Nelson Rideouts - Where next?

[Woodman]

If you're detouring anywhere make it a 2 dayer.
Add in Napoleons Hill whilst you're there. Don't need to call. Just rock up.

thanks guys , am getting excited now.

Do I detect a wee story about naploeons hill???

[NordieBoy]

Do I detect a wee story about naploeons hill???

Maybe

[JATZ]

thanks guys , am getting excited now.

Do I detect a wee story about naploeons hill???

Do you want the long version or the short version ?

[Woodman]

Do you want the long version or the short version ?

The full version please

[Padmei]

didn't happen


I've goto get the video editing software working cos there's some great footage.

[JATZ]

The full version please

Welllllllllllll..........

Rang farmer thurs night and said we'd be coming through sat afternoon
He said "no worries cobber, I'll be working up that way, just come through the gate and you'll see me.
Message on my phone sat morn from Padmei "can't come straight to Reefton from Westport, they've got the road closed(who woulda thought)going down to Grey then back up.
I left a message for him saying "we'll come down to Ahaura and meet you and we'll do Napoleons first"
Head south and catch up with Padmei en-route, go to Napoleons hill access "faaark, gates locked, can't see any farmer.Ring farmer but there's dodgy cell coverage so got hung up on.
Me "Yous fullahs and fulla'es stay here, I'll go and see em"
Cruize down to nearest house (which is the wrong one), while I was there a bike comes down the road, turns round and goes back.
I think they must have caught up with the cocky so head back up, nope, no farmer so I head back down the road to find the right house.
Pull into the next house to yak with a farmer in his dressing gown and work boots giving directions to the wife about rounding up sheep.(hard to keep a straight face during that encounter)
Dressing gown farmer "Nah mate, Malcome lives about 2/3 of the way back to town down a side road, in a house with a windmill outside".
Fang it back down the road, up the side road to a house with a windmill. Nope nobody home, ring number, I can hear the phone ringing in the house so it must be the right place, aaaaaah wellllll
Back to the others, still waiting at the gate, talkin shite about bikes and stuff and generally lazing around.
Me "looks like it's a f/up fullahs and fullah'es, shall we flag it and just go to Big river, come back and do this one another time".
Nods all round. Off to Big river.

Wishing you'd asked for the short version now Woody ?

[Padmei]

great ride guys. Gotta o the Denniston ride before it starts geting wet. Maye stay in Westport & finishthe Napoleons hill as well.

[JATZ]

great ride guys. Gotta o the Denniston ride before it starts geting wet. Maye stay in Westport & finishthe Napoleons hill as well.

Sounds like a plan.

I'm busy next w/end but any time after that is good

[Woodman]

Wishing you'd asked for the short version now Woody ?

Bugger when things get a wee bit unco-ordinated ain't it.

[NordieBoy]

Apparantly Denniston is much easier than Big River.
Also as you're coming out of Big River and get to the sign at the start hang a left and it takes you out to the gravel pit on the other side of the Reefton Saddle. Easy to get down ok but a bit gravelly to get up on bigger bikes.

Marks and Struan's "wrong turn" down Napoleon's Hill and out to the bridge at Waipuna? is where the 4WD's go in usually.

All according to Shane...

[cooneyr]

Apparantly Denniston is much easier than Big River.

Not sure about that. The Mackley is a bit of a mongrel to cross i.e. walking bikes and there are some pretty steep climbs out of the Mackley and the next valley on to the Plateau. The climbs aren't too hard, more Altimarlock than Porika. Still nothing like that on Big River.

Also as you're coming out of Big River and get to the sign at the start hang a left and it takes you out to the gravel pit on the other side of the Reefton Saddle. Easy to get down ok but a bit gravelly to get up on bigger bikes.

Ah so that is how you get to the other side of the saddle

Marks and Struan's "wrong turn" down Napoleon's Hill and out to the bridge at Waipuna? is where the 4WD's go in usually.....

That is my understanding too. Down the river to the bridge.

Damn I've got to get out of Chch - I's going mad I tells ya!

Cheers R

[Padmei]

Hey Jatz where was that bashplate you were telling me about? Anyone else mae up a bashplate with narrow toolbox for tubes,levers etc

[JATZ]

Hey Jatz where was that bashplate you were telling me about? Anyone else mae up a bashplate with narrow toolbox for tubes,levers etc

Thread is located here>>http://www.advrider.com/forums/showt...hlight=toolbox

Pictures are here>>http://kickstarter.org/mkportal/modu...lbum/a_466.jpg

And here>>http://kickstarter.org/mkportal/modu...lbum/a_465.jpg

And last one here>>http://kickstarter.org/mkportal/modu...lbum/a_467.jpg

[Padmei]

Man that is one flash piece of engineering - looks like it even locks. I was thinking of having a combination lock dangling but that looks cool.

I wonder if a red one would be in order....

[NordieBoy]

Man that is one flash piece of engineering - looks like it even locks. I was thinking of having a combination lock dangling but that looks cool.

I wonder if a red one would be in order....

Notice the engine down tube protectors
You've already got some of them