Kuratau date's been set (20-21 June)

**barty5** · 5th June 2009, 07:46

Originally Posted by 4stroke

can i book a seat, if theres any left??

Done rupe should be comin as well so one seat left

**barty5** · 8th June 2009, 22:28

Ok so who comin down hell of a good ride worth the trip should be lots ice to ride on the sunday with early start given how cold its been lately. At this point ive got room for two more bikes and people lookin at going down friday night as far as cambridge accom sorted and wing it in turangi saturday night although should get in where we stayed last year piss easy and cheap.

**jt119** · 8th June 2009, 23:30

looks like abit of fun pretty sure ill b ther

**D dub** · 10th June 2009, 07:02

I'm keen, never done this ride so it will be good to try somewhere new!

**barty5** · 15th June 2009, 19:18

Well looks like boosted has pulled out this one so that leave 2 spots on the trailer if any one want to sahre a ride down leavin friday night still from newmarket free accom in cambridge for the night.

**humai** · 17th June 2009, 19:47

Hey what's the terrain like on this ride? I am dealing with the "should I get new tyres" conundrum at the moment.

Is there papa rock, grass and other slippery stuff or is it pumice like other rides in the Taupo area?

**4stroke** · 17th June 2009, 20:41

definatly new tyres stuff, can be really nasty at times, specially if it rains.

**barty5** · 21st June 2009, 19:58

Well interesting weekend most of the track was frozen solid which made for very interesting riding skill you really had to feather the throtle any more it was arse about face, Same thing said for your line had to be very carefull get the rear in a different rutt and round it gose your a 90deg to where you where, made a lot of the hill climb a good challenge and a lot of bike being turned into steam train mine included

I now require bike to have good strip down some most have come up and sean the city scramble as they threw in a river bout 500m of water and rock. Really wasnt that hard appart from the 45min spent waiting to get down the 60deg decent to it of slope which was a good 700m (peps stuck all over the place ) and the rather deep water holes at the end. I now have some water in motor not good. Also some how managed to rip all the teeth off the rear sprocket bar 3 as per photo lucky to get back and to have picked up a 426 for a rebuild in hamilton on way down quick swap of wheels for sunday all good.