Northern Canterbury Adv Rideouts

[Transalper]

Meet 8:30am outside Canterbury Rides Shop at 156 Ferry Rd, Christchurch all gassed up and ready to leave about 8:45am.
The ride is expected to finish in Little River around 5pm maybe.
At a guess the whole trip may be around 300km with opportunity to refuel at Little River and Akaroa.

Lunch stop is in Akaroa but I will still pack some snack food and my own lunch anyway.

The ride is big and smallish bike friendly involving lots of winding hilly shingle roads.
I am still thinking of skipping the challenge sections this round and just leaving my road tyres on the DR.

It's a good opportunity to get some Route Sheet navigation experience if you take a moment to download and assemble the routesheet and stick it in your holder then you can navigate for yourself, or just follow us.
Further detail is in recent posts above.

The original thread complete with pictures and ride report scattered about (starting page 2) way back from February 2006 is here
The Route Sheet is here.. http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/9/...Routesheet.zip
Details on how to make a route sheet holder are here.. http://www.adventurerides.co.nz/rsholder.htm or in the Dusty Butt threads.

Finally this is just us following the old route, it's not being run by the shop this time so as usual we are our own support, there's no charge to join us.

[cooneyr]

Hey cooneyr, the site's not working correctly when using Internet Explorer 8.
Version 8.0.6001.18702 is the version I have to be specific at work with XP Pro.

BUT...
Everything is fine when using Internet Explorer 7,
version 7.0.5730.11 is on my laptop with XP Home.

Everything is also working fine when using Firefox 3.5.2 on both machines.

Doh I've not tested it with IE8. Might explain why I was getting odd behaviour at work where I have IE8. Better get investigating then. If bloody Microsoft would stick to the schema rather than fiddling as they have with many of the recent versions of IE all would be well. Thanks for the heads up TA.

Oh - I put together the roll chart for the Canty Rides run last night. I'm probably good to go on Saturday.

Cheers R

[Skinny_Birdman]

Boo for Saturday, count me out. I think I'm destined never to do this route, having always had prior commitments or broken chain etc.

[NordieBoy]

Doh I've not tested it with IE8. Might explain why I was getting odd behaviour at work where I have IE8. Better get investigating then. If bloody Microsoft would stick to the schema rather than fiddling as they have with many of the recent versions of IE all would be well. Thanks for the heads up TA.

Oh - I put together the roll chart for the Canty Rides run last night. I'm probably good to go on Saturday.

Cheers R

Does it work in "compatibility mode" on IE8?

[Transalper]

Sorry Skinny, cynna put in the first Saturday vote and he misses out on quite a bit by not riding Sundays.
We'll make sure we do it on Sunday next time aye. Actually maybe we should try it as an evening run sometime to acclimatise you SBC guys before January.

[cooneyr]

Does it work in "compatibility mode" on IE8?

Good idea I'll try this tonight if somebody else doesnt beat me too it.

....Actually maybe we should try it as an evening run sometime to acclimatise you SBC guys before January.

That is a good idea. Bit hiller/windier than the DB1k but good pratice anyway.

Cheers R

[babysteps]

Baaahhhh!!! Why is is this is the ONLY Saturday I have to work this month!

[cynna]

Sorry Skinny, cynna put in the first Saturday vote and he misses out on quite a bit by not riding Sundays.
We'll make sure we do it on Sunday next time aye. Actually maybe we should try it as an evening run sometime to acclimatise you SBC guys before January.

cool - thanks for that. id better not sleep in then........

c u guys there - im on the xr650

[cooneyr]

Meet 8:30am outside Canterbury Rides Shop at 156 Ferry Rd, Christchurch all gassed up and ready to leave about 8:45am.....

...id better not sleep in then........

Damn just realised how early TA is getting out of bed!!! LOL

[Transalper]

indeed, I thought long and hard about that before I posted a meeting time and that's the best I will try to do.
After all, I only got a 5 minute ride to get there if I gas up the day before.

[cooneyr]

Cooneyr
Yes I've been having probs as well with your most xcellent website but thought the trouble to be my end.Can get route details off a few but most give no info regardless how hard I smash the mouse on the desk. Would be most grateful to have your info available again now I know it may not be me.
thanks
triwi

Hi Triwi, if you are using IE8 click on the compatibility mode button and the site will work better. I'll get help with fixing this in a couple of weeks - way beyond my level of expertise.

Cheers R

[Triwi]

Thanks for advice.My op system is Windows XP. Cant see a compatibility button so assume I havnt IE8. O to know what I'm doing with computers.Aaaargh.
cheers
johnt

[Transalper]

On the front page of cooneyrs website is says "This site works best with Mozilla Firefox which is free to download." and has a button near the bottom to take you to the Firefox download site. Or go straight here.
It's true, the site has always worked better when using Firefox instead on Internet Explorer. Why not give it a try.
Go here to find out where to find the compatibility button is and how to use it in IE8.

To check you IE version Click the 'Help' menu button up top ob the Internet Explorer Window, drop down to 'About Internet Explorer' and click that. You should now have a little window pop up stating some info including which version of IE you have.
See pic1 attached although there could be several ways to get the help menu up depending upon your configuration.

Pic2 is a bit of IE8 Compatibility Button info.
Cheers
TA.

[Transalper]

Put a RAM mount ball on the back of my roll chart holder and wound in the route sheet last night.
Just need to scavenge a RAM handlebar mount from the crf or MTB to complete the setup. Will be interesting to see how good it is compared to the other ways I've mounted that box.

I've started making a few notes too like where the challenge bits and bypass sections re join.

Distances for Saturday: I see 292to 315km total including and depending upon which way we go home from Little River after the end.
Start to Akaroa is 140km, then there is only 100km from Akaroa to the end at Little River after Lunch, but I remember it felt like longer by then. Ride home for me in centre of town could be 52km or up to 75km depending on choices made.


Looking like awesome weather for an awesome ride on Saturday.

It's also going to be another good test of my vibration proofing work done to the guts of the GPS which had become unreliable even mounted through the RAM system. I opened it up and soldered wires between the battery contacts and circuit board as the circuit board had arcing deposits messing it up from the contacts bouncing off the board I presume.
Picture kind of shows the contacts. Should have taken another after the wires were put in but I drew some lines instead.

[NordieBoy]

It's also going to be another good test of my vibration proofing work done to the guts of the GPS which had become unreliable even mounted through the RAM system. I opened it up and soldered wires between the battery contacts and circuit board as the circuit board had arcing deposits messing it up from the contacts bouncing off the board I presume.
Picture kind of shows the contacts. Should have taken another after the wires were put in but I drew some lines instead.

I put some di-electric grease on the contacts.
The vibration used to break my solder joints from the board to the external connector