Next Wellington 250 ride?

[davebullet]

Sounds cool Dave. As you've probably noticed I'm normally the last one to get anywhere on the "Cruisy" Wednesday Night rides, so I should feel right at home watching the 250s disappear into the distance

No Worries. Was it you I was talking to a couple of months back over at Featherston about the GSX650? Well, since I also have a Suzuki 650 now, it's up to us to block those cagers as TEC's allowing the 250s up front to get away

[BugSmasher]

No Worries. Was it you I was talking to a couple of months back over at Featherston about the GSX650?

Yes it was indeed me at Featherston. Glad to hear you've managed to decide on a new bike. Look foward to seeing it...

[HappyGOriding]

Sunday looking better each day
Metservice had this:Occasional showers in the north and west of the North Island, mainly fine in the east and south
Hoping to make it down.
Would be nice to hear about any other good welly rides on the day

[Roki_nz]

Hey Guys

I'm in for sunday.

Also theres the newtown fair on for those that are keen to have a look after the ride

[davebullet]

Ok riders, looks like we have 14 of us showing interest for this Sunday's ride - a good number for a littl' pootle!

It was suggested on the Wed night ride this week - we depart Johnsonville at 10:30am - so let's go with that.

Here's the list so far:
Nofiller - Black Ninja 250R
NZJONESY - Green Ninja 250R
DingoZ - GSK650F
Cloggy - Daytona 675R
ukiwi - VL250
Lilly2W - CBF250
me - SV650RRR
Mrs. B - VTR250
captain_andrey (from Makara) - CBR600RR
BugSmasher - GSX650F
HappyGOriding - GSX250
Roki_nz - Ninja
Dazza - Ninja 250R
JLo - Scorpio 225RR

Cheers,
Dave.

[vindy500]

sorry, wont be there

[davebullet]

sorry, wont be there

Thanks for letting us know.

Anyone else who doesn't show from the above list.... I'll find out WHERE YOU LIVE AND TRACK YOU DOWN!

[DingoZ]

Thanks for letting us know.

Anyone else who doesn't show from the above list.... I'll find out WHERE YOU LIVE AND TRACK YOU DOWN!

....We better pray for good weather then...

Murphy's law. Brand new bike, have been off work layed up with a screamer of a migraine since tuesday arvo. It is still lingering, so will have to see how it goes by Saturday night...... Am really hoping to make it on Sunday..

[Cloggy]

Seeing it's a 250 ride, I'll be on my little Scorpio.

See you all tomorrow, should be nice wee ride

[DingoZ]

Sundays Weather.

Min 14 deg overnight with a max of 20 deg Sun, Fine and Sunny with northerly winds.


...Gotta be time for a ride..

[NZJONESY]

Last minute bail. Too many jobs have piled up and unfortunately I cant make this one. Have a blast!

[DingoZ]

Now that was a lot of fun.


Was at the start point a wee bit early. Thats alright though. 10:00 saw bikes starting to roll in. Some Scorpio's some Suzuki's, some Kawasaki's, a really good mix. 250's up to 650's....

The usual chat session, and then the brief from Dave, gear on and we are off. My bad forgot to turn left after the second roundabout, (not familiar with the area). All good though a quick reverse and it's off after the grp.

Now that road out to Makara Beach, should be renamed to Makara Track, not a road. But still fun anyways. (Lovin the new bike, flicks around the corners so easily)..

Couple of stops along the way, one at the top of the hill. Nice view. Off down the hill into town, heading for the coast. Bach Cafe, lovely spot, good food, will definetly be going back there for a feed some other time.

Back onto the bikes, and around towards Oriental Pde, now for me I'm not a fan of this road during busy traffic times. Cause murphy's law dictates you wll get lil ole gran in her cage in front of you, who will speed up along the short straight bits, and go real slow and brake like mad for the corners. But anyways, nice weather, nice scenery along the way, not to complain.

Dealt to the traffic to get out of town. Boy howdy I am liking this new bike more and more by the second. Everything is just so effortless.
(Must be careful with the throttle, do not want any speeding tickets)....

Home by 2:30, waiting for the other half to come back from being out for the morning, and will go for a 2 up ride.....

Cheers all to the people I met for the first time this morning. Shocking with names until I have met you a couple of times. Looking forward to the next one...

Some piccies below. Photgrapher has a fixation for one bike in particular, will have to have words with him me thinks.....

Dingo

[HappyGOriding]

[QUOTE=DingoZ;1970379]Now that was a lot of fun.

Sure was, bloody good turn out to. But then the weather was AWESOME!

Good to see a variety of bikes and riders.
Those Kawas seem to be popular.

It was good to meet you all hopefully will see you out there on the roads sometime soon

[davebullet]

Nice easy ride today. Had a couple with us and it was their first time riding in a group, so was good to go slowly.

I think we had 12+ bikes in all... so not a bad turn out. We turned a few heads. Two of the Ninjas each had a yoshi exhaust which added to the "here we come".

3 stops on a short (90km) ride around the bays. Good company, some coffee, great weather and a motorbike.... doesn't get much better than that!

Photos 1 & 3: Lining up outside J'ville train station
Photo 2: Lilly2w, JLo and Mrs B.
Photo 4: Bunch'o'bikes at Makara beach

[Cloggy]

I was surprised with the quality of the road from Johnsonville to Makara. It wasn't as tight and windy as I remembered. Mind you, last time I went through there in a car, this road was still unsealed. That was quite a few haircuts ago though.
I would have been quite happy if that road had gone on for many more kays.
And I really enjoyed the little stint up the Makara Hill. The guys immediately in front of me had taken off, I went a little faster than we had been going as well and the corners just flowed from left to right and back again. Bloody awesome.
And thanks go out to Davebullet for suggesting this ride and then being so organised about it. Pictures with arrows showing exactly where to meet, maps, and a comprehensive pre-ride briefing of the route, possible road conditions, re-group points etc. Very well done.