A ride up north. (12th March)

[c4.]

Thanks john and co for a great ride.
Its nice to be able to put a face to some of these names now.
Bummer bout AD s detour, at least he's got it out of the way now.
And for very little loss of skin.
Can't wait to go again.
See you all soon.

[aff-man]

great ride. hads heaps of fun. We didn't get to the lakes cause me CK and a few others decided to head off to mangawai heads and down that way... A little over 450km today and i am getting quicker by the day so that is a good think. Sorry we didn't come back AD but we thought 7 people there were enough, glad to head you aint to bad.

Rider of the day (well in my opinion) was Mini_me on the zxr250. Man awsome job ringing t's nuts off but he stayed on my ass and then some.

[justsomeguy]

Great ride......bad news.. apart from AD's off...... CK's mirror falling off.... and me nearly rear ending (inches away) a bastard in the cage who indicates after he starts to turn........ Good news............ WOW!!!! what roads.......

The trip back was better than a dream...... with the couldy weather everything was surreal and mysterious....... grey sky's and grey roads...... everything seemed the same colour....... ....... one of those days when you feel glad to be alive......

And John before you condemn the ZXR in favour of the ZZR you better catch up with mini me....... that guy is bloody .......... he might as well have been riding a 400.

I hate being passed so easily by another 250 when I'm doing 150+......... he must have been doing atleast 190...... as for the others...... well:spudwhat: 200+ I guess....... cos they just dissappeared......



HUGE Thanks !!!!! John, Ant and Jess for organising everything

[John]

Well great day guys!.

We all managed to get to the well in wellsford and have a wee chat and get to know fellow members - great selection of bikes and skill levels great to see the enthusiasm of everyone to get the job done, great work really impressed!

We headed out of the well and stopped at the tearooms to regroup (sorry I went so far ahead but I was worried someone might head up the brenderwyns) so after a regroup we antallica lead the way to the roads where the fun started for everyone.

It was everyone for themselves at this point and everyone was pushing their machines to their limits - huh aff?

Great to see so many different skill levels running up front and keeping the riding good!.

Me ant and various others traveled at the back of the pack including a amazing piece of machinary that hadnt had its 1000k service? (zx6r) and we had a fairly decent pace - following behind ant (two up!) got stuck behind abit of traffic which seperated us from the pack, but it was still great.

Then sadly a rider went down (he will fill in the details) but it was an unfortunate event, but no major injuries where incurred.

We saw the crashed rider on the side of the road, and no one knew if he was ours then we clicked it was, everyone quickly turned around (I got to eager to turn around and dropped mine in the grass, so I'm offically nana of the day). And we headed up to fish him out of the drain, it was abit of an effort but we managed to get him out, and then we couldnt find any rescue but thankfully the young fellow (sorry forgot your name!!) on a CBRR250 saved us by getting a truck in and picking the rider and his bike up, I told him he had to join the forum and he will be around anytime, hes a legend!.

Some (c4. and such hadto head home, so thanks for staying and lending a hand appricated!) while me and antallica headed back to catch up with the rest of the group, abit more cautious than before, but we quickly ended up blatting the crap out of our bikes.

When we caught up with the rest (who patiently waited thanks!) they decided to head up mangawai heads fair enough hope it was great!

While ant jess and I headed for dargaville for the last leg, where I hadto show a MR2 whos king ! that was fun, average speed of about 170/160 trying to get past him on the corners, I did get him in the end which was great 1 point bikers

Anyways - here are some pictures, Hope others got more - because we werent with the pack very long because of the incident so hope more pictures were taken !

Well I'm not gunna try name them, I'm way to drunk for that - so just point yourself out

Hope to hear some tails from the other pack!

Great day, and thanks to everyone for having a great time and building your skills, and aff stop scaring little girls with your bike thankyou!

[John]

Any other pics and stories would rock guys!

[John]

warning, comming to a dairy near you

[Lord Pac]

Sweet pics!

Nice looking bike there Oscar!

[mini_me]

yes, a good day had by all (until the bin that is)
us aucklanderz got underway from westgate without to much fuss in the morning. After a short winter blast down Old North Road and me feeling much more confident in my newly scrubbed in tire CK lead the pack down HW 16 all the way to wellsford where we stopped to get some muchly needed fuel and a break. We set off from wellsford at about 1030 - read johns post if ur really interested in our short jaunt up the main highway.
once we has passed paparoa aff and me took off together to stretch our legs, we where joined shortly by CK and roo (dude on the r6) which led to some quick riding thru to oakleigh where we stopped to let the others catch up, after waiting for a while we where joined by mono (new zx6r) who told us of the bin(AD's story to tell), after a short discussion it was decided that we would head on to maungatapere(sp?) and await the others there. We spent the better part of and hour sitting around waiting for them to turn up when we were joined by justsomeguy. so we had another discussion in favor of returning to auckland via mangawhai heads and just as we where setting off Ant, Jess and John turned up (have no idea where the other 5 or so people dissappeared to) so another great ride back to auckland in which the only thing of mention was when CK's right? mirror decided the road was a better place lie, it's theory was quickly disproven with the rear tire of the r6. I had an excellent day.

a big ups to John and Ant who organised the whole thing and made is possible.
and john, dude! that is one tidy tidy zxr you got there, great wee bikes can keep up with some of the bigger toys.

mini me

[Mr Skid]

if someone crashed I would kick myself and sell my bike

[aff-man]

warning, comming to a dairy near you

Oooooooooooi you..... and yes i ATE all the pies. It was also funny when that girl (who was at least 30m away) "squealed" when i started my bike ahahahahah

[c4.]

[QUOTE=John]
We all managed to get to the well in wellsford and have a wee chat and getbut we managed to get him out, and then we couldnt find any rescue but thankfully the young fellow (sorry forgot your name!!) on a CBRR250 saved us by getting a truck in and picking the rider and his bike up, I told him he had to join the forum and he will be around anytime, hes a legend!.


Guests name was Gavin, he'd stopped at the well for gas when he spotted the Kb group. He was well wrapped to be received with open arms, and as it turned out, he was a very useful addition with his Whangarei based rescue contacts.
I expect he will sign up anytime soon.
Say hi when you get here gavin.

[roo]

One hellava good day, big ups to the organisers
Loved the paparoa to oakleigh road - I've never ridden that route before, at last I have another road to cut down the painful SH1 rides to Whangarei. (Even the wellsford->mangawhai->waipu->whangarei route has too much SH1 pain in it)
After the others (well... three of the others - where did the rest go?) hooked up with us again (post crash) at maungatapere, we split again in order to get back to auckland for the joe satriani gig.
A wix ride back down the okara valley was followed by pain and cop paranoia down to waipu whereupon the demons were let loose again through to managwhai. Mono
opened his ZX-636 up a couple of times and man... it is going to FLY when he lets it loose! Rain/Drizzle marred the run from mangawhai to wellsford but the warm road soon dried and the natural order of things was restored... On the turnoff to Peak road (after Kaukapakapa?) we did the r6 vs the 636 (only going to 11k
rpm (apparently...)) thing and oh dear... my precious baby has been subdued... I'm thinking NoS now ...

re. the ck mirror incident [insert ck quote] "It came loose so I tightened it up by hand... it came loose again so I thought 'Skrew it, she'll be okay'..."
Hur hur... mebbe not then...
It was funny somehow, quite apart from my unsuccessfully dodging the little bastard and subsequently blasting mono's (oscar) brand shiny new baby with glass and debris. At least no major damage was done (cept to the wayward mirror).
Anyways... more pics from mono's camera, and look out for a couple of upcoming rides - A big ride that mono's been badgering about - down coromandal way then inland... that ends at the puke trackday, and most definitely my favorite piece of road - the Old Russell Road (think the mangawhai->langs beach gorge, but 46Kms
long and no traffic).

[aff-man]

Man roo i will catch you one day apparently the cbr has 105bhp at the crank (mine has probably a bit more with the zorst) will get that stupid chain gaurd problem sorted. But if ever you doing that road again give me a call. As to the ride back there was a little to much of one as you said but will have to investigate roadage i the area. Man i would hate to think about what oscar could do when he has run the thing in....... first thing would be to get a steering dampner hahahahaha.

[HDTboy]

Hey guys, thanks for letting me tag along on your ride, i've joined the forums now and will have to go on more rides with you.

Just saying Hi,
Gavin

[John]

Hey guys, thanks for letting me tag along on your ride, i've joined the forums now and will have to go on more rides with you.

Just saying Hi,
Gavin

Awsome mate thanks for all your help your the man, hey did I see you riding around town around 3 with your fairings on?

thanks again, for those who dont know hes the one who saved AD and got us some transport!