Xmas Holidays

[SARGE]

yea .. little over 2 months till hols .. question is .. what to do??..

the wife wants to shoot off to a beach somewhere with the rest of the lemmings ..

i, however, am a fan of packing the tent up, loading the bikes on a trailer and pissing off towards National Park and wherever we get to each evening is where we grab a hotel or pitch the tent ..

i was through the NP / Desert Road / Palmy North area on a fast trip a few weeks ago for a funeral .. the scenery was unbelievable and i wish i had time to enjoy it

so .. manawatu area people.. whats the rub down your way during the holidays?.. huge packs of lemmings or pretty quiet?

[peasea]

We finish up on Dec 16. Yay, not too many mad fuckers on the road, head south, Milford, TeAnau, Winton etc. Nobody, nothing, scenery, piss, bikes, sex, piss, tar seal, sun, bars, sex, bikes, um....repeat.....

[RavenR44]

yea .. little over 2 months till hols .. question is .. what to do??..

the wife wants to shoot off to a beach somewhere with the rest of the lemmings ..

i, however, am a fan of packing the tent up, loading the bikes on a trailer and pissing off towards National Park and wherever we get to each evening is where we grab a hotel or pitch the tent ..

i was through the NP / Desert Road / Palmy North area on a fast trip a few weeks ago for a funeral .. the scenery was unbelievable and i wish i had time to enjoy it

so .. manawatu area people.. whats the rub down your way during the holidays?.. huge packs of lemmings or pretty quiet?

Hello Sarge.

I was going to answer your post until I noticed the Manawatu bit. I'm not from there so this post isn't really here.

If you'd asked about some place to visit from the non-Manawatu peeps, I could have suggested Nelson Lakes, Abel Tasman Nat'l Park, Collingwood, Kaiteriteri as being simply the most awesome places for a bike holiday, with the ride from Picton to Nelson through Queen Charlotte Drive as the most tasty entree you could possibly imagine.

But being non-Manawatu, I'm hijacking, so I never posted this.

Cheers,
Andy.

[SARGE]

not a 'bike' holiday per se .. gotta take the cage because the Mrs isnt a big 'bike' person but Spooky and/ or Project SuperAce ( if its finished)

ive been all over Norflund, Rotorua and Tarunga for the past few years and being a Yank Flatlander, i wouldnt mind a few bigass mountains and ive always been a volcano fan...

beaches during the holidays are so freakin packed with drunk-ass yobbos and Thugby hooligans .. i would like to find someplace nice and quiet to let the voices quiet down

[RavenR44]

not a 'bike' holiday per se .. gotta take the cage because the Mrs isnt a big 'bike' person but Spooky and/ or Project SuperAce ( if its finished)

ive been all over Norflund, Rotorua and Tarunga for the past few years and being a Yank Flatlander, i wouldnt mind a few bigass mountains and ive always been a volcano fan...

beaches during the holidays are so freakin packed with drunk-ass yobbos and Thugby hooligans .. i would like to find someplace nice and quiet to let the voices quiet down

Well luckily I never posted then. Thank god for that or I'd have really made a twat of myself.

So, all good, and as you were.

Andy.

PS: Rumour has it that cages are OK in the top of the south as well, but you didn't hear it from me.

[soundbeltfarm]

come across to the whangamomona pub.
either stay at the pub or at the camp ground which is a 2 min walk.
camp ground basic as but its got all you need. showers and the cooking area is the old school.
if it wet you can just stay in the school building. they have alot of mattresses and stuff.
pretty good feeds at the pub too.

[StoneY]

Well I live in Welly, but have ridden much through the regions your thinking of mate, and love riding there

You cant go wrong- sure many others will make suggestions and say ooooh come here or there but dude your original plan looks great, follow it and enjoy

Go through some of the back highways in this part of the world (Manawatu, Taranaki, etc) and there are some real fuckin gems of places to discover-

As well as a whole shitload of neat backpackers full of Swiss and German tourists who follow a known course...(oops sorry Heidi promised not to tell all them bikers that didnt i?) that are bloody cheap accom man

One in Egmont Village has a lot of bikes on the fence- stay there definitely the old hippy who runs it rox

Mrs StoneY and me go out that way for a couple of days now n then- great times awesome scenery and places to go on bikes

[Matt Bleck]

East Cape has awesome scenery, good camping grounds and some of the best roads in NZ, and as it's a bit off the beaten track there is genarlly less people around.