WELLINGTON Ride. 1/2/09

[Howsie]

GK, just a suggestion but wouldnt you get a better turn-out if it was posted in the Meeting/Events Forum?? Obviously you are targeting 250s so you can list it as a 250 ride like we had in Auck 2 weeks ago. A 26 bike turnout!! Ok we had a few big bikes but at least half were 250s.

I see the tab is getting bigger

[gixxer-king]

GK, just a suggestion but wouldnt you get a better turn-out if it was posted in the Meeting/Events Forum?? Obviously you are targeting 250s so you can list it as a 250 ride like we had in Auck 2 weeks ago. A 26 bike turnout!! Ok we had a few big bikes but at least half were 250s.

I see the tab is getting bigger

Well my guys usually know to look here, I dont want a huge crowd (16-20 bikes is my upper limit) so im good, saves getting too many knobs on the rides, im not a friking babysitter I only want to help people genuinely interested in starting out.

As for the tab well....... Last ticket was unfair (incorrect indication) god damn they'll get ya for anything nowadays

[Howsie]

Well my guys usually know to look here, I dont want a huge crowd (16-20 bikes is my upper limit) so im good, saves getting too many knobs on the rides, im not a friking babysitter I only want to help people genuinely interested in starting out.

As for the tab well....... Last ticket was unfair (incorrect indication) god damn they'll get ya for anything nowadays

good call mate, sounds reasonable and if you have guys that know where to look then sweet as.

Incorrect Indication?? What a pedantic officer they were! Must have been having one of those days where they couldnt find anyone doing anything wrong and decide to nitt-pick in order to fulfill their quota - stink!

[Slyer]

Incorrect indication causes accidents.

[gixxer-king]

Incorrect indication causes accidents.

awesome. not when your indicating left down a straight peice of road, I may have driven 100m at most. and i had left a roundabout, now unless some banana is planning to overtake me coz im doing 50kph but my left blinker is on I dont see how, Now I know its a pain following a car with no blinker or a wrong one on but give me another few seconds I would have turned it off. And I seriously think an officers time would be better spent elsewhere, catching theives, shutting down P labs etc.

[Roki_nz]

awesome. not when your indicating left down a straight peice of road, I may have driven 100m at most. and i had left a roundabout, now unless some banana is planning to overtake me coz im doing 50kph but my left blinker is on I dont see how, Now I know its a pain following a car with no blinker or a wrong one on but give me another few seconds I would have turned it off. And I seriously think an officers time would be better spent elsewhere, catching theives, shutting down P labs etc.

Nah bro, They need to fill quota's on traffic offences first, before they can go after the Thieves and P labs etc

[gixxer-king]

Nah bro, They need to fill quota's on traffic offences first, before they can go after the Thieves and P labs etc

Tell me about it. I wouldn't have a problem if they got off their arse and chased the real crime as well, but I have had 3 cars stolen, a set of mags stolen and in each case I was the one who had to find the buggers, with the wheels I even gave them an address of where they ended up but was told they didnt have the resources to follow it up.
Poor Form NZ Police!!!

So no I don't enjoy the tickets I get for that reason alone.
As much as this next statement will be accused of being unfair and make me look like a knob I am hoping that just one officer sees it and may think twice about giving young people shit, here it is.

"I Gixxer Luke Chad King will NEVER stop or go out of my way to help an officer in trouble. Should that situation be a flat tire, needing directions or something more serious I will only stand on and watch."

And if I am asked why I didn't help I will respond I didn't have the resources.

[sinfull]

"I Gixxer Luke Chad King will NEVER stop or go out of my way to help an officer in trouble. Should that situation be a flat tire, needing directions or something more serious I will only stand on and watch."

And if I am asked why I didn't help I will respond I didn't have the resources.

Quoted !!!!!!

[Roki_nz]

Tell me about it. I wouldn't have a problem if they got off their arse and chased the real crime as well, but I have had 3 cars stolen, a set of mags stolen and in each case I was the one who had to find the buggers, with the wheels I even gave them an address of where they ended up but was told they didnt have the resources to follow it up.
Poor Form NZ Police!!!

Yeap too true, Your have to pay them about $10,000 grand before they will help you out

[Cloggy]

.... was told they didnt have the resources to follow it up.
Poor Form NZ Police!!!

I can sympatise with that. Slightly off topic but I had an almost similar incident. Had my car stolen. Reported it and went looking for it myself as well. Found it parked up a drive in Naenae, the scumbags were home as the front door was open (unless they were doing that place over as well). Rang the cops to see if they could come over and retrieve the car. Only to be told that there was no squad car available and could I get it myself. WTF??
Anyway, I went back to the house to get my car back. Probably one of the most exciting things I have done, could feel my heart beating in my throath, snuck up the drive, slipped into my car and prayed it would start first time. Would have loved to seen the looks on the guys faces to see the car they had just stolen being driven off.

Back on topic:
I'll be there tomorrow and yes, g-k, come around in the morning and we'll ride over together, say around 10am?

[davebullet]

I won't be there this week sorry... have fun guys. Weather looks good today so hopefully it will be like this all weekend.

Cheers,
Dave.

[ukiwi]

"I Gixxer Luke Chad King will NEVER stop or go out of my way to help an officer in trouble. Should that situation be a flat tire, needing directions or something more serious I will only stand on and watch."

And if I am asked why I didn't help I will respond I didn't have the resources.

Does that mean no off duty cops are welcome on the Sunday rde?
Or are they welcome but if they get into trouble theyre on their own?

[gixxer-king]

Does that mean no off duty cops are welcome on the Sunday rde?
Or are they welcome but if they get into trouble theyre on their own?

Mate by all means. I know plenty of cops, great mates with 2 of them, still wouldn't go out of my way to help their peers. They themselves let me know enough of what goes on and it's sick.
They follow orders from a higher being, when on a ride with the Wellington club 250 I am now that higher being! If there is a situation for whatever reason that calls for (say an off duty officer) to break the law and I say to do it (within reason of course, use uncommon sense here) then it needs to be done. IE we have all learner/restricted riders out in the never nevers of New Zealand, someone comes off and their bike is smashed, they seem ook but are having trouble breathing, if I tell you to take that person on your bike and follow to the nearest hospital you need to do it! I obviously would try take them myself and I would only ever ask someone to do that, that I knew could handle a pillion and that their bike is up to it also.
I would never go out of my way to make a cops life harder but don't expect me to be a good citizen if the people employed to be such won't

[Nofiller]

Back to business - How was the ride?

[Cloggy]

It was a good one.
Only three of us, Gixxer, Roki and myself. (edit: 3 bikes, 4 people, Gixxer and his wife, Roki and myself)
Met at the designated place, blowing a thousand bastards, very close to rain or drizzle at least. The outlook to the north where the ride was meant to head wasn't looking very promising. So the decision was made to head over to the Wairarapa. The wind on the hill wasn't an issue at all. Once on the plains out of Featherston the breeze coming up from the road was that warm it felt like jumping into a warm bath at times. Absolutely beautiful. Ended up at the Horseshoe Tavern (I think that's what it is called) by the big round-about at the north end of Masterton. Had lunch and some refreshments and headed back home.
The last couple of kays heading back into Featherston were diabolical due to the extreme wind which had come up. At one stage there my little Scorpio was full throttle in 4th gear with the speedo dropping rapidly back down to 80km/hr due to the head winds. Dust was being wipped up from the surrounding paddocks and I could taste it in my mouth.
Once on the hill though, it was all fine. Nowhere near as bad as anticipated.
Ended up doing about 240km all up.