Coromandel Goldrush Adventure Ride 6th December 2008

**rogson** · 24th November 2008, 07:28

Anyone know if the route includes the cross-over/link-up around the top of the penninsula?

**Waihou Thumper** · 24th November 2008, 18:12

Just paid tonight, looking forward to it.
Rain or shine! Apparently 30 odd signed up for the day....so far.

**Qkchk:Me** · 25th November 2008, 11:43

Both me and Qkkid are going. The DR has been sitting in the garage since last time...... lol

**Bams** · 25th November 2008, 22:05

Hi Qkchk Looks like I will be seeing you on this ride too as I'm all joined up, looking forward to catching up

**MXNUT** · 26th November 2008, 08:50

Originally Posted by rogson

Anyone know if the route includes the cross-over/link-up around the top of the penninsula?

Received the entry pack a couple of days ago.No mention of the route.

Originally Posted by NZKTM

Just paid tonight, looking forward to it.
Rain or shine! Apparently 30 odd signed up for the day....so far.

Originally Posted by Qkchk

Both me and Qkkid are going. The DR has been sitting in the garage since last time...... lol

Originally Posted by Bams

Hi Qkchk Looks like I will be seeing you on this ride too as I'm all joined up, looking forward to catching up

Looks like there will be a few KBers, is anyone else doing the Trail loop ?

**Qkchk:Me** · 27th November 2008, 16:08

Originally Posted by Bams

Hi Qkchk Looks like I will be seeing you on this ride too as I'm all joined up, looking forward to catching up

Sweet as! You camping it out?

Originally Posted by MOTOXNUT

Received the entry pack a couple of days ago.No mention of the route.

Ditto, just in the mail today

Originally Posted by MOTOXNUT

Looks like there will be a few KBers, is anyone else doing the Trail loop ?

Trail?? Nope, Im too much of a wimp - Youll find us in the Adventure group.

**Bams** · 27th November 2008, 19:55

Yea but in the back of the van abit more stylie than last time!

**Qkchk:Me** · 28th November 2008, 12:19

Originally Posted by Bams

Yea but in the back of the van abit more stylie than last time!

Hah! Soft cock..........

I hope it doesnt rain.

**MXNUT** · 4th December 2008, 15:34

Bike already to go with new Kenda trackmaster full knobly fitted to the rear, pack racks removed and off road sprockets fitted.

Cheating and taking the van with the bike in so i dont have to put up a tent and will sleep in the van.

Have got plenty of drinkies packed

but i must remember to fit the route sheet holder tonight.

Weather looks MINT

Taking the YZ400 to a VMX meeting on the way home on Sunday so its going to be motorcycling nirvana weekend.

**Waihou Thumper** · 5th December 2008, 13:59

Originally Posted by MOTOXNUT

Received the entry pack a couple of days ago.No mention of the route.

Looks like there will be a few KBers, is anyone else doing the Trail loop ?

Just got the bike ready, done the extinguisher thing and tied that on, got the route map holder on and it is amazing what the cable ties can do...
I have the mark 2 version holder. I am still looking for the perfect, cheap one but might ebd up going the touratech way, they got a beauty!
See you all for breakfast on the Saturday morning, nice and early...

**Waihou Thumper** · 5th December 2008, 14:02

Originally Posted by MOTOXNUT

Bike already to go with new Kenda trackmaster full knobly fitted to the rear, pack racks removed and off road sprockets fitted.

Cheating and taking the van with the bike in so i dont have to put up a tent and will sleep in the van.

Have got plenty of drinkies packed

but i must remember to fit the route sheet holder tonight.

Weather looks MINT

Taking the YZ400 to a VMX meeting on the way home on Sunday so its going to be motorcycling nirvana weekend.

This will be the first ride I can go to without packing gear, just hop on in the morning and ride to Thames, gonna be a sweet day as well.....
The trip home might be a little rough though, bit buggered I might be...lol

**Qkchk:Me** · 5th December 2008, 15:11

Have got a couple of BHS tests to do tonight

so will be down early tomorrow, bikes on a trailer

and tenting it.

See you folks at the Breakfast tomorrow!

**Waihou Thumper** · 5th December 2008, 15:14

Originally Posted by Qkchk

Have got a couple of BHS tests to do tonight

so will be down early tomorrow, bikes on a trailer

and tenting it.

See you folks at the Breakfast tomorrow!

Forget about the road....Just tell them to stand on the pegs and look where you want to go, not at the wheel...lol

**Qkkid** · 7th December 2008, 10:18

Awesome day, what a great ride loved all those challenge sections they were pretty narly shit. Binned me bike 3 times too. Will be there with bells on for the next one. I did 386 kms of track/trail /Adventure trail riding. Started at 8am was back at camp at 6 30pm sore and tired wee puppy. Did i mention the dinner that night what a spread heaps of food this ride was well organised and catered for.

**ducatijim** · 8th December 2008, 10:20

Well, wot a weekend!

Went up friday evening, pitched tent, fed and watered, met up with new found friends from last weekend at Trounson. Still most machines seemed to arrive by trailer, not their own wheels....concern??

Up real early after f...-all sleep due to: fire siren, car alarms, boy-racers, the cops chaseing them.....bugga! Had set-up route sheet the nite before so felt quietly well in control! Out on the road by 8am, first page of route sheet parted with page 2 as I steamed along hiway to first turn-off...oh well, follow the guy in front! Won't do that again...he did not know how to read! All 20 of us got nearly back to Matamata before anyone decided to have a closer look at route sheet!
Finally got onto first off-road section...wet grass and 35psi don't work! As the Qk-pair also found out!!!!
The day progressed much slower than predicted, I by-passed the 'challenge' sections( learn't from last weekend!) and still got to lunch about 1-30!! Completed the whole route and back at camp a little after 6...375km done! I had trouble interpreting some route sheet instructions, which is why some will have noticed me going 'the wrong way' at times!!!
I was the only 1 to do the whole of Castle rock road....because the gate in the middle( which the organisers did NOT know even existed!!) was LOCKED and I had to do the 'supertanker shuffle' to get past the post and the drop-off into the water resioviour! I thought I was lost because of this...and the fact I could see NO bikes at all had EVER ventured this way!!
Was buggered and a little frustrated by the end of the day, but my new-found mates, Dave and Cliff had kindly put my beers in their campa's fridge, so a couple of those cheered me up NO end I can say!!!
Great meal, met some KBers, told some shit about how great a rider I am to some folk who don't know me!, yeah, it was an ok day.
Sunday, early breakers again and on the road north with Mark from Puke, we did all of the top end: Kenedy bay, stoney, over to Port Jackson etc, really enjoyed it all( Mark can tell you how the fairing on 1 side of the near new KLR got munted!) We had a really good run both up and down the coast road each way....oarsome!

Then I trickled home....uhhum.....1 wee problem.....I...arh....um, well see, I ran out of....ah......gas. Over the Mamakus. No, really I did!
Yes, I know its a Suzuki 'supertanker' with 35 litres capacity...but I just was having soooo much fun I lost 'touch' with the contents( or lack thereof), even when I couldn't see any fuel I felt there was enough to get to Rotorua??
Nice man from the AA couldn't stop smiling when he saw the size and TRANSPARANCY of the tank!( bet he wee'd himself once I was gone eh!!)

So it all ended well, a top weekend allround.