Chateau to Plateau (25 January)

[martybabe]

Is the Plateau carpark sealed?

No mate, It's gravel but in good order mostly.

[Naki Rat]

Is the Plateau carpark sealed?

No, and big lumps of it ended up glued to our tyres as soon as we left the tarseal.

[Hitcher]

I took Mrs H up there for a midnight ride some years ago -- starry night, summer breeze, that sort of thing. Parked the bike in the "gravel" and went for a short stroll to look at the fairy lights from Hawera, Eltham, Stratford and Inglewood. It was so dark, we couldn't find the bike. If not for the metallic tinking noise of an exhaust system cooling, I'm sure we would probably have had to waited until sunrise to find it.

[Ocean1]

It was so dark, we couldn't find the bike.

*Furiously taking notes*

And I thought “running out of petrol” was pretty innovative.

*Adds note re dousing hot 'zorst with water before "losing" bike*

[Nasty]

Over 300 bikes completed ride, a bloody good turnout! Bloody hot day & cold beers are attempting to cool me still.
One woops on the gravel with a GSX1400 Suzuki loosing it when attempting to pass a marshall, a fall in the Plateau carpark getting a lucky draw ticket & a Harley drive belt failure were the only obvious incidents.

Stopped at Grubs corner & was impressed with the effort to put up the cross.

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop at the corner ... that is soo special to me

[pritch]

No mate, It's gravel but in good order mostly.

Ummm the bit the marshals were using weren't the best. Quite deep really.

There was an FZ1 in front of me had trouble turning, he stalled and looked a bit unsteady. Then my effort made him look good. I heard somebody dropped a Ducati (ST4?).

[nadroj]

Saw a silver ST1300 Honda drop it just off the seal while getting his finishing number.

[NUTBAR]

hey, what a great weekend, great to meet a whole lot of kbrs on saturday night & sunday at the Chateau to plateau, think i will be at the next one. also met a few on my travels home,