MyGSXF goes off-roading

**thommo77** · 26th February 2009, 18:05

Originally Posted by MyGSXF

can someone please put up where we went...?!

cheers

Wakefield?

**JATZ** · 26th February 2009, 19:04

Originally Posted by thommo77

Wakefield?

Thats the short version.

We got there along.....
Gardener Vly rd, Old Coach rd (south end),Harleys rd, Moutere hwy, Neudorf rd, Rosedale rd, Thorpe-Orinoco rd (Jacobs ladder),Dovedale rd, Pidgeon vly rd

I did have a Mapsource route all sorted for those who don't read so good but I can't figure out how to attach it.
Cool ride home back over Pidgeon vly, I don't know where topo got to, then back down the Mot vly.
Totaly diffrent riding gravel in the dark, cool though

**KZT** · 27th February 2009, 20:13

HI Jen! Looks like a lot of FUN

I want to see you getting on & off that sky scraper of a bike!!

And don't you just love Orange.
Maybe catch you at Sundown, Greta Valley but not sure yet, may end up going to Off the Rails at Middlemarch.....same weekend!!

**MyGSXF:Me** · 27th February 2009, 21:09

Awesome day out!!!!

Met Woodman & CrazyFrog just after 9 this morning & headed off yonder! Was overcast, so perfect for riding.. not too hot, but dry!!

Out to Wakefield & over Dovedale Hill & Sunday Creek.. had to backtrack coz of a Pine blocking the road, but CrazyFrog did a supberb job with his GPS, navigating us round the myriad of roads through the forestry

Had 1 off.. or rather "over".. while trying to do a u-turn from one road up onto another.. (walking pace) & went through a bit of a trench..

I landed head down hill, so was a bit of a tumble.. geez if that's the smack ya get when ya hit the ground.. would hate to feel what it feels like hitting the tarseal at a decent rate of knots...

Checked my mirror just in time, to see the same fate happening to Woodman in the same spot...

Several dead ends/blocked roads (did you know KTM's had an automatic reverse gear!!

) a nice grassy patch & some awesome forestry roads (where I got a bee sting on my neck & it still stings like buggery!!

) later, we got out onto the Dry Weather Road. Got 3/4 of the way along there & I hit reserve..

so Woodman & I turned round & headed back to Tap to refuel us & the bikes!

Nice ride down the Mot Valley & back over the Dovedale Hill to Wakefield & home.

Thoroughly enjoy my day out.. but for some reason I didn't feel quite as "comfortable" on the gravel today as I have the other rides..

it was quite thick & newly graded in places.. so there was a bit of nana riding going on..

Am rather shattered now.. musta been concentrating lots today...

Thanks heaps to Woodman & CrazyFrog!!!

Woodman's ride report & some pics..

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...&postcount=762

**Woodman** · 27th February 2009, 21:19

we weren't gonna mention your off, just in case you know who was reading this.

**Padmei** · 27th February 2009, 21:25

Originally Posted by Woodman

we weren't gonna mention your off, just in case you know who was reading this.

Oh my GOD YOU WROTE OFF COLINS BIKE. FOR GODS SAKE DON'T TELL HIM UNTIL YOU GET IT FIXED.

I'll keep it quiet at this end just get it fixed quick

**MyGSXF:Me** · 27th February 2009, 21:36

Originally Posted by Padmei

I'll keep it quiet at this end just get it fixed quick

Panelbeaters.. what Panelbeaters...?!

**CrazyFrog** · 27th February 2009, 22:29

Originally Posted by Woodman

we weren't gonna mention your off, just in case you know who was reading this.

C'mon, RULE #1...What goes on tour, stays on tour!!!

Good fun today, bugger having to work this avo, I had to gap it home from Sherry River Rd at a great rate of knots.
Gravel report....
Pigeon Valley ove rthe hill - recently graded but packing down nicely.
Sunday Creek Rd - hardpack and fast, until you come to the tree over the road.
Glenrae forestry rds out past Tapawera - just lurvely, tight and windy.
Fairhall Rd, exit the forest - grass farmland, bit slippery there aye Woody?
Sherry River Rd - Combination of all, hardpack clay, damp in parts, loose granite, chunky as hell ,and skitterish gravel near end. This was the only road MYGSXF seemed to get a bit loose on, but still rode well, good smooth lines, looked confident enough.
Sell the GSX roadie there girl, and get a dual purpose!

Next time I'm gonna fuel up in Tapawera and really have a good explore out that way. Gotta love the GPS for route finding.
Christian Creek is being logged now, bugger it, it was a nice quiet spot there in the off season.