Hornet Swarm Night City

[GSXR Trace]

I hate you all for all the riding you are doing!

I went skydiving saturday! bloody incredible! loved every moment of it. and also got to meet annie and john with was really nice of them to come out and see me... gave annie an excuse to ride! I went out on my bike too! Other than that i have riden my bike to work every day (5kms)...
But have been babysitting today!

Monday is my next day off... maybe head out to forgotten highway that day.
Im also hoping to go to cemetry circuit on boxing day! Might see some of you there!

[BANZAI]

Just foundout one bolt was missing and another is about to came off from brake caliper when I did those twisties on Monday

I got the new bolts and it's fixed now

Would have been a fun ride if both bolt came off and brake caliper came off too....

[Badger8]

Other than that i have riden my bike to work every day (5kms)...

aah, i see you have yet to learn the art of the scenic route home
my commute at my old job was 3km, on a good afternoon that could be 300km before i pulled into the drive

[gijoe1313]

Yes the padawans are mastering the art of the pootling, 5 minutes to work, 3 hours to get home ... I heartily approve!

And yes, I did take the long way home after getting my Big Ol'Hornet back again today! Such a long 24hrs to not have it!

Caught up with Zapf and Gremlin and we had a little hornet buzz around East Auckland, had some Beijing Fried Cat and we talked the usual bollocks.

Great night ... and I came home via Whitford twisties, was going to do the Maraetai route next, but my low light came on ... Big Ol'Hornet wanted to get home and be with Betsy and Daisy :O

[TOTO]

aah, i see you have yet to learn the art of the scenic route home
my commute at my old job was 3km, on a good afternoon that could be 300km before i pulled into the drive

He is right Trace...

[Choco]

I walk to work...

[Badger8]

I walk to work...

Scenic route's are a good excuse to ride to work!

[gijoe1313]

Well, last night Zapf and Gremlin tapped me on the shoulder and asked if I would like to do a Coro loop ... any excuse for a ride I say! A bit of dinner, the usual search for equipment and we started off for a night ride! Time around 8ish

Somehow the journeys start was borrring ... the Te Irirangi straights Fortunately we got to go through Kaiaua to properly kick the pootle off!

Boy, it was fun - Zapf can really move his Blackbird well and Gremlin on his Katoom was just zipping here and there around the twisties. As for me, on the Big Ol'Hornet I was more content to move at my usual pootling pace. I messed up on a left-right twisty combo and thanked the biking gods for their grace and mercy!

I've done the Coro a few times now, even at night - but that was the fastest I've been through it! Even with the long stops where Gremlin was standing like a hulk in the middle of the road and Zapf using him as a beating post the ride zipped along.

The Caltex servo guy at Thames was bemused by the antics of three slightly not all there bikers rolling up ... twice in the night! Finally got back to Auckland around 4ish via the Hunua/Bombay express and had a meal at Dennys Manukau. One round of club sandwiches and chips later, we were all back to our own homes. I kipped down quickly and the clock read 5.30am ... dawn was again breaking and I got to see another kewl sunrise early.

I think I need to go out again for another ride now! (after a nap later this arvo of course!)

[zeocen]

Hows about Kaiaua to get some quality dinner?

[gijoe1313]

Hows about Kaiaua to get some quality dinner?

We should ride to Whitianga for dinner

[TOTO]

working

[Gremlin]

We should ride to Whitianga for dinner

so many places seem to be shut at night... whats with that?

[Badger8]

so many places seem to be shut at night... whats with that?

night being the 11pm-3am timeframe these boys tend to roll into town? how dare they!
I would be keen for a pootle, but i'm exhausted from the last production day at work, and bashed my forearm on a flying 32mm steel bar, so feel a rather nasty muscle-vs-bone bruise coming on by my throttle wrist

[gijoe1313]

Okay, chain is lubed, doing chores ... I'm ready to do another pootling ride! I think there are some roads that I need to take a looky at ... Just have to wait for phone to charge up, finish some chores and away I go again!



Ok, route is Kaiaua, Tauranga, Rotovegas, Waitomo via Te Kuiti, Raglan and then up SH22 home!

Edit 2201 hours ... :slap: Typical, I plan for a good pootle and when I get to Kaiaua I make the mistake of checking my cellphone and I have to be back to help out the parental units All good, I told them where I was ... and headed back via Mercer!

Ah well, next time ... always the next time

[gijoe1313]

Well this morning Donor and an entourage turn up and we head off to the Mt Eden bike wash. I had already washed my bike and polished it beforehand (since I only trust myself to give it the best job! )

Plenty of punters and dirty bikes to be done, staff running around like little hamsters in a wheel and Gremlin somehow managed to make his noobness at being a paparazzi look so professional, baseball cap, photog stance and a keen posing eye for the best shots!

I got to ride his Katoom for all of 20m and I was happy - 'cept for the fuel light being on (normal he says).

Anyhows, sausages and cans of cokes consumed I teed up with TOTO, rie, Choco and Banzai and we rode to Kaiaua, did Hunuas and back to Whitford where I took over and showed them back to the moronway.

Great day, pity we didn't do moar riding!

EJ's at the door, so time to post!