bikes.
This is my kit from the last trip I did over to the West Coast up here in the Far North.

[Night Falcon]

Sounds great, looking forward to it all. At the moment we're prepping bikes.
This is my kit from the last trip I did over to the West Coast up here in the Far North.

Nice looking bike!

[Padmei]

yay it's raining again - Shit i'm glad the drought has broken - I was getting worried about my azelias.

[Woodman]

yay it's raining again - Shit i'm glad the drought has broken - I was getting worried about my azelias.

Yeah that one day yesterday of fine weather was fantastic. Well it would have been but it was also the first Saturday I have worked for months

Spent this morning crawling through the ceiling in me shed looking for a leak. Not built for ceiling crawling, but fixed the leak, converted the dellorto from bottom feeder to top feeder, installed the carb and she started first kick and settled straight into an idle.

The KLR is looking at me with woeful puppy eyes.

[JATZ]

Yip, cracker day yesterday. Bloated m'self on scollops 'n' fish last night though
Shed day today, mrsJ's gettin a scotoiler installed on the 650

[NordieBoy]

Still got 2 ScottOilers here, including a touring kit that holds 1/4 L or so...

[Fluffy Cat]

Rain what rain I bought a 38,000,000,000 liter water tank and it's still not full.
Need more rain.

[Padmei]

I'm kinda bored myself - no motivation, feeling really slothlike reading ride reports, staying away from inspiring bike build threads cos i can't be arsed standing up...

Well ok -I know i'll walk down to the dairy & get 3 kitkat bars - one for now & 2 for tonite.


Faaaark that must be so intereesting to read....

Andi is having a good time from the sounds of it.

[pete-blen]

I'm kinda bored myself - no motivation, feeling really slothlike reading ride reports, staying away from inspiring bike build threads cos i can't be arsed standing up...

Well ok -I know i'll walk down to the dairy & get 3 kitkat bars - one for now & 2 for tonite.


Faaaark that must be so intereesting to read....

Andi is having a good time from the sounds of it.

Pissing down here......
Spent all morring cutting gears....
Forgot to cut the bolt grooves in yer breathers
before I set the mill up with the indexer...
Try and remember before I set up for the racks...

[Box'a'bits]

Just spent the day rebuilding the computer after a file corruption, 2 weeks after a Virus. Yah..Nearly bought a new one on saturday. I wasn't sure I could face it again.... Must be all those dodgy sites I've been on...not.