Southern Coast ADV ride (14-15 Feb)

**Aslan** · 13th January 2009, 20:57

MarkS and Paladin - thanks for all the work you've both done in organising this.

Folks travelling from afar - I can offer several of you a bed on the Friday and or Sunday nights if that would be helpful.

PM me if interested - cheers Aslan

**Howie** · 13th January 2009, 22:27

Originally Posted by marks

If we all hang a left at the end of Pori Rd we could all follow that route with the 'interesting option' people branching off at the west entrance to the makiro track. That way we'd be doing the makiro the 'right way' and not terrorizing all these bmw riders with thoughts of having to push their bikes up hill in the rutty bits of the east side.

that sounds good Mark, might even up the travel times a bit as well, which was one of my concerns with that option.

**Waihou Thumper** · 14th January 2009, 06:37

Originally Posted by Aslan

MarkS and Paladin - thanks for all the work you've both done in organising this.

Folks travelling from afar - I can offer several of you a bed on the Friday and or Sunday nights if that would be helpful.

PM me if interested - cheers Aslan

Great offer and thank you. Might bring a tent if the weather is good.....
Anyway, I am still trying for the weekend off workwise, but am hanging out for an adventure so will do my best to be there.
Looks like a great route!
I will keep this in mind, cheers!

**Aslan** · 14th January 2009, 08:07

NZKTM - there's tent space here and we live close to the Saturday start - hope you're able to get the time off - look fwd to catching up

**marks** · 15th January 2009, 17:35

I think the calender link thingy may have been adding everyone who viewed it to the list of attendess.

This is the list of people listed as attending - it seems rather a lot...

* Aslan
* Balrog
* bart
* Bert Lombard
* CrazyFrog
* Crisis management
* Eddieb
* Fred101
* gazzerklr
* GSers
* Howie
* jezzaNZ
* Kaituna
* K slider
* marks
* merv
* MOTOXNUT
* NZKTM
* Paladin
* PLUG
* reofix
* tri boy
* XF650

can you guys check here and remove yourselves if you aint coming

sorry about the forkup

also - modified first post to fix calender forkup and add Pauls (Howie) suggested changes for Sunday easy option.

**bart** · 15th January 2009, 19:17

I'm in (at this stage).

Might take up your offer too thanks Aslan. If no beds are available, a couch, or even a piece of carpet will do. I'm not known to be fussy. I'll let you know a bit closer to the time.

Cheers,
Bart

**tri boy** · 15th January 2009, 19:27

Woosing out mate, but will see ya through the summer some where.

**Howie** · 15th January 2009, 19:28

Yep I'm in too. Might have a pillion in which case I will probably do the secnic routes instead of the challenging options, so will be able to help out with them if we have any takers for them.

**magicfairy** · 15th January 2009, 19:35

I'm not, I don't love my valentine enough to spend all bloody day pushing his other great love, the grey whale.

**Balrog** · 15th January 2009, 19:49

Originally Posted by magicfairy

I'm not, I don't love my valentine enough to spend all bloody day pushing his other great love, the grey whale.

Then I'll just have to see if the puppy wants to come along.
He'll be up for helping pull the GS (for about 30seconds)

**Paladin** · 15th January 2009, 20:31

Originally Posted by Aslan

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Folks travelling from afar - I can offer several of you a bed on the Friday and or Sunday nights if that would be helpful.

PM me if interested - cheers Aslan

Likewise, I have a good quality sofa bed available if anyone needs a place to kip Friday/Sunday nights.
I could also potentially make 2 bunk beds available too, altho it'll be bring your own bedding/sleeping bags(I have pillows tho) as all I have for those are my daughters Fairy Princess and Winnie the Pooh bedding!!!!!!! The top bunk is a little close to the ceiling for an adult but it'd do for a night or two!

I'm in Eastbourne so we'll have a nice 15min ride "round the Bays" & up over the Wainui hill to the start.

PM me if interested.

**NordieBoy** · 15th January 2009, 20:45

Originally Posted by Balrog

Then I'll just have to see if the puppy wants to come along.
He'll be up for helping pull the GS (for about 30seconds)

Holy crap. Just get MF some offroad rollerblades

**Aslan** · 15th January 2009, 21:49

I'm in. I have booked my accommodation at Carterton.

Looking forward to the ride

cheers

**XF650** · 16th January 2009, 08:37

I'm totally unfamiliar with the ride route & can't even pronounce a lot of the place names, let alone know where they are. So was wondering if someone would be kind enough to post up a rough overlay map, to show the wife it's not just a trip to visit the Tui girls.

**Howie** · 16th January 2009, 21:51

Originally Posted by XF650

I'm totally unfamiliar with the ride route & can't even pronounce a lot of the place names, let alone know where they are. So was wondering if someone would be kind enough to post up a rough overlay map, to show the wife it's not just a trip to visit the Tui girls.

Hi if you open the attached image in a new window it should hopefully give you an overview of the first days ride. the blue lines are the "scenic route" the other colours are for the challenging route, and when traveling together.

The other way to find your way is to put the names mentioned in the first post into google maps, and it should bring the areas up for you to look at, unfortunatly I'm on dial up at home, so google wouldn't let me make my own map.

cheers

Paul