Another lap of the South Island

[Paladin]

I'm sure we can come to some arrangement. !!!!!!!
Warning, it is a high maintainance item.!!!!!!

You are SO dead if she reads that!

[BMWST?]

Those pics are EXACTLY why i bought a so called adventure bike,AWESOME pics

[Paladin]

Those pics are EXACTLY why i bought a so called adventure bike,AWESOME pics

well you're gonna get plenty of adventure; the Welly/Wairarapa crowd are gung ho as all hell mate!!!! Let alone the guys further afield we meet up with - all crazy nutters!!!!! (in a good way LOL!)

Welcome to the party!!!!!!! Now, time to get that PD dirty since Phil didn't bother to!!!!

[Phreaky Phil]

The next day we met up with the other BMW guys at Arrowtown. It was was the Arrrowtown Autumn Festival and the place was packed. We headed for the river to check out the level of the first crossing. The level hadnt gone down and was about knee deep. ( I've had a look at a photo I took there last year of Dawn walking across the river, it was only about 200mm deep) We decided we had to have a go. Yeah, it was deep, but we all made it across so we pushed on. Jeff walked a couple of the tricky looking ones to find a good line. About 6 crossings up Warren headed into one and found a deeper hole and 1200 GSA stopped. I was behind and was starting into the river so we parked up and waded out to push him out. Out with the toolboxes and dedrown it. Not as easy as an Airhead. There are covers over the plugs and there is no drain from the airbox. But after about an hour we were going again. We decided to head back as we still had another 20 odd crossings to get to Macetown and the same back again. Another day maybe, with lower water levels.

[Phreaky Phil]

Pic 1 Peter and Leslie and there beutiful BMW R90s (No they didnt try to take the R90 to Macetown)
Pic 2 Jeff BMW 1200
Pic 3 James Brand spanking new KLR650
Pic 3 Mark BMW 1150
Pic 3 Jeff again

[marks]

man thats a nice looking klr

bet all you bmw owners were jealous

mind you an R90 has to be the sexiest looking roady bmw ever made

[Phreaky Phil]

Pic 1 Pushing out the dead GS
Pic 2&3 De Drowning the 1200
Pic 4 Walking the line. This was the shallow line
Pic 5 Me. Full Focus !

[Phreaky Phil]

[QUOTE=marks;1129194997]man thats a nice looking klr

bet all you bmw owners were jealous

mind you an R90 has to be the sexiest looking roady bmw ever made[/QUOTE They have owned the R90 since new !!

[young1]

man thats a nice looking klr

Marks I am surprised that with the way KLRs seem to leak oil that they are allowed to cross rivers!!

[marks]

Marks I am surprised that with the way KLRs seem to leak oil that they are allowed to cross rivers!!

trollop

it most probably burned it all so by the time it got to the river nothing was left to leak out

[Phreaky Phil]

After a brief recess i'm back on the job !!
Our next "target" was the Obelisk Rock on the Old Man Range. We had looked at it on an earlier trip but it was too windy to be a good idea. This time it was dead calm in the valley but there was still a stiff cold breeze on top.
At 1695m high it makes for some spectacular views.
Pics 1&2 Obelisk Rock
Pic 3 The view overlooking Alexandra and area
Pic 4 Heading back down the acess road.

[Phreaky Phil]

Pics1&2 The historic Mitchell Cottage at the base of The Old Man Range. Worth a look at, there's some interesting history here. The stone slab that the cottage sits on was a massive rock. This was quarried flat and the cottage was built from the quarried stone
Pic 3 Stone fence post. I reckon this pic would make one of those motivational posters. Entitled " Perserverance"

[cooneyr]

Those stone fence posts are awesome. You should have (maybe you did?) gone along the top (south) from the Obelisk to Potters (two huts). Read somewhere that some dude was paid by the then council to install a wire on 6 (or was it eight) foot posts so that when it snowed the occupants of Potters could follow it out to Roxbrough. Often the wire would only be 2/3 feet above the snow.

Cheers R

[Phreaky Phil]

Those stone fence posts are awesome. You should have (maybe you did?) gone along the top (south) from the Obelisk to Potters (two huts). Read somewhere that some dude was paid by the then council to install a wire on 6 (or was it eight) foot posts so that when it snowed the occupants of Potters could follow it out to Roxbrough. Often the wire would only be 2/3 feet above the snow.

Cheers R

We only went as far as the Obelisk rock. We had no maps with us showing where the tracks led and were also on our own. Another time !

[Phreaky Phil]

From Mitchells Cottage we headed to St Bathans, then back over the Thompsons Track to Bendigo for look. The thompsons Track was the first time we had seen another adventure bike off the tarmac. It was late in the afternoon so we didnt stay long at Bendigo. I will go back one day and spend some more time looking around. From there it was back to Queenstown.
Pic 1 Blue Lake at St Bathans
Pic 2 Vulcan Hotel
Pic 3 Thompsons Track. Lots of gates. Auto gate opener was overheating !!!
Pic 4 Friendly locals
Pic 5 Old ruins at Bendigo
Pic 6 Mine shaft 178m deep !!!!