Hawke's Bay weekend rides

[Gixxer 4 ever]

No. The car.

I see.............. hmmmmmm........ Well welllllll...........

[Gixxer 4 ever]

Just on another subject. I am looking for a pillion seat for a 07 SV1000s. If you know of one around please let me know. Cheers Steve

[sinned]

Ha certainly was good both days for the riding frats
I had to shoot up Tauranga early Sat a.m. left home 6ish and man was it friggin cold Just as well me hotgrips were toasty - top of the helmet and visor apart from the antifog was ICE So was me jewels
Still we Triumph chaps are a hardy bunch

Must be more than hardy to deal with the cold on a naked bike. I left Havelock North at 7.45am Saturday heading to Rotorua and coming down to the Mohaka Bridge the visor was icing up. Heated grips were on max and was thankful for the fairing. Had a good run back in the afternoon and two HP were too slow to activate their instant on switch.

[Dooly]

This was a nice looking one Tony.....looked fairly new to me. The name you heard wasn't Brendon was it......hope not The TLs (also black)that was parked next to him looked like one of the security guards from the airports bike (not certain though)

Benson's one is a 07 I think from what he was telling me last week.
Forgot what the first name was on air but surname was McDonald I think.
Dave (Morepower) has painted his TL black recently.

[GMcC]

Must be more than hardy to deal with the cold on a naked bike. I left Havelock North at 7.45am Saturday heading to Rotorua and coming down to the Mohaka Bridge the visor was icing up. Heated grips were on max and was thankful for the fairing. Had a good run back in the afternoon and two HP were too slow to activate their instant on switch.

Think I would have beaten those lot ( HP ) up and away in the morning so.........
I guess the ice formed After I headed through ?
Good to hear you had a clean run its a great road even tho ive totaled 3 bikes on it !
Did you catchup with the Uly crew up there

[Wasp27]

Benson's one is a 07 I think from what he was telling me last week.
Forgot what the first name was on air but surname was McDonald I think.
Dave (Morepower) has painted his TL black recently.

No, wasnt Dave. That other name doesn't ring any bells.... still hope they weren't too badly hurt..... the thing that pisses me off is that section of road is notorious at this time of year for ice and they hadn't put any grit down or posted any warning signs until after a spill at 1.30pm. There was plenty of other sections of road that had grit scattered all over the road and no signs of any ice. The copper at the scene told us that they had called for roadies to come and lay grit up the southbound lane where the bike had gone down....better late than never.....I suppose. If the ice dont get ya....the grit probably will

[GMcC]

Great pics of the riders out Porangahau Rob
Neat line up of makes and models
Interestingly - what were the meals like ?
We had a graze there month ago and it was crap
New owners apparantly with the old cook now at the Wanstead - good feed

[grantnz]

Wasn't Benson, I sent him a text when I saw black VTR. He's all good.

[stormy1]

Great to read about the ride on Saturday (made me jealous), not so good to hear a few bikers down over the weekend, I hope they are all ok. I didnt get out this weekend as was helping Karen move her son out, a flatmate in with him and my son and I into Karen's place. Was a long hard weekend shifting everyone around.

Looking forward to a ride this coming weekend!

[Dooly]

Wasn't Benson, I sent him a text when I saw black VTR. He's all good.

Good stuff.

[BigG]

Da heated grips not doin it G?
And why are you thinking of Gary’s Jewels?

Yep me hands were good hot as it was me legs I only had jeans on.
The other thing is we cant do without them eH!

[yungatart]

I wish I had heated grips...I get so blardy cold on da bike at this time of the year that my brain freezes

[BigG]

I was thinking of getting one of these but unfortunately i dont think I would live long.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfSLOJ_OZAg

[NZsarge]

Interestingly - what were the meals like ?
We had a graze there month ago and it was crap
New owners apparantly with the old cook now at the Wanstead - good feed

Everybody in the Manawatu crew was raving about their food, I enjoyed my meal, tasty as.

[sinned]

Think I would have beaten those lot ( HP ) up and away in the morning so.........
I guess the ice formed After I headed through ?
Good to hear you had a clean run its a great road even tho ive totaled 3 bikes on it !
Did you catchup with the Uly crew up there

Yes I went for the Ulysses ride. Meet up in Taupo at 9.30 then off the Rotorua to meet the Auckland lot and then the ride back to Taupo. I counted 231 bikes at the meet in Taupo. You've got to love that SH5 Napier Taupo - little traffic and nothing to hold you up?