What the hell is the TTTTT?

[Cary]

Great weekend, thanks again to Iain for leading us on Friday and to Phil & Mike for all the work you put in to making it SO good.

Great to catch up and managed to add another name or two to my memory banks............

My pics here http://www.advrider.com/forums/showt...76#post7989976

[socialites]

thanks guys for a great weekend, good to meet you all and look forward to the next adventure.

[johannvr]

Yep - a big thanks from me too. First time for me in the NZ hills, mud & hard-packed gravel / metal roads with unexpected ball-bearing patches mixed in for fun (and they seem to somehow congregate just on the outside of the optimal riding line through the turns, so if you're a tad sub-optimal like me, off course you gonna get into the stuff ...) - only managed to put the DR down once on the pea gravel on the way down to meet all in Ohura and later on twice in the mud - all in all a fun time!

Methinks I can get quite hooked on this

Johann

[johannvr]

BTW - anybody perhaps done & saved a GPS Route log of this & prepared to share it? Would be keen to lay my paws on one.

jvr

[cooneyr]

Damn - The picks of the Moki tunnel look like awesome riding. Some of us Cantabs are gonna have to get up that way for a look see some day. More photos please

BTW - anybody perhaps done & saved a GPS Route log of this & prepared to share it? Would be keen to lay my paws on one.

jvr

+1 on this. I'm keen for a copy of a GPS track log to put on my web site.

Cheers R

[MXNUT]

A BIGthanks to Mike , Phil & Dawn and the rest of the naki crew for organizing and running the ride.
635 kms clocked for me for sat & sun and i enjoyed every k.
These rides just keep getting better and better.
The high lights of the ride for me were kiwi rd - the moki track and whangamomana rd.
I woud love to have done fishers track on the friday but i guess that 1 will have to wait for another time.

Will post a few pics later

[javahead]

That was a fantastic weekend's riding. Thanks again to Mike, Phil, and the rest who organised it all - esp Sunday's weather. The start from Taupo across the 42 made it even better. I daren't wash the crud off my bike because I know there's ugly grazes under there!

I've got GPS tracks for the 3 days - just need to check something before posting them.

[johannvr]

I've got GPS tracks for the 3 days - just need to check something before posting them.

You are THE MAN! Will keep a beady out for it ... Thanks in advance

[reofix]

Cary... i told you man ... no cameras in the private moments on the taranaki hills... you will keep.....

[That looks like fun]

A few more pics of the fun

[reofix]

anyway ... i have alibis

[Cary]

anyway ... i have alibis

And I have more photos..........locked away in a secure vault, unless.......

Last of my photos up here now http://www.advrider.com/forums/showt...76#post7989976

[young1]

Thanks everyone for the thank you messages, I am glad that it looks as though everyone got home in one piece!

Also nice to be able to organise a ride for those Kiwi Bikers who have organised the ones in the past that I have been on, Clint640, Rosie and Triboy.

Also big thanks to Phil for being such a good leader, I was happy at the back swallowing everyone's dust.... ha ha

Now somewhere over the weekend I heard mention of a Wellington ride being organised.. Aslan? Marks (you were volunteered in your absense)?

Rosie - did you get to see the mountain on Sunday?

Some pics, dont want to repeat what is already here so just a few.

1 and 2 Awakino hotel Friday night (all the BS stories coming out...)
2 and 4 getting ready to leave

[young1]

A few more,

1) Aslan making up some big story about how he swerved 4 times, jumped a ditch, wrestled a bull, "and look that is the only mark that I got on the bike"
2 and 3) Meal time Te Wera Saturday night

[marks]

How did the WR450 go??
Did the riders arse survive?
did it chew gas??


makes me wonder if I should dig out the big tank I have for mine and chuck the lights and plate back on....