Nelson Rideouts - Where next?

[Padmei]

Just about stopped now though...


Jenni has just headed off to Dunners for a week to "return" a student and the forcast is for rain on and off for the next few days

How long has she had it for? I'm not sure of the time allowed for full refund. She should just stand there in the shop till either they refund the money or at least get an exchange.

[NordieBoy]

I'm hoping for a refund.

[Padmei]

ouch step ouch step ouch

[NordieBoy]

Padmei! What's wrong? What happened?

That shall be known henceforth as the "Gorse and Gorser" ride...

Left just after 10:00 got home 15:00.

Steep Rd (not all the way), Middle Rd out Hori Bay way then Mt Duppa for Last Rd, The road off Last Rd, The Old Wangamoa Highway.

The idea was sound.
Take every left branch and you should end up back at the entrance in a day or two

That was very fun

Went onto reserve at the Wangamoa Summit on the way back.

Thanks guys

[Padmei]

I had my first off on tarseal as you well know.
We got onto the old Whangamoa rd - which is an abandoned piece of tarseal road adjacent to the highway they used to use before installing a nice straight bit.

They used touse it for car hillclimbs & also motorcycle ones ( if you did it 3 times you could get your licence for the port races). It's agreat piece of empty road to practise cornering
I roared off while Fluffy & Nordie were chatting & was having a great time making full use of the road untilI went into a corner & before my mind could register what was happening I was sliding across the road.
People have described that sickening sound of metal on tarseal & now I know what it sounds like.

I quickly got up afraid the boys might ride into my bike however Nordie used his superhuman reactions & went around me.

Luckily there was no damage to the bike - crashbars & handlebar end took it all & all I ended up with was a slightly twisted ankle & bit of graze on the knee-hardly worth a mention really.

All I can say is "Lets hear it for body armour"

A great ride tho. The KLR went excellently well & we found some more dead end tracks into gorse we hadn't ridden before

[Woodman]

How long has she had it for? I'm not sure of the time allowed for full refund. She should just stand there in the shop till either they refund the money or at least get an exchange.

An exchange student ??. Was that intentional?

Glad you escaped your road trash ok. Not a nice feeling.

BTW is that front headlight mounty bit that we talked about amongst all your spare klr parts?? If you haven't got it I have another plan for the headlight.
I got the bike in a zillion bits at the moment and am intending on fixing all those little unimportant but nevertheless slightly annoying bent/broken/trail repaired things that still function perfectly but are not quite perfect anymore.

[NordieBoy]

Mt Duppa and surroundings...

[Fluffy Cat]

Hehe...cool vid.
The mighty 450 has not got to reserve yet.....so it does quite well on that 8 liter tank....or are there some magical properties to Gorse?. Riding in gorse improves mileage!!!.
We are quite literally sitting on/in a gold mine...the Arabs of the southern hemisphere!!!!.\$$$$$$$.

[NordieBoy]

Well we did only do about 100km.

We are quite literally sitting on/in a gold mine...the Arabs of the southern hemisphere!!!!.\$$$$$$$.

How much would the Scots pay now?

[Fluffy Cat]

Get in with the program dude.......
Put a sprigg of gorse in your tank and improve mileage!!!!. Alternatively place a sprigg of gorse anywhere on your bike and improve mileage!!!!!.
Just pay me money.......makes you slimmer to.....yippeeee!!!!.

[Fluffy Cat]

Padmei if you need a Talk Wench let me know.
I like English. English is grate.

[Padmei]

Padmei if you need a Talk Wench let me know.
I like English. English is grate.

Most English I know are pricks...

[Fluffy Cat]

Ow!...you prick me?.

[Padmei]

No coookie boy, gorse prick you -prick me all over too

[NordieBoy]

Wow.
That bit on Slaters Rd near the Wangamoa Summit at the skid site where we turned back to look at the water reservoir is only 200m from where we got to on the Mt Duppa roads.

In the vid where I say "left or right" if we could have got through the left then it would come out at SH6 and also loops back and possibly connects with the Lost Highway.

I'm going to fill up the TT and go back for a look at some of the bits we missed this arvo.