South Auckland Thursday Night Ride

[Brett]

John, I like riding with you but you leave too early for me.

I can't get home before 5.30-6 at the earliest.

If I put on the panniers we could cart a bunch of cameras off for a bit of night shooting somewhere

I would be keen for a bit of this at some point...

[Korumba]

I would be keen for a bit of this at some point...

I think it just did!

O well at least we are out there riding and socialising, the rest of the country struggles to get out and ride this time of the year at night, except for the Norfhland crew out in their jandals, shorts, and T shirts, the Tauranga guys in their Tamiki Bros 48 seater heading to Drivers each week, and the two Auckland rides.
I dont think there is much else happing at night and if the weekend weather is crap I can go more than a week without riding so that again makes Thursday night attractive.
Hope to see you all next Thursday.

[jafar]

There is no reason that we have to go to paddy or anywhere else for that matter, I'm happy enough to end up @ the village or the Clevedon or the Kaiaua pub or @ McD's if it come to that, the beer @ the end is ok by me but not the bee all & end all.
III makes a valid point ,we are getting predictable in where we are going & when. We used to end up where ever we felt like & never the same pub twice in a row, this is what kept us safe from the unwanted attention that the western ride has suffered from.
I would like to see a return to the system we had ( yes we did have one ), This is where we have a short discussion before the ride & decide where we are going & who is leading & who is TEC.
We have not being doing this of late & the results are not good. We have lost riders & had to send others back to try & find them , often unsuccessfully, I suggest from this week on we adopt the old format & at the very least decide on where we are going & stick to it .

[caseye]

I vote Jafar as lead and I'm hapy to take TEC, so now it's only deciding where we are going, which way we are going and who is going.
Sorted, c u all next week.

[DIN PELENDA]

don't get me wrong on this; if you guys want to go to the same place every week and ride the same roads to get there, that's your prerogative.

I'm not team leader.

my take though is that i'm out for a thursday night bike ride not a short ride to the same pub every week.
If that's the gig i might as well drive the car.

Part of the problem with the north auckland lot is their predictability: the pigs know their routes and destinations and from what I've heard, lots have been pinged. We will end up the same.

If tradition is the thing, the original pub and a bloody good one at that, is the Clevedon. That said, I don't wanna go there every week either.

I might have ADD, dunno. But what I know is that I like change and riding new roads, different roads and going to new places.

It's nice to have good company but I'm not after a thursday night card night where we go to the same place and do the same thing.

I was overruled last night, some seemed to think the Kaiaua coast road is dangerous in winter. It isn't, I rode it last night. It wasn't any more dangerous than most of the roads you lot rode last night.

I'll ask before the rides now I guess. If it's always the Paddy, I might be seen occassionally but not very often. Frankly, I've never even been much of a drinker.

I'm with you on this, if you do come next week, I like to join you and we go for nice ride man.

[wybmadiity]

the Tauranga guys in their Tamiki Bros 48 seater heading to Drivers each week,
Thursday night attractive.
Hope to see you all next Thursday.

You are correct. (However Tamaki is in rotorua.) Alot of our crew still ride to Drivers. This time of year we use our Thursday night to try sort out a weekend ride
Good on you guys for being so hard

[idleidolidyll]

I'm with you on this, if you do come next week, I like to join you and we go for nice ride man.

It looks like I'm going to be in Christchurch Thursday so probably won't be available for a ride.
The following week though is free.

I'll post beforehand

[idleidolidyll]

This is starting to sound a bit dodgy to me...

we could probably use a few scantily clad ladies for the night shots.............................

[idleidolidyll]

I vote Jafar as lead and I'm hapy to take TEC, so now it's only deciding where we are going, which way we are going and who is going.
Sorted, c u all next week.

Caseye, I vote nobody ever is appointed as lead. That's just too much like Ulysses to me. TEC for sure but a designated Lead is gonna wreck the whole thing.

I can see it now, Jafar rides in front wearing a bright orange jacket and nobody is allowed to pass him on pain of expulsion from "The Club": Crazy Steve, Korumba, Myself and Lula are expelled on the first night.............pretty soon you'd have "the Real SATNR" 'non club' posting rides each week and in this same thread.

After all, the thread was started by The Dover and that's where the essence of the ride and this thread lies.

[jafar]

Caseye, I vote nobody ever is appointed as lead. That's just too much like Ulysses to me. TEC for sure but a designated Lead is gonna wreck the whole thing.

I can see it now, Jafar rides in front wearing a bright orange jacket and nobody is allowed to pass him on pain of expulsion from "The Club": Crazy Steve, Korumba, Myself and Lula are expelled on the first night.............pretty soon you'd have "the Real SATNR" 'non club' posting rides each week and in this same thread.

After all, the thread was started by The Dover and that's where the essence of the ride and this thread lies.

I agree with the idea of a 'lead' rider in the respect of someone to count heads & make sure everyone knows where we are to go and or finish up.
As for a Ulysses style follow the leader ,ahh no

[caseye]

I'm gunna have to make my self understood a bit better aye?
I mean't, sigh, here we go again, We usually decide where we're going and then Jafar takes off, people do pass him anything like a Ulysses ride is just too much to handle, even for me.
Ide I'm not saying he has to be the leader or that no one passes him, just that for as long as I can remember thats the way it's been.
We decide where we're going usually Jaf takes point and off we go, the quicker guys an girls go and wait on the major inty's and we all catch up and when we get to where we're going we tell one an other bigger and bigger lies, Coffee does that to ya.

[idleidolidyll]

you may have noticed i have a problem with authority.

one of the reasons i ride in this bunch is the lack of it.

i also reckon authority=ego=issues=animosity=exclusivity

My 'vote' is there is no need to vote; leave the ride as it is, nobody is boss, nobody is in authority. For years we have happily got by with someone taking point on the night and that has often swapped by the minute, hour, week or month.

so people get lost occasionally, tell them the destination at the start and make some simple guidelines for us to follow every ride (or not).
guidelines can be as simple as "go your own way and see you at the .............."(insert pub, beach, dairy etc here) or they can be as complicated as as printed route map if anyone is anal enough to compile one.

ignore me and elect some kind of authority, boss or whatever you wish to call it; that's up to you.

I'll continue to post on Dovers' ride thread and will turn up occasionally to go in the same or a different direction.

I like riding with you lot, i like chatting but this is an informal ride night not a club. For me "ride night" suggests more riding than drinking.

DOVER! Come back please!

[oldguy]

we could probably use a few scantily clad ladies for the night shots.............................

just what i was thinking what say you young lady

[idleidolidyll]

just what i was thinking what say you young lady

hey oldguy, aint we supposed to be shooting macro this month?

volunteers ladies?

[oldguy]

hey oldguy, aint we supposed to be shooting macro this month?

volunteers ladies?

Hey yea, I like your train of thinking Mmmmmm Ladies closeups.

Oh on the ride I think we should use a pointer system, so the rider following the lead rider, has to stop at the intersection, and be pointer to make sure no one gets lost, and waits till TEC come through be for moving on.

What say you good Idea.