MMMMM 2009 24 - 26 July

[clint640]

Hi All, the 1st post has been updated with some ph numbers so you can book Fri night accom if required. There is also now a calendar entry so get registered!

Any trailer trash attending are welcome to park the tow rig at my place at Gisborne Pt on Lake Rotoiti. There's heaps of room, send me a PM.

I'll be heading off mid afternoon Friday, if it's a nice day I'll probably go via Matahina, Galatea, Minginui & backtrack down the Sat mornings route via the Waipunga. If the weather is crap I'll just go via SH5. Anyone that wants to join in let me know.

Cheers
Clint

[MXNUT]

Two months to sort out some thermal riding gear

[gunnyrob]

Hooray! Leave pass approved. Can I please book a bed at your place on Sunday Clint. Anyone want to share a cabin at the pub on Friday?

[clint640]

Hooray! Leave pass approved. Can I please book a bed at your place on Sunday Clint.

Cool. But if you want a bed at my place on Sunday you'll have to bring your own - I have moved out of the lakeside mansion now as I bought a much smaller & not quite so lakeside shack a few km along the road. I can do ya a camp mattress on the floor though

Cheers
Clint

[BMWST?]

what are the plans for meals...I can see we can prolly get breakfast at the Hotel or Lodge on sat morn,what about brekky at Journey end?Do we bring our own stuff.And am i correct in saying the first petrol is at waikaremoana?

[clint640]

what are the plans for meals...I can see we can prolly get breakfast at the Hotel or Lodge on sat morn,what about brekky at Journey end?Do we bring our own stuff.And am i correct in saying the first petrol is at waikaremoana?

Friday night / Sat morning the pub has meals. If we fill the place up I might enquire about a deal on a set dinner & brekky. My friends at the station will probably be able to do dinner for us on the Sat night, this has been a highlight of previous rides. I'll check on that this weekend. (If not we'll sort out stuff for everyone to bring for a communal nosh up, maybe a big spag bol or something)
Breakfast on Sun: BYO, there'll be tea/coffee/milk there, I'll just take a handful of oats & make some porridge. Another option is stopping in at the cafe in Matawai when we pass there.

The first fuel after Taupo is at Waikaremoana Motor Camp yes.

Which reminds me... anybody riding over with me via Minginui on the Friday will need a 230 km range to get Murupara - Rangitaiki Pub then on to Waikaremoana the next day.

Cheers
Clint

[Garry.W]

Which reminds me... anybody riding over with me via Minginui on the Friday will need a 230 km range to get Murupara - Rangitaiki Pub then on to Waikaremoana the next day.

Cheers
Clint

Or you could just zip into Taupo on Friday evening to gas up and save the worry

[junkmanjoe]

im interested in this ride, any chance of a route map being posted up.

cheers
JMJ

[gunnyrob]

Camp bed on floor is fine with me.

Osler's in Wairoa do mean pies for lunch. (They won the bake off one year)

[clint640]

Or you could just zip into Taupo on Friday evening to gas up and save the worry

Ah, yeah, good point

im interested in this ride, any chance of a route map being posted up.

cheers
JMJ

Rough sketch attached, I've got some more detailed ones on the other PC which I'll post up in due course. We'll use the corner man system through the Rangitaiki-Minginui & Tiniroto-Journey's End Stn sections.

Camp bed on floor is fine with me.

Osler's in Wairoa do mean pies for lunch. (They won the bake off one year)

Yep, a snack at Oslers has been a feature of past rides, that will be the re-group point in Wairoa.

Cheers
Clint

[junkmanjoe]

thanks for the map.

[BMWST?]

thanks for the map.

i want those tyres

[junkmanjoe]

what the e-07s

[BMWST?]

what the e-07s

they were the ones at your place that you showed me?

[junkmanjoe]

there already been riden down a dirt track some where.
on a trusty white DR650....to slow....better be quicker next time.

i think paladin got a bridgestone left over that will fit your bike.